NYT: Sunni-Shiite Split in U.S. Is Widened by Iraq’s Shadow

[wellst0nev0ter]

DEARBORN, Mich. — Twice recently, vandals have shattered windows at three mosques and a dozen businesses popular among Shiite Muslims along Warren Avenue, the spine of the Arab community here.

Although the police have arrested no one, most in Dearborn’s Iraqi Shiite community blame the Sunni Muslims.

“The Shiites were very happy that they killed Saddam, but the Sunnis were in tears,” Aqeel Al-Tamimi, 34, an immigrant Iraqi truck driver and a Shiite, said as he ate roasted chicken and flatbread at Al-Akashi restaurant, one of the establishments damaged over the city line in Detroit. “These people look at us like we sold our country to America.”

Escalating tensions between Sunnis and Shiites across the Middle East are rippling through some American Muslim communities, and have been blamed for events including vandalism and student confrontations. Political splits between those for and against the American invasion of Iraq fuel some of the animosity, but it is also a fight among Muslims about who represents Islam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/us/04muslim.html?ex=1328245200&en=435bf35ee63c5fe5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Fuck you Bush. Fuck you very much.

[msongs]

1. “These people look at us like we sold our country to America.” ??? nt

[California Griz]

2. I am convinced this was the idea all along.

To start a Shia and Sunni war that would spread throughout the Muslim world.

[demosincebirth]

3. Where is the outcry about the senseless killing by suicide bombers and car bombs?

[ohio2007]

4. Tha depends where they happen,ie Israel,Gaza,Iraq or

anywhere in the world.
it's odd, some cheer bombings and killings claiming inshalla yet they protest other bombings and fail to attach the same "inshalla" label ?

[Jonathan50]

5. Why is the delivery system of a bomb so important?

A bomb is a bomb is a bomb. Bombs kill people and destroy stuff.

A bomb dropped by an airplane, delivered by a cruise missile or shot out of a howitzer is still a bomb, it doesn't change the nature of the weapon.

What scares people about "suicide bombers" is that those people are ready and willing to die for what they believe in. Such a commitment substantially negates the technological advantage that we in the West have over those in the third world.

That is the true reason for the outcry against "suicide bombers", because it means that our superior technology cannot protect us from those that we make war against.

A suicide bomber is the moral equivalent of a cruise missile or an aircraft delivered bomb. The cruise missile neither knows nor cares who it kills or what it destroys. Killings by cruise missile are just as senseless as those by suicide bomber. Only the suicide bomber has greater moral courage than the one who launches a cruise missile at no danger to himself.

[demosincebirth]

6. Again, where is the outcry?

Where are the clerics and mullahs to condemn these senseless killing of inocent human beings.

[babydollhead]

7. I think it's a lie