I carry many secrets inside of me...I am no partisan of letting your hair down in public.
Not that I care so much about reputation, whatever I do or say, I am absolved...yes, you see I take the words of your Lord so literally...I figure I have paid well in advance...so it's not my reputation that is at stake...but I do care for the people I love...I am very protective of them.
I don't want to use their sufferings as feed for a blog post, and am always very cautious to protect their anonymity...not only out of fear, but out of respect...respect for their pain.
Pain too requires respect, just in case you did not know.
So am a bit of a prude, I allude to things, write around a subject...of course inside am dying for the Truth to be grasped, like some spring flower you pluck to smell its full fragrance...
Yet, still, Respect prevents me from divulging too much.
Yet, the secrets I harbor, the intimate details of what happened, leave me so sleeplessly raw.
Maybe this does not make sense to the Oprah generation -- a generation of exhibitionist talk shows and cheap voyeurism....but for me, it's all the essence of Love.
October 11, 2010
October 8, 2010
The Clash of Ignorance - Islam Hijacked.
There is no clash of civilization or culture ---there is a clash of ignorance. This is the age of Ignorance, this is the Jahiliya.
Many like to believe that the Jahiliya is a period that is bygone. Not so, the Jahiliya is ever present - every where. It is present in the West and it is present in the East. So are the idols that characterize this period.
There is Belief - you inherit that stuff from your family, environment, school, society and there is Faith.
Faith is not Belief. Faith is something that one works on, cultivates, infused with much Grace. Grace is not tied to any race, sect, culture or civilization...Grace is above and beyond...like Rain, it falls on everyone...
It is with this in mind, that I want to approach the subject of Islam and the Other. And it is with this in mind that I want to tackle the West and Islam.
I am not sure I want to use the current terminology that one often comes across in today's literature on this topic - words like -- tolerance, acceptance have been overused and have lost their meaning...
We are definitely at a crossroad - we Muslims and non Muslims alike. I feel this with urgency. I fear also that this snowball will become an avalanche that no one will be able to stop - an avalanche that will swallow all of us, not just the Muslims. And it is also with this in mind that I am attempting to broach the subject.
What is being sown today shall be reaped tomorrow - this is a universal law, a law that knows no borders, no passports and no nationalities...of that I am sure. And from what has been taking place in the last decade or so, or let's say the acceleration of an already existing process, in the last 10 years -- I can already tell you that the fruits of this harvest are going to be very bitter. Unless the tide is turned....
There is a war being waged on Islam and Muslims. Whichever way you care to look at it, and by whichever theory you want to causally ascribe to it --it is here and can no longer be ignored.
This in turn feeds on the ghetto spirit that Muslims find themselves in and gives birth to more extremism. It is a vicious circle...a very dangerous one.
This is not about Niqabs, Veils, Burqas, Cartoons, Minarets or Koran burnings -- this is about directly ATTACKING a Belief system and a Faith -- simply because it looks and feels different, thus enhancing, exacerbating and radicalizing the very elements that the West deems to be not secular enough for its taste.
This is the bind and this is the lethal bind that the West finds itself in.
The Question to ask - is why is this group of people - the Muslims - that have been particularly targeted ? Why not the Jews or Hindus or the Buddhists for example ?
Each one will conveniently point to 9/11 as the starting point of this witch hunt. This is where I disagree.
9/11 whoever the culprits were - was not the starting point. It was yet another peak point, from which after much massacres took place - notably in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan (and it will not stop at these countries.)
The West in fact has never been at ease (short of a better word) with Islam as a concept. This is not something new. However the events of 9/11 gave the perfect alibi for it to engage in an all out war. I repeat an all out war - meaning a war on many fronts - physical, geographic, political, economic, cultural and ideological...
Some will argue that this is not necessarily true - pointing to the following : The West's support for Bosnia, Kosovo and the Afghans during their fight against the Russians. And there is truth in that. However this is not the full picture. Their support for these Muslims was only done with the aim of enhancing the West's hegemony. Hegemony in the largest sense of the word and not merely reduced to economic interests.
Another factor that cannot be overlooked besides the West being ill at ease with Islam ever since this latter's inception - is the silent war that is taking place between two poles of "Islam" - Saudi Arabia and Iran.
This war is political, geographic but also ideological and precedes both the establishment of Saudi Arabia or Iran as nation states. This "war" started in Iraq many centuries ago. It was a war of Khilafa - i.e of Governance between two clans/sects (political sects) of who will monopolize and rule the Ummah.
