Disputes on Shiites rites, Barzani’s political suicide

reported on Elaph, Dis­putes among Shi­ites rul­ing par­ties about the Shi­ites rites such as beat­ings and self-flagellation.

Maliki’s Adviser and Dawa mem­ber Hus­sein Al-Shami rejected these prac­tices call­ing it [Bida’a = Weird prac­tices or inno­va­tions].

Strange crit­i­cism because this prac­tice is a “red line” goes deep in the Shi­iaism ideology.

As the link says that Ammar Al-Hakim came first to reject this crit­ics saying:

We do not want to go along with any appeal wants to dis­man­tle of these rit­u­als and wants to show them as ille­git­i­mate inno­v­a­tive nov­elty. It is even wrong to ques­tion the very exis­tence of the rites.

- Is it coin­ci­dence? Few hours after Barzani’s announced thatb he ready to declare the inde­pen­dence of Kur­dis­tan, Joe Biden headed to Iraq to meet Talabani.

but nobody took Barzani seri­ously, Sadrists said that this is unre­al­is­tic, and other MPs said that Barzani wants to com­mit a polit­i­cal suicide.