Quotes of the day: No peace until Iraqis sort out who owns Iraq & Sunnis decide if they can live with the post-2003 order
From Fanar Haddad of the National University of Singapore: “As far as Arab Iraq is concerned, one of the characteristic features of this struggle has been the mutually reinforcing, cyclical interplay between Shi’a-centric state building and Sunni rejection.” His nuanced answer: “It is not for Abadi to create Sunni political representation: Sunni political representation must ...
From Fanar Haddad of the National University of Singapore:
From Fanar Haddad of the National University of Singapore:
“As far as Arab Iraq is concerned, one of the characteristic features of this struggle has been the mutually reinforcing, cyclical interplay between Shi’a-centric state building and Sunni rejection.”
His nuanced answer: “It is not for Abadi to create Sunni political representation: Sunni political representation must emerge from within Sunni Arab communities and this will not happen before the internal struggle regarding the question of whether to accept or reject the post-2003 order and whether the post-2003 state (and not just the government of the day) is regarded as legitimate or not is resolved.”
(HT to RV via JW)
AFP
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