Samarra:Symbolizing secatarian unity in Iraq

FEBUARY 22,2006 Nearly three years after the US led attack on Iraq , the shrines of imams Ali Al Hadi and Hassan Al Askari  in Samarra City were severely bombed. Samarra being the most important ‘political’ city in Baghdad was targeted to trigger political and mainly sectarian clashes.

A fair trick to start a ‘civil war’ allowing the ‘true’ insurgence to work more tactfully. The horrifying incident was successful in flaming sectarian clashes to the rest of Iraq. The rampage took  1,157 Iraqi lives, increasing the already rising death toll. The blame game continued along with the vain killings concluding nothing but severe loss of life and unity. 

The theory however is amazingly simple:

“The city of Samarra, 120km from Baghdad, is the most important Iraqi city, politically. What happens in Samarra may well determine the fate of the other parts of Iraq - Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Anbar and Arbil”

The al-Askari Mosque, also called the Golden Mosque, was built in 944 and is one of Iraq’s four holiest shrines for Shias.The dome of the sanctuary was completed in 1905 and had been covered by 72,000 golden pieces. The mosque is one of the four largest shia mosques in the country. However it is situated in a ‘sunni’ majority  area the city of ‘Sammara’. After years of hosting shia pilgrims it is sad how the bombings still triggered rivalries between shia-sunni. Nothing but a well framed agenda to initiate a civil war hence weakening the resistance the US army continues to face.

Today the government woes to utilize up to $60 billion for reconstruction. As the construction work continues wounds are healed and differences mend.

In a remarkable gesture, Sunni women are often seen carrying food for the security personnel guarding the shrines, and for the workers who continue to toil day and night.”

“We always felt the government blamed the Sunnis for the bombing, but it wasn’t us: it was Al Qaeda,

I was devastated when it happened. I wanted to find whoever did it and cut his head off. Now we want it to be repaired.”said Wasmi Hamed, who leads a Sunni neighborhood patrol that has helped drive Al Qaeda militants out of the city.”

 

While my heart is content upon hearing the news my mind continues to wander:

Why ? Why are we Muslims so gullible ? So easily turned against each other? How many more killings are we willing to afford ? How many years more are we going to overlook the fact that whether Shia or Sunni we all belong to each other. It is my heart-felt desire that we do because only that day will we truly be able to stand in front of our lord as nothing else but ‘Muslims’ without bias and grudges.

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4 Responses to “Samarra:Symbolizing secatarian unity in Iraq”

  1. The enemy of Islam wants to divide us so that they can keep us as their slaves for ever. Just look at the fact that Saudis are busy in containing Iranians and that is just because of the fact that Iranians are Shias. All the time you will hear only the Western media using the words like “shia muslims” or “sunni muslims”. Even in close intelligence circles, everyone agrees that the sectarian fight going on in Pakistan is largely sponsored by foreign agencies but the problem is that we Muslims easily get influenced by these enemies of Islam and fall in their traps.

  2. That is true Junaid we need to realize that it is unity that can keep us together and be our weapons against the enemy of Islam. Whether shia or sunni we are one and believe in ALLAH. I hope that someday without bloodshed we realize the essence of unity and may ALLAH keep me alive to witness the day :) INSHALLAH

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  4. junaid i think the golden mosque is a false flag operation, it’s destruction was prepared and announced in the western media for months, the irqi investigation that followed ended up breaking into a synagoge and even blaming it’s community of involvment explicitly. I and others would not see that as a zionist thing tho, it is a coincedence when the interests of the iraqi jewish community and that of the occupier overlap, i think that relation is quite natural and the community tehre as such was vulnerable to this abuse.

    in hoping to save u from a lifelong illusion
    kind regards .. onix
    (who is looking for a clue on who did todays bombing on a tribal commitee)

    to give a hint: it is described as a “suspected suicide bombing”, now unless there are no survivors, (wich there are) suspected suicide bombings fall under my suspicion of not being suicide bombings yet mere bomb attempts, perhaps i am getting paranoid, still i can imagine a similar party as that had an interest in the division through blowing up the mosque, may hold an interest to destroy the consensus of the tribal areas by any means.

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