The Sunni minority in Iraq is being called "disaffected" by the American press. Now, I have no doubt that this is the case, but why should they be so. For what cause should they feel alienated from the political process there? One Sunni leader rejected an appointment to the new Iraqi cabinet on grounds that he was appointed because he was Sunni. Well...Yep, and so what. Would he prefer to be murdered as the Hutu majority did to their former Tutsi masters in Rwanda?
So why should the Sunnis in Iraq feel disaffected? After all, they are the ones who murdered their own countrymen. They are the ones who were the bullies and tyrants during the former regime. They are the ones who systematically tortured and killed fellow Muslims and Christians in Iraq. They are the ones who killed Iraqi children and raped Iraqi women while their husbands were forced to watch. It was the Sunnis who were the privileged class under Saddam Hussein. Now they are the ones who are disaffected. They are the ones who are to be pitied. But why?
They are the estranged minority, and you know how the Left loves estranged minorities—except, of course, estranged white minorities. In their great fear of tyranny of the majority, the Left has created a tyranny of the minority by ceding power to minority groups disproportionate to their contribution to society and their actual ability to govern. Now, the Sunnis, the monstrous, genocidal, terroristic Sunnis are disaffected. Well, more's the pity. They can be as disaffected as they wish so long as they realize that they are the makers of their own destiny. They made their supper, and now they are forced to eat it. They should get on their knees and thank God—the real God and not the demon of Islam—that their former victims are not looking for revenge—even in the face of a Sunni sponsored insurgency that has killed thousands of Iraqis including those worshiping in Mosques and grieving fallen comrades and children playing.
It was the Sunni who committed those horrible crimes, and they should pay for them. If they are not to be made to pay in blood or in money, they should at least be made to pay by taking their place as a minority group under the benevolent government of their former chattel. They may resent being a minority, but a minority they are and will remain. What they should fear—truly fear—is if the Mullahs in Iran ever get control of the Iraqi government. If they do, the Sunnis might be better off dead. The best they can do to prevent such a development is to quit with the self-pity and take their place in the present government.
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