Shiites are killing Shiites; Shiites are also killing Sunnis; Shiites are killing Shiites that kill Sunnis; Shiites are killing Kurds, and Shiites are killing Shiites that kill Kurds. Eventually, Shiites are also killing allied soldiers and killing Shiites that kill allied soldiers. Furthermore, Sunnis are killing Shiites and Shiites that kill Shiites, on top of slaughtering Shiites that kill Kurds and Shiites that kill Shiites that kill Kurds. Eventually, Sunnis are also killing allied soldiers and killing Sunnis that kill allied soldiers. To top it up, Sunni and Shiite suicide bombers are blowing up regular Iraqis. Police forces affiliated to sectarian groups are also in a rampage, when they are not targeted by the “Death squads” of the other groups. Finally, foreign fighters are killing the murderous Shiites and Sunnis for their not forwarding the cause of Islam against the crusaders.
To make it simpler, Iran is financing the needs of both the Shiites and the Shiites that kill the Shiites, hoping that they will eventually stop fighting each other and will start killing Sunnis. Meanwhile, some crazy clerics, in the name of their own variation of the Muslim faith, are calling for the destruction of the other sects in a bloody race for survival and ultimate power. Caught in the middle of this killing frenzy, allied forces are trying to stabilize a shaky government and impose Democracy on the blood thirsty killers. Now you understand why dictatorship worked in Iraq!
I don’t want to sound like I am bashing the religion described by Iranian President Ahmadinejad as “a peaceful, beautiful and complete religion” but I am fascinated by the obvious contradiction between what we hear and what we see and would love some answers. A local Imam, in Sacramento, claimed that October, the month of Ramadan, was “the month of charity, worship, humility and forgiveness for all Muslims around the globe”, a time “to focus inwardly”. Since then, sectarian violence has increased 43%!
In 1991, in the Middle of the Sahara, South of Libya, after firing a few round of Kalashnikov and after the sunset prayer, my local Muslim guide and friend- told me that there was only one God and many ways to adore him. Why so much wisdom,and so much violence?
Churchill once said that America always end up doing the right thing after trying everything else. What would the right thing be?
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