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Roots of the Sunni-Shi'ite War Re your March 12 cover story: As a Sunni Muslim in the U.S., I am often asked to explain the differences and disagreements between the Islamic sects. Your superb analysis has made my job so much easier. It is the most balanced, finely nuanced examination of the sectarian divide I have ever read in the mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves...
...Your Iraq coverage has always been superb, and your cover story raises the bar even higher. I don't think I had fully grasped the social and political aspects of the rivalry between Sunnis and Shi'ites until I read your story. Now I can't escape the conclusion that the solution to Iraq's problems cannot be military. Shi'ites and Sunnis have to sort this one out themselves, and the most the U.S. can do is try to be an honest broker between them. George Julius Xavier, New York City...
...Honoring that commitment has been made easier for al-Maliki by the restraint shown by the Shi'ite militias over the past month. U.S. military commanders say the Shi'ite death squads have largely gone to ground during Operation Imposing Law. U.S. military officials also believe Muqtada al-Sadr, the rabble-rousing militant who is also a crucial political ally of al-Maliki, has gone to ground in Iran during the first weeks of the surge. And there were no major confrontations even when U.S. and Iraqi forces entered the militia stronghold of Sadr City...
...Shi'ite restraint, however, has provided an opening for Sunni suicide bombers, say American commanders. A rash of car bombings against Shi'ite markets and neighborhoods over the past month has gone largely unanswered. Until now. Recent police reports indicate that the restraint of the Shi'ite death squads is coming to an end. Over 30 bodies were found shot execution-style in Baghdad on Monday, most thought to be reprisals carried out by Shi'ite militias...
...prayer, usually delivered to excitable crowds, was handed out on flyers in Sadr City. In it he asked his followers to unite with all Iraqis. "Reject all division and factionalism, sectarian and civil war," read the missive. "Treat your brother Iraqis as brothers. Do not discriminate between Sunni and Shi'ite at all, and nor against others, so that you be the highest example of all this." Instead he asked them to focus their rage against another enemy: "Raise your voices in love and brotherhood and unity against your enemy and shout 'No, No, America! No, No Israel...