Finally, someone figured out what’s wrong with Iraq
Why all the violence in Iraq? Why are people being killed? What causes sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shiites? One Iraqi official has figured it out. According to the Iraq’s speaker of parliament, we should just blame the Jews. Some people say, ‘We saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started ...
Why all the violence in Iraq? Why are people being killed? What causes sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shiites? One Iraqi official has figured it out. According to the Iraq's speaker of parliament, we should just blame the Jews.
Some people say, ‘We saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started kidnapping women who are our honor,'” al-Mashhadani said. “These acts are not the work of Iraqis. I am sure that he who does this is a Jew and the son of a Jew.”
With only about 100 Iraqi Jews left in the country, they must really be making the rounds.
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