[6] While the majority of Muslims in Iraq are Shia and the minority are Sunni, a number of scholars, including Hassan al’-Alawi, have consistently argued that sectarianism in Iraq privileges Sunni Arabs and discriminates against Shi’ites.[7] [8] The sectarian tensions between these two sects of Islam can be traced back to creation of the State of Iraq under British mandate, when the British appointed a Sunni oriented king, Faisal I. [9] The first written evidence of sectarian discrimination is from 1935 when Shia lawyers wrote the Najaf Charter which documented their frustrations and discontent towards the sectarian discrimination against the Shia community in Iraq.