Posted on 08/30/2021 7:23:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the campaign of the Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, more than eighty properties - land and houses - have been returned to their rightful owners, including mostly Christians, citizens and Mandaeans after they have been victims of arbitrary and unlawful appropriation of their property by individuals or in recent years organized groups.
Hakim al Zamili, a leading member of the "Sadrists" (supporter of the political group led by Muqtada al Sadr), who also previously chaired the Iraqi Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense, reported on the results achieved so far thanks to the initiative inspired by Muqtada al Sadr. In a statement released by various Iraqi media on Wednesday, August 25, Al-Zamili stated that the last of the properties returned to their rightful Christian and Mandaean owners are in the Baghdad area, and that the committee set up ad hoc on the instructions of Al-Sadr to accompany the return has so far collected more than 140 return requests from Christian and Mandaean citizens who had been the victims of illegal expropriation of their real estate in recent phases of Iraqi history.
At the beginning of the year (see Fides, 4/1/2021), the Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr ordered the establishment of an ad hoc committee. This committee was tasked with collecting and reviewing information and complaints about cases of abusive expropriation of real estate by Christian and Mandaean owners in different regions of the country in recent years. The aim of the initiative launched by the Shiite politician was to restore justice and end the violation of the property rights of "Christian brothers and sisters", even if these violations were committed by members of his own movement. The request to report cases of illegal expropriations has been extended to include Christian families who have.......
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Sadr was an Iranian stooge. This feels like “It’s a trap Jim”
Wait, al Sadr is good now?
Probably suckering the Christians to help his coalition get some majority.
Does kinda suit Biden’s effed up worldview doesn’t it?
The Middle East is so messed up.
It’s that my enemy of my enemy is my friend played on a 4d chess board.
Yeah.
Since February 2020, I feel as though I’m in a different dimension or something. Russia is building Christian churches and isn’t forcing the vaccine on their citizens. We abandon American citizens in Afghanistan and mandate the vaccine or destroy your life.
I’d rather play Call of Duty and smoke everyone.
Now I know the world is upside down
His behavior changed a bit after the Iranian terrorist leader / general was defeated in that strike ordered by Trump.
That is one thing I am concerned with given what they have seen from Biden / Afghanistan debacle that this progress also would get reversed.
Sadr is an Islamic fanatic so while it looks like he is doing something good for Christians, I would always assume he has an unannounced agenda behind it.
This is a fight between the Iranian supported groups headed by the former PM Nouri al-Maliki and those, like Muqtada al Sadr, than want to kick out the Iranian influence.
Iranian militia are attacking Sadr-related groups in several cities.
This is how it looks like (1h ago) https://twitter.com/SaadoonMustafa/status/1564370946961686530
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