Comments for The myth of sectarianism - The policy is divide to rule at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:09:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4122 Before the invasion - and during better times, over 30% of marriages in Iraq were 'mixed' crossing confessional and ethnic lines. A significant proportion of the Iraqi population would technically be considered 'mixed' - but because of the 'social engineering' policies of the US occupation forces and their puppet government - people are forced on the pain of death or displacement to declare an identity. This is the cruelest game of all - forcing wives to deny their husbands, children to deny a beloved grandparent - because the thugs of ethnic cleansing demand this breakup of the stable social norms which had previously defined the secular Iraqi nation. Genghis Khan would never have demanded such a choice from his conquered peoples -- only the social engineers, the heirs of fascism and zionism. - Robinea Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:44:02 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4109 One other thing that bugs me: [quote]On occasion there were more telling responses like the one I received from an older woman, “My mother is a Shia and my father a Sunni, so can you tell which half of me is which?” The accompanying smile said it all.[/quote] I thought Sunni and Shia were branches of Islam, [i]religions[/i], not some kind of races. - littlehorn Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:11:25 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4108 Sorry to interrupt all this but there are other people who talk about Sunni-Shia clashes, one of them being Juan Cole. Who's not exactly doing propaganda for the Bush administration. Mark Rieckhoff also speaks of anti-Shia discrimination in his book "Chasing ghosts." This article talks about Sunni-Shia marriages, which do happen. But are they widespread ? I don't think so. There is clearly ethnic cleansing in Iraq. You say we don't have recent numbers about how many sunnis and shias and kurds there are in Iraq. That's true, but do you have data pointing to the contrary ? Not according to what i read. The point you are trying to make is far-fetched. You don't need to alter the reality to prove that the occupation is useless. There is sectarian violence, and indeed, the Bush administration needs that violence to go on. What you should point out is how the occupation itself does NOT stop the sectarian violence in any way. It does not help with a reconciliation. - littlehorn Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:06:53 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4099 Thank you, Dahr, for going out and finding real news in Iraq that allows us far removed from the situation to have a better view of what is really happening. We need every one of you honest independent reporters, hopefully the news there will truly get better. We need to realize that the corporate media has largely been used as a foreign policy tool by the administration, and reject blindly subscribing to their reports, which are often nothing more than propaganda. - buh Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:37:27 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4077 I cannot express enough how important this article is, and how vital it is that these "hard truths" reach as many Americans as possible. This is the horrifying, vicious, dreadful reality of what are actions have been, and of what we are wreaking in Iraq. [One reason, perhaps, why John Edwards has been refused permission to enter Iraq and the Green Zone by our government.] We must confront the presidential candidates with these details, and force this information into wider circulation any way we can. For those new to these facts, here's more about the political machinations transpiring - at our behest - in Iraq: http://alternet.org/story/71144/ Thank you so, so much, Dahr Jamail, for pulling this together and explaining it so clearly. Your work will resonate down through the years, as the honest, humane accounting that it is, of American brutality in Iraq. - Thank You, Atlantic Free Press Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:53:15 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/3186-the-myth-of-sectarianism-the-policy-is-divide-to-rule.html#comment-4074 It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so. De t'ings dat yo' li'ble to read in de Bible, it ain't necessarily so. It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so. Dey tell all you chillun de debble's a villun but 'tain't necessarily so. I'm preachin' dis sermon to show it ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't necessarily so. (H/T I. Gershwin) - Evan J Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:16:16 +0100