Reply #1: A few notes on this. [View All]

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- It's against the law there but extreme men have taken the law into their own hands.

- It doesn't really have anything to do with religion, it has to do with control. They'll do it under any banner including security, so don't get stuck on the religion part.

- It all comes back to the social contract. We gave iraq a government that the citizens did not agree to. This kind of violence will continue until there is a social contract where all parties agree and then the laws will seem beneficial where iraqis will want to uphold them (even when many people lose what they want to see in some areas they accept it if it's beneficial enough in others). Only then will the violence be truly random - singular circumstantial and not deliberate acts of focing their will on others and against a system they don't accept. If they accepted the system they would try to change it by lobbying.