Are Iraqi Shiites getting a bad rap for collaborating with the Americans, when it’s really the Sunnis who are the biggest aiders and abettors of the ‘occupier?’ According to this op-ed article from Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, “Look at a map of the Arab nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf and put your finger on any of the puppet regimes allied with America, and then tell me: What denomination rules that country?”
“Those who provide everything America needs at every level are not Shiites. … To say that Shiites are collaborators and Sunnis are not would require mental retardation and moral collapse.”
Dr. Marwan Al-Janabi
Translated By James Jacobson
October 23, 2007
Iraq – Kitabat – Original Article (Arabic)
Before any reader misunderstands my meaning due to the headline, I must say that I – despite the fact that I’m Sunni by virtue of my family – don’t favor Sunni or Shiite.
But I want to point out a phenomenon exploited by some Sunni politicians, which is a tendency to stigmatize our Shiite brothers since America occupied Iraq and handed governance to Shiites, after they came in on the back of U.S. tanks. These Sunnis intentionally ignore the fact that half of the politicians who currently run the U.S.-installed government are Sunni.
This sectarian chorus is dangerous for the independence of Iraq and the unity of its people, and we must disclose the facts and put them in your hands, dear reader, about what the real relationship is between treason and sect. I leave it to you to draw conclusions:
• Look at a map of the Arab nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf and put your finger on any of the puppet regimes allied with America, and then tell me: What denomination rules that country? [Sunni]
• Widen your gaze to the entire Islamic World [not just Arab] and look at Turkey and Pakistan, the two main pillars of American policy. It was from Pakistan that the operation to occupy Afghanistan was launched from, and it is Turkey that is fueling the operations of American forces in Iraq … what is the sect of America’s “friends†in Pakistan and Turkey? Are they Sunni or Shiite? [Sunni]
• Then look at location of America’s forces of hegemony … the military bases where land, water and air corridors are put to the service of the United States, particularly to feed their aggression against Iraq. Are they in Sunni or Shiite countries?
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