READER COMMENTS

Stability of Iraq in recent times, despite frequent terrorist operations, is attributed to the faithful patriots of the Islamic religious scholars in Iraq. They stood as one to confront terrorism and its dirty terrorist acts against the Iraqi people. Most of the operations that the religious scholars waged against Al Qaeda in Iraq would be considered honorable acts. I hail them for these courageous situations. We pray God to have Mercy on all those religious scholars who fell dead. History will remember religious scholars who promised God, as well as Iraqi people to face any oppressors. The terrorist Al Qaeda organization oppressed many innocent citizens.

Terrorism and its supporters in the media, as well as all the agendas behind it, have caused a lot of harm. When it was active, the terrorist thinking was able to disturb the psychological conditions in the Iraqi streets. The Al-Qaeda individuals attacked Shiite clerics and then attacked Sunni clerics. They tried to make people believe that those who attacked the Sunni clerics were Shiites. They used expressions to give that impression. This was the dirty way the terrorists used to ignite sectarian war in Iraq. However, the Iraqis could quickly understand the reality and knew who the beneficiary of these criminal acts was. They managed to understand the aims of terrorism and the reasons why terrorists want Iraqis to fight against each other on sectarian basis. The Iraqis understood that they wanted to weaken Iraq, so they could exist in it, in order to commit their criminal acts and ignite sectarian war. In addition, Sunni and Shiite clergymen played a significant role in clarifying such crimes. They stated that they did not condone such things, and that they understood they had only one enemy who was trying to ignite sectarianism. They directed the Iraqi people to be warned against the seriousness of such things and instructed them not to accuse the Arab Shiites of attacking the Sunni clerics. Iraqis belonging to different religions have lived in peace with each other, none of them has attacked the other throughout history. So, it is clear that there is only one enemy who perpetrates such dirty actions, in order to implement its own agenda on the land of Iraq. All fingers of accusation should point to that enemy. All efforts should be united in order to combat this dangerous enemy that is trying to ignite sectarianism in Iraq by targeting clergymen.

The arrest of the so-called “Wali of Baghdad” and his confessions were broadcast on TV screens. He assumed responsibility for his crimes and the crimes of his followers and explained how many violent killers and destroyers had joined this organization. The “Wali of Baghdad” had a significant impact on the Baghdad branch, which is among the most active branches of Al-Qaeda. It conducted many operations in public areas using booby-trapped cars, explosive belts, improvised explosive devices, murder or assassination and despite all of that, police forces succeeded in arresting the mastermind behind the recent operations, including “Bloody Wednesday” and “Bloody Sunday.” He planned these barbaric attacks which targeted and claimed the lives of many innocents. Along with his followers, he was responsible for their death.

The religious clerics’ and scholars’ stance denouncing terrorism and not supporting its ideology and leadership was heroic and honorable. They condemn any assistance and support provided to any member of a terrorist organization. All this was carried out through religious “Fatwas,” which have frightened terrorists, because religious scholars are highly regarded in Iraq by all the Iraqi people. In the same way that terrorists have used fake religious scholars to persuade young people to join their terrorist organization, today true and faithful religious scholars have stood up firmly with their people, their homeland and their religion, in order to reveal the reality of terrorism and its fake Sheikhs. We can say that the terrorists’ scheme has backfired on them.

Let's have a look at the acts of al Qaeda in Iraq since 2003. The terrorists in Iraq committed the most horrendous crimes of genocide, where they targeted all the crowded places of innocent people, such as universities, markets, public places and workplaces, as well as mosques and the governmental departments. According to the statistics provided by the United Nations, Iraq has lost a lot of people. These bombings and this genocide caused the death and the disability of many people; the number of disabled people in Iraq has significantly increased, and Iraq has become one of the countries that have a high number of disabled people who have lost their future because of the terrorists and their explosions. So, where is the Jihad, O supporters of this inhuman organization?!!!!

Terrorism is the most dangerous thing that exists. This is so because this organization consists of criminal elements of the highest order, and they are trained to kill, assassinate and kidnap. Also, all the members of Al-Qaeda always turn out to be outlaws, highway robbers and depraved individuals who have grown up in disreputable families. All the members of the terrorist organization called Al-Qaeda are morally depraved and uneducated people, and the only place that is suited for them is this organization, so that they can attack innocent people, and reflect the true image of their dark past and their lowly upbringing. The crimes that they commit cannot be committed by honorable and respected people who know what it means to cause the death of innocent people and target peaceful individuals every day of every year, following Iraq’s war of liberation from the previous regime. We used to see innocent people dying as martyrs at the hands of these uneducated and filthy terrorists. Iraq has lost many of its sons and daughters because of these despicable criminals, and many children have been orphaned and many women widowed. They do not know why they do these filthy acts, except for the fact that they do not want anything good or any progress and advancement for Iraq. Instead, they want it to return to the era of backwardness and not catch up with progress in the right direction; they want to disrupt the ongoing political process in Iraq, which is not compatible with the objectives of terrorism and its criminal organizations, and they want to get back to the era of dictatorial rule and oppression of the people, because the democratic process does not realize these objectives for them, since it believes in the peaceful rotation of power, and working toward the advancement of the country, and preserving the interests of its sons and helping reach the safety and prosperity shore. This angers terrorists who go out of their way in their coward attacks against innocent Iraqis.

Iraqis have been aware of the danger of the situation. They have understood that terrorism aims at toppling the country. Were it not for the Allied Forces, the government, the people’s consciousness, the awareness of the “sheikhs” of the importance of sensitizing the people, the terrorists would have reached their goal, which is the establishment of an Islamic country based on terrorist ideology in Iraq. However, they still have other plans. The Allied Forces should remain aware and always ready to intervene. Iraqis have fought terrorism and have killed terrorist leaders. Although there is no place for Al-Qaeda or for any other terrorist organization in Iraq, we cannot declare that Iraq is free of terrorism, especially since there are terrorist sleeper cells, waiting for orders from their new leadership to act. Thus, the Allied Forces must continue to track down terrorists and capture them to reveal their accomplices. In addition, the intelligence services must be supported, given their important role, especially when we are dealing with an unknown terrorist member inside the country.

Today, terrorism is tearing up Iraqis everywhere, anytime, and every day with no tough security supervision or intervention, and with no care by the officials, as if the Iraqis have become experimental animals for the teachings on killing and causing of the largest possible numbers of deaths. Terrorists have shown their presence in all the gatherings, including funerals; and there are many prayers that take place in mosques and residential areas. When someone dies or gets killed, his family sets up a funeral tent in front of their home or nearby to receive those visitors, relatives and friends who all come from distant areas and different provinces to give their condolences to the victim’s family, not knowing that they’ll become the next victim. Terrorists have targeted many funerals of the killed, targeting large gatherings of people, in order to cause great human losses, and thus, instead of one funeral, it becomes many funerals and hundreds of families and dozens of people.

Allah does not change people’s conditions, unless they change their behavior.

Our hearts are with you, our brothers in Iraq. By God, the heart bleeds for you. May God have mercy on our dead, and may He deliver and avenge us on such oppressors and murderers. These detonations claim the lives of Iraqi innocents, serving dirty political goals to create chaos in the relative stability that Iraqis have. All that makes the ruling parties lose elections.