Are Muslims in Iraq (or even in general) self-defeating?

Question

Why in the world would they dress up like they are dressed in the following news article if they were not wanting to be slaughtered? Seems to me that their timing is really askew.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Answer 1

Bush’s War on Perception
The destruction of the Golden dome Mosque bears the same bloody fingerprints as do the victims of the occupation’s unrelenting violence. The guilty parties may have escaped accountability so far, but when the smoke clears, we’ll know whose bombs they really were.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/32/1/sh’s War on Perception

P.S.
Is There a Sunni Majority in Iraq?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/ziada1.html

Answer 2

The Muslims seen in that picture are shii'a Muslims. They are celebrating some sort of weird holiday, you need to realize the the majority of Muslims are Sunni's, and under no circumstance do they nor would they ever do something like that. The pictures you are viewing are from the "celebrations" of the minority shii'a population in Iraq.

Answer 3

I would point out to the responder above that the Shiites are the majority in Iraq, not the minority.