Muslims Unite In opposition to Samarra Bombing: Following the bomb assault on the al-Askari mosque in Samara, Iraq there have been a number of days of sectarian violence between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims regardless of makes an attempt by non secular leaders there to calm the scenario. The construction of the tenth century mosque was badly broken and though the bombing brought on no direct casualties there have been many deaths within the few days that adopted.
The bombing was in all probability carried out by a cell of Al-Qaeda in Iraq though they didn’t admit duty. The US, then occupying Iraq, performed down the aftermath of the bombingm claiming the loss of life toll was round 300, however later stories counsel round ten occasions that quantity died.
The al-Askari mosque bombing was the beginning of the First Iraqi Civil Warfare and the mosque was once more broken by a bomb the next 12 months.
Right here is the account of the march and rally in London on Saturday 25 February, 2006 I wrote for My London Diary on the time – will the same old corrections and among the many footage I posted.
Muslims Unite In opposition to the Samarra Bombing
Round ten thousand British Shia and Sunni Muslims marched collectively by means of London on Saturday twenty fifth in an uncommon gesture of solidarity following the bombing of the mosque at Sammara in Iraq, one of many holiest of Muslim shrines, containing the tombs of the eighth and ninth grandsons of Muhammed.
The march was led by girls and youngsters, with the lads following behind. They carried placards and chanted calling for an finish to violence, denouncing the Wahhabis and Al-Qaeda. Many additionally carried the Iraqi flag in its pan-arab colors of black, white, crimson, and inexperienced.
Ranging from Hyde Park, the march went down Park Lane and Piccadilly to finish in a rally in Trafalgar Sq.. Each the plinth and the sq. under had been crowded with demonstrators.
Regardless of the seriousness of the outrage at Samarra, the folks on the march had been peaceable and good-natured, protesting in opposition to violence and in opposition to the Muslim fundamentalism that goals to create a “Taliban-like extremist state in Iraq.“
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