Participants In Religious Procession Arrested In Baku

good for the azerbaijan police.they told them the conditions.the one marcher even made threats against a policeman.what can you expect.are all muslims fanatics these days?

Pat, I am surprised to hear your comments when you live in Canada. I can walk down the streets in Canada and chant "Allah Akbar" until I am blue in the face. No one will ever tell me to stop. Why is that the case in Azerbaijan? I will tell you why. Because Azerbaijan is run by a corrupt president who is nothing less than a petty dictator who has his head right up the west's butt. Country is supposed to be rich, but only people getting rich are the Aliev's and their extended family. What a disaster of a country.

Comment no.1

I’m happy with the Azerbaijan’s Police reaction to the show because it was markedly an Iranian orchestrated move in the secular country. As RD comments that: “Azerbaijan is run by a corrupt president who is nothing less than a petty dictator who has his head right up the west's butt” he unconsciously has his own head right up the Khamnei’s butt, because of the followings:

1- Commemorating Hz. Mohammad’s death is supposed to be an ordinary commemoration but not a protest to chant Iranian Shia extremism in the streets of Baku.

2- If people are intended to protest the Azerbaijani government they are not allowed by any means to mask their dissidence with Islam as it is common to justify totalitarianism under the guise of Islam in Iran. Commemoration of Hz. Muhammad must not be analogous to protesting Azerbaijani government.

3- I’m wondering since when the Azerbaijani people in the Azerbaijani Republic have been acquainted with Persian language so that they can write Persian (and not Arabic) mottos on the flags that the group was carrying. No one except the Iranian spies could have done this for them as no one except Iranians could have incited dissidence in Nardaran or could have created North Imam Mahdi Army to topple the Azerbaijani government. I’m happy that Azerbaijani government as usual takes the necessary steps to curb such threats that are being backed by the Iranian government. On that green piece of cloth instead of writing “Ya Abolzfazl …” I suggest them write: “Down with all those butchers in Iran who are slaughtering over 25 million Azerbaijani under the guise of Islam and Hz. Muhammad’s Sharia”

4- What the commemoration of Hz. Mohammad has got to do with Ashura? Since when do we Shias commemorate Ashura at the same time with commemoration of Hz. Muhammad’s demise? I’m wondering why while the first man was being caught he was chanting: Hussein is our king and we honor martyrdom. The Slogan is also being chanted in Iran by government supporters, though it shows that those people on the show are a fond of Shia Twelvers doctrine which has yet ended up in Grand Ayatollah Khumeini’s theory of Vilayat-e Faqih. No state like Vilayat-e Faqih will be allowed to supersede the secular state of Azerbaijani Republic. Anyone who favors Hussein as their king and follows Khomeini’s suit can easily move to Iran to experience the reality of their wish. Azerbaijan will not be the next Iran.
The so called Shias in the show have forgot the Koran verse that (I suggest them read the Bagarah section carefully): "لا اکراه فی الدین"

5- Commemorating Azerbaijani martyrs has got nothing to do with the commemoration of Hz. Muhammad and the commemoration of Imam Hussein. The Azerbaijani martyrs had sacrificed their lives for the independence and majesty of Azerbaijani nation and not to plea faith with Hz. Muhammad and Imam Hussein. No one should be allowed to tarnish the goals of Azerbaijani martyrs.

6- Those so called Shia affiliates were singing the Iranian composed mourning song. While those songs have been outdated and banned in Iran for being in Azerbaijani language and have never been broadcasted by the official TV or Radio channels, those so called Shia affiliates sang them properly that shows how well they have practiced? Who could have handed over the lyrics and taught them the rhythm of the singing?!! No doubt that Iranians have.

7- To RD: Be sure you will be stopped by the police in Canada if you chant “Allahu Alkbar” as our Muslim brothers were stopped from chanting Allahu Akbar in Wootton Bassett on England. If Your Canadian culture lets you to do so then bear in mind that we do not want to chant on the streets every day. Today Allahu Akbar may be chanted by someone and what another is going to chant the next day and the following days!!

