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Clue: The Sunnis and Shiite militas are attacking each others' hardline clerics, extremists and paramilitary groups rather than the IA and Coalition. Those same clerics and paramilitary groups were the ones agitating against the West, the Iraqi governemtn and the Coalition!
They are attacking and killing each others' extremists. They are in effect vetting the country of the very type of hardliners and paramilitary groups they've been controlled by for hundreds of years. This is good! It shows they no longer tolerate the lies and hatred of the extremists.
It is loose confederations of Sunni and Shiite secularists who are conducting the attacks. The armed people in the streets are just that -the armed people. They are lashing out at the very religious extremism they've been shackled with for centuries. Today it's 'the other guy' tomorrow it will be their own.
This is a huge win for the government of Iraq and the Coalition. In attacking the religious hardliners of other sects the Iraqi people are striking at the insular and extremist conduct of Islam in Iraq. Many don't like it and are fed up with it. By murdering each others' clerics they are, in effect, showing their preference for pluralism and secularism over an Islamic theocracy.
This is about reducing the influence of religion on peoples daily lives and government. With the advent of pluralism it was inevitable.
The Iraqis are not fighting each other; they are not fighting the government and they are not fighting the Coalition. They are fighting against the influence of religious hardliners and secular paramilitary groups. And this is a good thing.
Sorry but that's just plain wrong. The violence that has followed the mosque bombing is not the expression of a sudden outpouring of desire for secular government, it is religious violence, plain and simple. Shias firing rockets at Sunni mosques is sectarian violence, plain and simple.