[erfanISLAMI] Six Years On, Huge Protest Marks Baghdad's Fall

Six Years On, Huge Protest Marks Baghdad's Fall Readers Number : 87 09/04/2009 Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Muslim Shi'ite cleric Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. occupation troops, and to demand they leave immediately.   "Down, down USA," the demonstrators chanted as Ali al-Marwani, a Sadrist official, denounced the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began with the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdos Square.   The crowds of Sadr supporters stretched from the giant Sadr City slum in northeast Baghdad to the square around 5 km (3 miles) away, where protesters burnt an effigy featuring the face of former U.S. President George W. Bush, who ordered the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.   "God, unite us, return our riches, free the prisoners from the prisons, return sovereignty to our country ... make our country free from the occupier, and prevent the occupier from stealing our oil," Sadr said in a message read by a Sadr movement aide Asaad al-Nassiri.   "God, make us the liberators of our land," the message said before exhorting the demonstrators to shake hands with each other and Iraqi police overseeing the march.   President Barack Obama, who flew into Baghdad on an unannounced visit on Tuesday, has ordered all U.S. occupation combat troops to leave Iraq by the end of August 2010, leaving a residual force of 35,000-50,000 trainers, advisers and logistics personnel.   Under a bilateral security agreement signed with Bush, all U.S. occupation troops must withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.   Sayyed al-Sadr's Mehdi Army fighters fought pitched battles against U.S. occupation forces during the U.S.-led invasion but have retreated from the frontlines after Sadr called on them to abandon armed combat and turn themselves into a social welfare organization. Visitors Comments "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 09/04/2009 15:17:00 Amrioui Salaheddine  |  USA In the name of God, Most Compssionate, Most Merciful. Since April 2003 the U.S. Government massacred + 1 Million Muslim children, women, and unarmed men and + 4200 American soldiers, stole +7 Billion Barrels of oil and tens of thousands of historical artifacts, displaced Millions who used to be Principals, teachers, and doctors but now are living of charity in the West. Add to this list what has been happening to the Black and the Brown people, the Asians, the South Ameicans, the Palestinians, the Africans,... If this is not the work of The Great Satan I do not know what is. And instead of addressing these critical issues the immoral selfish and greedy politicians, the media, and the corporations continue to entertain and further corrupt the American people. Al-Manar is not responsible for the contents of the comments Shi'ites and Sunnis brothers should avoid every kind of dispute. Today, discord among us will only benefit those who follow neither Shia nor Hanafi. They neither want this nor that to exist, and know the way to sow dispute between you and us. We must pay attention that we are all Muslims and we all believe in the Qur'an; we all belive in Tawheed and must work to serve the Qur'an and Tawheed." "Today, world peace is such that all countries are under the political influence of the superpowers; they observe a control everywhere and have schemes for defeating every group. The most important of these is sowing discord among brothers. Muslims should be awake, Muslims should be alert that if a dispute takes place among Sunni and Shia brothers, it is harmful to all of us, it is harmful to all Muslims. Those who want to sow discord are neither Sunni nor Shia, they are agents of the superpowers and work for them. Those who attempt to cause discord among our Sunni and Shia brothers are people who conspire for the enemies of Islam and want the enemies of Islam to triumph over Muslims. They are the supporters of America... I hope that through considering this Islamic precept - that all Muslims are brothers - all Islamic countries will triumph against the superpowers and succeed in actualizing all Islamic ordinances. (Ayatullah Roohullah Imam Khomeini) Enemy has spent huge money for sowing discord among Muslims adding, "We know that an arrogant-related center supports financially publishing anti Sunni and Shii books. Isn't it an alert to Muslims??? "Issuance of some books based on logical reasoning as the Shii Uleam did is good but if somebody supposes that they could defend Shii teachings through backbiting Sunni followers they should know they are sowing discord among Muslims.   This task is not defending Velayat but defending America and the Zionists," 17-12-2008 The Only Solution to protect Ummah Diginity is Unity: We muslims are busy bickering over whether to fold or unfold our hands during namaz, while the enemy is devising ways of cuting them off. "Roohullah Khomeini"   Yes to Unity amongst muslims No to shia-sunni sectarianism & other tools of enemies & evils, which creates fitna amongst muslims

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