{"id":1194,"date":"2018-05-27T01:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2018-05-27T01:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:18:47","slug":"iraq-needs-comprehensive-non-sectarian-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2018\/05\/1194\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Needs Comprehensive Non-sectarian Gov."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Muqtada al-Sadr, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on formation of a non-sectarian comprehensive government and implementation of justice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The news bureau of the office of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, Friday imam of Sunnis in Zahedan and president of Darululoom Zahedan reported that he had congratulated the victory of al-Sa\u2019iroun bloc to Muqtada al-Sadr in parliamentary elections of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>He addressed al-Sadr and said: \u201cVictory of al-Sa\u2019iroun bloc under your leadership with new ideas and programs in the political field of Iraq is an exceptional opportunity for Iraq as an influential country in the Muslim world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a part of this letter, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader alluded to the development of extremism in Iraq and said: \u201cUnfortunately, the governments which ruled on Iraq after the collapse of the former dictator marginalized many Iraqis because of ethnic, sectarian and religious differences and deprived them from their due rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged on the principle of \u201cmeritocracy\u201d and wrote: \u201cIt has been a common viewpoint that Shias and Sunnis cannot tolerate each other and they do not respect each other\u2019s due rights. We should resist this propaganda by formation of national governments; the worst kind of governing is sectarian government which denies \u2018meritocracy\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mawlana Abdol-Hamid emphasized in his letter to Muqtada al-Sadr that \u201cunity and peace in Iraq cannot be achieved by military expedition and war\u201d and said: \u201cWe\u2019d like to recommend you to establish a comprehensive government and gather elites of all sects, religions and ethnic communities of Iraq. All Iraqis should feel that they representatives in the upcoming government who will represent them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the letter, president of Darululoom Zahedan made it clear: \u201cDurable unity and peace of Iraq depends on implementation of justice and removal of discrimination; surely this strategy ensures Iraq\u2019s brilliant future improving its respect in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Muqtada al-Sadr, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on formation of a non-sectarian comprehensive government and implementation of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}