The lurking snake, the crafty and malicious scorpion, the spying enemy and the penetrating venom. Thus referred Zarqawi to Iraq's Shi'a majority (See Henry Schuster's CNN report dated March 16). He has also recently called them the 'Rafi'dhia', i,e, those who reject (the Sunni orthodoxy).
Yet al-Zarqawi, the alleged former suspect of sexual assault and molestation, among other crimes in his own country, is a Jordanian. This is interesting, because Jordan has practically no Shi'a minority. Usually people develop animosity and hatred toward a minority when it is substantial enough to be perceived as a threat to conformity (very important in some Arab societies), or at least when the ethnic or sectarian differences are noticeable. Yet Jordan has hardly any Shi'as. So where did all this hatred come from?? Traditionally Iraqis have not used this kind of blatant sectarian abuse among themselves, at least not publicly. Why is a Jordanian importing and adopting these terms? The answer, to paraphrase someone who knows his Beaujolais: cherchez l'argent.
These terms, such as the derogatory Rafi'dhia (rejectors of orthodoxy) are often used by some in countries with large Shi'a populations. It is a common Salafi/Wahabi term often used (along with some other choice terms, some of them more subtle than others) to refer to the Shi'as in some of the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms and kingdoms. These terms of hate, along with the Salafi medieval ideology, come from the same source as the vast amounts of money needed to sustain the (extremely expensive) terrorist sectarian campaign against the Iraqi people.
The money itself I guesstimate to run into hunderds of millions of dollars a year- think of all the explosives, equipment, cars, trucks, safe houses, communications, food, the many paid informers and agents, and possible payment to the families of those who blow others up. Several thousands of these terrorists, especially the foreigners, have no other jobs, and the sustenance costs alone must run into several thousand dollars per person. This is not a jungle army surviving on a bowl of rice a day and whatever critters they can catch. So where does it, all these huge sums of money, come from?
Interesting, but more on the this later.
Cheers.
MHG/phd
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