And the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency of the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 4 suspects belonging to a group called “Al-Qurban Group” in the governorate of Dhi Qar, in the south of the country, according to a statement from the agency carried by the Iraqi News Agency on Friday.
The statement from the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency said “the defendants are under investigation and further details about the group and its objectives have not yet been officially released.”
The statement said that “the process of arresting the accused came after one of its members committed suicide by hanging with a rope”.
According to the statement, “members of this group draw lots among themselves, and whoever appears in its name offers to commit suicide as an offering to Imam Ali.”
Press reports and comments on social networking sites on the Internet differed on the number of people who have committed suicide so far, between 3 and 24 people.
Excretion of a distressed society
Iraqi security expert Dr. Alaa Al-Nashua presented to “Sky News Arabia” the information he had obtained about the extremist group:
Reports have recorded cases of suicide in its ranks, which has sown terror among the inhabitants of the areas in which it spreads. Suicide takes place in religious processions, and the person who commits suicide is drawn by lot from the names of the group. It is not yet known for whom the “al-Qurban group” works, in the country or abroad, and what emerges now is an activity of a religious nature, and no political, security or social activity is known. about her. This group is part of the extremist movements that have emerged in recent times, such as the “owners of the cause” movement. All these movements were produced by the chaos which is ravaging Iraq, taking advantage of the multiple ideological differences, the multiplicity of religious references, the control of the militias and their struggles for influence. One of the reasons some people fall behind these groups is the spread of drugs. It also contributed to the spread of social unrest caused by the large number of clan conflicts, the spread of non-statehood and the weakness of security services.
This extremist ideology, which exploits the social chaos and the psychological instability of certain members of societies, appears from time to time, and in several religions, for example:
Kenyan police continue to exhume corpses from mass graves in forests in the south-east of the country, where excavations have so far reached 200, including children, most of whom are believed to have died of starvation.
- The “International Annunciation” Church, founded by Pastor Paul McKenzie, promises its owners to reach heaven quickly if they give up the pleasures and manifestations of modern life, including education, medical care and the vaccination.
The year 1978 saw what has been described as the “greatest mass suicide” in modern history, when 913 people died, belonging to the “Peoples Temple” church founded by Jim Jones, some of whom were fleeing the hardships of material life in the United States. States and the fight against racial discrimination.
The suicide that took place in Guyana in northern South America, when suicides poisoned themselves, on the orders of their religious leader, on the pretext that it was better than being persecuted by government forces who accused the leader of the murder church.
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