Hoppsan

 

Pinsamt för det finländska företaget, men varför gjorde shia-muslimerna detta? Är det inte lika pinsamt för dem? Eller bryr de sig inte? Karbala i Irak är förresten shia-islams heligaste stad...

Ayatollan färdas mot sin grav - i en finländsk kylbil

A very American predicament

 

Credit: Yoky 

Gadfly Michael Tracey on a very American predicament. Linked here mostly for information.

Was MAGA ever really "anti-war"?

Vad är planen, Donne?

 

Aftonbladets startsida just nu. Men vad fan. Vad är planen, Donald? Har du någon? Det här ser värre ut än Bushs invasion av Irak. Som USA med ganska stor svårighet lyckades "vinna"...

An indecent war?

 

It´s déjà vu all the way down. Seriously. I mean, Trump´s Iran War is rapidly turning into a copycat of the Iraq War and/or the Gulf War. So are the reactions to it. The only thing missing is the "decent left". You know, the leftists who actually supported the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It´s because of the Donald, of course. Imagine being less popular on the left than *George freakin´ Dubya*! 

Komala Day?

 

Credit: Mvshreeram

Komala, which apparently claims to be Social Democratic these days, has joined the Kurdistan Parties Coalition, which the United States may (or may not) arm against the Iranian regime. A propos the previous blog post.

Komala Party officially joins Kurdistan Parties Coalition

Another party joins opposition alliance

International support crucial to ending the regime in Iran

The Kurdish Question

 

Interesting. So I suppose the question now is: is Donald Trump more like George Bush senior (who betrayed the Shia and the Kurds at the last moment during the Gulf War) or more like George Bush junior (who finished the job during the Iraq War)? Judging by his actions in Venezuela, the answer is "George Bush senior". So if I would be a Kurdish peshmerga, I would probably need very, very strong "security guarantees" before I enter the fray. See also: the SDF in Syria, et cetera. 

US is arming Kurds to fight the Iranian regime

Påfågelstronen

 

Både kronprinsens och Mujahedins flagga. Tydligen. 

Varför refererar SVT Nyheter till Reza Pahlavi som "kronprinsen" inom citationstecken? Alltså den *så kallade* kronprinsen. Varför detta väldigt tydliga avståndstagande? Varför inte helt enkelt kalla honom "Shahens son" eller något sådant? 

I fredags visade TV-nyheterna bilder från en demonstration någonstans i Sverige mot den iranska regimen. Inget om vem som arrangerade den. Men det var Folkets Mujahedin. Porträtten på deras ledare Massoud och Maryam Rajavi var fullt synliga. Så varför sade inte nyheterna att protesten var arrangerad av "motståndsrörelsen" (inom citationstecken) Folkets Mujahedin? Eller varför inte "den ytterst kontroversiella väpnade och terrorstämplade ex-marxistiska shia-sekten Folkets Mujahedin som tidigare haft nära band till Saddam Husseins regim i Irak"? Vilket ju verkar vara en alldeles korrekt beskrivning. 

Bryr jag mig? Nja, lite kanske. Jag undrar vem som sitter på SVT Nyheter och har åsikter om olika falanger inom den iranska oppositionen... 

Babies in incubators

 

This is a very interesting episode of the Why Files about propaganda and "psy-ops". And how to spot one! There´s just one problem: how do we know Chase Hughes isn´t one of "them"?

We all know it, we all feel it. It´s an op.

Hindus in Mesopotamia?

 

Some interesting speculations in the above videos, but ChatGPT is skeptical. Perhaps rightly, since the channel seems to be Greater Hindu nationalist (Hanuman founded a kingdom in ancient Honduras yeeeeah bruh). 

Is there any truth to the claim that Yazidis are actually Hindus or at least that their religion is Hindu-derived? For instance, the peacock angel (peacocks are not native to Kurdistan)?

The claim that Yazidism is derived from Hinduism or that Yazidis are "actually Hindus" is not accurate in a direct historical or theological sense, but there are some interesting parallels and shared motifs that have led people to make such claims.

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🔹 Origins of Yazidism

Yazidism is an ancient, syncretic religion practiced by the Yazidi people, primarily in northern Iraq, with diaspora communities in Turkey, Syria, Armenia, and elsewhere. Its roots are indigenous to the Kurdish region and influenced by:

• Pre-Islamic Mesopotamian religions

• Zoroastrianism

• Islamic Sufism

• Possibly early Gnosticism or Manichaean currents

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🔸 The Peacock Angel (Tawûsê Melek)

• The central figure in Yazidi theology is Tawûsê Melek, the Peacock Angel.

