How can Americans in Iraq possibly stop this?
From the Washington Post ...The bad blood began to rise a few months ago in northern Iraq with the kind of interfaith love so reviled by Iraq's religious extremists: A Muslim woman eloped with a member of the tiny Yazidi religious sect.I don't care how many troops we send, or how much democracy we want to impose on Iraq, this sectarian violence is never going to end.It erupted in a massacre Sunday, police said, when Sunni gunmen in Mosul hijacked a busload of mostly Yazidi workers from a nearby town and shot and killed 23 of them, one by one.
The mass killing was the latest attack on religious minorities in Iraq, where human rights groups say Christians, Jews and members of other, smaller sects are often killed, persecuted or forced to convert by Muslim extremists. Last month in Kirkuk, two elderly Chaldean Catholic nuns were killed by armed men who stormed their house as they slept.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 9:52 AM
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It will end. Whether it ends with a victory for reactionary Islam or a liberal Islam is the question.
But end it will. If we give up supporting our allies there, it will probably end in a very bad way.
Check Hitchen's review of Ali Allawi's new book.
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