A voise of reason in Iraq.
During prayers in the al-Imam al-Aadam mosque in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Azamiyah in north Baghdad, cleric Ahmed Hassan demanded that the four charity workers be released."I stress on the necessity to release the four kidnapped foreigners who have helped the residents of Azamiyah," he said as residents held aloft protest banners.
A Sunni cleric from the Association of Muslim Scholars told worshippers at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque that a large turnout from the community was important.
The association is thought to have links to some groups in the Sunni-led insurgency, which had asked the minority to boycott last January's elections.
"The date of Dec. 15 is landmark event. It is a decisive battle that will determine our future. If you give your vote to the wrong people, then the occupation will continue and the country would be lost. Participation in the elections is a must and it is a religious duty," he said.
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This is a welcome message the attacks on Iraqis and their emerging government's officials may be a wake up call to the Moslem world. With the Saudi's move toward moderation could come a serious crimp in the financing of the terrorist wing of Islam. If this move toward cooperative participation in Iraq takes hold it could transform the Arab world.
The inability to defeat the west (including Israel) militarily, and the ineffectiveness of their cynical use of Palestinians has to have come into play. The economies of their countries and the prestige of their people have suffered immeasurably because of their support of terror. For all the money generated from oil the region has little to show for it. It may be dawning on them that even if the Americans and Israelis were to abandon the region the terrorists would unleash their horrors on their own people. They can't ignore the anarchy in Gaza, or the violence and corruption evident during the elections in Egypt.
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