• He is considered a manifestation of the divine, a being of light who was cast down but redeemed, similar to the story of Lucifer, Prometheus, or even Shiva in certain interpretive stretches.

• The peacock is not native to Kurdistan but was known in ancient Mesopotamia and the Near East through trade and royal menageries. It's native to India and Sri Lanka.

• This has led some to draw a connection with Hindu deities, especially:

  • Kartikeya/Murugan/Skanda, who rides a peacock

  • Saraswati, who is also sometimes associated with peacocks

But these connections are symbolic rather than historical.

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🔹 Hindu-Yazidi Parallels: Real or Reaching?

Element	Yazidism	Possible Hindu Analogy	Reality
Peacock Angel	Tawûsê Melek	Kartikeya/Murugan	Only symbolic similarity
Seven angels	Divine beings under God	Sapta Rishis or Lokapalas	Common in many systems
Reincarnation	Present in some Yazidi beliefs	Central in Hinduism	Yazidi belief is not systematic
Sun veneration	Yes, prayers toward the sun	Surya worship	Found in many ancient cultures

So while some archetypes and symbols overlap, no direct descent or influence from Hinduism has been demonstrated. Both systems draw on older Indo-European or West Asian mythic patterns that may share a distant cultural ancestry, but Yazidism evolved locally in the Fertile Crescent.

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🟡 In Summary:

• Yazidism is not Hindu and did not derive from Hinduism.

• Some symbolic parallels exist (especially the Peacock Angel), but they are coincidental or archetypal rather than proof of a direct connection.

• Claims that Yazidis are Hindus in disguise or should be "brought back" to Hinduism are often political or ideological, especially in the context of Hindu nationalist narratives.

Let me know if you’d like a deeper comparison between Yazidi cosmology and Vedic or Shaiva theology.

What about "Kartikstan"? The term is used at a YouTube channel called Inspiring Science, but it´s in an Indian language I don´t understand. The video is titled (in English) "How Turkey & Iraq Yazidis Are Trying To Create New Hindu Country Kartikstan”.

It appears that the claim about Yazidis and the creation of a "Hindu homeland" called “Kartikstan” primarily originates from viral videos, reaction channels, and fringe narratives, rather than any substantiated movement or credible policy initiative.

Here’s what the information suggests:

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🎥 The Source & Title Nuances

• Multiple YouTube videos (e.g. by Inspiring Science or other channels) carry the title:
  "How Turkey & Iraq Yazidis Are Trying To Create New Hindu Country 'Kartikstan'", or variations like “Yazidis Will Create a New Hindu Country 'Kartikstan'” youtube.com+9youtube.com+9youtube.com+9youtube.comyoutube.com+7youtube.com+7youtube.com+7.

• These titles and content appear to be sensational, and often stem from ideologically driven or speculative online communities, not mainstream scholarship or political discussion.

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❓ What Does the Title Actually Suggest?

• The phrase "Turkey & Iraq Yazidis" likely intends to reference Yazidi communities located in Turkey and Iraq, rather than imply a coordinated Yazidi alliance with Turkey.

• The notion of a new Hindu country seems to come from a fringe ideological narrative, often connected to certain Hindu-nationalist or spiritualist movements.

• The name “Kartikstan” itself appears to be fabricated and not recognized by any Yazidi groups or official sources.

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🔍 Credibility and Evidence

• No credible Yazidi group or leadership has advocated for the creation of a Hindu-identified state.

• Turkey has not supported such an idea—in fact, its military actions in Yazidi areas tend to be contentious and security-driven, not supportive of Yazidi autonomy or religious framing kurdistanobserver.comkurdistan24.net.

• Yazidism is deeply rooted in ancient Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Kurdish traditions, not Hindu theology en.wikipedia.org.

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✅ Bottom Line

• The claim that Yazidis (in Turkey or Iraq) are creating a Hindu homeland named “Kartikstan” is not supported by any scholarly or political evidence.

• It appears to be a misinformation or sensational interpretation, possibly arising from online ideological or religious groups rather than genuine Yazidi intentions.

If you come across any official statements or reputable reporting on this, I’d be happy to re-evaluate them!

