As an Iraqi myself I was horrified and deeply saddened by the continued movement towards radical Islam, ushered in by the large Shia control and influence, courtesy of Iran in Iraq. This was not how my family grew up and the values of our homeland. The women in my family were educated, dressed how they wanted, worked in every sector. Als…
As an Iraqi myself I was horrified and deeply saddened by the continued movement towards radical Islam, ushered in by the large Shia control and influence, courtesy of Iran in Iraq. This was not how my family grew up and the values of our homeland. The women in my family were educated, dressed how they wanted, worked in every sector. Also, Saddam was secular and one of his main goals when he came to power was the push for literacy and education for women. This is all a result of the devastating and unjust invasion and occupation by the US. The entire region has been destabilized and people’s lives have been destroyed and it’s all due to the failed foreign policies of the West. Countries like Iraq and Syria kept Iran in check, they were actual stabilizers of the region. Now look at Iraq, crumbling infrastructure, contaminated soil and water from the depleted uranium used in the weapons, women and girls have no rights and are invincible in public sphere, discrimination and violence against minorities, a populous that is being educated in propaganda. Now we have government sanctioned pedophilia, absolutely horrifying. I also grew up Chaldean, the Christian minority in Iraq, we lived a good life and now in countries all over the Middle East, Christians are being targeted with violence and discrimination, in an attempt to push us out of our homelands and erase our history. Bari, get in touch if you’d ever like to hear my story.
This is written in fairly good English for an Iraqi, suggesting you’re living in the West yourself. If that is not true about you, it is irrelevant since so many other Iraqis and citizens of the broader Arab world sell their mothers for such low prices to emigrate to the West. It might be worthwhile for you to consider the possibility that what’s wrong in Iraq isn’t due to Iran. Nor is it due to the US, where Iraqis prefer to live. But that it actually has to do with Iraqis and their culture, themselves.
Iraq wasn’t some glorious kingdom before the US invasion. It was just another failed Arab state, like all of the other ones, struggling under the centuries of stagnation ushered in by the turn to Islamic fundamentalism before the Mongols invaded. That was in the 1200s. Scientific research was abandoned. Secular education was abandoned. To the point, today, where tiny Israel is able to match the combined output of hundreds of millions of their neighbors on a broad array of metrics of civilization.
They have remained experts though, as you ably demonstrate, at blaming others for every misfortune that has ever befallen them. Even as they climb all over each other to move to those countries that they blame - which is particularly galling, given that people who are “oppressed” don’t move in with their oppressors.
It’s too bad that Iraqis, and Middle Easterners around the world, are incapable of looking in the mirror. You’d be able to solve so many more problems in your countries if you had any willingness to correctly identify them. And especially if you had any ability to learn from the countries and cultures that you all move to since you weren’t able to build a particularly resilient culture of your own.
The Iraqi war was wrong in so many ways, but mostly because it opened up avenues for female brutalization. It made neighboring countries bolder in suppressing rights for all people especially women. March 19, 2003, was a black day in American history - our government had the wrong objective. Our enemy, Bin Laden and his cohorts, were not in Iraq. I'm so sorry for what happened there.
As an Iraqi myself I was horrified and deeply saddened by the continued movement towards radical Islam, ushered in by the large Shia control and influence, courtesy of Iran in Iraq. This was not how my family grew up and the values of our homeland. The women in my family were educated, dressed how they wanted, worked in every sector. Also, Saddam was secular and one of his main goals when he came to power was the push for literacy and education for women. This is all a result of the devastating and unjust invasion and occupation by the US. The entire region has been destabilized and people’s lives have been destroyed and it’s all due to the failed foreign policies of the West. Countries like Iraq and Syria kept Iran in check, they were actual stabilizers of the region. Now look at Iraq, crumbling infrastructure, contaminated soil and water from the depleted uranium used in the weapons, women and girls have no rights and are invincible in public sphere, discrimination and violence against minorities, a populous that is being educated in propaganda. Now we have government sanctioned pedophilia, absolutely horrifying. I also grew up Chaldean, the Christian minority in Iraq, we lived a good life and now in countries all over the Middle East, Christians are being targeted with violence and discrimination, in an attempt to push us out of our homelands and erase our history. Bari, get in touch if you’d ever like to hear my story.
This is written in fairly good English for an Iraqi, suggesting you’re living in the West yourself. If that is not true about you, it is irrelevant since so many other Iraqis and citizens of the broader Arab world sell their mothers for such low prices to emigrate to the West. It might be worthwhile for you to consider the possibility that what’s wrong in Iraq isn’t due to Iran. Nor is it due to the US, where Iraqis prefer to live. But that it actually has to do with Iraqis and their culture, themselves.
Iraq wasn’t some glorious kingdom before the US invasion. It was just another failed Arab state, like all of the other ones, struggling under the centuries of stagnation ushered in by the turn to Islamic fundamentalism before the Mongols invaded. That was in the 1200s. Scientific research was abandoned. Secular education was abandoned. To the point, today, where tiny Israel is able to match the combined output of hundreds of millions of their neighbors on a broad array of metrics of civilization.
They have remained experts though, as you ably demonstrate, at blaming others for every misfortune that has ever befallen them. Even as they climb all over each other to move to those countries that they blame - which is particularly galling, given that people who are “oppressed” don’t move in with their oppressors.
It’s too bad that Iraqis, and Middle Easterners around the world, are incapable of looking in the mirror. You’d be able to solve so many more problems in your countries if you had any willingness to correctly identify them. And especially if you had any ability to learn from the countries and cultures that you all move to since you weren’t able to build a particularly resilient culture of your own.
The Iraqi war was wrong in so many ways, but mostly because it opened up avenues for female brutalization. It made neighboring countries bolder in suppressing rights for all people especially women. March 19, 2003, was a black day in American history - our government had the wrong objective. Our enemy, Bin Laden and his cohorts, were not in Iraq. I'm so sorry for what happened there.