As these mosques — contrary to the cynical and deceptive claims of Islamic spokesmen in the West — don’t mean by this call that Muslims get in their exercise or drop off the kids at school, watch for more bloodshed: this is a call for Sunnis to wage jihad warfare against the Shi’ite government.
“Ramadi mosques call for ‘jihad’ as Iraq forces move on protest site,” from AFP, December 30:
Mosques in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, called for “holy war” Monday as gunmen battled security forces seeking to dismantle an anti-government protest site, an AFP journalist said.
Some mosques used loudspeakers to exhort people to “go to jihad,” or holy war, the journalist said.