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I don't know if I should or not, but it does seem that the iraqi people are very violent, so I can only surmise from my American deductions that the Iraqi people must watch too much violent TV, play too many violent Iraqi video games, and listen to far too much Iraqi rap music.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see an Iraqi hip-hop scene take off. Egyptian, Turkish, and Persian versions are already quite strong.
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It's the breakdance scene, truthfully. During the Saddam era after the Iran-Iraq War, and to the disapproval of other clerics, Muqtada al-Sadr's father recruited his following out the poor&unemployed youth living in Baghdad's Shi'ite ghetto who spent their excess energy chasing prestige (and tips from passersby) through breakdancing. When Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr was assassinated* in 1999, Muqtada became the recipient of loyalty from both his grandfather's and father's followers.
* Presumably by Saddam's henchmen for rejecting the apolitical quietism of Shia's main branch: his father Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed in 1980 for advocating an Iraqi government dominated by Shi'ite clerics. In a certain sense, Muhammed Baquir pushed Saddam into viewing a war upon the clerical Shi'ite rulers of Iran as the best means of maintaining a secular government in Iraq.
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