Muslims: What can be done to make peace between the Shia and Sunni in Iraq?

Sunni elect their leaders by vote or appointment.

Shiite elect their leaders based on their blood relations to the descendants of Prophet Mohammed.

The rest is basically the same.

Whatever fighting happens between Sunni and Shiite in Iraq or elsewhere will usually be over political differences as to who will assume leadership positions.

Free and Fair elections is an excellent way to unite the Sunni and Shiite.

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NOTHING can be done.

What makes you think that thousands of years of culture and beliefs can be changed in a decade?

They choose to sacrifice their children, they choose to suppress and repress their population, THEY choose it.

There is nothing that can be done until they embrace peace and learning and quit living by the sword and fear.

Ain't going to happen.

As for us being there, we have to realize that we are in the same spot as we were in Vietnam, we can't win, we can't ellicit change and we need to pull out and let them kill each other. Soon enough another Saddam like leader will rise up and kill a few hundred thousand people and "peace" will return.

The only thing there is to understand is that we cannot insert Anglo-Saxon, Democratic, Capitalistic logic upon an illogical belief system.

Protecting the Oil in the middle east is main goal for the whole world. No one care about the human issues or the people who killed daily. I don't know what is happening in this world?

I'm no Muslim, but I say, get rid of the old Imams for new loving ones, maybe import them from India.

The Imams are what the people follow. If they are to change, change these first.

But they won't until they are tired of the fight.