Death for belief

Ever since the fall of the Iraqi regime led by president Saddam Hussain of the infamous ba’ath party, clashes between muslims started to emerge. This killings where led by Islams main two branches, the Sunnis and the Shi’ites. The Sunnis can easily be called the orthodox path in Islam since it follows the prophet and his companions teachings without any interference, while the Shi’ites first emerged after the Great Fitna and rever Ali “the prophets cousin” as a saint along with his kin. The Sunnis see that as blasphemy since Islam strictly forbids idolism and they see it that way, the Shi’ites on the other hand refer to there Sunni cousins as traitors since they dont believe Alis’ right to Caliphism.

These diferrences have not surfaced as conflicts except on minor occasions in Islams’ history, and in most of the Muslim world Sunnis and Shi’ites live in harmony. The situation none the less is different in modern Iraq, Shi’ite insurgents kill Sunni muslims by the masses each day and raid their communities in Baghdad and other major Iraqi villages. Those attacks where incited by the explosions in a Shi’ite holy site known as Karbalaa where Alis’ grave lies.They where instantly blamed on the Sunnis and attacks have not seized since then even so more Sunnis have been killed by post attacks than the number of Shi’ites that died in that sad occasion.

The Sunnis on the other hand blame the Shi’ites on Iraqs current status, since they backed the Americans in there “illegal” invasion in a muslim land and plunge Iraq into a dark age where promised democracy is not even thought of. The current Iraqi government is comprimised of Shi’ite parties and Kurdish whith not a single major Sunni representation. The Shi’ite army named The Army of the Mehdi which is lead by Shi’ite clerik Moqtada al Sadr targets Sunnis’ which believe in the same relgion as he does’, while leaving the invading forces with a few skirmishes in there records. The result is more than 50% of the Baghdad Sunnis where displaced and a more bitter number killed, all for the sake of revenge for acts they never comitted or had a hand in.

killings wont stop, blood will be shed and murderers like Muqtada will continue their killings in the name of minor beliefs. Islam is to state that you believe in a single God and believe in hislast Prophet, none of the both sides deny it, but on the contrary sing ”Ash’had ana la ellah ela allah” while their bullets tear each others limbs believing its the way to heaven and believing in a cause which says kill your brother in faith for a reason that themselves dont know.

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