http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-081106iraq,0,4960178.story?coll=la-story-footerClerics Across Iraq Call for End to Sectarian Killing
BAGHDAD — A day after a suicide bomber killed 35 people at a revered Shiite shrine, clerics across Iraq today called for an end to the sectarian killing that one imam described as "waking everyday to the view of blood."
The bombing near the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf on Thursday ignited fresh sectarian passions that lingered over sermons in Shiite and Sunni mosques. Some clerics wondered whether Iraq has slipped too far, becoming a nation where the sounds of weeping mothers and praying imams are lost in the din of kidnappings, explosions and slaughter.
"We lost all our feelings. We are saying goodbye to our sons everyday," Imam Khaled Hassnawi said in his sermon at the Sunni Muslim Sheik Abdalkadir mosque in Baghdad. "Wherever you go you see the blood of Muslims being shed. When will this time pass? When will those playing with this fate be satisfied?"
Speaking at the largest Shiite mosque in Baghdad, Imam Sayed Nail Musawi said: "These adversities that you are seeing everyday is like training for us. God is testing our patience The incident in Najaf, who was killed? Poor people in the market. More than 30 were martyred. Najaf's sacredness was violated by this attack."