Mission accomplished?

 

What an evening and night (local Swedish time). First, Iran attacks US bases in Iraq and Qatar (sic). Now, Iran and Israel has agreed on a ceasefire, to begin in six hours?! In other words: instead of a prolonged war, the whole thing is more like the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear power plant Osirak in 1981. 

If this works, the fallout within "MAGA" might be interesting. Many on the far right of the Trump movement freaked out. Others left the Trump train (for the nth time in some cases). And Trump, you know, doesn´t like disloyalty...

The ride never ends. 

Duly noted

 

The Kurdish SDF in northern Syria are trying to reach an accommodation with the new Syrian government, while still jockeying for US support. Good luck with the latter! Apparently, the genocidal terrorist cult ISIS are still around at the Syrian-Iraqi border...   

Kurdish coalition warns ISIS exploiting Assad regime´s collapse

Den heliga yttrandefriheten

 

- Yttrandefrihet, vasa? Komma ICKE på fråga!

Det här är bara en annan form av svensk naivitet. Linderborg missuppfattar dessutom poängen med yttrandefrihet. Den har *aldrig* primärt handlat om några dadaistiska avantgarde-konstnärers "rätt att utmana den fina smaken". Bara en gammal kulturredaktör kan uttrycka sig så! 

Självfallet handlar det om politik. I allmänhet om att olika elitgrupper vill lösa sina inbördes konflikter på ett "civiliserat" sätt. Vanligt folk kan genom kamp tilltvinga sig en plats vid förhandlingsbordet. Det kan även handla om geniernas rätt att säga geniala saker utan att gamla mossiga dogmatiker kan stoppa dem. Alltså genier som filosofer, vetenskapsmän, och så vidare. Vilket gynnar vissa moderniserande elitgrupper. Och i bästa fall samhället i dess helhet. 

Den korkade dadaisten och dennes puerila provokationer är det pris samhället betalar för yttrandefriheten. Den är inte yttrandefrihetens kärna, mål eller syfte. 

Dessutom kan yttrandefriheten aldrig vara total. Är det ens önskvärt att så är fallet? Om inte staten har rätt att under vissa omständigheter reglera yttrandefriheten kommer vilken provokatör som helst att kunna sabotera viktiga politiska beslut eller äventyra rikets säkerhet. Vill Åsa Linderborg ha total yttrandefrihet i krigstid...för motståndarsidan?     

Får Salwan Momika skylla sig själv?

What kind of freakin´ moment?

 

From the short piece linked below: 

>>>On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said that if officials in California believed their own rhetoric on climate change, they would have been better prepared for the recent fires.

>>>Marlow said, “This needs to be the Abu Ghraib of the climate change movement. … [T]here were no firebreaks, there wasn’t enough brush cleared out, there was no water conservation done, there was nothing done to make sure the hydrants were working. … All of this should have been mitigated against if you really took climate change seriously.”

Not sure why he makes the bizarre comparison with Abu Ghraib, or what it´s even supposed to mean, but there is no contradiction between "activists" (not to mention politicians) pointing to a real problem (in this case climate change) and then doing shit about it. Indeed, isn´t this SOP for both Democrats and Republicans? As for problems which don´t even exist, both sides play that game, too...

Maybe realizing *that* would be the real "Abu Ghraib moment". 

The Abu Ghraib of the climate change movement

Ultra MAGA or just neocons?

 

Liberal gadfly and independent reporter Michael Tracey (once considered something of a MAGA "asset") continues his crusade against the incoming Trump administration, arguing that it isn´t really isolationist. 

The pro-Trump cliques in the GOP establishment are just as bellicose and interventionist as the neoconservatives (many of which became Never Trumpers back in 2016). And what about the Donald himself? At what point will MAGA realize that their Messiah, too, is one of the dreaded RINOs of the GOP-e? If you pardon my, ahem, MAGA lingo.

The idea that Trump is somehow fighting the "neocons" is true only in the extremely narrow sense mentioned above: many of the original neocons refused to kiss Trump´s ass and de facto (and sometimes even de jure) regrouped around the Democratic Party instead. But Trump´s actual policies are barely distinguishable from those associated with the neocons.

