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August 29, 2005
Iraq the Model: Sistani Emabrrasses the Governement
Mohammed at Iraq the Model, the favorite blog of many pro-war bloggers in the United States, reported today that:The differences between the Sheat (Shiite?)clergy and the parties that used its name during the elections are deepening and this appeared clearly after [Ali Husaini] Sistani [said] that he's not going to accept having his name or that of the clergy used for any future electoral campaign.The clergy's negative attitude towards Sheat ruling parties increased after more seeing criticism coming from the people in the Sheat regions to the worsening situation in their cities which is attributed to the failure of the local administrations in running the affairs of the cities; the peak of the crisis came when Sheat-Shaet conflicts started in Najaf and a few other cities. I was even told by some Najafi friends that the conflict pushed Sistani to rufuse any meetings with government officials.Today the differences reached the peak when Sistani dropped a bomb by rejecting federalism and thus rejecting the constitution of the Kurdish-Sheat alliance putting the current ruling parties in a difficult position.
Sistani in his statement said: "The Sunnis are your family. Stay by their side this time so that they stay by your side in the coming timesMohammed said, "This development reflects a critical turn in the relationship between the Sheat clergy and the government, and the ruling politicians will be faced again by the danger of having clerics interfering with politics but this time, the Sheat alliance which insisted on mentioning the clergy in the introduction of the constitution will certainly realize this danger and they will be left before a hard choice as they have put all their weight on the balance of the clergy and if the latter lets them down the consequences will be catastrophic for those politicians."
Here is Mohammed's entire post.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 29, 2005 12:43 PM
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