Sistani has emerged recently and communicate with his spokesperson numerous times last month and this month. Sistani has said that the time has come for all Iraqis to defend the country, the ISIS rebels are apostate and it is permissible to fight them to death and the politics in Iraq must now move forward to form a stable and a respected government. Whenever Sistani says something, his friends and also his opponents/enemies tend to twist and interpret his messages/fatwas in a way that is most favorable to them and their causes. At the end of the day, you don’t actually hear what Sistani said, just what people think he’s thinking via his fatwa. I was a little bit surprised when I read the Friday sermon from his representative. I was under the impression that Sistani was badly burned in the political process, was done with it and want nothing to do with it. But it seems that this time something is very different.
Everyone is saying that the situation in Iraq has reached a critical stage. I don’t think so. Iraq has always been that way throughout the ages. There’s something seriously wrong with that country and you can’t even reasonably explain why.
The Iraqi Arab Sunnis are still using delay tactics when confronted with the extremist jihadist (ISIS); in order to score some political points in the post-Saddam Iraq.
Some Sunnis are slowly realizing that their future doesn’t really lies with the ISIS. Some have expressed clear intent in supporting the government if al-Maliki just goes away. I don’t really understand how democracy is supposed to work in Sunnis favor considering that the population of the non-Shiite Arab is just 15%; they don’t really have much leverage number-wise. Any prolong fight in Iraq will just benefit the Shiite more than anyone else because they are the only one who have strengths in numbers more than anyone else currently.
The city of Samarra is a little bit explosive right now. The ISIS terrorist seems to want to destroy the tomb and the mosque of the two of the Shia Imams (this site is very holy and dear to Shia world-wide). The site is well-guarded right now but it has been destroyed before by the Sunni extremists.
The other news of the day is that the Sunnis are again suggesting that they are probably better off with a slice of Iraq (a semi-autonomous region just like what the Kurd is having right now). I think it’s silly to be splitting the country in smaller regions and factions on the sectarian (Shia or Sunna) basis or race (Arab or Kurd) among the folks who already hate each other and will continue to do so many years in the future just because everyone is not getting what they really want today?
References
[1] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/29/uk-iraq-security-clerics-insight-idUKKBN0F30KZ20140629
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-07/sunni-tribes-to-fight-on-until-iraq-s-maliki-goes-leader-says.html
[3] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-07/sunni-tribes-to-fight-on-until-iraq-s-maliki-goes-leader-says
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