Al-Jazeera remarks anger Iraqi Shiites

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Angry Shiites marched Wednesday to protest remarks made on a talk show on Al-Jazeera television, in which a Sunni guest criticized Iraq's Shiite religious leaders.

"Clerics, especially those in the Shiite seminary, go to your mosques and don't work in politics. Keep politics for politicians and stop conspiring against the resistance," al-Rubaei said in the Opposite Direction program aired Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon on the Qatar-based station.

A group of senior religious students in the Shiite holy city in Najaf, where the country's top four Shiite clerics live, called the program "a provocation and flagrant aggression on the values and feelings of Muslims whether in Iraq or around the world."

The statement said Al-Jazeera is "is financed by countries, governments, regimes, intelligence agencies and Muslim extremists who came to power through military coups." They added that Al-Jazeera knows that the emir of Qatar came to power in a military coup against his father.

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continue to divide Iraq and the region going forward (thanks to George W. Bush).

Now that the Shia of Iraq have their own country, look for the Iran/Iraq vs. the rest of the Middle East Sunnis wars to go on and on...During the eighties, other Sunni countries supported Saddam against the Shia fanatics in Iran, now there are 2 of them!!! One in Iran and another we created in Iraq...


I know it is early, but George W. Bush is one dumb MORON!!! Did not know how the place worked, went in and fucked it up, the world will pay for years to come.

I'm pretty sure that in Theocracies, the clerics are very involved in "politics".
This proves we don't have a corner on the bozo political scene.