Jewish In Iraq -Today is Sabbath, Tomorrow is Sunday

Before 1948, the year at which the state of Israel was declared; Jewish used to live in Iraq, 1/3 the population of Baghdad were Jewish, most of them were rich and famous families, Iraq's first minister of finance Yehezkel Sasson was a Jew, many Iraqis regard him as the best finance Minister that have ever come to Iraq, but that didn't prevent the sectarian abuse and in many times physical violence against them. Until 1948, the government of Iraq and every Arabic country gave the Jewish a matter of weeks before leaving Iraq and Arabic Countries, but to where? That is their problem!

Fatwa"Islamic commands announced by a Muslim Religious leader" prohibited buying anything from any Jewish. More extreme Fatwa, gave Muslims permission to take over Jewish's houses and properties. As a result of these Fatwas, Many Jewish were forced to leave everything behind them, their houses, Jeweleries, Money, even their clothes, because nobody bought anything from the Jews -since it was prohibited by Fatwa- and they were not allowed to take anything with them.

A friend of My grandfather was a Jew, few days before leaving Iraq for good, he told my grandfather "Today is Sabbath -Saturday-, Tomorrow is Sunday"; neither my grandfather nor my father and my uncle whom were with my grandfather at that moment listening to the Jew's words, understood what did the Jew mean?. of course, at that time my father and Uncle were just little kids.

My Grandfather died and yet he didn't understand those words...it was till 2003, until my father did understand those words....Yes that is it, "Saturday or Sabbath" refers to the Jewish people in Iraq, "Sunday" refers to the Christians. "Today" refers to the present day at that time it was 1948, "Tomorrow" refers to the future. Christians are now facing the same situation the Jewish faced in 1948, Christians are being forced to leave their houses or convert to Islam, their Churches got burned and bombed.

Ironically, the "false" excuse for the expulsion of the Jewish from Iraq, was the declaration of Israel which was performed by jewish people; Nowadays, the excuse for the expulsion of Christians from Iraq, is the Anti-Terrorism War led by US which is according the Islamic scope a Christian Nation. The jewish paid severely for actions committed by Jewish-Israels, and Now Christians are paying for actions committed and still being committed by "US Christians" - according to Muslims

Religious Rape - No Comment

A MAN who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity has been jailed for at least five years by a Sydney court.

As Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced today, the Downing Centre District Court heard a harrowing statement from the victim, revealing that her shame and fear had been compounded by her cultural background.

The woman, who cannot be named, arrived in Australia as a refugee from Iraq.

But she said that even when she was jailed by dictator Saddam Hussein, she never feared for her life the way she did after the rape.

"It is better if I'm dead," she told the court.

Al-Shawany's trial was told that he visited the woman, an acquaintance, at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre with another man.

The woman had been reading the Bible and Al-Shawany noted her contact with Christians.

The men told her they were "infidel people" and if she went with them, her killing "would be halal" - meaning her killer would go to heaven.

In September 2002, Al-Shawany lured the woman to a unit at Warwick Farm, claiming to have news about her family in Iraq.

She was hit on the head and had her hijab tied around her face before Al-Shawany raped her twice in what Judge Brian Knox described as a degrading, humiliating and brutal attack.

Afterwards Al-Shawany told her: "Let your Christ benefit you now".

It took the jury less than half an hour to convict him of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

His victim - who has since converted to Christianity - wept at the back of the court as a friend read out her victim impact statement.

She said she was afraid she would be killed, either in retribution by Al-Shawany's family or in an "honour killing".

"In Iraq, if some woman has got a problem like this, her husband can kill her, or her brother or her uncle can kill her, without question," the victim wrote.

"They can kill me here too in Australia. Before I'm not afraid of anyone. Even when Saddam Hussein put me in jail, I was still strong.

"Now I'm afraid all the time."

She said her husband had refused to speak to her for months because of the shame she brought on the family.

She had grown isolated within the Iraqi community and feared people "will say I'm a bad woman".

"I feel like a piece of dirt," she wrote. "I came to Australia for freedom and Abdul Reda took my freedom away."

Al-Shawany, a father of four, maintains his innocence.

Judge Knox found the offender believed the sexual assault was justified because the woman was considered an "infidel" for reading the Bible and associating with Christians.

"What he did was an attempt to enforce his religious or cultural views on his former countrywoman," Judge Knox said.

"Such behaviour is completely intolerable and totally unacceptable in this community."

He sentenced Al-Shawany to a maximum seven-and-a-half years in jail.

The 52-year-old must serve at least five years, making him eligible for parole in 2012.

Reference: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,21911535-29277,00.html

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Though I want to say many things but I'll say nothing...........except that I really feel sad for that woman......really sad.

Google.Iraq "Iraq Under Bremer"

After the 9^th of April, 2003, every Iraqi –including me- imagined himself as to be reborn and the doors of heaven and "democracy" are now widely opened for him, but the reality was everything except that.

