An informed source revealed that high-level orders have been issued to pursue the Qurbani group in central and southern provinces to prevent it from transforming into armed groups that could harm the country’s security stability. The source, in an interview with "Baghdad Today," noted that "the Qurbani group directly adopts the idea of suicide for ideological reasons, which emerged in Dhi Qar through several recorded suicide cases, most of whom are adolescents, and there are indications that it has branches in other provinces that follow the same ideology."
Furthermore, it was added that "orders were issued to expand the search for the group's leaders and track its members in four Iraqi provinces recently to dismantle it and end the claims that lead its members to commit suicide through lottery."
In addition, security expert Ahmad Breesim stated in his conversation with "Baghdad Today" that "any deviant idea, no matter how limited its impact may seem, should be treated as a danger to society." He pointed out that "leaving such ideas without intervention can lead to absurdities, and we do not rule out that it could be part of another agenda from intelligence circles to harm security, especially in southern and central cities."
He explained that "suspicious movements claiming to be Islamic exist across all sects, and their danger may initially seem limited, but they quickly transform into armed extremism, which is where the catastrophe lies." He further noted that "the recurrent emergence of such movements raises many questions, the most prominent of which are who funds them, what is the hidden map of their leadership, and who provides the ideological sustenance to garner new recruits leading to suicides, as is happening with the Qurbani group."
Recently, the Iraqi National Security Agency announced the infiltration of the "Qurbaniyoun Movement" or "Ali Allahiya," and the arrest of over 30 of its members in the provinces of Wasit, Basra, and Dhi Qar, following the documentation of five suicide cases among them, all under the age of 22, who are committing suicide by "lottery" as a sacrifice for Imam Ali.
