Submergence

clipped from andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com A reader writes: Ali was a seyyed ... of the line of the Imam. Western analysts do not actually understand the importance of the twin mantles of heredity and scholarship to the Shi'ia. This will start the martyrdom remembrance cycle ... with Ali Mousavi as the Shaheed, the martyr. I predict this is the single event that will crush the tyrant regime of Khamenei and 'Nejad. Killing a seyyed during Ashura? Gasoline on the fires of revolution. If Qom was not in the Green Wave before this will submerge them. This is a martyrdom of far greater import than any killings so far....this is an exact parallel to the martyrdom of Imam Ali at the hands of Ummayyads.