Posted on 01/02/2008 2:38:29 PM PST by america4vr
The independent Kitabat newspaper said in an editorial Wednesday that the "liberation" of Iraq uncovered the reality of Shiite and Sunni Islamic parties and revealed the true nature of religious figures.
The editorial, titled "U.S. success in saving Iraq from the evil of Islamic parties," said that for the first time in the history of Iraq, religious figures and political Islam had been discarded.
"Today, the average Iraqi considers Islamic activists and religious figures as thugs and hijackers," the paper said. It said the transformation of public opinion in Iraq was a "clever" move by the United States.
"The U.S. plan relied on the concept of letting Islamic parties and religious men to rule, thereby revealing to the public" their motives, the paper said.
It said the immense social and political transformations that have taken place in Iraqi society, along with the banishment of the power of Islamic and religious powers, have become popular among Iraqis.
"As a result, a secular government has become a reality, a nature that dominated the political history of Iraq," it said.
Kitabat said the "sons of Iraq" recorded the greatest and brightest secular revolution when they fought al-Qaida.
"Fighting the Islamic powers is the first of its kind battle in Iraq's modern history," the paper said.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
I don't know how widespread this Kitabat newspaper is within Iraq but appearing at the UPI site as part of a daily news round up validates its position as some sort of authority, I might say, and it says so with unprecedented frankness as to the true source for the warfare consuming Iraq.
Here’s the actual Kitabat article. It’s a Google translation so it’s kind of difficult to understand but it’s close enough for an interesting read.
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The success of the American project to save Iraq from the evil of Islamic parties
Writings - Khudayr Taher
Resulted in the liberation of Iraq on the most important political performed - civilization is the fact revealed erosion of Islamic parties Sunni and Shiite, as well as detect clerics. For the first time in the history of Iraq was on the halo of sainthood for clergy and political Islam organizations, and the Iraqi citizens to consider cleric and Islamic activist that a thief thief and customer criminal murderer.
How did this major shift in Iraqi public opinion?
What happened from the ideological and political transformations and change people’s view of the cleric and Islamic parties. Thanks to a brilliant plan followed the United States of America. Plan adopted at the tactic (burning exorbitant experience) has been allowed for clergy and Islamic parties are free to work and the receipt of power. The participant before leaving the people and Itaron away from the idealistic slogans, which were buzzing fly.
For the first time in the history of Iraq clashes with citizen awareness truth time and the fact smith parties and the clergy and get acquainted, and they turned them power, Wilms Iraqi citizen and the viciousness of darkness and degradation of the political Islam and religious leaders, dispelled that picture of counterfeit people were on hold clergyman, and we are hearing and seeing explicit cash institutions and religious references and Islamic parties.
There have been shifts enormous socio-political intellectual in Iraqi society. The striking power of a cleric and the expulsion of Islamic parties from power pressing popular demand, the Iraqi reality is ready to return to the secular system, which prevailed in the political history, and involved quite a page of Islamic parties and the authority of clerics from the minds of the majority of the Iraqi people.
The record date of the greatest sons of Iraq’s secular revolution informed when the sons and Diyala cities of Ramadi and Tikrit and Baghdad and elsewhere, to strike Al-Qaeda and Islamic forces tail of Darkness, which was the first battle by the people of Iraq against the dark forces of Islamic history, which were not merely awakening, but the expression for a radical shift significantly towards rationality and secularism.
T. witnessed growing Shiite movement cash general, and perhaps the most prominent features is crystallized national consciousness cash to ordinary people who were employed by reference to the Shiite parties laughed them and achieve their underdeveloped Iranian sectarianism, which no longer fool the Shiite simple methods of deception and deceit which exercised together with members of Shiite parties The Iranian reference, and for those who know the nature of the Shiite community, the citizen criticism of the Iraqi Shiite simple checklist and Islamic parties is indeed a miracle and civilized super qualitative shift in the Iranian community tried to lobby Ttaghilh and conceals consciousness and use Kadat to achieve sectarian interests of Iran and plundering the wealth of Iraq.
It is seen as the future of Iraq from a national perspective rational Sharif away from the contaminated ideological slogans hostile. Will find that the strategic relationship with the United States of America is the only way to save Iraq and constructive Tknlogia scientifically and economically, and we must all remember that we have failed Iraqi people and politicians all parties in the leadership of ourselves and our nation since the founding of modern Iraq in 1921 until now, why the Anaterv failures, and we are asked to help America Lisha to derive practical civilization and progress on Iraq?
Very interesting read. Thanks for your efforts!
Here is where I’m in dilemma. I don’t want secularism happen in the US or in the West, but I cheer up when some secularists want Iraq to be a secular country. Somehow, I doubt that this particular media is well read in Iraq.
And any chance of this appearing on the MSM/Liberal media?
As a result, a secular government has become a reality, a nature that dominated the political history of Iraq,” it said
You're welcome! If what is written in that article becomes the prevailing truth of Iraq and the Middle East -- and I believe it will -- then President George W. Bush will have accomplished the greatest doctrine in Middle East history in over 1000s of years. And that makes GWB one of the greatest US Presidents ever!
God Bless the US Armed Forces and the Coalition!
That doesn't make them an Islamic theocracy. That is simply 1 of 3 gatekeepers. You left out the other 2 gatekeepers.
1) No law shall violate Islam
2) No law shall violate democratic principals
3) No law shall violate human rights
Their form of government is definied as follows:
Article (1): The Republic of Iraq is an independent, sovereign nation, and the system of rule in it is a democratic, federal, representative (parliamentary) republic.
By comparison go read the Iran Constitution -- that's a defined Islamic theocracy.
1) No law shall violate Islam
2) No law shall violate democratic principals
3) No law shall violate human rights
Democratic principals and human rights are nullified by Islam.
All 3 have equal weight and each one nullifies the other 2. It’s basic boolean math.
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