Shia Wisdom Website Officially Launches
Laguna Hills, December 31, 2014 (Newswire.com) - The released report includes fair and non-biased incidents that occurred in 2014 relating to Muslims and the Islamic world and their impact on the globe. In addition to the events of 2014, the report also concludes some aspirations and expectations of the upcoming year 2015.
“The Islamic world had a major share (in events of 2014), when it comes to quantity and quality of these events that have affected the globe somehow” says Hussein Al-Rumaithi, the chief writer of the site. He points out that the main reason for such events to be the authoritarian leaders, social disorder, and sectarian tensions: “Middle East is the home of some of the few absolute monarchies left in the world, and it is the home to the source of many sectarian, political and social conflicts and in some cases turmoil”
Arbaeen 2014
Shia Wisdom had also earlier reported that the Attendance of Arbaeen events. Arbaeen is a Shia pilgrimage to Shrine of Imam Hussein and his companions in Karbala, Iraq. Hussein is grandson of prophet of Islam, Muhammad. He and his companions were killed at hands of Muslim rulers back in their time for standing up for justice. Since then Shia Muslims and other Muslims who love and respect Hussein have been attending his shrine in Karbala, Iraq each year to remember him and his companions. After fall of Saddam, many restrictions on were removed hence each year more people have been visiting the shrine of Hussein. This year, the number of those attending exceeded 22 million despite ISIS threats making the event to be the world’s largest pilgrimage.
“Arbaeen is not usually covered fairly in the media for whatever reason. But I had personally attended the Arbaeen events last year and I am not at all surprised by reported numbers because last year I personally saw millions of people attending the event. “ says Ali Reza, the webmaster of the website. He also said “as a Shia Muslim we have always been underrepresented everywhere even in our own societies so I am very excited about launch of our website”.
About Shia Wisdom
Shia Wisdom was launched in November of 2014 (Muharram 1436) as an independent non-profit, political and non-partisan organization. The organization aims to provide fair & unbiased news and intellectual articles in order to keep everyone informed about Shia Islam and Shia Muslims. The organization main goals and mission include promoting peace, human rights, freedom of thoughts & expressions, pluralism, and promoting beneficial Knowledge and Wisdom.