On Islam and Iraq
by Husayn Al-Kurdi
In the late 1940s, there was a cave at Samara. When my father visited it, they
had a horse waiting to take the Hidden Imam out! I may even have a picture of
this somewhere in the family archives, and will try to locate it when I go to
where they are in December.
Different versions of Islam have to co-exist, and often have for long periods.
Maraboutism, Wahhabi'ism, Sufi schools, the Major Schools of Jurisprudence (Usul
al-Fiqh) and a wide variety of other doctrines have proliferated within (and
some out of) Islam. This is only to be expected from the religion which
prioritizes learning, respects science and is an avid seeker of knowledge from
all sources.
The ancestors of Shi'i and Sunni (the latter in a more figurative sense) started
out as the closest of fighting comrades in Muhammad's original army. The Prophet
always enjoined Unity as a divine principle and a moral imperative. That is the
mandate which Muslims have inherited, the imperative which re-appears today in
Iraq.
The problem is essentially politico-religious and not a matter of religious
doctrine or a subject for sectarian wrangling. The Iraqi Resistance and the
Ba'ath Party have both condemned the bombings of the Samara mosque and other
Shi'ite places of worship. It is most assuredly the Occupation Forces and
elements working in collaboration with them who are behind those atrocities.
The Resistance, the Ba'ath Party and Al-Shaheed Mujahid President Saddam Hussein
have all denounced the sectarian violence, urged national unity and a
concentration of effort on the essence of Jihad in Iraq, which consists of the
removal of the Occupation and its collaborators and those who have participated
in the destruction and spoliation of that land, sacred to Islam and the Arab
Nation alike.
The Resistance itself consists of scores of groups and parties of a wide variety
of ideological inclinations and political backgrounds. It includes Shiites,
Sunnis, Sufis, Kurds, Christians and non-believers, all of whose rights and
contributions to the cause are respected and noted.
Shi'ites, along with Sunnis, Christians and all others in Iraq have a choice to
make: betray Iraq to its historical enemies the Jews/Bankers and the USA/UK
Crusader Imperialists who wish it nothing but harm OR participate in the
definitive defeat of the Occupation forces and restore Iraq to the dignity and
prosperity it was on the path to enjoying before they launched four wars of
aggression whose strategic aim, proclaimed repeatedly by Jewish pundits and
their American imitators, is the reduction and desolation and division of that
ancient land.
I count the four wars as follows:Iran-Iraq 1980-1988 with some million or so killed; 1991 Desert Storm which directly massacred tens of thousands and broke most of the phony Geneva Convention rules of warfare, including the release of massive amounts of deadly depleted uranium which will be killing people and producing dead and deformed babies for centuries to come; The Sanctions regime of 1991-2003, accompanied by a variety of military assaults, subversions, crop destruction and livestock poisonings, whose direct results were at least a million Iraqi dead between 1991 and 2003; and the 2003 Invasion and subsequent Occupation.
The problem with the Persians is not Shi'ism as such: it is
the ancient treachery of the Persians towards the Arabs, re-ignited by a corrupt
and reactionary sectarian clergy seeking to impose itself in an unseemly manner
on the congregation of believers in the Iranian mosques. Persian imperialism is
still alive, including the idea that they have some right to rule Iraq!
They have repeatedly jumped into the Devil's Bed: the War
against Iraq which Khomeini fanatically pursued; the Iran-Contra affair in the
1980s during which the Jewish state acted as a broker to keep that war going;
and the present role of fomenting sectarian violence in Iraq in hopes of
realizing its hegemonic ambition. The backdoor cooperation between Iran and the
Jewish Entity is a longstanding and ancient one.
We all await the imminent publication and release of Jeff Archer's one-of-a-kind
(i.e. TRUTHFUL) book which will cover Iraq's recent history as no other single
source possibly could!
Sincerely,
Yours for the liberation of the oppressed,
Husayn Faraj Allah Al-Kurdi
July 6, 2007