Burning mosques, killing Muslims, is this the fault of the coalition?

Question

Depose a dictator and the people of Iraq descend into killing each other over religious sectarianism fuelled by al-Qaeda and Arab/Pakistani terrorists. Who should we blame, the corporate West, an unstable fundamental element of a religious belief, or the inabilty of the Iraqi people to govern themselves?

Answer 1

Well anyone with two brain cells would have realized that in a country where 90% of the population is the same religion, but are divided into 3 different sects of that religion, that underneath everything there is going to be some conflict. It was this conflict that Saddam was able to use to keep these sects in line and the reason no one joined forces to overthrow them (if they are concentrating on hating each other, then the won't hate you). When the US went in and overthrew the government they left a power vacuum. Now there are different religious sects trying to fill that vacuum and gain power. To do that they will have to go through a civil war. Unfortunately there is no way around it, it is inevitable. And if the people in charge of starting this whole military fiasco had paid attention in history class they would have realized that history has a tenedency to repeat itself, and things like this have happened for thousands of years.

Answer 2

Iraq has the same problem as Yugoslavia (Europe in case you did not know) a collection of different countries and religions forced together under an armed and dictatorial government. Rebellion was a certain path to death for your family, tribe,village or even the whole town. As with Yugoslavia when the dictator has gone civil war is a near certainty as everyone now wants the the self government denied there people. In Yugoslavia it was Christian against Christian against Muslim. Nothing is as simple as it appears on the surface.
I would like to ask Gizmo if Mohammed did not announce the belief in Islam till 630ad how was it mentioned in Genesis 1500 years earlier by name?

Answer 3

Absolute power corrupts absolutely...

If you have been so long without freedom... When told that you can have soooo much more than you ever thought possible it's every man for themselves. Whether motivated by religious, financial or racial groups.

Fact is the dynamics of Iraq have been ripped away. A system that in one form or another has been in place for nearly two century's... Freedom overnight I think not.... Gulf War 'part two' just the spark that has ignited a flame...

Answer 4

Good question. I think that religion is at the bottom of it. The people are brainwashed by the awful Mullahs and do just as they are told by them. Saddam understood this and kept them in check by means of state sponsored terrorism. Western governments are rather civilised and will try to encourage control by means of good governance instead. Unfortunately it takes longer to achieve, but the results will be longer lasting, so it's worth it. The UK press will make it much harder by their continual carping about the situation and by their continual efforts to stir up the British Mob element to unite against our own government - Stands to reason - sells more papers - gives the BBC egotists a soapbox.

Answer 5

the human beings who condone burning of mosques and killing Muslims oftentimes are Muslims. In Syria and Lebanon, ***** and Suni Muslims are persevering with their 1400 twelve months old conflict. In different components, the countless communities in Islam are at a non everlasting peace, yet this would possibly not final continuously. they're going to circulate back to killing one yet another and destroying one yet another's places of worship.

Answer 6

Blame the killers. Duh!

Why corporate America? The largest outside influence is Iran, not Al Qaeda, not Pakistan, or anyone else. Iran is adding fuel to the fire. But the bottom line is it took a dictator who had to torture and kill many many many more than are being killed now to "keep the peace." They all can't get along and haven't for many a millenia. I again, I blame the killers.

Answer 7

All of the above. No one thing is ever to blame for the onset of chaos and civil strife. The only way to know for sure would be to reverse time and remove the suspected element. You might then find that the different mix of causative events brought on even worse consequences.

All one can do is recognize the stupidity of thinking the one element had had any chance of doing what it was supposed to do to begin with.

Answer 8

The Iraqis have the majority of the responsibility.
If other nations like Syria & Iran would stay out of it, it would be over by now.
But they know that having a democracy next door would make their people start to question their authoritarian rule.
It's the same reason they hate having Israel next door.
If they didn't villify the Israelis and the USA their people would start to ask... why can't we be like that, free and able to get ahead by hard work (instead of relying on the government ot the mullah's for charity)?
Freedom threatens their power, so they want to make sure it doesn't happen.

Answer 9

It is the Iraqi people themselves who must learn to govern.
This is what happens with living under a dictatorship so long.
Terrorists are the Evil of every nation and cause nothing but corruption fear and death.
Until people realise this it will go on and on.
Open your eyes !!!!!!!

Answer 10

I t would appear that they are incapable of governing themselves. I see them as a nation of people who are still in the dark ages with modern day technology. A very frightening group of people. They should be kept down Imagine if they were the dominant race. The whole world would be at war.