al-Sadr Urges Protection of Arab Christians

Moqtada al-Sadr is one of the United States' boogeymen in Iraq. He disappeared from the scene for a while, but now he is back.

According to an AP article:

"We demand the withdrawal of the occupation forces, or the creation of a timetable for such a withdrawal," he said... "I call upon the Iraqi government not to extend the occupation even for a single day."

I see no "We hate them for their freedoms" here.

Then, according to a Reuters article, he is "prepared to defend the interests of Sunni Muslims and Christians as well as majority Shi'ites." (The quote is from the article, not from al-Sadr.)

I take this to mean that they do not necessarily want to see a world converted to Islam. A CNN article used to report this, but the language about Arab Christians has mysteriously disappeared from their article.