The first US mistake in Iraq was that when Paul Bremer "US administrator" tried to swim against the Natural Iraqi stream; he tried to convert a -Muslim Majority country, a country addicts to dictatorship for 35-years under Saddam- into a super model of democracy. What he did was like taking out all kinds of drugs from an addicted patient without any kind of rehab. The result of course, was a disaster that I and all Iraqis are still living it till now.

Let me tell you what the Iraqis think about democracy. Few days before the first Iraqi-election, that the Sunni-Muslims boycott it; I was talking with a friend of mine about the election, he was Sunni too. You know what did he say to me? Guess. He said that, "there is not something like elections in the Islamic Constitution, prophet Mohammed and the Khalifa (Islamic Leader) didn't came by elections, but they came by direct appointment; elections and democracy are non-Islamic regimes and because they are not Islamic then they are certainly corrupted; Christian & Jewish Americans brought that to Iraq in order to corrupt the Islamic identity of Iraq. And that is why I will not vote"!

Now, let me tell you 2 stories about Bremer and his attempts to build a new Iraq. The first one is about (Al - Iraqia TV channel) which got broadcasted after the end of the War and was supported and supervised directly by the Americans. At the beginning, Al-Iraqia, didn't show any kind of religious programs or Islamic prayers; (of course that was the first step to build a country separates between religion and the state, just like USA); but Paul apparently forgot that this is Iraq not US. The Iraqi got very angry and went on demonstrations calling Bremer an Atheist (Kafir)…. At the end Bremer was forced to give up, in order to calm the people.

The second one is, Bremer ordered the Ministry of Education to change some subject in the (Islamic-education and history books), he ordered to remove some chapters from the history book that condemned Jewish and was clearly anti-Semitism; from the Islamic-education book, he ordered to omit verses from Quaran that encourage "Jihad" and fighting against Atheist in the name of God (Atheist here, has multiple meanings, sometimes it refers to non Muslims).

Bremer succeeded in that, but his success was temporary. In 2006, the Ministry of Education imported what they called it "new prints of history and Islamic education books" guess from where??? From Iran!!!!

Let's Go Out!

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6653189.stm

US says troops held by 'al-Qaeda'

US troops are operating in some of their most dangerous areas

The US military in Iraq says it believes three of its soldiers missing after an ambush have been abducted by militants from, or linked to, al-Qaeda.

Some 4,000 US soldiers are searching for the three men, who disappeared on Saturday after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of militants led by al-Qaeda, says it is holding the soldiers.

It told the US to stop searching for them if it wanted their safety.

"Your soldiers are in our hands," the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website. "If you want them safe, do not search for them."

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I won't comment much on the article above, Though, I am against War in general, but I am also against fleeing from the battle field once we decided to fight. Fleeing and turn our back to the enemy is the most common mistake in battle fields.

I believe that US-Army should retreat from Iraq & Afganistan ASAP, but retreat with a plan, and the most important thing is that:
The West in general should reconsider his relations with Muslims, since the war on Al-Qaeda is now considered by many Muslims to be a War on Islam, I believe that the barrier between Al-Qaeda and the Muslim is falling down -read the highlighted text mentioned in the BBC article above- and within few years all Muslim(Sunni) will be Al-Qaeda members and all Muslims(Shiate) will be Jaysh Al-Mahdi or Hisb Allah members; if the situations in Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, Pakistan...ect. continue to proceed in the its current way.

King Vs Malcom

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
King, Martin Luther. August 28, 1963. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Though I am not American neither a black, but that quota was very inspired from me that is why I chose to start my post with, it was like the key for my whole interpretation of the human culture and the currently World-Wide events, like war on Iraq.......

King & Malcom, both of them were black, both are considered as a civil rights movement leaders; however there was a hug difference between these two men.

As I told you I am not an American, so I really know nothing about them, so I decided to do a simple search on them using the internet. I went ot Wikipedia.org and typed "Martin King", then I opened a new tab and went to Wiki again and typed Malcom X.
Without reading a single word of the long long Wiki articles, just from observing the pictures, I knew the crucial difference between Martin & Malcom.

At Martin's Wiki article I found pictures for him making speeches, but in Malcom's article, I found a very astonishing picture of Malcom X standing at the window with M1 Carbine in his hand!!!!!


That picture was enough for me to understand the difference between these two and I believe you, too, understood what do I mean.
But, what was the reason that makes Malcom to choose the M1 way and not to follow King's steps on the way of pacifism?
Was it the color of their skin? No, because both of them were black; Was it their nationality? No, because both of them were Americans. Was it their spiritual content? that might be the correct answer. Yes, Martin's spirit was Christian, but Malcom's spirit was far away from Christianity, It was the spirit of Islam.

if you have any suspicions about the Picture above check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_X

King was right, People should be judged by the "Content of their Character", not by anything else. Now the Question arises: What do we mean by Character's content?

Human Character is shaped by two main factors: [Spirit & Mind], Man is the result of interactions between his brain&heart, between his thoughts and emotions, between his Spirit and Mind.
Every single action we do is a result of Mind-Spirit interaction.

King adopted the spirit of Christainity that is why he was a Pacifism; But Malcom adopted the spirit of Islam that is why he did grabed the M1.