Comment no.2

8- U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnston: "Anyone living in a democracy has to accept that freedom of speech gives people the right to say things that others find offensive. But all democracies have to set reasonable limits. Freedom of speech, cannot, by definition, be extended to those who use this right to incite hatred or violence – to curtail the rights of their fellow citizens to life, liberty and security (Guardian, January 19)."

9- The other remarkable thing is that most of those so called commemorating Shias were carrying Chafiya. A piece of cloth that is commonly worn by Iranian paramilitary Basij and IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) members and also by Mr.Khamnei - the supreme leader of Iran- himself. Azerbaijan does not have any Chafiyya factories so it’s clear who has given them those Chafiyyas.

10- If president Aliyev is responsible for the crack down on those so called Shia group, then I thank him for stopping Iranian propaganda machine in Baku and I hope he will take the necessary steps to curb the activities of the Iranian spies operating in Azerbaijan Republic.

11- I suggest those people in show to remember the fact that being Muslim and Shia does not mean turning into a mouthpiece of a foreign government who has always tried to destabilize our country. This is almost an open secret that such shows have always been funded by Iranian government. We all know how Iran treats our Azerbaijani brothers and even its own people.
If those people in the show love Iran, then they must not use Islam as a pretext and consequently defame our religion. We will not tolerate this. Or if they Love Islam they should keep their distance from Iran.

Sinav, I am not surprise you wrote what you wrote. After all, you have probably never lived in a free country before. If citizens of a country want to yell "Allah Akbar" 24 hours a day, they should be able to do so. Whether they are being mouth pieces for Iran is not important. They are not spreading hatred or causing harm to anyone. They are devout muslims wanting to honor their prophet. Regardless, what else can you expect in a corrupt and authoritatian country like Azerbaijan? What else can you expect from a leader of a country who plunders the country's wealth and fattens himself and his extended family? When oil revenues eventually flatten, Azerbaijan will be nothing. The police are not stopping Iranian mouth pieces. They are acting on orders from the leader of the country who has his big nose up the west's butt so much he can tell what they had for breakfast.

Comment No.3

Here’s the way Iranians respond to the matter: http://www.islamidavet.com/english/2010/02/17/iranians-slam-azerbaijan-treatment-of-mourners/

The most significant point is that the web-site’s name is in Azerbaijani Turkish. “Islami davet” which means “Islamic call/invitation” accuses the Azerbaijani government of “tilting the population balance of the region” and “promulgation of “Wahhabism”.

Mr.Jamshid Jamshidi as quoted in the web-site says: “It is regretful that Shias are treated like minorities in the world’s second largest Shia country (Azerbaijan),” Jamshid Jamshidi, a university professor said in a statement.”
How come that Iranian government targets about 25 million Azerbaijani Shia residing in Iran – The first largest Shia country - with impunity and there’s no problem with that but it is being regretful to disperse about 20-30 people who are backed by the Iranian government to air Iranian styled extremism and support for the Iranian religions hierarchy.

In the other quotation we read: “Human rights activists and Islamic associations in Azerbaijan condemned the attack on mourners, saying they had the right to openly practice their religion.”
Why Iran doesn’t tell us how the 17th convention of Human Rights Assembly that convened in Geneva on Monday February 15th concluded the Human Rights situation in Iran?! I think it suffices to tell that Iran does not allow Human Rights observers to enter Iran and investigate the depth of the violation of Human rights.

We should be keeping our eye on this web-site to learn about the next steps that the extremists will be taking.

To RD: If your assessment of Aliyev was true then Azerbaijan would be what you wished. But as we can perceive that’s not so. Also let me tell you those people are not honoring Hz.Muhammed. Watch the Video before being so sure about what you saying. It is not necessary to know about democracy in where you might be talking about while we all can follow the incidents going on in this world via different channels of media. You don’t scrutinize the video, you can’t understand that Aliyev is not abiding by the West and still you deny having your nose right up the Khamnei’s butt so much that you can be sure what he had for breakfast.