Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Good morning….
Yesterday, the Iraqi Concurrence Conference ended, (the government refused to call it a reconciliation conference, because that title implies there are some disagreements between the government and the opposition!).
Thank GOD it has ended with an announcement carrying a degree of agreement on major issues, like recognizing the legitimate resistance, rejecting the terrorist operations that target innocent civilians, the agreement on the will to build the Iraqi armed forces, scheduling the withdrawal of the occupation forces, releasing the detainees in the Iraqi prisons now, investigating the acts of torture in prisons, and ending the random raids on houses, unless by a judicial order….
This is an excellent step, we hope to GOD that all parties would be true to their pledges, that we shall see in the coming days, weeks, and months, a true change on the ground of reality, and security and settlement would start to show up in the land of Iraq….
Amen…..
*********************************
What happened in Iraq after the occupation is, that the American administration acted, when dealing with the Iraqi reality, by dividing the people into three categories, which are its main components, then, arrange a program to deal with each category…
For the Shia'ats, who are the majority; the light was focused on religious leaders, most of them came from Iran, who had left Iraq because of a conflict with the Saddam Hussein regime, for he oppressed them, and assassinated a lot of their families. Those, regrettably, came back carrying feelings of hate, rancor, and the desire to revenge, they came with their militia, who started an assassination program, according to a long list containing hundreds of Iraqi names: Ba'athis, military men, doctors, head officials, and university professors. A lot of these operations were carried out, and they are still on…
And of course, these leaderships call the occupation forces: (The friendly Forces), because they came with them, and these forces enabled them to sit in the power seats, and are giving them protection and cover, every time, every where…
Regrettably, most Shia'ats leaderships stood in a blind, opportunist way to support the occupation of Iraq, and the hands of destruction and devastation stretched to everything in Iraq, but they became like the blind, seeing nothing but the fact that they sat on the chairs, and grasped the power; this is the only fact that makes them happy, as for the news of the assassinations, torture, prisons, detentions, and transgressions; they find these news are only rumors, and empty talk from the people who envy and oppose them, whom they usually call (the Ba'athi criminals). And even if the critic or opposition wasn't a Ba'athi, then he is probably a spiteful Sunnie, (and that is a new accusation). The important thing is; these leaders exuded a deformed mentality, and a lot of the ignorant, poor, and unemployed followed them, and joined the militia, acquiring a feeling of happiness and wellbeing, while others are starving.
This is how the mentality of our "faction", and the allegiance to it, began…
I mean; the society was compatible, and in agreement about the general attitude towards matters, towards Saddam, the former government, the war, and the occupation, but when people are divided into groups, some of which are beneficiaries, and some are deprived, hate would start, and the mentality of sectarianism, ethnicity, factionalism, and patronization would prevail, along with the other ugly features that would rip society apart, and push it towards a chasm, like what is happening now in Iraq…
*****************************
The Kurds has long since had a local militia, and political leaders, and now, that militia became legal, and is used sometimes at the hard times of elections, in the provinces about which there is a conflict (which is the majority, Arabs, or Kurds?), so, these militia would be used to pressure the population, or terrorize them, to tamper with the election results, in provinces that form a critical, conflicting point (meaning-when there isn't a clear Arabic or Kurdish majority), like Karkook. But generally, the Kurds live in isolation in their regions in the north, and are somewhat far away from the conflicts of the middle and southern Iraq…
***************************
That leaves the Sunnies, most of whom were the ones the old regime used to resort to, to be the leaderships of the army, police, and security forces, not forgetting that the majority of the army and police were the poor Shia'ats, who are now being recalled to become members of the Shia'ats militia, tearing apart their authentic Iraqi identity, and distracting the direction of their loyalty…
The accusation of being loyal to the former regime has been directed to all cities and towns in which the Sunnies dwell, and the campaigns to oppress them, detain them, or kill them started, like what happened in Fallujah, as a start….then other towns followed, of Muslim-Sunnie majorities, until now…
These has been marginalized from the past election processes, and were targeted; for most raiding and searching campaigns took place against the Sunnies, and the charges of opposition, terrorism, and sheltering terrorists are stuck to them, as if the rest of the Iraqis are satisfied about what is happening in Iraq…
****************************
Some extremist formations started appearing, defending the Sunnies, and targeting the Shia'ats; civilians and government officials… the most important of these formations is that of Al-Zarqawi; the fool that devastated the land, with trapped cars in popular markets, or near mosques. We all shout to say: No Muslim is permitted to kill a fellow Muslim, no matter for what reason…
People began to believe that this Zarqawi is an imaginary tale, that those are the actions of organizations hostile to Islam and its intellect, and the executers of these attacks and the planters of bombs are criminals who hate Islam, and are destroying a Muslim people….
