Lesley Hazelton An Online Crusader Project
Lesley Hazelton An Online Crusader Project
Lesley Hazelton An Online Crusader Project
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2010
The first mistake that had been made by Leslie Hazelton while being
interviewed was considering the Umayyads as Sunnies and holding all
Sunnies accordingly, responsible for the massacre of Al Husain and his
family . The unaware outsider readers, who are expected to have no idea
of any terminology or facts of that conflict, would be bluffed and led to
believe in this framing, that Sunna stand against Shiia. Leslie's very
words (… with four thousand of the Sunni Caliph's troops surrounding
the 72 warriors of Hussein's encampment, along with the women and
children of his family), need be probed with an enlightened mind that is
well aware of each and every Newspeak term, this is a very sensitive
subject, and it can turn back as a boomerang, yielding an opposite effect
compared to what is expected . The Shiite theology had not been there
while Alhusain was confronting the Umayyads. It was Alawites against
Umayyads, a tribal conflict using religious issues to support each party's
case. Shiite theology had been visualizing by Imam Ja'far Alsadiq, so
many decades later to the martyrdom of Imam Alhusain himself .The
image of the Sunnie & Ja'fari conflict of ideologies and interpretation of
the Islamic Shari'a came later to that incident of Karbala. This is the
typical mistake to be committed by insiders from both sects, not to
mention an outsider, the author herself, who had never been to Islam to
the extent of digesting its historical and theological input and conflicts
that a whole time span of fourteen centuries could not bring to any
reconciliation or compromise. It is all about the difference between
people themselves, and how much does any one of them commit himself
to the right, and be willing to sacrifice himself for his ideals.
One significant comment made by the author was, how gruesome that
curse would sound. 'May your mother be bereaved of you'!!
ّثكلتكّ أممك
The made up exclamation she had showed alongside it reveals her total
ignorance of the Arab traditions and their terminology. She is not aware
of the richness and exaggeration styles of Arabic language, as if she is not
the yield of a western culture that uses the terms "Shit", "Fuck" and
"Mother Fucker" very explicitly, almost in every topic, and sparing no
class of the society from hearing these hideous and unabashed tackling on
t.v. movie theatres, rap songs, presidential interviews and elections
campaigns debates,…etc. She should have been acknowledged of that
Bedouin poet, Ali Bin Aljahm who praised the Abbasid Caliph,
describing him as a dog, before he was administered for further
urbanization, to come out later to that with one of the most beautiful
masterpieces of poetry :
عيون المها بين الرصافة والجسر جلبن الهوى من حيث أدري ول أدري
The "curse", ( as described by her), that she is criticizing is never a
curse .actually it was used even by the slaughtered Husain himself, and
almost every native of that vast peninsula. It is one way of addressing
someone who had been inquiring about something quite familiar and
understood to all , or having been reported to commit a massive fallacy
which requires a stern gesture to let him feel repentant long before any
further elaboration is to ever be started, it is that |Ooooops of today, in a
way or another ."Damnation" is not allowed in Islam, since it means the
eternal deprivation from God's mercy and forgiveness, so there had to be
a substitute for the western "Damn You"! Another term that she had been
overlooking is how early Muslims ,namely (The Prophet's
Companions=Sahaba) used to express their endearment of him,( Fidaka
Abi Wa Ummi= Both Parents of Mine Are There For Your Own Safety).I
am positively sure that she would consider it very rational of those people
to sacrifice their love for their parents that way, she is trying to submit
that era to her standards of these times, although both terms , the one she
had been denouncing, and the one brought out here by me, are no longer
used, it was a Newspeak of that revolution of Heaven against the earthly
tyranny and ignorance. It really doesn't fit how westerners focus on every
little detail in our heritage, yet, overlooking too many practices in the Far
East & elsewhere. Islam is viewed thru its dark side of events, always!!
Of all those revolutions and uprisings that Shiites have been known for,
Imam Zaid Bin Ali Bin Al Hussain, Al Mukhtar Al Thaqafi, and the rest
of them, against the Umayyad state, none of them appealed to the author
while she jumped to modern times, picking the sickest icons who had
nothing to do with the principles of Al Husain revolution. In stead of
mentioning Ali Shari’atmadari and his principles, Sheikh Mohammad
Husain Fadhlallah of Lebanon, it was Khomeini! And the most irrational
analogy was that of Muqtada Alsadr, as the author bestows onto him a
gown of a bravery as if an Islamic Che Guevara, which is never the
truth .So once again, this is a further deformation of Al Husain's
revolution, to be further robbed of its descent characters and handed over
to a crook who had been leading all anti-humanity crimes against
Christians, Faili Kurds, and Sunnie Iraqis eventually. If this is all that the
author's work had been about, then I can frankly say it that she had been
strayed away from it, failing to adhere to the real thing then and now too.
Another thing is the way the author had been wondering, " 'How come
Muhammad, the prophet of unity -- one people, one god -- could leave
behind him this terrible, unending, bloody legacy of division between
Sunnis and Shia? ". If she were any acquainted with the Prophet's quotes,
she should have been acknowledged that the Prophet had warned all
Muslims not to turn back to pagan life as before, once he is dead,
decapitating each other's head " :
I wish that the book itself is much better than what Leslie Hazelton had
been going through while being interviewed. The fact that Imam Alhusain
had the guts to speak, while others favored to mute ,is a great act of
heroism and sacrifice .it is the same story, almost all the time, and
everywhere. Alhusain is there for black people of Africa, yellow people
of China ,Myanmar and Thailand .He is already there for the Americans
and British people, to wake up and figure out how much wrong had been
done in their name, against all peoples of the world. This is what makes
his sacrifice worth it all, to apply it for the author herself, and her country,
rather than just asking the people reading her novel to shout
"Oh My God"!!!