On Al-Arabiya, the news bulletin came out at 10 p.m. while I was having dinner last night. “High tension has marked the first day of a meeting of Iraq's political and religious leaders to discuss plans for a future reconciliation conference,” the anchor said. In a speech at the conference, Hareth Aldhari, head of the Muslim Scholars Association showed up and said, "Armed resistance arose as a reaction to occupation. It is legitimate and is not an innovation.”
I chocked. Drinking water, I said to myself what the hell he is talking about? Which resistance is he mentioning, the one that collapsed an apartment building over its residents few days ago? The one he did not even feel sad or condemn. Oh! Of course not, he considers it resistance, I forgot.
Hundreds are being killed in one day and he calls this “resistance”. I just want to meet him and tell him, “SHAME ON YOU”. This man doesn’t deserve to be Iraqi or even a Muslim. I am fed up with these people. When will they wake up to make this country safe and stable? They are disgrace and in the history of this wounded nation.
One day I was at his headquarters to interview one of their spokesman. I was waiting in his secretary’s office because the spokesman was having a TV interview. When I was waiting, a Jordanian man entered the room shaking and begging. “My brother, my brother is kidnapped by the Mujahideen [holy warriors].” I was concentrating to see what would happen. Then the secretary asked him about the name of his brother and when he was kidnapped. “He is a truck driver and was kidnapped in Ramadi few days ago.” I was shocked when I saw this secretary opening a notebook full of names and including the name of the Jordanian in it. “Don’t worry. He would be released within one day.”
Oh my God! What does this mean? They know everyone was kidnapped by the so-called Mujahideen in the last year when these started a scary campaign against westerners by kidnapping and beheading them afterwards. When this campaign started and the Muslim Scholars Association was seen contacting the “Mujahideen” to free them, people started calling this association as “Association of Kidnapping Scholars” and some called them as “Association of Criminal Scholars”. I think this is the very first time an Iraqi blogger says that. I felt I have to say it because I am fed up. I can’t see these people supporting the criminals under the name of resistance and keep shutting my mouth. This is a crime; it’s not less than what the Shiite Badr Brigade is doing. Both of them are working secretly and the victims are the innocent Iraqi people who fell powerless in their hands.
All today’s newspapers mentioned the disagreement between Aldhari and Jafari that was revealed in their speeches in the Cairo conference. However, they claimed that the participants said they would return “hand in hand”, a mark of agreement. I don’t believe that. These people won’t agree. They agreed not to agree as we say in Arabic.
The papers also quoted Jafari saying "We have set a red line; there is no room for Baathists in Iraq.” Come on Dr. Jafari. Let’s not deceive ourselves. There are many Baathists in the government institutions. The disaster is the criminal Baathists are back and those minor Baathists who were forced to join the party are not allowed to return to their jobs.
I don’t know why these people are trying to cover their failure by saying these things. In my own prospective, not all the Baathists were criminals, some of them were forced to join this party to live and have jobs. I know newly graduate students who were forced to join the Baath because they wanted to have the M.A. degree. One of the conditions to be an M.A. scholar was you should be a member of this damned party. So are those not allowed to cross the “red line”? oh no, of course, not. I forgot they are Baathists. SHAME ON YOU too, Jafari.
I chocked. Drinking water, I said to myself what the hell he is talking about? Which resistance is he mentioning, the one that collapsed an apartment building over its residents few days ago? The one he did not even feel sad or condemn. Oh! Of course not, he considers it resistance, I forgot.
Hundreds are being killed in one day and he calls this “resistance”. I just want to meet him and tell him, “SHAME ON YOU”. This man doesn’t deserve to be Iraqi or even a Muslim. I am fed up with these people. When will they wake up to make this country safe and stable? They are disgrace and in the history of this wounded nation.
One day I was at his headquarters to interview one of their spokesman. I was waiting in his secretary’s office because the spokesman was having a TV interview. When I was waiting, a Jordanian man entered the room shaking and begging. “My brother, my brother is kidnapped by the Mujahideen [holy warriors].” I was concentrating to see what would happen. Then the secretary asked him about the name of his brother and when he was kidnapped. “He is a truck driver and was kidnapped in Ramadi few days ago.” I was shocked when I saw this secretary opening a notebook full of names and including the name of the Jordanian in it. “Don’t worry. He would be released within one day.”
Oh my God! What does this mean? They know everyone was kidnapped by the so-called Mujahideen in the last year when these started a scary campaign against westerners by kidnapping and beheading them afterwards. When this campaign started and the Muslim Scholars Association was seen contacting the “Mujahideen” to free them, people started calling this association as “Association of Kidnapping Scholars” and some called them as “Association of Criminal Scholars”. I think this is the very first time an Iraqi blogger says that. I felt I have to say it because I am fed up. I can’t see these people supporting the criminals under the name of resistance and keep shutting my mouth. This is a crime; it’s not less than what the Shiite Badr Brigade is doing. Both of them are working secretly and the victims are the innocent Iraqi people who fell powerless in their hands.
All today’s newspapers mentioned the disagreement between Aldhari and Jafari that was revealed in their speeches in the Cairo conference. However, they claimed that the participants said they would return “hand in hand”, a mark of agreement. I don’t believe that. These people won’t agree. They agreed not to agree as we say in Arabic.
The papers also quoted Jafari saying "We have set a red line; there is no room for Baathists in Iraq.” Come on Dr. Jafari. Let’s not deceive ourselves. There are many Baathists in the government institutions. The disaster is the criminal Baathists are back and those minor Baathists who were forced to join the party are not allowed to return to their jobs.
I don’t know why these people are trying to cover their failure by saying these things. In my own prospective, not all the Baathists were criminals, some of them were forced to join this party to live and have jobs. I know newly graduate students who were forced to join the Baath because they wanted to have the M.A. degree. One of the conditions to be an M.A. scholar was you should be a member of this damned party. So are those not allowed to cross the “red line”? oh no, of course, not. I forgot they are Baathists. SHAME ON YOU too, Jafari.