Story was spread that the Sunnies support these formations, and provide them with security and shelter, so the government and the occupation forces started targeting the Sunnie towns by bombings and raids…
If I was a Sunnie leader who wants the good for Iraq, I would have announced our innocence from those formations, and by that I would burn the card of sectarian hatred, directed from the Shia'ats leaderships, provoking people against the Sunnies and their leaderships, claiming the Sunnies are supporting terrorism, and thus fixing discord among the Iraqis….
Now, in the streets of Baghdad, the posters of the young men who were found in the torture cellar, most of them Sunnies, are spreading, and at the same time, the hospitals are full of the dead and wounded innocent Shia'ats civilians, by trapped cars that target them…..
No one approves of either this or that… these daily, mass killings of the innocent must stop…
And still, at the same time, there are some armed groups who target the occupation and its army, groups that we don't object at, or accuse them of something shameful…
These are the ones who formed a pressure card on the Bush government, after the number of dead American soldiers rose up to more than 2090 …
This is the legitimate resistance, which hastens the departure of the occupation….
This resistance should remain as a pressure card in the hands of the Iraqi politicians, to achieve the independence of Iraq…..
I know there is a faction of the new Iraqi politicians, who want the occupation to remain, to protect them. This is a sick, selfish faction that should be removed, and substituted by a faction that won't neglect the independence of Iraq, and the wholeness of its sovereignty……
*******************************
Scheduling the withdrawal of the occupation from Iraq shall be the beginning to solve the mysterious, difficult problems, each of them in relation with the other.
First- the existence of the occupation, and its military operations, joined by Iraqi troops, creates hatred against the Iraqi army, people look at it with anger, and doubt its national loyalty, and that gives a justification for some to target the Iraqi army patrols, deeming it as an army of enemy agents.
So, the withdrawal of the occupation will remove this accusation and hatred against the Iraqi army… it will also remove the anger and hatred against the government, deeming it a traitor government backed by a traitor army, and doesn't have an independent vision for the welfare of its people….
Second- the presence of Shia'ats militia that target Sunnie citizens, arresting them, assassinating them, throwing them in prisons, or throwing their bodies on the streets, all this will justify the acts of killings and revenge against Shia'ats Iraqi civilians. So, disbanding these Shia'ats militias will bring on quietness and security stability, and reduce the sectarian hatred and anger created by these actions… because deformed formations like Al-Zarqwi's justify killing the Iraqi civilians as a revenge to the oppressed Iraqi Sunnies.
If I can only know who was the criminal who brought him on to us??
Third: vacating prisons and detention camps gives a feeling of comfort, security, and the well intentions of the government, eliminating stresses and anger on the Iraqi streets, and reducing the inflammation of the sectarian unrest, ignited by the actions of the Prime minister and the Interior minister (both of them is a Shia'at).
Oh, my GOD!
I am a Shia'at!
But I cannot be like those people, justifying the killings of poor Iraqis, locking up their young men in prisons, and torturing them…
What is the meaning of a Shia'at?
What is the meaning of this silly classification of people? Who came up with it?
Today, the word Shia'at came to mean: an ugly, backwards, opportunist person, his mind narrow, and his faith is deviated from Islam, because he justifies the presence of the occupier in the Muslim land, and because his priorities in life are to win his political rights, from which he was deprived for decades, and to bewail and cry upon Al-Hussein, and visit the graves of the Virtuous Imams, (=the kin of the Prophet), May peace be upon them, in all the occasions of their births and deaths.
Well then, what about the occupation?
What about the destruction that befell the country?
