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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Jan 31 13:32:55 2005, in response to Re: People abroad not liking us, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jan 31 12:09:46 2005. Reality check - Iraq was once run by the SUNNI's (or at least those PRETENDING to be religious) ... Sunni's were given a pass in the old regime. It was the Shi'ites and the Kurds who were on the outs, and THIS election was a turnout of mostly the "minorities," as the Sunnis not only boycotted, but sent out all those car bombs to prevent it from happening.It does not suprise me that the mainstream media outlets seem unable to get the story straight. First of all, the Shi'ites are the largest group in Iraq, IINM totalling more than half the population. They're not a minority, even though they faced some oppression under Saddam's rule. Also, when everyone says that Sunnis largely boycotted the electon, they should say Sunni Arabs. The Kurds, who faced oppression under Saddam and today are more or less aligned with the Shi'ites, are themselves Sunni. Lastly, maybe the most important point, the Shi'ites and Sunnis are not as different as one might think. Most Shi'ites trace their ancestry to Sunnis who converted to the Shi'ite sect as agriculture replaced nomadic herding in the 1800's. Even today there's a lot of intermarriage between the groups. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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