Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
The Shiites under Saddam weren't persecuted for being Shia. They were persecuted for not being Sunni.
I think you know this well and why you're trying to extend this argument makes no sense to me. It wasn't about religion, it was about favoritism and who was in charge. Saddam was in charge and his decisions had little to do with religion except when it served his purposes of further cementing his power.
Think about that part I bolded for a bit.
I already thought about it previously. If you'll recall I was the one who wrote it in the first place.
I already gave you all the information you need to know why this is religiously motivated. I even gave you examples from Western history to make it easier to understand. There really isn't an argument here that any responsible person would make.
And I already explained to you why it was not religiously
motivated and was simply a divide along sectarian lines that Saddam used to practice a form of discriminatory, and not religiously
motivated, oppression. It was done solely for the glory of Saddam, not Allah. If you want an example of Western history think of the similarity of what Hitler did to the Jews. Hitler didn't persecute them for their religious beliefs. He persecuted them because he felt Jews were inferior. Being Jewish is merely what identified them, in his mind, as being inferior.
You're totally right that Saddam didn't care about religion... unfortunately that has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about. Whether or not he cared about religion, he used it as a tool... and these are the consequences of it.
When we are talking about
Saddam's motivation for his oppression it has everything to do with it.
I would genuinely like to know why, if religion is not the part of this equasion, did the sectarian civil war erupt after the destruction of the Golden Mosque?
Are you trying to claim that there was no sectarian violence before the Sammara mosque was destroyed?
btw, who blew it up? Wasn't it AQI who was blamed? How would that even qualify as "sectarian" in the first place? AQI are Sunni.