It's A Bare-Knuckled Fight Between Sunni & Shiite

Iraq has canceled all police and military leave to concentrate on what appears to be the beginnings of a potential civil war between Sunni and Shiite factions of Islam.

At 7 AM Wednesday morning, the Al-Askariya Golden Mosque (above) in Samarra, Iraq, was bombed by gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos -- the mosque having deep historical significance in Shiite Islam.

Since then, over 100 people have been killed as Shiites have retaliated and Sunnis retaliated in kind. Bodies have been found dumped all over Baghdad, other mosques hit, people ambushed by gunfire, imams killed, and violence reported all over Iraq.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is doing his level best to fan the flames of violence, predictably blaming the United States and Israel for the Golden Dome bombing, saying it was the work of "defeated Zionists and occupiers." Ahmadinejad said: "They (US forces) invade the shrine and bomb there because they oppose God and justice."

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Proving: never let the facts, proportion and reality get in the way of a good propagandist statement.

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Not only is Islam the "religion of peace and understanding," it's remarkably stable and cohesive too.