This war has not died...it was latent and flared up again in the 20th century with the advent of Khomeinism - the political ideology of Shia revivalism and started in the late 70's. This period also coincided with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of Salafist/Jihadist ideology. The counterpart if you wish, to Shiite Revivalism.
This is also the period where from a purely sociological observation - I started noticing more and more people "reverting" to a "pure" Islam (whether of Sunni or Shia ) - falling back on a belief system from which people hoped to extract Faith.
In parallel, the Western concept of Globalization which really means political, economic, cultural, ideological Homogeneity (Uniformity of Identity) greatly fed this "reverting" process/attachment and refusal of Muslims to accept this new movement (Globalization) which they perceive to be threatening not only to their belief system but also to their Faith. And with good reason - because Globalization has absolutely nothing sacred or holistic about it.
In other words this impetus towards Globalization accompanied with the historic "discomfort" that the West has nourished vis à vis Islam produced a backlash or as some people would like to call it -Fundamentalism- now called Terrorism. As I read today, someone said - Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. In other words all fundamentalists are Muslims and are therefore terrorists.
In the "fight" to RETAIN the semblance of a belief system and of a Faith -- dogma was necessary. The Muslim law/jurisprudence was no longer a contextual law i.e a law issued in a specific historical context but became a dogma - taking on all the allures of a unequivocal Truth over which both the State and the Clergy have absolute authority. This in itself is very contradictory to the Spirit and even Law of Islam since in Islam no one, absolutely no one holds absolute power over the Truth. This is the essence of Shirk - ie of associating someone/something to the Divine. Futhermore, in Islam there is NO Clergy, except maybe in Shi'ism. Traditionally the Ulemas or the men of Learning are not considered a Clergy as such (as in the Christian sense) and therefore their powers (derived of learning Fiqh -religious studies) was always limited and Ulemas were easily replaced should they issue a Fatwa that was not too pleasing to the ruler...and by the same token some Ulemas worked for the Ruler and issued Fatwas that ensured his rule. Which is to say that even the Muslim religious body historically speaking had nothing of permanence to it - neither the Koranic interpretations. Since the Ulemas could be removed so did their particular interpretation of the Text.
This is very important to note because it means that the Text can be/ is open to be interpreted differently...depending on context - context being historical, political, economic, ideological, cultural...
This in itself already negates the whole conceptual idea of an Islamic "Fundamentalism." and also by correlation negates the whole notion of Islamic "Moderates".
What does that mean ? It means that the same terminology should be used as when addressing the various groups in Judaism for instance --- as in Orthodox, Liberal/ Reformist.
Do you see the nuance ? I see it very clearly. For the discourse that is held towards Islam is not the same discourse that is held toward Judaism for instance. There are no fundamentalists and moderates in Israel, there are orthodox and liberals.
It is assumed that an Islamic moderate belongs to an Islam that is essentially Fundamentalist but by addressing his "reason" he can remain a moderate and hopefully stay that way- this is the inherent message. An orthodox or a Liberal Jew belongs to Judaism full stop.
And it is of no coincidence,that Muslims, in particular in the West, find themselves in either an apologetic or defensive position. They try to explain, describe, justify, communicate, that they are not fundamentalists, that even though their attire (which like the Orthodox Jew) may look traditional/conservative/religious, they are not inherently terrorists...and whilst doing all these justification of trying to prove their good intentions, their inherent moderateness they get stuck even deeper in that ghetto that has been laid out for them --like a prefab house -- all ready to be inhabited...
I will stop here for tonight. It is vast subject, this is a blog post, by no means exhaustive or conclusive...hopefully it will provide some food for thought and am happy to debate it on Twitter.
Many like to believe that the Jahiliya is a period that is bygone. Not so, the Jahiliya is ever present - every where. It is present in the West and it is present in the East. So are the idols that characterize this period.
There is Belief - you inherit that stuff from your family, environment, school, society and there is Faith.
Faith is not Belief. Faith is something that one works on, cultivates, infused with much Grace. Grace is not tied to any race, sect, culture or civilization...Grace is above and beyond...like Rain, it falls on everyone...
It is with this in mind, that I want to approach the subject of Islam and the Other. And it is with this in mind that I want to tackle the West and Islam.
I am not sure I want to use the current terminology that one often comes across in today's literature on this topic - words like -- tolerance, acceptance have been overused and have lost their meaning...
