Chaos and Instability: the Solution a Social System not Elections

 

 

It seems that the final chapter of terrorism in Iraq is actually the preface to terror. Everyday a large number of Iraqi men, women, and children die because of the present foreign Islamist terrorist factions in the country. Besides them, coalition forces are also being targeted by these terror organizations that had illegally entered Iraq. Despite, the instability in the country, we observe many religious or clerical leaders calling upon the United Nations and the free world to amend a decree or a law for withholding elections in such chaotic conditions. It is evidently impossible to hold liberal and democratic elections in such hostile circumstances. Moreover, in such circumstances elections must be the last objective in the agenda not the primary as announced by many clerical leaders. What Iraq and most importantly its citizens require in such antagonistic conditions is a social system or a social welfare. Many Iraqi citizens are living in terrible conditions, there are many children on the streets, and in many families the father, the primary revenue source is either disabled or dead. Hence, in these situations many religious institutions influence these people and the only jobs these religious institutions offer for these people is parading in the streets calling for elections and a fundamentalist government.

Furthermore, the above situations are clearly present in the social atmosphere of the Iraqi life. It seems that a fundamental solution to such actions is a social welfare. This system provides a source of revenue or an income to a family. This income includes an allowance for the children till the age of 18, for the single mothers or widows, and for the disabled and elderly. Therefore a family is capable of a assuring a secure life and future for each member in the household. Moreover, when each Iraqi family has a standardized income, they will be busy constructing their country instead of worrying about the demands of the clerical leaders. Hence, many of the observed actions about holding elections and the terror will eventually decrease and disappear.

Likewise, Egypt, an Arab country that holds democratic elections represents one of the poorest countries in the world, such that many of its citizens live in extreme poverty and democratic elections are held annually. Now, how can democratic elections help these citizens, if these elections only serve the social elite? Therefore, if there were a social system that provided a family with a standard income, we would not observe instability, extremism and chaos in this country. In connection to this observation, the elections declared by the clerical leaders of Iraq would only satisfy their personal gain and social class, because they certainly would not care about how the other 95% of Iraqi citizens are living, whether they are starving or dying. Thus, the only solution is an indiscriminate social system or a social welfare that provides each family and each individual with a standardized income. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zeinab Al-Rekabi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         The New Middle Eastern Project: A Challenge for Many

 

Throughout the last days many differential structural and functional adjustments or amendments occurred in the political and social domains of the Iraqi society. These changes suggest the potential determination that Iraq and its people are strongly willing to become part of the new Middle Eastern project that is based on justice, freedom, and peace.

However, there seems to be a lack of perceptual judgment, present in the mindset of some of the clerical leaders. Moreover, a new clerical decree has been insinuated by some clerics that stated that the present political positions granted for the Iraqi women, must be in the hands of scholarly and academic women. It seems that for the first time that we all agree with the clerics that education is highly important in constructing and governing a country, however, let us look over the past positions of the Iraqi women and how our male dominating patriarch cal society degraded and marginalized women in the political, social, economical, educational, and familial sphere.

Throughout Iraq’s brutal history, the Iraqi women suffered the greatest, under all the regimes that governed Iraq, especially during Saddam Hussein’s era. Many women were deprived of going to municipal colleges or schools in the rural and urban parts of the country, fearing from being raped or molested by Saddam’s atrocious wolves.

Furthermore, Iraq is mainly composed of Arab tribes or clans’ predominately in the south and some areas in the north of Iraq, whose roots go back to many authentic Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, and Nassiryia. In a tribe, power is passed down from father to son rarely would it include siblings; therefore we observe this hierarchical separation amongst our societies, which is in turn highly prevalent amongst the Arab leaders. In our present societies unlike many ancient Arab Bedouin tribes women possessed limited or absolutely no role in society. Moreover, this limitation transformed her into a fragile and domestic being, incapable of acknowledging her rights and her role in society.

The above description is common in our societies, especially the Iraqi society where the Iraqi women have suffered the greatest in all aspects. Many sociologists or psychologist would hypothesize that the solution to this deficiency lies in the reconstruction of society itself. This reconstruction involves the recreation of all the educational texts, the initiation of a social institution that protects and secures the rights of women, men, and children. Consequently, the latter can be achieved, once her political status has been raised to the equilibrium line, therefore the Iraqi women must occupy at least 40% in the political sphere, since the percentage of women exceeds that of men. This in turn will reduce famine, poverty, ignorance, fear, violence, and terrorism in Iraq and the region. All these positive aspects describes Iraq’s potential to enter into a new Middle East that can influence the neighboring regions to withhold a similar positive liberal and democratic ideology. 

