SUNNI CLERICS URGE SUNNIS TO JOIN SECURITY FORCES: NEW IRAQ
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
This is a major move forward for planting a democracy in New Iraq.
Sunnis were the power force under former dictator Saddam Hussein. Now their clerics are urging them to put in the past their allegiance to Hussein. That is to be in order to help build the present new nation.
Many Sunnis boycotted the historic January 30 vote. However, now they are realizing that the National Assembly is making progress as a newly formed government.
Also, the Iraqi police and military force is forging ahead with commendable success. Therefore, rather than being left out of the progress, various prominent Sunni Arab clerics made their announcement, according to Robert F. Worth of the New York Times. His dispatch is from Baghdad, dated April 4, 2005.
The headlines read: "Sunni ulama urge followers to join Iraq army and police" and appears on The Muslim News Online.
"’It is a positive step,’ said Saad Jawad Qindeel, a member of the Shiite alliance that won the largest bloc of seats in Iraq's new national assembly in January. ‘We are hoping the clerics will take an even more definite attitude in preventing terrorism.’"
Sixty-four imams and religious academicians signed the pronouncement. That is a "striking turnaround for the clerics, who have often lashed out in sermons at the fledgling army and police force and branded them collaborators."
Henceforth, instead of regarding US-led Coalition along with the Iraqi police and military force as intruders, occupiers, they are viewing particularly the Iraqi security force as liberators, establishing a new politic.
"’The new army and police force are empty of good people, and we need to supply them,’ the edict said. ‘Because the police and army are a safeguard for the whole nation, not a militia for any special party, we have issued this fatwa calling on our people to join the army and police.’" So read detail of the edict.
"American and Iraqi officials welcomed the edict as a sign that the Sunni Arabs are taking steps toward rejoining the country's government and politics."
Obviously, this latest move on behalf of the Arab clerics is particularly encouraging to United States President George W. Bush and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. It was Mr. Bush and colleagues who saw through the three-week-win war of Operation Iraqi Freedom a little over two years ago. That eventuated in not only Iraq’s January 30 Victory Vote but also the present National Assembly. Furthermore, it toppled the bloody rule of Hussein who presently sits jailed in his cell.
Mr. Bush’s freedom spread to countries open to personal liberties continues not only in New Iraq but also Afghanistan. Recently, he celebrated the newfound democracy planting in Ukraine with that newly elected president. The latter had been baited to keep firm ties with Russia; however, in a move for freedoms granted the citizenry, the Ukrainian government stated that henceforth it will cement stronger ties with America as well as request admission to NATO.
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This is a major move forward for planting a democracy in New Iraq.
Sunnis were the power force under former dictator Saddam Hussein. Now their clerics are urging them to put in the past their allegiance to Hussein. That is to be in order to help build the present new nation.
Many Sunnis boycotted the historic January 30 vote. However, now they are realizing that the National Assembly is making progress as a newly formed government.
Also, the Iraqi police and military force is forging ahead with commendable success. Therefore, rather than being left out of the progress, various prominent Sunni Arab clerics made their announcement, according to Robert F. Worth of the New York Times. His dispatch is from Baghdad, dated April 4, 2005.
The headlines read: "Sunni ulama urge followers to join Iraq army and police" and appears on The Muslim News Online.
"’It is a positive step,’ said Saad Jawad Qindeel, a member of the Shiite alliance that won the largest bloc of seats in Iraq's new national assembly in January. ‘We are hoping the clerics will take an even more definite attitude in preventing terrorism.’"
Sixty-four imams and religious academicians signed the pronouncement. That is a "striking turnaround for the clerics, who have often lashed out in sermons at the fledgling army and police force and branded them collaborators."
Henceforth, instead of regarding US-led Coalition along with the Iraqi police and military force as intruders, occupiers, they are viewing particularly the Iraqi security force as liberators, establishing a new politic.
"’The new army and police force are empty of good people, and we need to supply them,’ the edict said. ‘Because the police and army are a safeguard for the whole nation, not a militia for any special party, we have issued this fatwa calling on our people to join the army and police.’" So read detail of the edict.
"American and Iraqi officials welcomed the edict as a sign that the Sunni Arabs are taking steps toward rejoining the country's government and politics."
Obviously, this latest move on behalf of the Arab clerics is particularly encouraging to United States President George W. Bush and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. It was Mr. Bush and colleagues who saw through the three-week-win war of Operation Iraqi Freedom a little over two years ago. That eventuated in not only Iraq’s January 30 Victory Vote but also the present National Assembly. Furthermore, it toppled the bloody rule of Hussein who presently sits jailed in his cell.
Mr. Bush’s freedom spread to countries open to personal liberties continues not only in New Iraq but also Afghanistan. Recently, he celebrated the newfound democracy planting in Ukraine with that newly elected president. The latter had been baited to keep firm ties with Russia; however, in a move for freedoms granted the citizenry, the Ukrainian government stated that henceforth it will cement stronger ties with America as well as request admission to NATO.
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