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April 12, 2003

Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrate the end of Ashura holiday by pounding their hands on their chest and heads at the Kademiya Shrine on the outskirts of Baghad, Iraq, Friday April 11, 2003. This is the first time since Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq that they can openly celebrate the holiday. The holiday of Ashura is when Shiites remember the death in 680 A.D. of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, the event that led to the split in Islam between Shiites and Sunni Muslims.
Shiites make up about 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people and stand to benefit the most from a new order if created by democratic elections.

When America talks about bringing Freedom to Iraq, that includes Freedom of Religion.
And we aren't waging a war on Islam either.
Rather it was Saddam who waged war on Islam or at least the Shi'a sect of it and don't miss the fact that they, not the Ba'athist sect, are in the majority.
Isn't it funny how ironic Life can be?