March 01, 2006

Ethnic Cleansing Comes to Iraq

Okay, so it's not ethnic cleansing, it's sectarian cleansing, but it's still bad. This may not be civil war yet, but it isn't a good sign either. We have to be willing to admit the bad with the good. Too often we only hear the bad in Iraq, but that doesn't mean we can ignore it or that it doesn't exist.

Via Bill Dautierieve, this AP story. I'm not sure just how widespread the problem is, but I am told that it is fairly common--especially in Baghdad--with some neighborhoods becoming essentiall "shia" or "sunni" free.

Read the whole thing, but check out this line by a guy named Radha who was kicked out of his home:

"I'm not some Jew to be treated this way by Arabs. I'm just a Shiite,"
Ironic.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 04:43 PM | |