Sunnis May As Well Move Out
The Sunni Muslims in Iraq may as well start planning to move out and immigrate into Saudi Arabia. We are seeing more and more violence targeting Sunni Muslims in the majority Shiite Iraq. Many of these Sunni Muslims are innocent civilians, some are members of militias that have preyed upon Shiites through out Baghdad, and some are simply good people caught in the middle.
It seems sad to say give up and immigrate out of your own country, but Muslim conflicts have been fraught with this same impetus over history.
Even in Muhammad's day, he pushed the Jews out of Mecca He gave them only several day to move out, confiscated their property that they could not take, allowed them only three camels per family to take all of their possessions, confiscated their profitable orchards, and moved his own followers into their homes.
Why should we feel that brothers of the same faith should treat each other in any other way? Well, I for one feel that this dissection of who is the legitimate Muslim leader from the 6th century, nearly 1500 years later, is a ridiculous point to argue about. However, this is the crux of the fight and disagreement between the Sunnis and Shiites. It is about the decendency of the line of Muhammad and not about important religious viewpoints at all. But yet this point has been the rallying cry to spearhead violence and to segregate peoples into Sunni and Shiite blocks. Pre-war Iraq was one of the few places worldwide that Shiites and Sunnis lived together in peace, and that is only because the Saddam Hussein society was very secular in nature. Now that his iron fist is out of the way, the tide of religiosity has risen and with it the historical eons old strife between the two sects of the Muslim faith.
I do not see any way that the two sects can live in modern day Iraq together. They are intent on annihilation of each other and are struggling to manage the government for their own personal agendas. So, sorry, but I would recommend that Saudi Arabia instead of sending trunks of money to continue the failing Sunni insurgency, start actively encouraging immigrations and allow funding to help move Sunnis out of Iraq and into their own country. There will never be peace between the two factions in Iraq, history is my guide.
It seems sad to say give up and immigrate out of your own country, but Muslim conflicts have been fraught with this same impetus over history.
Even in Muhammad's day, he pushed the Jews out of Mecca He gave them only several day to move out, confiscated their property that they could not take, allowed them only three camels per family to take all of their possessions, confiscated their profitable orchards, and moved his own followers into their homes.
Why should we feel that brothers of the same faith should treat each other in any other way? Well, I for one feel that this dissection of who is the legitimate Muslim leader from the 6th century, nearly 1500 years later, is a ridiculous point to argue about. However, this is the crux of the fight and disagreement between the Sunnis and Shiites. It is about the decendency of the line of Muhammad and not about important religious viewpoints at all. But yet this point has been the rallying cry to spearhead violence and to segregate peoples into Sunni and Shiite blocks. Pre-war Iraq was one of the few places worldwide that Shiites and Sunnis lived together in peace, and that is only because the Saddam Hussein society was very secular in nature. Now that his iron fist is out of the way, the tide of religiosity has risen and with it the historical eons old strife between the two sects of the Muslim faith.
I do not see any way that the two sects can live in modern day Iraq together. They are intent on annihilation of each other and are struggling to manage the government for their own personal agendas. So, sorry, but I would recommend that Saudi Arabia instead of sending trunks of money to continue the failing Sunni insurgency, start actively encouraging immigrations and allow funding to help move Sunnis out of Iraq and into their own country. There will never be peace between the two factions in Iraq, history is my guide.