Here is a key paragraph of Tracey´s essay (linked below):  

>>>One of the few permitted critiques of Trump in MAGA/LaLa Land had previously been that Trump was a political novice in the first term, and was beguiled by the wily “neocons” who exploited his youth and inexperience. As facile as that argument was, it at least had the benefit of reflecting some partial reality: Trump indeed had no governing record or long-established political operation. But in 2024, that argument is comically absurd. 

>>>Trump singularly dominates the Republican Party more than perhaps any figure in American history, as evidenced by his unprecedented thrice-consecutive presidential nomination. He can pick winners of Republican congressional primaries with a single Truth Social post, and even ousted the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus earlier this year for no apparent reason other than the poor sap’s initial endorsement of Ron DeSantis. He installed his own daughter-in-law to run the Republican National Committee. 

>>>By now, he’s had over eight years to assemble a personnel roster that best represents whatever his policy preferences may be — and he has largely assembled a team of “neocons,” if that term had any cognizable meaning, which it doesn’t. 

Tracey predicts that the Trump Administration will end up having a worse foreign policy than even the current Biden Administration (which he doesn´t particularly fancy either) by escalating the war in Ukraine, permitting Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza, and perhaps even launch a bombing campaign against Iran. At least his take on Ukraine is hardly standard orthodoxy. 

I suppose we will see soon enough...if we dare looking!  

Is Donald Trump a neocon? 

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The Shia-dominated government in Iraq wants to legalize sex/marriage with 9-year old girls. In other words, they promote paedophilia. Imagine supporting these mobs when they attacked the Swedish embassy in Bagdad, somehow thinking that was a good thing...

Or supporting George W Bush´s "liberation" of this shitty nation back in the days. Maybe we could storm some of *their* embassies? 

Iraq lowers age of consent to 9 years

The Liz Cheney situation

 

I used to be a great fan of Michael Tracey in a previous life, but his constant gadfly contrarianism was visible even back then, and went haywire when Russia attacked Ukraine, Tracey becoming some kind of pseudo-Russian asset. Oh, and then there´s his World War II revisionism...

That being said, his comments on the recent fracas between Trump and Liz Cheney is interesting.

The first link goes to X and can be seen as a kind of introduction to the essay in the second link (to Substack). At least the Substack article should be visible for everyone.  

Michael Tracey on Trump-Cheney (from X)

Who agrees with Liz Cheney?

So if Tracey is right, both Trump and Harris are really neo-connish war hawks, with Liz Cheney switching her loyalty from the one to the other due to J6. Note the speculation that Harris might appoint Cheney to a position in her administration! 

Come right at me

 

Iran is planning an attack on Israel with drones and missiles from Iraqi territory. Once again showing that Dubya and the Straussian Neo-Cons didn´t know what they were doing when they invaded Iraq back in 2003. The liberated Shia Muslims don´t seem particularly grateful and mostly support Iran...

In hindsight, the US should simply have bribed some Baathist general to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein, and then accepted some kind of neutrality from the neo-Baath regime. Instead, the adventurism of the Bush admin led to the Iranian mullahs extending their influence all over the Middle East.

I´m sure *nobody* saw this coming back in 2003, naaah.

Iran preparing major strike against Israel from Iraq 

Kultureliten just nu

Kultureliten just nu: "Att som SD kräva att svenska staten med hjälp av Israel avrättar, AVRÄTTAR säger jag, Rawa Majid i Iran är heeeeelt oacceptabelt och oförenligt med rättsstatens PRINCIPER. Har vi inga PRINCIPER längre??? Men att utvisa den där jävla Koran-brännaren till Irak, där han riskerar avrättning för blasfemi, är helt okej. Det ÄR fan blasfemi också. Litar blint på Centerpartiet i denna fråga!"

Ondskan

 

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Historiskt åtal mot IS-kvinnan Lina Ishaq, 52

Great is Diana of the Ephesians?

 

Maverick Assyrian Christian preacher Mar Mari Emmanuel has achieved a certain level of (herostratic?) fame on the proverbial internets, due to his broadly Alt Right messaging. But while Emmanuel might be generally popular on the far right, his theology creates controversy among the more religiously orthodox. 

The two clips above argues that Emmanuel is a Nestorian (just as other Assyrian believers), which should be anathema to both Eastern Orthodox, Monophysites, Catholics and Protestants! Interestingly, Emmanuel´s small Church in Australia, Christ the Good Shepherd Church, has an ecumenical slant and allows Catholics and Orthodox to partake of its holy communion.

For an even more critical look at the based bishop, see here: 

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