Brits join Al-Sadr's army

[verte76]

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-08/11/article04.shtml

They're in Iraq fighting the U.S.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Just like all those Buddhists huh? RoP my arse.

 

[BVS]

Just like all those Buddhists huh? RoP my arse.

 

[verte76]

It's clear that these guys are Wahhabists. Wahhabists are the Muslims who are big on jihad as "holy war". Thus the Saudi connection to Osama bin Laden and 9/11. Most Muslims do not interpret the doctrine of jihad this way. They interpret jihad as a personal struggle against sin. Other governments of Muslims countries, Turkey in particular (which is official a secular state, not an "Islamic" state) are really against any concept of jihad as a "holy war".

 

[AcrobatMan]

can we call some one a brit if he fights with brit army and allies of brit army ?

so the subject line is wrong !!!

 

[verte76]

can we call some one a brit if he fights with brit army and allies of brit army ?

so the subject line is wrong !!!

OK, ethnically they are not British, but Arabic, perhaps of British birth, but not ancestry. They are fighting with Iraqis against the Coalition troops.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Iraqi's and Iranians, we must remember that this "home grown" insurgency by al Sadr recieves massive quantities of support from the Iranians.

 

[verte76]

Well, I'd sort of expect the Shi'ites in Iran to support their fellow Shi'ites in Iraq. Remember, Sistani was born in Iran.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Its all about geopolitics, Iran and Saudi Arabia do not want to see a productive Iraq gaining power in the region and they are doing everything in their power to subvert it.