The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Monday, February 27, 2006
Is Iraq REALLY falling apart?...or is it UNITING?
Funny how our Mainstream media wants things to appear at their blackest just when things might be on the tipping point of dramatic improvement. There is no better example than the reporting out of Iraq this week. Witness this telling post from Wizbang:
Civility in Iraq
Gateway Pundit has an English translation of an Iraqi newspaper which reports about demonstrations for unity in Iraq. Here's a portion:
In Hillah over 3000 demonstrated after Friday's united prayers (Shiite & Muslim together) at the Haytaween mosque. The united prayers were lead by Sheik Mohamed Alfateh (Sunni) and Sheik Jasim Alkalebi (Shiite). The two speakers called for Muslim unity and denounced all terror activity as unIslamic and asked for keeping unity.
In Al-Koot hundreds demonstrated after Friday prayers protesting the bombing of the samara shrine and the attacks on the Sunni mosques. Unified Friday prayers in Al-Koot were held at the large central mosque in the city. Speakers at the prayers call for rejecting sectarianism.
In Amarah over 15,000 demonstrated after Friday prayers condemning the samara bombing and attacks on Sunni mosques. Banners read, Sunnis & Shiites are like Hassan & Hussein (referring to two grand children of the profit Mohamed), banners also read that Muslim references (Shiite religious leaders) condemn terrorism in all its forms.
In Karbala Sheik Abdulmehdi Alkarblaa'i (representative of Sustain) in his Friday after prayers speech at the Hussein Shrine called for peaceful and brotherly coexistence, condemned violence and called for national unity. He added; "We know the nature of this crime and the ones before it, we also know these crimes are not of Sunni doings, but they are the deeds of the enemies of Sunnis & Shiites".
In Basra over 10,000 demonstrated with banners asking to form the new government as quickly as possible.
Of course, these demonstrations are not covered in the MSM. Instead, we've got practically gleeful declarations of Iraq being on the brink of civil war.
Here is Time Magazine's cover for this week.
Kim Priestap blogs at Kim Priestap A Conservative Blog in Flyover Country
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson just returned from Iraq, and his essay about his experience there is also a far cry from what the media would have you believe. Read it all.
Civility in Iraq
Gateway Pundit has an English translation of an Iraqi newspaper which reports about demonstrations for unity in Iraq. Here's a portion:
In Hillah over 3000 demonstrated after Friday's united prayers (Shiite & Muslim together) at the Haytaween mosque. The united prayers were lead by Sheik Mohamed Alfateh (Sunni) and Sheik Jasim Alkalebi (Shiite). The two speakers called for Muslim unity and denounced all terror activity as unIslamic and asked for keeping unity.
In Al-Koot hundreds demonstrated after Friday prayers protesting the bombing of the samara shrine and the attacks on the Sunni mosques. Unified Friday prayers in Al-Koot were held at the large central mosque in the city. Speakers at the prayers call for rejecting sectarianism.
In Amarah over 15,000 demonstrated after Friday prayers condemning the samara bombing and attacks on Sunni mosques. Banners read, Sunnis & Shiites are like Hassan & Hussein (referring to two grand children of the profit Mohamed), banners also read that Muslim references (Shiite religious leaders) condemn terrorism in all its forms.
In Karbala Sheik Abdulmehdi Alkarblaa'i (representative of Sustain) in his Friday after prayers speech at the Hussein Shrine called for peaceful and brotherly coexistence, condemned violence and called for national unity. He added; "We know the nature of this crime and the ones before it, we also know these crimes are not of Sunni doings, but they are the deeds of the enemies of Sunnis & Shiites".
In Basra over 10,000 demonstrated with banners asking to form the new government as quickly as possible.
Of course, these demonstrations are not covered in the MSM. Instead, we've got practically gleeful declarations of Iraq being on the brink of civil war.
Here is Time Magazine's cover for this week.
Kim Priestap blogs at Kim Priestap A Conservative Blog in Flyover Country
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson just returned from Iraq, and his essay about his experience there is also a far cry from what the media would have you believe. Read it all.
