Monday, January 28, 2013

Ariele's Article- Iraqi Sunni Fallujah funerals draw thousands




            In this BBC News article it focuses the funeral that was held in the Iraqi city of Fallujah for Sunni protesters.  This funeral took place on Saturday; one day after the shootings occurred.  These protesters were killed by army troops.  There were 5 people shot dead and several others left wounded.  After the funeral other protests broke out against Iraq’s Shia-led government.  The article then goes into detail as to why there were protests to begin with.  The Iraqi Sunni felt like the government was discriminating against them.

            This article relates to our class because lately we have been talking about Sunni and Shia and how they are not alike and what truly is the different between the two.  We have been talking about their way of thinking differs from each other.  This article is a great example because it shows that the Sunni’s and Shia’s are almost battling against each other to get what they individually want.  This article also brought up a lot of questions that I had towards the two groups and how they got to be so far apart.

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