Isn’t the priority to drive the occupation out?
Isn’t the priority to defend Islam? Or are we from another world?
Unfortunately, this is the situation of thousands of ignorant people, who were deceived that the occupier came on to remove the oppression from them, and provide them with the freedom to perform the wailing rituals- merely an unorthodox heresy which filtrated into Islam, deforming its spirit, and its intent…..
But I do believe there are thousands of Shia'ats like me, who love Islam and Iraq, who resent this selfish, narrow mindedness, that tore off the nation and the religion.
My heart is sad for every Sunnie who gets hurt in Iraq.
And my heart is sad for every Shia'at who gets hurt in Iraq.
They are both Muslims, they are both Iraqis, they are both my kin, my people…
How can I abandon my kin and people?
How can I approve that their blood is shed, day and night?
These are the actions of criminals, who hate Iraq and its people, who want destruction and ruin for us…
We reaped nothing but destruction and ruin…..
And those in the government are babbling all day long about freedom, democracy, transparency, and some empty talk…
Whoever loves Iraq will unite the ranks of the Iraqis, and that will be that, that is the only guide in these pitch-black days...............
*****************************************
The elections are coming…
I hope new leaders will come, leaders who will present themselves as people who work for the good of Iraq, and the Iraqis…
I hope everyone who presents himself in a sectarian manner will fail…
Down with sectarianism… this poisonous snake which was sneaked into Iraq, to rip it apart, and separate its people…
By GOD, I can see the project of fragmentation in the new constitution…
And see the project of fragmentation in sectarianism…
I hope we would open our eyes, and move on carefully, checking all the ideas put before us, not be simple minded, or fooled, and wouldn't allow anyone to use us as tools to achieve their own personal interests…
We should choose calmly those whom we think shall do what's good for the future of Iraq, and the Iraqis….
We ask GOD to pull us all out of the darkness of ignorance and turmoil, into the light of knowledge and certainty…. To guide us all to do what is good for Iraq, and the Iraqis…..
Amen….
Translated by May/Baghdad.
Good morning….
Yesterday, the Iraqi Concurrence Conference ended, (the government refused to call it a reconciliation conference, because that title implies there are some disagreements between the government and the opposition!).
Thank GOD it has ended with an announcement carrying a degree of agreement on major issues, like recognizing the legitimate resistance, rejecting the terrorist operations that target innocent civilians, the agreement on the will to build the Iraqi armed forces, scheduling the withdrawal of the occupation forces, releasing the detainees in the Iraqi prisons now, investigating the acts of torture in prisons, and ending the random raids on houses, unless by a judicial order….
This is an excellent step, we hope to GOD that all parties would be true to their pledges, that we shall see in the coming days, weeks, and months, a true change on the ground of reality, and security and settlement would start to show up in the land of Iraq….
Amen…..
*********************************
What happened in Iraq after the occupation is, that the American administration acted, when dealing with the Iraqi reality, by dividing the people into three categories, which are its main components, then, arrange a program to deal with each category…
For the Shia'ats, who are the majority; the light was focused on religious leaders, most of them came from Iran, who had left Iraq because of a conflict with the Saddam Hussein regime, for he oppressed them, and assassinated a lot of their families. Those, regrettably, came back carrying feelings of hate, rancor, and the desire to revenge, they came with their militia, who started an assassination program, according to a long list containing hundreds of Iraqi names: Ba'athis, military men, doctors, head officials, and university professors. A lot of these operations were carried out, and they are still on…
And of course, these leaderships call the occupation forces: (The friendly Forces), because they came with them, and these forces enabled them to sit in the power seats, and are giving them protection and cover, every time, every where…
Regrettably, most Shia'ats leaderships stood in a blind, opportunist way to support the occupation of Iraq, and the hands of destruction and devastation stretched to everything in Iraq, but they became like the blind, seeing nothing but the fact that they sat on the chairs, and grasped the power; this is the only fact that makes them happy, as for the news of the assassinations, torture, prisons, detentions, and transgressions; they find these news are only rumors, and empty talk from the people who envy and oppose them, whom they usually call (the Ba'athi criminals). And even if the critic or opposition wasn't a Ba'athi, then he is probably a spiteful Sunnie, (and that is a new accusation). The important thing is; these leaders exuded a deformed mentality, and a lot of the ignorant, poor, and unemployed followed them, and joined the militia, acquiring a feeling of happiness and wellbeing, while others are starving.
