Not only is it important to expose the people and organizations that are trying to paint the events in Iraq as some type of sectarian conflict that is devoid of foreign involvement, but those that are trying to label the events as a Shiite-Sunni conflict need to be corrected, if they are ignorant, and challenged, if they are liars and propagandists. The Iraqi federal government is categorically not a “Shia government” and the ISIL is not a “Sunni” organization. Any person with a simple understanding of the configuration of the Iraqi federal government and Nouri Al-Malaki’s cabinet in Baghdad will know that it is demographically representative of Iraqi society and that, at the level of faith, it is composed of Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims and of Arabs, Kurds, and Iraqi ethnic minorities, at the level of ethnicity. Looking over a list of the cabinet ministers and their parties and backgrounds will dismiss the false notions and claims that the federal government of Iraq is a “Shia government.” These facts, however, have never got in the way of the narratives and talking points that constantly refer to the Iraqi federal government as a “Shia government.” As for the ISIL, most of its victims have been Muslims that are Sunni.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:01:33 +0000
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