We are definitely at a crossroad - we Muslims and non Muslims alike. I feel this with urgency. I fear also that this snowball will become an avalanche that no one will be able to stop - an avalanche that will swallow all of us, not just the Muslims. And it is also with this in mind that I am attempting to broach the subject.
What is being sown today shall be reaped tomorrow - this is a universal law, a law that knows no borders, no passports and no nationalities...of that I am sure. And from what has been taking place in the last decade or so, or let's say the acceleration of an already existing process, in the last 10 years -- I can already tell you that the fruits of this harvest are going to be very bitter. Unless the tide is turned....
There is a war being waged on Islam and Muslims. Whichever way you care to look at it, and by whichever theory you want to causally ascribe to it --it is here and can no longer be ignored.
This in turn feeds on the ghetto spirit that Muslims find themselves in and gives birth to more extremism. It is a vicious circle...a very dangerous one.
This is not about Niqabs, Veils, Burqas, Cartoons, Minarets or Koran burnings -- this is about directly ATTACKING a Belief system and a Faith -- simply because it looks and feels different, thus enhancing, exacerbating and radicalizing the very elements that the West deems to be not secular enough for its taste.
This is the bind and this is the lethal bind that the West finds itself in.
The Question to ask - is why is this group of people - the Muslims - that have been particularly targeted ? Why not the Jews or Hindus or the Buddhists for example ?
Each one will conveniently point to 9/11 as the starting point of this witch hunt. This is where I disagree.
9/11 whoever the culprits were - was not the starting point. It was yet another peak point, from which after much massacres took place - notably in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan (and it will not stop at these countries.)
The West in fact has never been at ease (short of a better word) with Islam as a concept. This is not something new. However the events of 9/11 gave the perfect alibi for it to engage in an all out war. I repeat an all out war - meaning a war on many fronts - physical, geographic, political, economic, cultural and ideological...
Some will argue that this is not necessarily true - pointing to the following : The West's support for Bosnia, Kosovo and the Afghans during their fight against the Russians. And there is truth in that. However this is not the full picture. Their support for these Muslims was only done with the aim of enhancing the West's hegemony. Hegemony in the largest sense of the word and not merely reduced to economic interests.
Another factor that cannot be overlooked besides the West being ill at ease with Islam ever since this latter's inception - is the silent war that is taking place between two poles of "Islam" - Saudi Arabia and Iran.
This war is political, geographic but also ideological and precedes both the establishment of Saudi Arabia or Iran as nation states. This "war" started in Iraq many centuries ago. It was a war of Khilafa - i.e of Governance between two clans/sects (political sects) of who will monopolize and rule the Ummah.
This war has not died...it was latent and flared up again in the 20th century with the advent of Khomeinism - the political ideology of Shia revivalism and started in the late 70's. This period also coincided with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of Salafist/Jihadist ideology. The counterpart if you wish, to Shiite Revivalism.
This is also the period where from a purely sociological observation - I started noticing more and more people "reverting" to a "pure" Islam (whether of Sunni or Shia ) - falling back on a belief system from which people hoped to extract Faith.
In parallel, the Western concept of Globalization which really means political, economic, cultural, ideological Homogeneity (Uniformity of Identity) greatly fed this "reverting" process/attachment and refusal of Muslims to accept this new movement (Globalization) which they perceive to be threatening not only to their belief system but also to their Faith. And with good reason - because Globalization has absolutely nothing sacred or holistic about it.
In other words this impetus towards Globalization accompanied with the historic "discomfort" that the West has nourished vis à vis Islam produced a backlash or as some people would like to call it -Fundamentalism- now called Terrorism. As I read today, someone said - Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. In other words all fundamentalists are Muslims and are therefore terrorists.
In the "fight" to RETAIN the semblance of a belief system and of a Faith -- dogma was necessary. The Muslim law/jurisprudence was no longer a contextual law i.e a law issued in a specific historical context but became a dogma - taking on all the allures of a unequivocal Truth over which both the State and the Clergy have absolute authority. This in itself is very contradictory to the Spirit and even Law of Islam since in Islam no one, absolutely no one holds absolute power over the Truth. This is the essence of Shirk - ie of associating someone/something to the Divine. Futhermore, in Islam there is NO Clergy, except maybe in Shi'ism. Traditionally the Ulemas or the men of Learning are not considered a Clergy as such (as in the Christian sense) and therefore their powers (derived of learning Fiqh -religious studies) was always limited and Ulemas were easily replaced should they issue a Fatwa that was not too pleasing to the ruler...and by the same token some Ulemas worked for the Ruler and issued Fatwas that ensured his rule. Which is to say that even the Muslim religious body historically speaking had nothing of permanence to it - neither the Koranic interpretations. Since the Ulemas could be removed so did their particular interpretation of the Text.
