Karbala authorities obsess about the terrorists next door
In mid-May the extremist group known as the Islamic State managed to take control of the city of Ramadi in Anbar, and in doing so gained control over much of the central Iraqi province. Since then authorities in neighbouring Karbala province have become obsessed with securing the borders between the two. It is hardly surprising […]Abbas Sarhan writes for Niqash:
In mid-May the extremist group known as the Islamic State managed to take control of the city of Ramadi in Anbar, and in doing so gained control over much of the central Iraqi province. Since then authorities in neighbouring Karbala province have become obsessed with securing the borders between the two.
It is hardly surprising people in Karbala are worried about their new neighbours. Karbala is a relatively conservative, Shiite-Muslim-majority province and home to the city of Karbala, a major seat of Shia religious learning and one of Shiite Islams' holiest cities. The Islamic State, or IS group, which bases its ideology on an extreme form of Sunni Islam and which considers Shiites apostates, has continued to make threats against Karbala and its residents because of the province’s significance.
