Muqtada al-Sadr’s statement explained

You prob­a­bly heard that Moq­tada al-Sadr is threaten with another Intifada, if Maliki’s gov­ern­ment does not stop tar­get­ing his fol­low­ers, lets see the state­ment [this is not lit­er­ally trans­la­tion, this is an expla­na­tion of the most impor­tant parts ]:

The first para­graph starts with “I say”, then:

Notice the anger in this para­graph: We are tar­geted by [al-Nawasib=an insult name for Sun­nis] from one side with bombs and explo­sions, as one of their lead­ers lately said [he means Al-Zawahiri last state­ment mak­ing fun of al-sadr] that I am an Iran­ian pup­pet, although other than Iraq and my peo­ple will, I don’t belong.

From the other side the enemy [the Amer­i­cans] is tar­get­ing us with tanks, war­planes, artillery, mor­tars and snipers ask­ing me not to stand against the Iraqi gov­ern­ment [that we helped to make it exists].

This is bor­rowed from Hasan Nas­ral­lah: Hus­sain [the grand­son of Moham­mad] said “death is bet­ter than to be in shame, shame is bet­ter than going to hell”, from the reli­gious point of view this is my prin­ci­ple: I don’t kill a Mus­lim, Iraqi or other [nation­al­ity], gov­ern­ment offi­cial, mil­i­tary or civil­ian, oth­er­wise we know how to deal with you [Iraqi gov­ern­ment].

You are using the [Haddam=Saddam] policies…what is the guilt of the Sadrists to go out from [Had­dam] oppres­sion and to fall under the oppres­sion of the occu­pa­tion, the gov­ern­ment and the [Nawa­sib]? …is their guilt because they are the “resis­tance”? .….or their guilt because they are the pub­lic major­ity who did not agree on the divid­ing of Iraq, steal­ing the resources and plan­ning per­ma­nent mil­i­tary pres­ence in Iraq…if you don’t back up we will announce it a “war ’till liberation”.

We tried to shake hands with the Sun­nis and Shi­ites, one time we pray in [Abu Han­ifa= a Sunni mosque in Adhamiya], the other time we pray in [Bratha=Shitte mosque in Karada, the mosque is one of al-Hakim sup­port­ers strong­holds].

In this mess we did not for­get to defend the rights of Iraq’s minori­ties — Chris­tians, Shabak [minor­ity in Mosul], Turk­men, Chaldean and oth­ers, and what did we get?!!… insults on our profit and the pope goes to visit the coun­try that occu­pies our beloved Iraq for­get­ting the suf­fer of our people.

This is the last warn­ing to the Iraqi gov­ern­ment; to take the path of peace and don’t be just like [Had­dam] gov­ern­ment

I thank the supreme cler­ics rejec­tions to the [gov­ern­ment acts]… and I con­demn the silence of the oth­ers who see and watch .. and I hope the ask the gov­ern­ment to timetable the pres­ence of the occupation.