http://indiaenews.com/2006-07/14492-indian-muslims-blame-iraq-sectarian-violence.htmNew Delhi - Muslim leaders here are blaming the US for Iraq’s escalating Shia-Sunni bloodletting and say that tensions between the two Islamic sects in India are virtually over.
‘The people who are behind this fratricide in Iraq are those who ultimately want to destroy Islam and Muslims, those who want to defame the community,’ asserted Naib Imam Moulvi Mouzzam Ahmed of the Fatehpuri mosque in Old Delhi.
‘These things never happened in Iraq until the Americans came,’ he said, referring to the rapidly deepening sectarian outbreaks in that country that have injected hatred and suspicions in Baghdad’s Shia and Sunni quarters.
‘So long as the Americans don’t leave Iraq, these things will continue,’ the Imam told IANS from his 17th-century Mughal-built shrine facing the imposing Red Fort monument. snip
‘America is fully involved in this violence,’ charged Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam at the imposing Jama Masjid, the city’s biggest mosque and built also by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. ‘They will use this violence to keep their forces in Iraq for ever. They don’t want normalcy to return to Iraq.’
He went on: ‘How do suicide bombers go to Shia and Sunni areas? When there is so much security in Baghdad, how do these things happen? Who benefits from these clashes? Isn’t the answer obvious?’