This is how the mentality of our "faction", and the allegiance to it, began…
I mean; the society was compatible, and in agreement about the general attitude towards matters, towards Saddam, the former government, the war, and the occupation, but when people are divided into groups, some of which are beneficiaries, and some are deprived, hate would start, and the mentality of sectarianism, ethnicity, factionalism, and patronization would prevail, along with the other ugly features that would rip society apart, and push it towards a chasm, like what is happening now in Iraq…
*****************************
The Kurds has long since had a local militia, and political leaders, and now, that militia became legal, and is used sometimes at the hard times of elections, in the provinces about which there is a conflict (which is the majority, Arabs, or Kurds?), so, these militia would be used to pressure the population, or terrorize them, to tamper with the election results, in provinces that form a critical, conflicting point (meaning-when there isn't a clear Arabic or Kurdish majority), like Karkook. But generally, the Kurds live in isolation in their regions in the north, and are somewhat far away from the conflicts of the middle and southern Iraq…
***************************
That leaves the Sunnies, most of whom were the ones the old regime used to resort to, to be the leaderships of the army, police, and security forces, not forgetting that the majority of the army and police were the poor Shia'ats, who are now being recalled to become members of the Shia'ats militia, tearing apart their authentic Iraqi identity, and distracting the direction of their loyalty…
The accusation of being loyal to the former regime has been directed to all cities and towns in which the Sunnies dwell, and the campaigns to oppress them, detain them, or kill them started, like what happened in Fallujah, as a start….then other towns followed, of Muslim-Sunnie majorities, until now…
These has been marginalized from the past election processes, and were targeted; for most raiding and searching campaigns took place against the Sunnies, and the charges of opposition, terrorism, and sheltering terrorists are stuck to them, as if the rest of the Iraqis are satisfied about what is happening in Iraq…
****************************
Some extremist formations started appearing, defending the Sunnies, and targeting the Shia'ats; civilians and government officials… the most important of these formations is that of Al-Zarqawi; the fool that devastated the land, with trapped cars in popular markets, or near mosques. We all shout to say: No Muslim is permitted to kill a fellow Muslim, no matter for what reason…
People began to believe that this Zarqawi is an imaginary tale, that those are the actions of organizations hostile to Islam and its intellect, and the executers of these attacks and the planters of bombs are criminals who hate Islam, and are destroying a Muslim people….
Story was spread that the Sunnies support these formations, and provide them with security and shelter, so the government and the occupation forces started targeting the Sunnie towns by bombings and raids…
If I was a Sunnie leader who wants the good for Iraq, I would have announced our innocence from those formations, and by that I would burn the card of sectarian hatred, directed from the Shia'ats leaderships, provoking people against the Sunnies and their leaderships, claiming the Sunnies are supporting terrorism, and thus fixing discord among the Iraqis….
Now, in the streets of Baghdad, the posters of the young men who were found in the torture cellar, most of them Sunnies, are spreading, and at the same time, the hospitals are full of the dead and wounded innocent Shia'ats civilians, by trapped cars that target them…..
No one approves of either this or that… these daily, mass killings of the innocent must stop…
And still, at the same time, there are some armed groups who target the occupation and its army, groups that we don't object at, or accuse them of something shameful…
These are the ones who formed a pressure card on the Bush government, after the number of dead American soldiers rose up to more than 2090 …
This is the legitimate resistance, which hastens the departure of the occupation….
This resistance should remain as a pressure card in the hands of the Iraqi politicians, to achieve the independence of Iraq…..
I know there is a faction of the new Iraqi politicians, who want the occupation to remain, to protect them. This is a sick, selfish faction that should be removed, and substituted by a faction that won't neglect the independence of Iraq, and the wholeness of its sovereignty……
*******************************
Scheduling the withdrawal of the occupation from Iraq shall be the beginning to solve the mysterious, difficult problems, each of them in relation with the other.
