More than ten years after Saddam Hussein’s regime has been taking down, violence between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds continue to threaten Iraqi peace and its stupid USA democracy. Historically, the conflict over political, theological, and doctrinal issues have been the cause of the separation between Sunnis and Shiites, but fighting over power, resources, and political position is the reason behind all that.

Gradually, the idea of sectarianism, dominated political relations instead of representing the citizens, this has led to a wider gap between sects. At the time of the USA occupation, that began in 2003, the state fields have changed in order to manage the transitional period between Saddam Hussein’s regime and the formation of a new regime, as a result the occupation forces dissolved the Iraqi army, fired the state employees, and handed over these tasks to the sectarian parties, which would hire people on a sectarian and racist basis.

The attempts to form the state faced many challenges, a conflict started over which “party” would have the largest side of power and which sect would be dominant.

The support of the US was essential, it supported the Islamic opposition in London before the collapse of Saddam’s regime through money and conferences, and after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime by giving them political authority.

When al-Maliki was chosen as prime minister in 2006, for two years he seemed like a weak prime minister, but in those years, sectarian violence increased which caused sectarian wars. Those Islamic parties began spreading their sectarian thoughts by creating sectarian problems among people. One of the most important wars that based on the struggle between the parties over power, is the military campaign against “al-Mahdi Army”, a criminal, sectarian paramilitary force created by Shiite cleric “Muqtada al-Sadr”.

Al-Maliki was able to force al-Sadr to withdraw his militias with the help of the USA. This led to many sectarian and ethnic cleansing operations by the Shiite Islamic militias against the Sunnis, Christ and the Kurds, more than 3 million people were expelled from their homes in Baghdad only for sectarian reasons related to demographic change.

“Al-Qaeda” also had a role in sectarian operations, their fighting against “al-Mahdi Army” was a daily bloody series that Iraqis witnessed every day, this terrorist organization practiced mass murders against Shiite identities when they passed through Sunni-majority areas.

It is very ironic that these Islamic parties, which no one had heard of before 2003, became known and heroic because of sectarianism, and the idea that society need them to be protected, despite that these parties and USA are the main reason of all those crimes, fear and hate that happened to us in the past.

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