No Civil War Today, Guys ...
Before I get started, I would like to urge our readers to check out Laura Lee Donohoe's new digs. Like when Thomas and I left AOL's journals for a better site, she has done the same. Please, by all means, visiting Laura over at the newWide Awake Cafe.
The civil war that had been predicted in Iraq--the one breathlessly waited for by the Left--is not coming. According to The Australian, Moqtada al Sadr, the Muslim cleric that gave us so many problems in Fallujah, has averted the war by negotiating a peace between Sunnis and Shiites. The violence was sparked when the Al Askari mosque was blown up on the 22nd of this month.
THE movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni violence over the last few days, publicly made peace with political and religious Sunni leaders overnight.Four sheikhs from the Sadr movement made a "pact of honour" with the conservative Sunni Muslim Scholars Association, and called for an end to attacks on places of worship, the shedding of blood and condemning any act leading to sedition.
The agreement was made in the particularly symbolic setting of Baghdad's premier Sunni mosque Abu Hanifa where the Shiite sheikhs prayed under the guidance of Sunni imam Abdel Salam al-Qubaissi.
The meeting was broadcast on television and the religious leaders all "condemned the blowing up of the Shiite mausoleum of Samarra as much as the acts of sabotage against the houses of God as well as the assassinations and terrorisation of Muslims".
The statement made reference to the key concerns of both communities with the violent aftermath to the attack on the Samarra mausoleum which saw more than 119 people die.
The sheikhs condemned "those who excommunicate Muslims" a reference to the "takfireen" or Islamist extremists like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who justify killing fellow Muslims by declaring them non-Muslims.
"It is not permitted to spill the Iraqi blood and to touch the houses of God," said the statement, adding that any mosques taken over by another community should be returned.
The meeting also announced the formation of a commission to "determine the reasons for the crisis with a view to solving it", while also calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.
So, let me get this straight ... a truce has been reached, and the bloodshed ends. Both sides agree that they need to address some issues. And they are also considering coming up with a timetable to finally give the US military their leave. Hmm ... that does not sound like a nation on the verge of civil war.
That sounds like a brand new nation, embracing it's newly-founded freedoms, that was left to their own for the most part during this problem. And that mature nation is now dealing with it's issues in a mature way. They are addressing their problems in a peaceful, meaningful manner.
Maybe the reast of the world on fire in the Cartoon War could take a few notes. After all, the Al Askari mosque is considered one of the most holy sites in all of Islam, behind Mecca and Medina. The remains of the tenth and eleventh imams rest there. Those that perpetuated the bombing carried out the operation in the hope that they could plunge the nation into civil war. It did not work.
And in my opinion, we may wish to look no further to prime suspect number one--Musab al Zarqawi--and suspect number two--Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both would have benefitted greatly from such an outcome. Zarqawi would have received his unrest to tear the rest of Iraq apart. Ahmadinejad, the one who blamed the US and the Jews for the bombing, would have destabilized a country that has been a blood enemy for years, and would have allowed him to send in his people to finish the job, thereby taking Iraq right from under our noses.
Kudos to Sadr, though I still do not trust the cleric from Iran, for working more towards peace, and less towards jihad and violence.
Bunny ;)
Before I get started, I would like to urge our readers to check out Laura Lee Donohoe's new digs. Like when Thomas and I left AOL's journals for a better site, she has done the same. Please, by all means, visiting Laura over at the newWide Awake Cafe.
The civil war that had been predicted in Iraq--the one breathlessly waited for by the Left--is not coming. According to The Australian, Moqtada al Sadr, the Muslim cleric that gave us so many problems in Fallujah, has averted the war by negotiating a peace between Sunnis and Shiites. The violence was sparked when the Al Askari mosque was blown up on the 22nd of this month.
THE movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni violence over the last few days, publicly made peace with political and religious Sunni leaders overnight.Four sheikhs from the Sadr movement made a "pact of honour" with the conservative Sunni Muslim Scholars Association, and called for an end to attacks on places of worship, the shedding of blood and condemning any act leading to sedition.
The agreement was made in the particularly symbolic setting of Baghdad's premier Sunni mosque Abu Hanifa where the Shiite sheikhs prayed under the guidance of Sunni imam Abdel Salam al-Qubaissi.
The meeting was broadcast on television and the religious leaders all "condemned the blowing up of the Shiite mausoleum of Samarra as much as the acts of sabotage against the houses of God as well as the assassinations and terrorisation of Muslims".
The statement made reference to the key concerns of both communities with the violent aftermath to the attack on the Samarra mausoleum which saw more than 119 people die.
The sheikhs condemned "those who excommunicate Muslims" a reference to the "takfireen" or Islamist extremists like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who justify killing fellow Muslims by declaring them non-Muslims.
"It is not permitted to spill the Iraqi blood and to touch the houses of God," said the statement, adding that any mosques taken over by another community should be returned.
The meeting also announced the formation of a commission to "determine the reasons for the crisis with a view to solving it", while also calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.
So, let me get this straight ... a truce has been reached, and the bloodshed ends. Both sides agree that they need to address some issues. And they are also considering coming up with a timetable to finally give the US military their leave. Hmm ... that does not sound like a nation on the verge of civil war.
That sounds like a brand new nation, embracing it's newly-founded freedoms, that was left to their own for the most part during this problem. And that mature nation is now dealing with it's issues in a mature way. They are addressing their problems in a peaceful, meaningful manner.
Maybe the reast of the world on fire in the Cartoon War could take a few notes. After all, the Al Askari mosque is considered one of the most holy sites in all of Islam, behind Mecca and Medina. The remains of the tenth and eleventh imams rest there. Those that perpetuated the bombing carried out the operation in the hope that they could plunge the nation into civil war. It did not work.
And in my opinion, we may wish to look no further to prime suspect number one--Musab al Zarqawi--and suspect number two--Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both would have benefitted greatly from such an outcome. Zarqawi would have received his unrest to tear the rest of Iraq apart. Ahmadinejad, the one who blamed the US and the Jews for the bombing, would have destabilized a country that has been a blood enemy for years, and would have allowed him to send in his people to finish the job, thereby taking Iraq right from under our noses.
Kudos to Sadr, though I still do not trust the cleric from Iran, for working more towards peace, and less towards jihad and violence.
Bunny ;)
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