On Imposition Fantasist and Fanaticist Renegades By Nicholas Guariglia

A video has recently hit the Internet, where two Iraqi men, presumably Shi’a, are hauled away by members of Muqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi Army. The two men sat blindfolded, their captors’ spit periodically hitting their cheek. Their alleged crime was the selling of alcohol, banned under Islam. The one man asks of his subjugator, “We were saved from tyranny! And you brought another?” He then turns to his prison mate, “How can it be, brother… When Saddam fell I rejoiced, but now again I’m blindfolded.”

While watching this, I could not help but feel a sentiment of solidarity with the world’s liquor distributing and consuming Muslims, fellow lovers of a vodka and tonic. It also reaffirmed scorn for the very unimpressive statecraft of the Coalition Provisional Authority, now condemned by Dick Cheney himself; an entity which allowed, in the postwar interregnum, Iranian-backed warlords a chance to bully and claim power-vacuums in unlucky Iraqi villages. The whole episode reminded me of an article I had the misfortune of reading, written by one Dr. M. Amir Ali, entitled The Dream of Anti-Islam Forces.

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