IRAQ

A Civil War On Campus

Sunnis and Shiites are dividing the classroom.

By Babak Dehghanpisheh | NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Nov 12, 2007

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Posted By: Sonia4Him @ 01/14/2008 10:52:20 AM

Comment: I AGREE WITH CARAMIA'S COMENT. EDUCATION IS A MUST. AND I WILL LOOK UP THAT MOVIE "OBSESSION: ISLAMS WAR ON THE WEST". BUT ISLAMS IS NOT ONLY WITH THE WEST, IT IS WITH ANYONE, EVEN THEIR OWN PEOPLE WHO WANT PEACE OR EQUALITY AND FREED OM FOR ALL PEOPLE. I TOO PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE MIDEAST, AFGHAN, IRAQ AND ALL THOSE MUSLIM CONTROLLED COUNTRIES WHO BRAIN WASH THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN WITH HATRED AND KILLING.
GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND ONCE AGAIN I FERVANTLY PRAY FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE.
Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 11/12/2007 8:33:05 PM

Comment: Let them kill each other and do whatever they want with their universities and country, why bother? We have got our own problems, why worry about others? All outsiders must get out of Iraq and I mean all.Once they are tired of killing each other, then they will stop.
Posted By: CaraMia @ 11/12/2007 7:10:56 PM

Comment: Education is a must... You must understand the culture, history or the middle east, and the religion of Islam itself. Please understand that the people of Iraq, Iran and middle east are victims of Islamic extremists and a false religion which for generations have brain washed their people into demonizing Israel and the West (Europe and the US). Islam is not a peaceful religion. An excellent movie for everyone to watch is "Obsession: Islam's War on the West." That's all I have to say. God bless and be with you all.
Posted By: Nichaseous @ 11/10/2007 6:04:37 PM

Comment: Why would you make statement with such contained hypocrasy? "...grant ample FREEDOM of religion, so that CHRISTIANS may come in mass, and teach these people how to be human!" Don't you get it, religion is the reason there is so much violence, religion is the reason they are killing eachother and hate the US so much. The last thing they need is another group of people born into priveledge telling them how to live their lives and drop the foundation of who they are. Acceptance and understanding are the key to conflict not telling someone how to live and think.
Posted By: bohdansz @ 11/10/2007 3:06:52 PM

Comment: Iraq needs to grow up in a hurry. These people seem to be 300 years behind the Western civilization! Too many beheadings and stuff! One way is to put a strong government thatt would grant ample freedom of religion, so that Christians may come in masse, and teach these people how to be human!
Posted By: GOREFISHER2008 @ 11/07/2007 5:49:05 PM

Comment: Google Gore Fisher 2008
Posted By: GOREFISHER2008 @ 11/07/2007 5:48:36 PM

Comment: Now will you let me do my job.
Posted By: harrison25 @ 11/07/2007 6:51:03 AM

Comment: Saddam = necessary evil who sells us cheap oil and squanders the profits made on himself.

i miss saddam =(
Posted By: rsmurrow @ 11/06/2007 2:44:26 PM

Comment: I just don't understand why everybody can not get along? How come we can not see past each other's differences? Just because your parents hated each other or your grand parents hated each other, does not mean that the kids of the future can not interact and get along and create a peaceful society. I mean these are college students killing each other because of their religious beliefs.
- Posted By: jnewsweek @ 11/08/2007 11:05:22
  
  Comment: I agree. It is hard to understand why there is such contention. Everything seems to be about power, intimidation, and force. I guess they never heard of "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar."
Posted By: leodelaney @ 11/06/2007 10:27:54 AM

Comment: What a surprise. Its only been going on for 1500 years and the fight between Kurds and Arabs for 4000 years. It was a grand gesture and revealed a deep level of understanding of the situation in Iraq that the United States believed that by toppleing the only stable government Iraq had know for a hundred years with an invasion, they might have set loose these animosities once again. Ah, but how soon we forget. No such thought waas give to the historical and current realities of the situation. What was needed was something, anything that would divert the people from the fact that their Presiddent had behaved in a totally incompent manner following 9/11 and that he hedn't the slightest idea what to do next. Give the a war; bread ancdcircuses. Bush believed that the people would hail him as a wartime President if he invaded an uninvolved, extremely weak, little country in the Middle East whose Dictator was hated by the world that he would win a victory, the mission would be accomplished, the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms and the Americans would have an admirable.President. It take monumantal stuopidity and God given idiocy to have thought that, but he did it. And now he has a half trillion dollars wasted,thousands of Americans dead to no purpose and hundreds of thousands of their side dead, civil war in the streeets, now the fires of hatred loosed again in the classrooms, the prospect of a decade of the same yet to come and the end result will be as if we had never been in Iraq save for the swifter ascension of Iran to the mightest nation in the Middle
East.

George W. Bush wil be remembered all right. As the man who made the greatest political, historical, military and economic blunder in the history of the word. The almost biblical slaughterer of hundreds of thousands to no purpose and the man who started the United Staters on its decline from the world stage. He will rank up there with the other great failures of History.
- Posted By: adirondack_1 @ 11/12/2007 08:28:36
  
  Comment: So another "no connection to 9-11" statement. How hard is it to figure out that the attack wasn't an attack by a person but an attack by an ideology? The big hurdle for small minds is that there are those in the middle east who would like to lose religion enough to live in the modern world as well as the majority who don't. To make the change there must be a change in power such that religion plays a back seat role to political acceptance in the world. Saddam wasn't going to play along and neither will the mullahs. Usurping their control isn't an option it is a must. Not removing religion from government is really appeasing the terrorist base. Their traditional application of Islam is in no way able to accept westerners, western trade, values or legal systems. It is a slippery slope indeed and lives will be lost but fewer than not engaging them in an attempt to marginalize hostile religious zealots.
  
  The failure is with the publics understanding of the issue and blithering all this nonsense about GWB being the bad guy. Did you ever stop to think it has to be done on the sly to avoid uniting the sects against the west? DUH! It isn't over and may take many years if it actually can be done but it is far beter than an all out war with Islam against every infidel state. Or have you converted ?