Senalko said:
its no hidden Fact that Sunni Islam is the more straight forward and more Tolerant, where as shia's are more radical and extreme, and they rely on more than one figure head to follow and submit to....
In IRAQ, the sunni's were always known for their Secular way of life, as far as being religious, where as the shia's are very into radical extreme way of life.....
having said that, both cancel each other out, becuase right now in iraq, the Sunni's have taken a dangerious path by uniting with the Wahabi's of Afghanistan and Saudi arabia, who are the Worst kind of islam u can ever get.... total bunch of Criminals and terrorists....
at the same time, IRAN have made iraq a living hell, iranian agents control the show in the south and they go as far as running the Government... they are what we call them as " Badriyeen "....
Before IRan's interference in iraq, shia's and sunni's lived together in most of baghdad, but the radical persians introduced the Secreterian divisions and are the cause of the majority of the crimes in baghdad.......
Muqtada al Sadr and his mahdi army are the result of IRAN's dirty work in iraq.....
There is even more, only yesterday, a new Faction of islam was born, and some 500 militiants were ready to attack Najaf and claim to liberate iraq, but thank god to the iraqi forces, they were able to destroy them quickly............
That is a very askew analysis, in my opinion.
If anything, this was the first time in history the Shi'ites have attained power. Historically, Sunnis have always applied their power with a theocratic fist.
Before Khomeini, the Shi'ite-clergy and secular in Iran always kept a middle-ground neutrality especially since in Shi'ite Islam only the 12 imams (of Muhammad's family) are allowed to govern the people (which obviously means never), where as with Sunnis they have always imposed the caliphate-Islamic state, for the past 1400 years. Also, the Shi'ite clergy in Najaf have historically kept religion seperate from politics (like al-Khoi).
I'm not excusing Shi'ism, because surely now its colors have shown. But, to call the Sunnis secular, while ruling out the Shi'ites, is only half the story. Look at Sunnis in Iraq now and tell me how 'secular' they are.
Down with both sects, but if I had to pick one, it would be Shi'ism just because I was born into it and have been exposed to some of its more pacifist circles. But I could really care less, in the end.
As for Iran intervening and being directly responsible for this madness, are you kidding me? Are you ignoring the genocide against the Shi'ite community? What about 3 decades of Ba'athist brutality - centralized around a
Sunni elitist polity - that put tens and thousands into their massgraves? You cannot honestly take the last 3 years-segment of history and say 'this is where it started' especially when day after day, suicide bombing after suicide bombing, the wahabis have clearly stated that this is a war against Kuffar.
To look at the last 3 years and delete all the numbers of suicide bombings, car bombings (that brought over 8,000 casualities, by the end of 2005), let alone 3 decades of dictatorship which discriminated against the Shi'ite community and just focus on the Shi'ite militia-linked crimes (which are vengeance attacks, despite how barbaric they are) is a very asymmetrical analysis and quite untruthful.
If you're going to dissect this conflict, then do it by looking at both sides.
