The confusion of the Mahdists

Iraqi gov­ern­ment still report­ing con­fus­ing state­ments about the group, one offi­cial says they are Sol­diers of Heaven, the other says they are “Mahdawia”.

Bad­ger wrote his one research on the sub­ject but he stopped at where to put this group, he also linked to Rei­dar Visser’s report on the group where he calls them Mahdists or mah­dawia and this is con­firmed today on Al Sharq Al awsat [con­firmed also yes­ter­day by the group’s offi­cial state­ment], the group claims they are peace­ful group and they are not “Sol­diers of Heaven”, but here is the inter­est­ing part:

We are not an armed group…..but we don’t believe in fol­low­ing a move­ment of an imam [Shi­ites fol­lows dif­fer­ent orders, led by high rank Aya­tol­lahs]….there­fore, the Aya­tol­lahs coun­cil in Najaf decided to use their con­nec­tion in the gov­ern­ment against us.

This report doesn’t explain recent fights in Basra and Nasriyah.

This is reported on Al ara­biya in first fight in Najaf about 6–7 months ago against “Sol­diers of Heaven”.

In Iran in the early eight­ies and at the begin­ning of the Iran­ian rev­o­lu­tion, a group called Al Furqan emerged, they believed that the Shi­ites Imams and Aya­tol­lahs must not par­tic­i­pate in the gov­ern­ment and pol­i­tics because this lead to the delay of Mahdi appear­ance, and any­body respon­si­ble for this delay should be killed.

What also inter­est­ing is that the Iraqi army arrested [see the images] the spir­i­tual leader of the group “Al Yamani”, and he (con­fessed) the following:

There are dif­fer­ent offi­cials of this orga­ni­za­tion… funded from abroad, par­tic­u­larly the UAE, and our sym­bol is the Star of David, the Star of Israel.

Was he telling the truth or he said that under torture?

The near­est link to the “Star of David” ques­tion is as I think comes from one of the Shi­ites the­ol­ogy books called “Al Kafi” wrriten by Al Kelini (939 AD):

In his return, he will rule the world with David’s law.