Posted on 03/03/2006 3:09:31 PM PST by SJackson
Shiite and Sunni preachers call for national unity in face of violence which has left hundreds dead.
BAGHDAD - Shiite and Sunni preachers Friday variously accused the Americans, the Iranians and the Jews of sparking sectarian violence in Iraq, while calling for national unity in the face of violence which has left hundreds dead.
"No Arab or Iraqi could have carried out the bombing of the Shiite Ali al-Hadi mausoleum in Samarra, or the recent bloody attacks in the capital," said Sheikh Ahmad Hassan Taha in his sermon at Samarra's main Sunni mosque.
"It's a plot by the Jews and by people from neighbouring Iran to foster sectarian strife," he said, adding that "nothing divides Sunnis and Shiites" in Iraq.
The latest surge in sectarian violence was sparked by the bombing of the shrine.
Following the Friday prayers, several hundred faithful took to the streets, shouting "Iran, out, out, Samarra will not give up Ali al-Hadi".
The Iraqi government wants to transfer responsibility for the bombed Shiite shrine from the city's main Sunni community to Shiites, a move considered to be an insult by the local community.
Iraqi authorities have arrested 10 Iraqis, including several of the shrine guards, in connection with the bombing, while no one in government has suggested that the sectarian clashes are anything other than homegrown.
"One must not allow the enemies of Iraq to divide the people," the imam of the Sunni Adrar mosque in Baghdad said.
"Occupation forces, Crusaders and Jews don't want an Iraq at peace and push for sectarian strife," said Sheikh Shaker Mahmud, from the Sunni Abdel Qader al-Guilani mosque.
The imam of the Shiite Bayah mosque, Sheikh Hassan al-Jabiri, suggested that "Iraq is the theatre of an ideological war waged by worldly arrogance," a term used in Iran to finger the United States.
In Shiite Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad, hundreds of the faithful, escorted by armed militiamen from the Mehdi Army, met outside Sadr's office for prayers.
His representative in the capital, Sheikh Aus al-Khaffaji, accused "the Americans of being responsible for all the ills of Iraq" and called for the departure of US troops.
Meanwhile, Sunnis and Shiites held joint prayer meetings in Basra and Amara, in southern Iraq, where appeals were made for them to join a mass demonstration in Baghdad on March 11 to call for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
Last time I checked, there have been thousands of al-Zarqawi's band of merry terrorists who are both Arab and Muslim. They seem to particularly enjoy grisly bombings and shootings and beheadings of innocent people of virtually any background, so to assert that no Arab or Muslim could do such deranged things is, well, deranged.
Aaaazrrrgghhh~ Who gives a rat's a$$ what the imams say?
This is no news.
Actually it was the Smurfs doing all the violence.
"Occupation forces, Crusaders and Jews don't want an Iraq at peace and push for sectarian strife," said Sheikh Shaker Mahmud, from the Sunni Abdel Qader al-Guilani mosque."
Always,always the other guy's fault.
Muslims always blame an outsider so they don't have to kill each other. They can blame Christians and Jews all they want...just as they always blame Christians and Jews for all their problems. They are still scum bags stabbing each other in the back in the end.
So long as the Muslim "imams" have any say or role in Iraq -- there will be chaos...
Islam thrives on ignorance, poverty and chaos....
If they don't get it right, real soon -- total destruction should be contemplated.
Semper Fi
Maybe they should really get something to snivel about..
Americans, Iranians and Jews?
They get one out of three right.
They'll assert that they do it, but defend it as in "Allah's honor" or some itsh like that. They rationalize it all. Even this guy in NC, the SUV ramrod. He had his reasons and as usual, the silence from the world of Islam is deafening.
The entire philosophy is deranged.
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