Posted on 06/14/2014 12:35:29 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Many residents of Mosul say they prefer life under ISIS to that under Iraqi army control
Less than one week ago the jihadists seized control of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, where they have set to work imposing the hardline rules and summary justice of their “Islamic State”.
In the Sunni dominated city, the removal of the Iraqi army by ISIS has been interpreted as a local victory; as a means of empowering Mosul residents against ...the Shia dominated national government who they feel has kept their people “oppressed”.
But the crises in northern Iraq is now less one of a single jihadist group to be rooted out and destroyed, than of a sectarian pushback by the Sunni population against the Iraqi government.
With the rest of his family crammed into his battered silver Sedan car, ready to drive to Mosul, Maher, the teacher, described the city, which he had been to the day before.
“The situation is quiet and normal now in Mosul. Schools and hospitals have opened,” he said. “There is no pressure from ISIS.
Video footage from inside the city shows masked gunmen acting as traffic police, calmly waving cars through at a crossroads. Other images show the jihadists studiously repairing broken electricity lines.
One female resident, who asked not to be named, spoke to the Telegraph from her home inside the city.
“The armed men organise even the municipal services. Rubbish is being cleaned off the streets. Electricity is very fine: we now have it more than nine hours per day, which is even better than during Saddam [Hussein]’s rule,” she said.
“Now, in these days of being in the grip of the armed men, we only feel the wonderful peace, which we have missed for more than a decade now, since 2003.”
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If they are Sunni, they’ll be just fine.
“we only feel the wonderful peace, which we have missed for more than a decade now, since 2003.”
They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.
How many people did they talk to before they found this USA hater.
People forget that Iraq had been asking for our help for years.
Some people were doing well under Saddam. Every dictator has loyalists.
Anyone ever notice that the people that want our help the least get it most?
Anyone ever notice the people that need our help the most get it least?
Thats what happens when traitors and enabling sycophantic cowards rule America.
Down play the jihadist aspect and play up the sectarian aspect. The Telegraph covers for the jihadists.
They’d really rather have Saddam back.
I noticed that too.
Actually this has been going on between the Shia and Sunni for hundreds of years. Unfortunately for us (America) as much as they hate each other they both hate us more.........
Soon they’ll have the trains running on time.
LOL.
I assume you were responding to this sickening comment in the article...
The Iraqis are their own worst enemies. They choose leaders very poorly, and seem resigned to be under a dictator’s thumb in one way or another. The Iraqis we had supposedly trained just melted away as a layer of resistance. It still all comes down to tribalism.
"War? What is war? We've been at war for 30 years" (referring to Iran).
Her eyes darted about. She covered her face and disappeared into the crowd.
I’ve had enough of this shiite and the sunni it ends, the better.
This is not “sectarianism.” The ISIS group is killing Sunnis as well. The policeman whose head was kicked around in the famous “This is Our World Cup” video was a Sunni. But he was cooperating with a semi-secular government.
You are absolutely right that this is covering for the jihadists, who want to create the “worldwide caliphate.” At that point, Sunni and Shia won’t matter, and we’re fools if we think either one of them is more sympathetic to non-Islamic thought or society.
“They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.”
The freedom they (the Sunni’s) had quickly dissolved after we left,into Shi’a control of Iraq with no Sunni input at all. It wasn’t a unity gov’t, it was a Shi’a dominated gov’t with a powerless Sunni minority. The Sunni’s, having once been in power themselves, weren’t going to live with that for too long and hence the rebellion today. The Kurds weren’t happy with the Shi’a either and will now break away also.
The country will end up partitioned or Sunni controlled again, by another strongman like Saddam, only more religious than secular. The Kurds will go their own way. The Shi’a are sheep in Iraq by nature. Iran might try to step in to help their Shi’a satelliate state that Iraq has become. What we did or didn’t do in Iraq is a moot point, as these groups were never going to get along, and the proof is in the pudding.
The authors:
Al-Jazeera English Co-Founder/Journalist Carol Malouf with Youmna Naufal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-oz4BJu6c
Ruth Sherlock at Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/ruth-sherlock-1.339534
at al-Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/ruth-sherlock.html
“They have no gratitude towards the freedom the Americans fought and died to give them. Ungrateful bastards.”
You just nailed the crux of the problem in your above comment; ~ Americans fought and died to “give” them. Freedom is hard. Freedom has to be earned, has to be fought for to gain and has to be fought for to keep.
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