Shiites Vs. Sunnis.
I assumed that the Shiites and Sunnis conflict was long over, since their sole conflict was on what should do when Muhammed died, which had to be hundreds of years agoo.. But while browsing cnn.com I came across an article that actually had me intrested in these two groups, and it revealed that there are still conflicts going on between these two groups."200 were killed in Baghdads Sadr City". According to this article 200 were killed and more then 250 were wounded in a despute between the Shiite and the Sunnis. This all started when the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threated to withdraw his support from the Iraqi goverment if Nuri al-Maliki meets with Bush this coming week for "talks" which can be assumed to be peace talks. After the Shiites threatened this there was an attack, which was called a "bloodbath". It is thought that it was the Sunnis behind this attack and to look out for a Shiite retatilation. The Shiites blamed Americans for setting up the condition that caused this war inside of a war. I'll leave you with what can be heard being chanted throught streets of Iraq, "No, no to America. Yes, yes to Islam.". Who else thinks its time to get out of there?
I have to agree with "spatulamanhandler" when they said that actually reading these articles that pertain to the last chapter are so much easier to relate and understand then just casually skimming a long tedious and redunant chapter.
posted by Anonymous @ 11/24/2006 11:44:00 AM
1 Comments:
Twinkletoes, you are right, it is easier said than done. Although I agree with you, war is horrible, we as individual people can't change things. Especially because of how far things have come. Shiites and Sunnis, as big.t.35 said, have been fighting for thousands of years. Besides, if we left Iraq, then we definately wouldn't be able to end their conflict. Overall, I agree with you, war is STUPID. But I have no idea how we would be able to completely wipe war away.
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