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Iraq: Sunnis enraged over Mosul school named after Iran’s Khomeini

Sep 19, 2017 12:34 pm By Robert Spencer

The biggest beneficiary of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein was the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iraq’s Sunnis were enraged and felt disenfranchised when the U.S.-sponsored elections resulted in the formation of a Shi’ite-dominated government, but that was inevitable, given the Shi’a plurality in the country. But that rage led to the strengthening of the Islamic State, and now that the Islamic State has been driven from Mosul, this new school named after the world’s most famous Shi’ite will not help smooth matters over.

“Mosul school named after Iran’s Khomeini raises eyebrows,” Al Arabiya, September 18, 2017:

Despite the warnings of several Iraqi politicians regarding the consequences of the Iranian interference in Iraq, still the provocations continue.

The most recent of these events occurred last week with the opening of a school named “Imam Khomeini” in Mosul, north of Iraq.

The establishment of the school incited controversy calling it a “provocation” for the people of the city.

Hussein Hamid, director of the school buildings department at the Education Directorate of Ninawa said that “A dispute between Nineveh Education Directorate and the beneficiaries of the project was raised as the school was registered as Al-Zahra School, but on the ground it stayed Imam Khomeini.”

“The school was built at the expense of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with a capacity of 10 classes,” Hamed told Anatolia news agency.

“The school was opened Thursday by the Iranian consul in Erbil (Murtada Abadi), who came to the area specifically for opening it,” he added.

He explained that after the completion of the primary school in the village of Khazna in the area of Bartala east of Mosul, it was named “Imam Khomeini’ in reference to the late Iranian leader.

“The school was already completed by the time ISIS organization entered Mosul, in June 2014, but was reformed after the damage caused during process of liberating the area under ISIS control,” he added.

A minority of Shabak (Kurdish), Sunni, and Shi’a communities along with Christians who live in Bartala accuse each other of trying to change the city demographically.

On the other hand, activists commented on the name of the school through social networking sites, expressing their surprise and disapproval over its naming….

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Filed Under: Iran, Iraq, Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini School, Mosul


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  1. Morton Doodslag says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    Muslims hate each other almost as much as they hate everyone else.

    This is their biggest strategic weakness.

    Rather than seeking peace and prosperity among the Muslim nations — things that only enflame and empower their notions and capabilities to wage genocidal Jihadi against us, we should foment the fractures that exist in every intolerant Islamic community…

    We can topple this enemy using some clever jujitsu — and only the Muslims will have blood on their hands.

    • Mac-101 says

      Sep 19, 2017 at 6:26 pm

      Wasn’t that Reagan’s plan with supporting both sides of the Iran/Iraqi war?

      • Chand says

        Sep 21, 2017 at 7:36 am

        ya, Mac-101, could be.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Sep 20, 2017 at 12:53 am

      Exactly ! I remember years ago when I lived in Arizona our great Senator Barry Goldwater said about the Middle East, ” that these people have been killing each other for thousands of years ,..and we should just get out of the way and let them do it “. Well, rest in peace Barry Goldwater because you wouldn’t believe what our Country is doing now . Now we have done the unthinkable and have brought the fighting and the killing OVER HERE.

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    Expect this school to be an object of Sunni (even ISIS) terrorist attack in short order and with apparent enthusiastic blessing of all Sunnis just feeling offended. Thus terrorism will continue unabated with all attempts to curtain it or eliminate, FAILED!

  3. manat bint allaha says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    more trouble in the muslim umma.
    may god (god, not allah!) keep koranimals at each other’s throats forever.

    • Chand says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 7:38 am

      ha! ha!

  4. mariam rove says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    No sect of Islam recognizes the other and have been fighting since the day their pedophile prophet died. This is good for us. Let them all kill each other. m

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    This name for an Iraqi school is really outrageous. Iraq’s leaders are morally compromised and mentally brainwashed.

    • Keys says

      Sep 19, 2017 at 4:28 pm

      It’s good for Iran to have Iraq seem like a separate nation, but controlled by Iranians and supported by the USA. But when there is open war between Israel and Iran whose side will Iraq take?

      —————

      How about a Ho Chi Minh High School in Dallas; Hitler High in Warsaw; or Kim Jong-un Elementary, the Rockets, near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach ?

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 19, 2017 at 8:25 pm

        Now that is funny, Keys. Although I’m sure some Leftists would do this if given the chance…

  6. Georg says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    “The biggest beneficiary of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein was the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

    Yes. It seems the US has lost over 5,000 service members, hundreds of thousands maimed, and millions dead in Iraq, as well as spent trillions and for it all we are *less* safe than we were on September 12. If only we had gone after al Qaida militarily in Afghanistan and left the rest up to the CIA. Osama bin Laden got something very much like what he wanted. There isn’t much more dangerous in this world than enraged Sunni Muslims and they now exist as they never have before.

  7. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    “Sunnis enraged over Mosul school named after…”

    The title could be changed to just “sunnis enraged” or “muslims enraged” (lowercase be upon them all) and it would still be just as accurate.

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