This is very important to note because it means that the Text can be/ is open to be interpreted differently...depending on context - context being historical, political, economic, ideological, cultural...
This in itself already negates the whole conceptual idea of an Islamic "Fundamentalism." and also by correlation negates the whole notion of Islamic "Moderates".
What does that mean ? It means that the same terminology should be used as when addressing the various groups in Judaism for instance --- as in Orthodox, Liberal/ Reformist.
Do you see the nuance ? I see it very clearly. For the discourse that is held towards Islam is not the same discourse that is held toward Judaism for instance. There are no fundamentalists and moderates in Israel, there are orthodox and liberals.
It is assumed that an Islamic moderate belongs to an Islam that is essentially Fundamentalist but by addressing his "reason" he can remain a moderate and hopefully stay that way- this is the inherent message. An orthodox or a Liberal Jew belongs to Judaism full stop.
And it is of no coincidence,that Muslims, in particular in the West, find themselves in either an apologetic or defensive position. They try to explain, describe, justify, communicate, that they are not fundamentalists, that even though their attire (which like the Orthodox Jew) may look traditional/conservative/religious, they are not inherently terrorists...and whilst doing all these justification of trying to prove their good intentions, their inherent moderateness they get stuck even deeper in that ghetto that has been laid out for them --like a prefab house -- all ready to be inhabited...
I will stop here for tonight. It is vast subject, this is a blog post, by no means exhaustive or conclusive...hopefully it will provide some food for thought and am happy to debate it on Twitter.
October 5, 2010
Don't Let Iraq Slip Through Your Fingers...
I am very, very pissed off. Really, truly pissed off. I am pissed off at Iraqis and at their complacency, silence and apathy...I really am.
Daily I receive not less than 50 to 70 emails all in Arabic - all articles on Iraq. Sorry but that's not good enough. It's not good enough at all.
These are emails circulating within a closed circle and they are not made available in English to a wider public. There are thousands of Iraqis who have good command of the English language, they live in the US, England and elsewhere, scattered all over...what are you doing exactly ? The Answer is NOTHING. You are doing NOTHING.
The Iraqi blogosphere and social media is as shameful and as pathetic as the current Iraqi situation.
Why aren't more of you on Twitter or Facebook - writing and informing people in English ? Why, what exactly are you waiting for ? But you are good at leaving teary comments on youtube songs...Well this is not what's going to save your asses.
Daily in your "beloved" Iraq, there are human rights violations of the most grotesque kind and you are silent.
Arrests, broad day light killings, tortures, abductions and the rest of the daily misery inflicted on us and you are silent.
I, for my part am doing whatever I can...with the means available to me...It's about fucking time you do your share as well.
Because I tell you, Iraq is slipping again and you're just there watching Her...again.
Daily I receive not less than 50 to 70 emails all in Arabic - all articles on Iraq. Sorry but that's not good enough. It's not good enough at all.
These are emails circulating within a closed circle and they are not made available in English to a wider public. There are thousands of Iraqis who have good command of the English language, they live in the US, England and elsewhere, scattered all over...what are you doing exactly ? The Answer is NOTHING. You are doing NOTHING.
The Iraqi blogosphere and social media is as shameful and as pathetic as the current Iraqi situation.
Why aren't more of you on Twitter or Facebook - writing and informing people in English ? Why, what exactly are you waiting for ? But you are good at leaving teary comments on youtube songs...Well this is not what's going to save your asses.
Daily in your "beloved" Iraq, there are human rights violations of the most grotesque kind and you are silent.
Arrests, broad day light killings, tortures, abductions and the rest of the daily misery inflicted on us and you are silent.
I, for my part am doing whatever I can...with the means available to me...It's about fucking time you do your share as well.
Because I tell you, Iraq is slipping again and you're just there watching Her...again.
Stockholm Syndrome...
I get to meet all sorts of people online...and in some way am grateful. Am grateful because everyday I learn more about human idiocy and human courage...
I've met some really vile people - a great majority, and I've met some good people - a minority.
You meet all sorts...literally...a microcosmic world made huge right before your very eyes...and I keep on learning...
