Iraqis unite to condemn interim constitution (shiaa/sunni protest!)

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B90497BA-C408-4E65-8ED7-5301CBBF841A.htm

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Thousands of Muslim Sunni and Shia gathered after Friday prayers in al-Adhamya and al-Kadhimya districts in Baghdad to demonstrate against the interim Iraqi constitution.

The demonstrations came on the eve of the first anniversary of the war on Iraq with the crowd swelling as more and more Iraqis joined in.

"Welcome to the blessed gathering, welcome to this demonstration." A voice chanted from among the crowds.

The Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), the highest Sunni authority in Iraq organised the demonstration, which moved from Abu Hanifa mosque in the predominant Sunni district of al-Adhamya, to meet up with another demonstration organised by Shia clerics, scheduled to start from al-Kadhimya across the river Tigris.

[Nlighten1]

1. Ruh, row, Roerge

This isn't good.

[papau]

2. Good question - why wasn't prior consitution just continued - it said

all the right things - except of course Saddam ignored it - but does that make it bad?

Seems we are forcing a canton nation or a partition - or a civil war

[jayfish]

4. Just A Thought,...

(and I'm not saying you are incorrect) but how do we know that Saddam ignored it? How do we know that this tyrant stuff isn't just as concocted as the WMD claims. Didn't all of this info come from the same group of dissidents? Also if a substantial group of Americans decided to do as the Shia's did after the GWI, don't you think that they would end up in "mass graves" just as quickly? Just look at the Branch Davidians. Just something to think about.


Jay

[leftchick]

3. Photo... this is serious folks...

while chimpass* preens in front of the camera today proclaiming all is okie-dokie in Iraq the Shia and Sunni unite against the US occupiers...




Iraqi Muslim Sunni and Shia marched hand in hand

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I just watched that! - on CBC - I don't know if CNN will run it though

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CNN has been pissing me off lately with their commentators putting their own "slant" on everything, not to mention the unbalanced reporting of what is going on around the world . .

CBC may not be the "fastest" newsgroup in the world, but I don't see them being wrong or biased too often

CBC has this silly habit of checking up on something seemingly rare in the American Administration and Media called FACTS

[tlcandie]

6. Let's just hope it's not met with the atrocities that other protests met

in Iraq :cry: Good for them and I hope it changes things, but I doubt it. Good point btw on the old constitution!!

May the Iraqis find peace SOON!