Britain's former envoy to Iraq has warned that the country is almost in a state of "low-level civil war". Ethnic cleansing is taking place in many of Iraq's cities as the country's racial and religious groups seek to establish their own communal areas, said Sir Jeremy Greenstock.
THE British aid worker and peace campaigner kidnapped in Iraq was there to "bring peace and dialogue" between the different religious groups, friends said today. Mystery has surrounded what Norman Kember, of Pinner, was doing in the country when he was snatched alongside two Canadians and an American on Saturday.
... wide variety of groups, including NGOs, religious associations, unions, and left-wing parties--organ... New York (Winter 2002), against the war in Iraq (Boston, 2003), against the G8 in France (June 200...
Women's groups in Iraq and the West are alarmed at concessions to the Shiite majority, which seem to destroy any advances made by women under the secular Baathist regime. One clause, inserted to please the mullahs, says that 'the followers of any religion or sect are free to choose their civil status according to their religious or sectarian beliefs'.
Women's groups in Iraq and the West are alarmed at concessions to the Shiite majority, which seem to destroy any advances made by women under the secular Baathist regime. One clause, inserted to please the mullahs, says that 'the followers of any religion or sect are free to choose their civil status according to their religious or sectarian beliefs'.
VIOLENCE has swept across Iraq as both Sunni and Shia insurgents clashed with the US-led coalition forces after the Americans closed down a religious newspaper for criticising the occupation. Here are some of your views...-IF coalition forces are to quit Iraq by the present deadline set for the end of June, al-Qaeda and other violent extremist religious groups will have a free rein in the country. Al-Qaeda couldn't operate in Iraq before Blair and Bush interfered - but they are there now.
Assessing the prospects for the future of what he terms one of the most reckless and profligate actions in US foreign policy, Mr Ricks argues that the greatest threats that the Bush Administration and its successor could face in Iraq would be civil war, an enforced partition of the country or the emergence of a powerful anti-Western leader in the mould of Saladin, a charismatic leader of the Arab opposition to the Western crusades in the twelfth century. Rory Stewart's eye opening memoir of his time as a deputy governor of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) after the ouster of Saddam Hussein from power in May 2003 offers a fascinating window on the Anglo-American experience of state building in Iraq. The CPA failed in its efforts to promote the causes of religious minorities, w...
...He notes that by 2006 extremist political groups such as the Sadrists, Da'wa and Iranian-backed par...
... find themselves dragged into tribal or religious feuds between rival groups in Iraq. . "Within the ...
Canon Andrew White, the vicar of Baghdad, says that the recent horrifying escalation in violence could be due to the unfortunate disbanding of the council of religious leaders Baghdad Not so many months ago we all heard a lot about Iraq. To join the group, a leader had to fall into one of the four categories: religious leaders with major influence and a large following; those with a significant TV following; those with very significant political influence within the Iraqi government; those who represent groups responsible for significant violence (although we quickly realised that terrorist groups associated with al-Qa'eda had a very different political agenda, and so could not be worked with).
...Particularly in relation to the Iraq war and its aftermath, New Labour has evolved towa... societies that are experiencing growing religious and cultural diversity, it is arguably important t... uniformity and opposition to the idea that groups ought to receive exemptions or other special treat...
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