Today I met a Vet, who said to me :
I could almost feel your anger. If I were from Iraq I would have rage. Have bits from Vietnam, was on wrong side. I'm anti-war, but it's because I was in Vietnam. I soon learned we are not the 'good guys'.I went to war to kill and win medals. Naive. But I met HER on my 1st day. The Girl I met on Christmas Day 1968. I felt God put HER there to show me what war really is...
then he added : Layla your country was always a great civilization...I'm ashamed of what my country is doing to it...
And this was my reply to him :
Thank you...I (oddly enough) always have a special thought for Vets...as paradoxical as it may sound...
I've met some really vile people - a great majority, and I've met some good people - a minority.
You meet all sorts...literally...a microcosmic world made huge right before your very eyes...and I keep on learning...
Today I met a Vet, who said to me :
I could almost feel your anger. If I were from Iraq I would have rage. Have bits from Vietnam, was on wrong side. I'm anti-war, but it's because I was in Vietnam. I soon learned we are not the 'good guys'.I went to war to kill and win medals. Naive. But I met HER on my 1st day. The Girl I met on Christmas Day 1968. I felt God put HER there to show me what war really is...
then he added : Layla your country was always a great civilization...I'm ashamed of what my country is doing to it...
And this was my reply to him :
Thank you...I (oddly enough) always have a special thought for Vets...as paradoxical as it may sound...
October 4, 2010
Iran and Its Shiite Militias - Again.
The nightmare is not ending...the nightmare will never end as long as the Iranian/American collaboration is not publicly acknowledged by the Arabs, the West and the International Community as a whole...and in particular the media, mainstream and alternative alike. We, Iraqis, have been saying it for years, since 2003...but no one listens to us...even Iraqi Shias are saying it - yet no one hears us...
The last in line, is yet another machination by that fascist State called Iran in Iraq's future.
Future: we have no bloody future...not when you are a under a dual American Iranian occupation, not to mention the tangible Israeli presence in so-called Kurdistan.
It's been over 7 months since the Iraqis dipped their fingers in that cursed purple ink, in so-called democratic elections, imposed by the Occupier- Democracy by Force, a travesty that has cost us thousands of dead, amputated, missing and exiled...an election process that was marred with blood and deaths...
What Freedom ? What bloody freedom ? There is no Freedom in Iraq. Where is the Freedom when the majority of Iraqis voted for a Secular List, headed by a Shia -Allawi, and 7 months later, the dictatorship of the sectarian fascist Shias is still strangling us. I said it before- Maliki and the Shiite parties all backed, funded, trained and armed to the teeth by Iran, WILL NOT LET GO.
And I have said it over a thousand times - my words falling on deaf and mute people - and I will repeat it once more tonight - ALL - ALL- ALL the leaders of the Shia parties have reached power thanks to the American occupation and ALL of them are ideologically and politically tied to IRAN and ALL of them spent their lives in Iran before landing in Iraq ---WITH/ON AMERICAN TANKS.
Hope you get it this time !
Maliki of the DAWA party will not let go of the central government. Neither any other Shiite party. Muqtada Al-Sadr, the idol of the lefties both Arab and Western, said in the past that he will never back Maliki (check my blog and the interview he gave to Al-Jazeera.) He also said that he has nothing to do with the "rogue" elements of his Jaysh Al-Mahdi (called Asaeb al Haq or League of the "Righteous" and headed by Khaz'ali, another thug in the long lists of thugs that are ruling this country). Of course it was and is all lies - the typical Taqqiya /Deception we are so used to by now.
Puppet Allawi in his desperate attempts was even willing to form a coalition with the rapist, driller, torturer, head of the ethnic cleansing and death squads - Muqtada Al-Sadr.
But even that did not work.
Allawi went to Syria and was basically informed by the Syrian government (that sly entity), that Iran and Syria back Maliki and that is one of the reasons for Syria's president current visit to Iran. Oddly enough, the Americans also back Maliki ---and of course Iran has accepted that Maliki stays in power but there are conditions --and these are the conditions :
The following information am about to give you is SURE and you will not read it in your press either.
Three days ago a secret meeting was held between the following :
a) Mohamed Jaafari, Head of the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards and
b)2 leaders (Makki and Daraji) of the Asaeb Al Haq - League of the Righteous - (LR is an Iraqi Shiite party, a branch of the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards in IRAQ) and
c) two Sadrists - aides of Muqtada Al-Sadr (Abdel Hadi and Al-Zirjawi) who are ALSO officially ranked as military men in IRAN's Revolutionary Guards and
d) an IRAQI representative of the DAWA party (Maliki's party) Abdel Halim Al-Zahri with the IRANIAN head of the Dawa Party in Tehran.
