An Iraqi blogger in Baghdad

From the Healing Iraq blog, an account of life in Baghdad today by Zehad, a Sunni Moslem who is a postgraduate dental resident and lived in England as a child. It seems that much of the country is undergoing a general uprising, with violent death possible anywhere, anytime. Zeyad closes with this chilling comment, echoing what we said in another thread about the fate of pro-American Iraqis if the U.S. should pull out:

The Sunni armed groups have made no secret this time of their true intentions. According to them, the Iraqi NG’s are now just infidel ‘Kurd and Shi’ite’ militias taking their revenge against the peace-loving Sunnis. The Association of Muslim Scholars issues fatwas calling Iraqi security forces ‘apostates’ because “Iraqis should not be fighting Iraqis under the occupation”. This fatwa implies that if the occupation ends tomorrow then it would be okay for Iraqis to kill each other then, since that has always been the case over the last three decades.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 13, 2004 12:56 PM | Send