Iraq is divided in two, ethnically; Kurds (20 percent) in the north and Arabs (80 percent) in the south. The Arabs are also divided in two; the Sunni branch of Islam rule in Baghdad and the around the Euphrates, the Shia branch encircles the Sunni in the remainder of ethnic Arabian Iraq.
Islam is the religion of 96% of the nation's population; two thirds of the Muslim population is Shia, the other one third is Sunni.
The Kurds represent about 5 million ethnic Iraqis; the remaining 20 million are about 6 million Sunni and 13 million Shia.
You don't have to be a university fellow to see that the Sunni are smoking something if they think they should rule or even have a major role in the new government of the country. Let the people decide.
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You are correct. If the Sunni are going to protest by staying home during the election, that’s fine with me. When the Kurds re-take Mosul back from the Sunnis in the north, they may understand that representation is the only way to have a voice in the new Iraq.
ReplyDeleteOr they could go on car bombing and suicide bombing their way to power, that may prove to be effective in the short term, but when the peaceful Sunnis have to pay the price for the terrorist actions of the insurgents, they may be cleaned out from the inside.
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