The meeting was held at the Iranian Revolutionary Guards HQ in Qum. During this meeting it was agreed that :
1- Sadr's party and League of the Righteous will join AGAIN and be responsible for Iraqi state security and intelligence apparatus.
2- in exchange the Sadrists will be nominating Nouri Al-Maliki for a second term, provided that he releases all Sadrists detainees as convened during a PREVIOUS MEETING in August 20101 where Ali Larajani - Iranian FM was present.
3- ministerial positions were also laid out for both Sadrists and League of the Righteous and one of them is the appointing of Mohamed Abdel Hamid (one of the military leaders of Jaysh Al-Mahdi as well as others) to important posts in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. These appointed men are also officially ranked as military men in the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards.
4 - also agreed that the League of the Righteous will appoint two of its own men for ministerial posts in the IRAQI Ministry of Defense and another for a post that is tied to Iraqi National Security and Intelligence.
5- the above groupings will be headed by Ahmed Chalabi unofficially but officially will be represented by a Shiite Kurd by the name of Arass Habib- who was also chosen by the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards. This Arass Habib will be in charge of the American and Arab Gulf Dossier.
Ahmad Chalabi played a pivotal role in organizing this meeting and ensuring that Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Iranians agree on all the proposed agenda. Furthermore, Chalabi was also involved in the previous meeting that took place in August 2010, where Ali Larijani was present as well as members of the Iranian and Iraqi Dawa parties, members of the Jaysh Al-Mahdi, members of the A.Hakeem party, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and members of the Iraqi Kurdish parties.
The results of this meeting were fruitful since Nouri Al-Malki has agreed to the following in exchange for a second term.
- He will release all the Sadrist prisoners (only the Sadrists not the thousands of others Iraqi Sunnis prisoners) but on condition that they leave the country for an appointed time only after which they can return to Iraq.
- That the appointments in the Ministries in particular the Ministry of Interior, and other bodies that are related to National Security and Intelligence matters be fair i.e be equally divided between the DAWA members and the Sadrists.
- Also in exchange for the appointments of 10 high ranked military leaders of the Jaysh Al-Mahdi in important sensitive posts in the future Iraqi government, Maliki has asked guarantees from Muqtada Al-Sadr that there will be no attempts of a military coup against his government in the future. (which presumes that the bulk of the Iraqi forces are also ex members of Jaysh Al-Mahdi)
- another condition imposed upon Maliki by the Iranians during the last Larijani meeting in August 2010 - is that his government agrees to pay regular salaries and benefits to the released Sadrists detainees and the Iranians assured Maliki that SYRIA is willing to host them until the new Iraqi government is fully formed.
I have taken the time to translate all that important information for you, do not treat it flippantly - because this is a serious matter, a serious and grave matter.
All the Iraqis I come across, and all the calls I get from Baghdad, they all tell me that they are preparing themselves for another sectarian round of ethnic cleansing by those Shiite parties. This at the moment has even become more important than getting electricity, water or an employment - not to mention news from our loved ones being tortured and rotting in the Shiite Iranian Jails of American Democracy.
The last in line, is yet another machination by that fascist State called Iran in Iraq's future.
Future: we have no bloody future...not when you are a under a dual American Iranian occupation, not to mention the tangible Israeli presence in so-called Kurdistan.
It's been over 7 months since the Iraqis dipped their fingers in that cursed purple ink, in so-called democratic elections, imposed by the Occupier- Democracy by Force, a travesty that has cost us thousands of dead, amputated, missing and exiled...an election process that was marred with blood and deaths...
What Freedom ? What bloody freedom ? There is no Freedom in Iraq. Where is the Freedom when the majority of Iraqis voted for a Secular List, headed by a Shia -Allawi, and 7 months later, the dictatorship of the sectarian fascist Shias is still strangling us. I said it before- Maliki and the Shiite parties all backed, funded, trained and armed to the teeth by Iran, WILL NOT LET GO.
And I have said it over a thousand times - my words falling on deaf and mute people - and I will repeat it once more tonight - ALL - ALL- ALL the leaders of the Shia parties have reached power thanks to the American occupation and ALL of them are ideologically and politically tied to IRAN and ALL of them spent their lives in Iran before landing in Iraq ---WITH/ON AMERICAN TANKS.
