Swirling Rumors And Deafening Silence Regarding Moqtada Al Sadr
Man, rumors are swirling at various blogs about an alleged house arrest of Moqtada al Sadr.
There have been some who have speculated the he is the 12th Imam. There are some who have speculated that Ahmadinejad, the Ayatollah Khamenei, and many others in the Iranian Theocracy and amongst the Twelver Shia population in the region believed that he may be the 12th Imam al Mahdi.
There are those who speculated that Ahmadinejad, the Ayatollah Khamenei, and many others in the Iranian Theocracy and amongst the Twelver Shia in the region believed he may have been the 12th Imam al Mahdi, but after several fuck-ups and other tea leaf readings that maybe he isn’t the 12th Imam after all.
There are those who are speculating that Mookie is dead, and that is why nobody has seen hide nor hair of him recently.
There are those who are speculating that Mookie is in a safe house in Qom, where the Jamkaran Mosque is with the well where the 12th Imam supposedly has been residing in occultation for over a thousand years waiting for the right time, undergoing some strange physical transformation and preparing to come rule and reign over the Earth with the Sword of Allah.
The Strata-Sphere blog reprinted a portion of a story that was apparently on the news website Asharq Alawsat, whcih is where I get a lot of my reputable news regarding Iran, but the site has been down since I have been online at least. Here is what he reprinted from Asharq Alawsat:
Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr is present in the Iranian city of Qom, Asmaa al Mousawi, leading member of the Al Sadr political bloc in Iraq, told Asharq Al-Awsat, “We can neither confirm nor deny this information and we cannot discuss the whereabouts of Sayyed Muqtada al Sadr for security reasons.â€A reliable Iraqi source based in Qom told Asharq Al-Awsat Friday, “Al Sadr is held in a house affiliated to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. He is isolated from others; nobody is allowed to see him and he is not permitted to leave the house.†The source added, “Only a very small number of people, who I can count on the fingers of one hand, are allowed to see him.â€
The source, a student of Islamic jurisprudence [Fiqh] at the Qom Hawza said, “Muqtada al Sadr’s phone number had been given to a small number of his close associates however this number has been cut off completely.â€
The source, who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity for security reasons, indicated that “Over three weeks ago, al Sadr had returned to Iraq and was secretly staying with an associate in Najaf but he quickly returned to Qom when the Iraqi government intensified [the offensives] on the Sadrist current and the Mehdi Army.
One thing’s for sure, the spiritual atmosphere amongst Twelver Shia in Iran (where most of them reside) is in some weird fever pitch.
Another thing is for sure, whether he is just some fat guy with bad teeth, or some great militia leader, or some spiritual messianic figure, Moqtada al Sadr has not been seen in recent days.
In fact, if I recall correctly, there was a delegation from Iraq that headed up into Iran recently requesting to meet with Mookie and they were turned away.
Or you know what else it could be? Could be Mookie’s weak-ass Mahdi Army militia got their asses kicked while serving as proxy for Iran, and so the Iranian Theocracy is putting him on the shelf and is getting ready to try some other way of gaining control of Iraq.
We’ll keep you posted…trust me, I have been following this whole 12th Imam, Mahdi Army, Iranian Theocracy eschatological “Let’s create the conditions to initiate the return of our Islamic Messiah” push for a couple of years now.
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