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From Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times:
It's hard to know what's more disturbing: the barbaric sectarian murders by Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, or the deafening silence with which these mass murders are received in the Muslim world. How could it be that Danish cartoons of Muhammad led to mass violent protests, while unspeakable violence by Muslims against Muslims in Iraq every day evokes about as much reaction in the Arab-Muslim world as the weather report? Where is the Muslim Martin Luther King?
Where is the ''Million Muslim March'' under the banner: ''No Shiites, No Sunnis: We are all children of the Prophet Muhammad.''
...There's a lot at stake. If Iraq is ultimately unraveled by Muslim suicide-nihilism, it certainly will be a blot on our history -- we opened this Pandora's box. But it will be a plague on the future of the whole Arab world.
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Thank-you Prophet Thomas.
You know, you should probably drop the "us and them" language.
If you think long enough about your point of disgust at the lack of a visible "No Shiites, No Sunnis" motto, that's the conclusion.
Believe it or not, it's entirely possible that a lot of Muslims don't consider it their problem, since Islam is a religion.
As well as for "we've opened this Pandora's box", I take no responsibility for the Iraq wars, either of them as I protested them vigourously.
Now it seems 70 per cent of Americans think it's a bad idea. Where is the democracy?