Hope you get it this time !
Maliki of the DAWA party will not let go of the central government. Neither any other Shiite party. Muqtada Al-Sadr, the idol of the lefties both Arab and Western, said in the past that he will never back Maliki (check my blog and the interview he gave to Al-Jazeera.) He also said that he has nothing to do with the "rogue" elements of his Jaysh Al-Mahdi (called Asaeb al Haq or League of the "Righteous" and headed by Khaz'ali, another thug in the long lists of thugs that are ruling this country). Of course it was and is all lies - the typical Taqqiya /Deception we are so used to by now.
Puppet Allawi in his desperate attempts was even willing to form a coalition with the rapist, driller, torturer, head of the ethnic cleansing and death squads - Muqtada Al-Sadr.
But even that did not work.
Allawi went to Syria and was basically informed by the Syrian government (that sly entity), that Iran and Syria back Maliki and that is one of the reasons for Syria's president current visit to Iran. Oddly enough, the Americans also back Maliki ---and of course Iran has accepted that Maliki stays in power but there are conditions --and these are the conditions :
The following information am about to give you is SURE and you will not read it in your press either.
Three days ago a secret meeting was held between the following :
a) Mohamed Jaafari, Head of the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards and
b)2 leaders (Makki and Daraji) of the Asaeb Al Haq - League of the Righteous - (LR is an Iraqi Shiite party, a branch of the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards in IRAQ) and
c) two Sadrists - aides of Muqtada Al-Sadr (Abdel Hadi and Al-Zirjawi) who are ALSO officially ranked as military men in IRAN's Revolutionary Guards and
d) an IRAQI representative of the DAWA party (Maliki's party) Abdel Halim Al-Zahri with the IRANIAN head of the Dawa Party in Tehran.
The meeting was held at the Iranian Revolutionary Guards HQ in Qum. During this meeting it was agreed that :
1- Sadr's party and League of the Righteous will join AGAIN and be responsible for Iraqi state security and intelligence apparatus.
2- in exchange the Sadrists will be nominating Nouri Al-Maliki for a second term, provided that he releases all Sadrists detainees as convened during a PREVIOUS MEETING in August 20101 where Ali Larajani - Iranian FM was present.
3- ministerial positions were also laid out for both Sadrists and League of the Righteous and one of them is the appointing of Mohamed Abdel Hamid (one of the military leaders of Jaysh Al-Mahdi as well as others) to important posts in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. These appointed men are also officially ranked as military men in the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards.
4 - also agreed that the League of the Righteous will appoint two of its own men for ministerial posts in the IRAQI Ministry of Defense and another for a post that is tied to Iraqi National Security and Intelligence.
5- the above groupings will be headed by Ahmed Chalabi unofficially but officially will be represented by a Shiite Kurd by the name of Arass Habib- who was also chosen by the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards. This Arass Habib will be in charge of the American and Arab Gulf Dossier.
Ahmad Chalabi played a pivotal role in organizing this meeting and ensuring that Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Iranians agree on all the proposed agenda. Furthermore, Chalabi was also involved in the previous meeting that took place in August 2010, where Ali Larijani was present as well as members of the Iranian and Iraqi Dawa parties, members of the Jaysh Al-Mahdi, members of the A.Hakeem party, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and members of the Iraqi Kurdish parties.
The results of this meeting were fruitful since Nouri Al-Malki has agreed to the following in exchange for a second term.
- He will release all the Sadrist prisoners (only the Sadrists not the thousands of others Iraqi Sunnis prisoners) but on condition that they leave the country for an appointed time only after which they can return to Iraq.
- That the appointments in the Ministries in particular the Ministry of Interior, and other bodies that are related to National Security and Intelligence matters be fair i.e be equally divided between the DAWA members and the Sadrists.
- Also in exchange for the appointments of 10 high ranked military leaders of the Jaysh Al-Mahdi in important sensitive posts in the future Iraqi government, Maliki has asked guarantees from Muqtada Al-Sadr that there will be no attempts of a military coup against his government in the future. (which presumes that the bulk of the Iraqi forces are also ex members of Jaysh Al-Mahdi)
- another condition imposed upon Maliki by the Iranians during the last Larijani meeting in August 2010 - is that his government agrees to pay regular salaries and benefits to the released Sadrists detainees and the Iranians assured Maliki that SYRIA is willing to host them until the new Iraqi government is fully formed.