Furthermore, the new Middle Eastern project suggests the termination of the hierarchical societies, such that the power will not be passed on from father to son or brother to brother as in the case of many Arab leaders, and also amongst some members of the interim Governing Council. Subsequently, many of the members are talking about the importance of democracy and elections; however, when it comes to giving up their positions they decline the principals of democracy and categorize it as a Western supremacy over the East  In a modern and sophisticated society the above is not present because open ballots or elections are held every electoral session. Secondly, the project includes giving rights to the minority and to the ethnic populations and granting them equal rights and opportunities in all fields. These positive objectives challenge the Arab leaders because they are certainly not willing to give their positions to a hard-working middle class citizens, and certainly they are not willing to grant rights and opportunities to other ethnic and minority groups, because these critical factors challenge their positions. For the above reasons, many Arabic countries stood against President Bush’s declaration of a new Middle Eastern project, because it certainly would confront their consciousness and positions.

In connection to all the above notions or ideas, the key to the success and sophistication of Iraq and its people lies in adhering to the principals of liberal democracy.       

 

 

Zeinab Al-Rekabi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               Terrorism: without boundaries

 

 

 

Historically and presently Saudi Arabia is the home to the irrational and radical salafi/wahabi doctrine that has targeted the Islamic religion. The ruling family alongside the Al-Sheikh (descendants of Abdul Wahab-founder of wahabism) family proliferated this radical and un-Islamic teaching throughout the Middle East, North Africa, East Asia, Europe and North America and financed many of the present terrorist and extremist organizations. Despite the conspiracy of attempting to spread and proliferate their infestation, this plot began to terrorize their own lands where many innocent men, women and children died under their false declarations. And now after this sedition, the ruling elite and the religious clerics are calling to obliterate the Al-Qaeda network present in the Kingdom. Yet they remain blindly submissive, dedicated and loyal to the aggressive and the iniquitous interpretations of salafism/wahabism; and in addition, they promote this false teaching around the globe.  

  

From September 11 to today, the world especially the Middle Eastern region has witnessed a series of terror episodes that only devastated and belated the development of its societies. Moreover, Iraq has been the focal battlefield and refuge for the various fundamentalist factions. Everyday a number of foreigners operating under the command of the multi national forces are abducted by the salafi/wahabi radical groups. These foreigners who came to construct the remnant viable infrastructures of Iraq and inculcate a democratic system in Iraq are beheaded and mutilated by these fanatical groups. While they are committing these sadistic actions they are calling upon the Iraqi people to defend the country from the imperialist forces. The absolute paradox that the Iraqi people are faced with, is how these fanatical groups are calling the Iraqi society to defend the country from the multi national forces that came to install justice, freedom and peace for the Iraqi population while these radical groups are massacring the Iraqi people everyday in large numbers through various means. The truth is, these radical organizations came along with their salafi/wahabi doctrine in order to establish a foundation in Falluja and parts of Baghdad; and these radical groups that illegally entered Iraq from the peripheries of the country are receiving momentous assistance and training from the alleged neighbors of Iraq. Therefore, their main objective is to terrorize the people consequently the Iraqi people would blindly comply with their authority and false declarations. 

 

Currently in Iraq terrorism is present in many formats and the most recent form has been the pro-Saddam demonstrations amongst the cities that benefited from Saddam’s tyrannical regime politically, economically and socially. In these cities were foreign salafi/wahabi terrorists from abroad are residing in, the citizens and its religious leaders had turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the mass graves of innocent Iraqi men, women and children along with the Kuwaiti brethrens. Instead of receiving apologies, support or explanations they commenced fabricating stories about the discovered genocide that they supported. In addition, the Arab world refuted the existence of the genocide present in Iraq; therefore we observe that these people are against the establishment of a new liberal and democratic Iraq because a liberal and democratic Iraq insinuates that the Arab leaders must liberate their citizens from tyranny and corruption and give up the red carpet. Therefore we sequentially observe and listen to their repudiation of the genocide in Iraq and to their support of the ‘Iraqi resistance’, which in realty is foreign salafi/wahabi terrorism, financed by Iraq’s supposed neighbors.

