Saddam Hussein has distributed $260,000 to 26 families of Palestinians killed in 29 months of fighting with Israel, including a $10,000 check to the family of a Hamas suicide bomber. …The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: WSJ 2011
With Islamists thus amply represented in parliament, domestic considerations hampered the king’s (Hussein of Jordan) foreign-policy decision making. During the 1991 Gulf War, the king declared neutrality, while the Brotherhood backed Saddam Hussein. …
LMAO. Iraq under its ruling Ba'athist government was one of the few places in the Middle East where Christians weren't regularly persecuted.
Heck -- Saddam Hussein even had non-Muslims in the highest reaches of his government. I believe the former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz was a Maronite or Chaldean Christian.