The corporate media is having a feeding frenzy about a “civil war.” Lets take a look at some other news not as widely reported - after all, what is the point of having a blog, if it is just a regurgitation of FOX/CNN/NBC/ABC et al.?

The popular response to Iraqs latest atrocities has been to blame the occupation, not rival sects

The slogan that united them on Wednesday was: Kalla, kalla Amrica, kalla kalla lill-irhab - no to America, no to terrorism.

Dahr Jamail reports: Mosque outrage also brings solidarity.

BAGHDAD, Feb 25 (IPS) - Widespread sectarian violence generated by the recent bombing of the Shia Golden Mosque in Samarra has also brought widespread demonstrations of solidarity between Sunnis and Shias across Iraq.

Sunnis were quick to demonstrate solidarity with the Shias in Samarra and to condemn the mosque bombings. Demonstrations of solidarity between Sunnis and Shias followed all over Iraq. Some of the bigger demonstrations were held in Basra, Diwaniyah, Nasiriyah, Kut, and Salah Al-Din.

Much of the Shia anger was directed at U.S. forces. In the primarily Shia city of Kut south of Baghdad, thousands marched through the streets burning U.S. and Israeli flags.

Shi’a - Sunni march in Lucknow, India - click here for photographs

English language news reports from the area (2/24 and 2/25 includes reports of joint Shi’a Sunni demonstrations in Iraq. )

Muqtada Al-Sadr’s call for unity:

In a message he read by telephone on Aljazeera from the holy city of al-Qum in Iran, Sadr said: “Shia and Sunni mosques are being attacked as if we were enemies.”

“No, we are brothers, we are brothers in Islam and peace. Love each other and do not attack each other. The blood, property and honour of a Muslim is sacrosanct … the unity of Iraq is your responsibility.”

Statement of Ayatullah Sayyed Muhammed Hussein Fadlullah:

Our people in Iraq should support the Islamic religious authority in it efforts to protect Iraq and to curb any negative reactions, since the issue is not an issue of Sunnis and Shiites, but that of the apostates who are sponsored by the occupation in one way or another. It is also the issue of what has remained of the tyrannical regime. But above all it is the issue of the occupation that is trying to stay in Iraq, by means of benefiting from such crimes that it encourages either directly or indirectly.

The popular response to Iraq’s latest atrocities has been to blame the occupation, not rival sects

It has not been Sunni religious symbols that hundreds of thousands of angry marchers protesting at the bombing of the shrine have targeted, but US flags. The slogan that united them on Wednesday was: “Kalla, kalla Amrica, kalla kalla lill-irhab” - no to America, no to terrorism.

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