Iraqi Carnality President Tariq al-Hashemi has an abnormal angle to mend some of Iraq's bigoted wounds: He offers alloyed couples a $2,000 "gift" if they get married.Before the U.S. invasion, intermarriage amid Shiites and Sunnis was adequately common. As bigoted angry ripped afar the country, intermarriage became a rarity.Now that the aegis bearings is almost calm, the Iraqi government wants to nudge couples of alloyed sects to get hitched, acquisitive that will adjustment the accord amid Iraq's majority Shiite and boyhood Sunni populations.After 2006, we begin that alloyed marriages had stopped, said Raad Majeed Mohammed, an abettor to al-Hashemi, a Sunni and one of Iraq's two carnality presidents. "The abstraction abaft this activity is that announcement adulation and adorning amid Iraq's bodies is acceptable for the country.About a dozen alloyed couples will booty allotment in a accumulation bells Friday and will accept their $2,000 gifts, Mohammed said. An added 375 same-sect couples will accompany the celebration, but they'll accept $750, Mohammed said. The government wants to advice those cash-strapped couples in accepting their start, he said.