 

In Jordan, a coupon profiteer of Iraq’s oil during Saddam’s epoch is formulating a league of attorneys whom are requesting from the interim Iraqi government the absolute permission to enter Iraq in order to defend Saddam Hussein, an executioner and akin to Adolph Eichmann, a Nazi official. Hence, it is evidently important to unveil the destructive process the leagues of lawyers in Jordan are attempting to implement in Iraq by defending a sadistic monster. We all acknowledge that the prime activity of a lawyer is to defend the truth and prosecute the guilty. In the case of Saddam Hussein, an infinite list of evidences illustrates that this evil man is guilty of all the crimes he committed against Iraq, its people and neighbors. Every grain of sand and every molecule of water are verifications of Saddam’s guiltiness, therefore by defending Saddam Hussein this suggests that these league of lawyers are terrorists because they are defending and promoting the eruption of terror and tyranny in Iraq and the Middle Eastern region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zeinab Al-Rekabi

July 6, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        Civilization vs. Sadism 

 

 

The preceding months have been strenuous for the Iraqi nation; hundreds of innocent men, women and children have been cold bloodedly slaughtered according to the religious decrees of wahabist/salafist clerics. Moreover, the Council of Satan (Hiya’t Ulamah Al Shaiteen) in Iraq, which was established by radical insurgents and disingenuous ex-profiteers of the Ba’ath regime, has been solely responsible for the establishment of the horrendous slaughterhouse that was lately discovered by the Coalition forces in Falluja and Al-Latifia, where the former city represents the abode of terrorism, sedition and aggression.

 

To this moment, this satanic council has not denounced the beheadings against the innocent Iraqi citizens, the Iraqi police force and the foreign individuals that had come to Iraq in order to accumulate an adequate income for their families abroad. This council formulates irrational and sadistic religious decrees permitting the hypocrites and terrorists to exterminate innocent people, based on the justification that these latter innocent civilians are assisting the Coalition forces. It is important to unveil to the International community that this satanic council promotes terrorism and hatred in Iraq and it desires to establish an ignorant, archaic and despotic Iraq.

 

In connection to the latter observations, it is with absolute shame that France, a democratic and “civilized” nation that was once liberated by the United States from the shackles of Nazism and Fascism in 1948 is supporting terrorism. It is relatively ironic that France is urging the International community of the necessity of holding a conference, where the terrorists and human butchers are to discuss future matters of Iraq with human rights activists and democrats. Now any sane individual will find France ’s delegations quite whimsical and absolutely irrational. How can the latter establish an unequivocal discourse with the former?  Or is France against the war on terrorism and instead supports terrorism in Iraq and the Middle Eastern region? More or less, it seems as though France is disregarding the benedictions the United States had accomplished for the French people, where it liberated them from the fascist ideology, or must we remind France that it was the United States that tamed, educated and introduced liberalism and democracy to the French people.

 

Additionally, when the United States declared war against Saddam’s regime it was France that stood against the United States legitimate ruling. When the United States was deciding upon eliminating Iraq ’s debts it was France that was delaying the proposal. It seems as though France is standing against the United States legitimate decrees just to please the terrorists in Falluja and the Council of Satan, which is composed of ex-Ba’athist and butchers, because it seems as though there was a concealed mutual relationship between the Ba’athist or butchers and France.

 

In association to the above, many of Iraq ’s alleged neighbors have been promoting terrorism by various means. Moreover, the three most significant methods have been monetary support, religious and spiritual support, and finally support from the subjective or biased Arab press. Additionally, Iran, a Muslim neighbor is sending many terrorists through the borders including the objective of proliferating drugs and other narcotics in many of Iraq ’s cities, which will likely establish a health crisis in Iraq.

 

These countries aspire that Iraq and its people remain illiterate, ignorant and degraded; their desire is to witness us fleeing from land to land without identities, as gypsies roaming the lands in search for security. Yet these antagonists must comprehend and recognize that Iraq will return back to its original position in history, where its citizens, unlike their societies will be producers and not consumers. Iraq must be the focal position for liberal democracy, where all its citizens are educated and are un-reliant upon radical religious clerics whom only ceased the path of progression.

 

Consequently, it is necessary that the Iraqi people differentiate between their adversaries and sincere friends. Thus, the families that have sent their sons or/ daughters across the Atlantic sea in order to liberate a nation from despotism and replace it by democracy, education, equality and justice, represent our friends while those that have sent their sons or/ daughter to slaughter our men, women and children and establish a tyrannical sectarian system, represent our enemies. It is of great significance that the Iraqi people unite and cooperate together in establishing a liberal and democratic Iraq where justice, freedom and peace reign and where there is absolutely no place for terror and radical ideologies that harm a particular sect of the Iraqi nation. For this reason liberal democracy is the only alternative that can stand against and destroy the roots of terror and furthermore, it is a set of principles that can be accepted by all the sects of Iraq, whether, Arab, Kurd or Turkamon, Muslim, Christian, Mandeans, or Jew, and whether Sunni or Shiite, it is important to unveil to the International community that the future sophisticated Iraq is for all the Iraqi people and it is not or it will never be for a particular group as it was prevalent in the past history of this great nation..

 

 

By Zeinab Al-Rekabi

November 21, 2004