The preachers of the Friday prayers at the Al-Anbar province criticized what they described as "double government decisions through recognizing the legitimacy of the demands of the protesters and not being met."
The spokesman of the sit-in of Anbar, Sheikh Mohammed Fayyad told the reporter of the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: "The Friday sermons today focused on three points, the first is double government decisions while the government acknowledged the legitimacy of the demands of the protesters, but it so far, does not do anything but increased the suffering of the people due to the continuing indiscriminate shelling and arbitrary arrests, as the next government must work to respond to the demands of the protesters, not only verbally. "
He explained: "The second point focused on the difficult humanitarian situation of the displaced and the need to prepare a correct and fair plan of action to save them and compensate them for the losses suffered by them and bring them back quickly to their homes."
He adde, "The latter point when the preachers confirmed that criminal gangs are not confined to the Islamic State organization only, but also armed militias, it is unfortunate that the Iraqi government focus through its remarks on the (IS) discarding militias that present and working to kill citizens and escape from the front the terrorists, this duplication makes the Sunni areas in the box not to believe what promoted by the government. "
He added: "The organizing committee for the sit-ins Anbar established consolidated prayer in a number of mosques to prevent the targeting of worshipers in the event of their gathering. " .