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Muslim 'civil war'?

Started by inbred, 04/09/2003 03:03AM
Posted 04/09/2003 03:03AM Opening Post
Admittedly I've been mostly away from the forums lately (been making some major astro equipment changes and needed to concentrate on that) and this may have been brought up before...
What will be the state of the Muslim world in the middle east before too long? Very high up and respected cleriks have been issuing contradicting fatwahs (rulings). Some have issued religious rulings to not oppose the Coalition at all, while some other Cleriks have been issuing rulings to make muslims sacrifice their lives in an attempt to kill us.
On another note, all those extremist muslim organizations that were said by many to hate Saddam Hussein (he would never give them WMD or fund them; the mutual disdain was so great) are in Iraq blowing themselves up trying to fight us. What gives? I thought they all didn't get along at all...Personally, I'm glad to see it. I hope all those suicide bombing terror cells send as many bombers as they can into Iraq. I'd rather they kill themselves trying to scratch the paint on an Abrams tank than on a city bus in downtown NYC.
Posted 04/09/2003 12:22PM #1
I have seen a few burned out Abrams tanks on tv lately you know. But to answer your question: no, I don't think their will be massive civil wars througout the entire region. Perhaps in Iraq itself yes.

I read that one of the exiled iraqi persons brought in to play a role in an interim governement, and now present with a small army of "freedom" volunteers in South Iraq, was condemned for fiscal fraud in Jordany, and is persona non grata in many arab countries. He was brought in by the Pentagon. Bad strategy. Hope they find others with less dark backgrounds.