First- the existence of the occupation, and its military operations, joined by Iraqi troops, creates hatred against the Iraqi army, people look at it with anger, and doubt its national loyalty, and that gives a justification for some to target the Iraqi army patrols, deeming it as an army of enemy agents.
So, the withdrawal of the occupation will remove this accusation and hatred against the Iraqi army… it will also remove the anger and hatred against the government, deeming it a traitor government backed by a traitor army, and doesn't have an independent vision for the welfare of its people….
Second- the presence of Shia'ats militia that target Sunnie citizens, arresting them, assassinating them, throwing them in prisons, or throwing their bodies on the streets, all this will justify the acts of killings and revenge against Shia'ats Iraqi civilians. So, disbanding these Shia'ats militias will bring on quietness and security stability, and reduce the sectarian hatred and anger created by these actions… because deformed formations like Al-Zarqwi's justify killing the Iraqi civilians as a revenge to the oppressed Iraqi Sunnies.
If I can only know who was the criminal who brought him on to us??
Third: vacating prisons and detention camps gives a feeling of comfort, security, and the well intentions of the government, eliminating stresses and anger on the Iraqi streets, and reducing the inflammation of the sectarian unrest, ignited by the actions of the Prime minister and the Interior minister (both of them is a Shia'at).
Oh, my GOD!
I am a Shia'at!
But I cannot be like those people, justifying the killings of poor Iraqis, locking up their young men in prisons, and torturing them…
What is the meaning of a Shia'at?
What is the meaning of this silly classification of people? Who came up with it?
Today, the word Shia'at came to mean: an ugly, backwards, opportunist person, his mind narrow, and his faith is deviated from Islam, because he justifies the presence of the occupier in the Muslim land, and because his priorities in life are to win his political rights, from which he was deprived for decades, and to bewail and cry upon Al-Hussein, and visit the graves of the Virtuous Imams, (=the kin of the Prophet), May peace be upon them, in all the occasions of their births and deaths.
Well then, what about the occupation?
What about the destruction that befell the country?
Isn’t the priority to drive the occupation out?
Isn’t the priority to defend Islam? Or are we from another world?
Unfortunately, this is the situation of thousands of ignorant people, who were deceived that the occupier came on to remove the oppression from them, and provide them with the freedom to perform the wailing rituals- merely an unorthodox heresy which filtrated into Islam, deforming its spirit, and its intent…..
But I do believe there are thousands of Shia'ats like me, who love Islam and Iraq, who resent this selfish, narrow mindedness, that tore off the nation and the religion.
My heart is sad for every Sunnie who gets hurt in Iraq.
And my heart is sad for every Shia'at who gets hurt in Iraq.
They are both Muslims, they are both Iraqis, they are both my kin, my people…
How can I abandon my kin and people?
How can I approve that their blood is shed, day and night?
These are the actions of criminals, who hate Iraq and its people, who want destruction and ruin for us…
We reaped nothing but destruction and ruin…..
And those in the government are babbling all day long about freedom, democracy, transparency, and some empty talk…
Whoever loves Iraq will unite the ranks of the Iraqis, and that will be that, that is the only guide in these pitch-black days...............
*****************************************
The elections are coming…
I hope new leaders will come, leaders who will present themselves as people who work for the good of Iraq, and the Iraqis…
I hope everyone who presents himself in a sectarian manner will fail…
Down with sectarianism… this poisonous snake which was sneaked into Iraq, to rip it apart, and separate its people…
By GOD, I can see the project of fragmentation in the new constitution…
And see the project of fragmentation in sectarianism…
I hope we would open our eyes, and move on carefully, checking all the ideas put before us, not be simple minded, or fooled, and wouldn't allow anyone to use us as tools to achieve their own personal interests…
We should choose calmly those whom we think shall do what's good for the future of Iraq, and the Iraqis….
We ask GOD to pull us all out of the darkness of ignorance and turmoil, into the light of knowledge and certainty…. To guide us all to do what is good for Iraq, and the Iraqis…..
Amen….
Translated by May/Baghdad.
# posted by Faiza Al-Araji @ 7:05 pm 
