Shias are 55% of population in Iraq, but are not in political power.  They are mostly vegetarians, by the way, as opposed to the Sunnis. They are oppressed by Sadam's forces.

  Shias are 65% of the population of Iraq and fed captured U.S. intelligence vegetarian food. Shias there were originally politically coalesced by Khoemini, and are much more organized.

   Behind the scenes of the U.S.- Iraq controversies is the Shia-Sunni controversy, Shias claiming that the  vegetarian Ali was the rightful heir to Muhammad's authority.  The chosen diet of Muhammad, by the way, it is admitted even by Sunnis, was vegetarian. He reportedly only ate meat occasionally if it was offered to him, and warned people that flesh is hard on the system.

   The Quran praises the Sabeans, who are worshippers of Saba aka Seba aka Siva or Shiva, who teaches vegetarianism. The sacred stone, as many have noted, is a Shiva lingam.  Verse 38 of Surah 6 of the Quran reads:

      "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.  We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered.  Quran, Surah VI: 38

  In other words, in spite of all the assertions that it is okay to slaughter animals, there is still a remnant of the original Quran which asserts the family of creation. Do you oppress, enslave, and murder your own family?  (This is supposed to be a rhetorical question.)

   Orthodox Islam, like orthodox Christianity and Judaism, were all originally vegetarian. It's more easily proven than one thinks, as numerous web sites including this one show.  Carnivorism doesn't heal--it kills, and those who promote carnivorism, whether you eat meat yourself or feed it to your offspring, promote disease and brutality. Major religious movements do not occur unless there is healing and uplifting, or inspiration.  Carnivorism offers bad health and bad moods. Hindu and Buddhist writers have been noting this for millennia.

  William Harris in his The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism documents the fact that the ratio of violent crimes and imperialism is highest among carnivorous cultures.  Hindus and Buddhists are not imperialists--they do not invade other nations and take over their natural and human resources, as do the conquering cultures of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But whether practicing ahimsa as the Hindus did against the British, or fighting back victoriously, as did the Korean and Vietnamese Buddhists, these vegetarian cultures are formidable enemies.

    Total peace on earth will never be brought about by carnivores.  Since they eat flesh, and therefore contribute to the slaughter of flesh and blood, it is literally a part of their biological make-up to be imperialists.  That's why Judaism, here for over 4 thousand years, Christianity, here for 2 thousand years, and Islam, here for over a thousand years, have not accomplished peace, and have not been representatives of peace. Their respective histories are blatant proof of their falsehood.
 
 

   Those who literally eat the corpses of murdered animals are, if one reads material on demonology, linking themselves with the demonic. Animal sacrifices in Judaism were inspired--as the Ethiopic Book of Enoch states--inspired by the fallen angel Azazel.  Animal sacrifices, all bloodshed, all exploitation of earth, are forbidden in that book, which is quoted as authoritative in the Old and New Testament and the Quran, all of which originally taught vegetarianism. "Jubilees" presents the demon Mastema as initiating the Passover slaughters.

   See other pages of this study for elaboration or the sources cited.