I have taken the time to translate all that important information for you, do not treat it flippantly - because this is a serious matter, a serious and grave matter.
All the Iraqis I come across, and all the calls I get from Baghdad, they all tell me that they are preparing themselves for another sectarian round of ethnic cleansing by those Shiite parties. This at the moment has even become more important than getting electricity, water or an employment - not to mention news from our loved ones being tortured and rotting in the Shiite Iranian Jails of American Democracy.
October 1, 2010
Possessive ...
When it comes to Iraq...am like a Tigress -- exclusive, territorial, and very possessive. Call it nationalism, call it patriotism, call it chauvinism, call it whatever you like. I don't give a fuck how and what you call it.
Iraq runs in my blood, like oxygen --thicker than blood, and as yielding as water...you can't grab the thing... whatever you do...
Feels like a child fighting during a school recreational break --when other kids try to bully you and steal your candies -- I'd pull back, kick and fight back, till my last breath, shouting -- this is MINE, you can't take it.
I did not like being bullied as a child and today, I am ready to bite anyone's head off if he/she tries to bully me, in any way...
And it's exactly the same for Iraq.
Video : Bashar Al-Azzawi rendition of Nohee. Iraqi traditional song.
Iraq runs in my blood, like oxygen --thicker than blood, and as yielding as water...you can't grab the thing... whatever you do...
Feels like a child fighting during a school recreational break --when other kids try to bully you and steal your candies -- I'd pull back, kick and fight back, till my last breath, shouting -- this is MINE, you can't take it.
I did not like being bullied as a child and today, I am ready to bite anyone's head off if he/she tries to bully me, in any way...
And it's exactly the same for Iraq.
Video : Bashar Al-Azzawi rendition of Nohee. Iraqi traditional song.
A Necklace of Jasmin - A Necklace of Fingers
I remember when I was kid, one of my purest moments of joy was to pick Jasmin flowers, late in the evening, hoping to catch the fragrance and contain it, seal it in a box, for ever...I did all of that in secret, as my grandmother did not like anyone messing with her Jasmin tree.
I would hide a needle and some thread and after my "kill" - picking Jasmin flowers - I'd disappear in some dark corner and make a Jasmin necklace...
I felt slightly guilty doing that - killing the Jasmin flowers, and threading them into a necklace...but the fragrance..oh, the fragrance...
I just wanted to possess the fragrance... mummify it, embalm it, for ever...in my nostrils...
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Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs During his deployment to Kandahar...kept a water bottle with two wads of cloth wedged into it. Wrapped in the cloth were fingers that he chopped off two corpses...One of his fellow soldiers said Gibbs wanted enough for a necklace.
Even though the team didn’t mind documenting its kills — some kept photographs — the documents suggest that Gibbs took it much further, possessing a certain comfort with mutilation. Investigators found bone fragments in the water bottle where he kept his severed fingers, and he also kept teeth. Evidently, he thought little of removing parts of dead bodies: Gibbs told soldiers that it would be funny to include them in care packages, just to mess with people. He got away with that and more in Iraq, he told his friends, and the tattoos of skulls and pistols on his calf were testaments to the body count he racked up...
Video- Gotan Project. Tango 3.0. Peligro.
I would hide a needle and some thread and after my "kill" - picking Jasmin flowers - I'd disappear in some dark corner and make a Jasmin necklace...
I felt slightly guilty doing that - killing the Jasmin flowers, and threading them into a necklace...but the fragrance..oh, the fragrance...
I just wanted to possess the fragrance... mummify it, embalm it, for ever...in my nostrils...
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Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs During his deployment to Kandahar...kept a water bottle with two wads of cloth wedged into it. Wrapped in the cloth were fingers that he chopped off two corpses...One of his fellow soldiers said Gibbs wanted enough for a necklace.
Even though the team didn’t mind documenting its kills — some kept photographs — the documents suggest that Gibbs took it much further, possessing a certain comfort with mutilation. Investigators found bone fragments in the water bottle where he kept his severed fingers, and he also kept teeth. Evidently, he thought little of removing parts of dead bodies: Gibbs told soldiers that it would be funny to include them in care packages, just to mess with people. He got away with that and more in Iraq, he told his friends, and the tattoos of skulls and pistols on his calf were testaments to the body count he racked up...
Video- Gotan Project. Tango 3.0. Peligro.
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