arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

A CALL TO OUR ARAB AND ISLAMIC PEOPLE: FREE IRAQ, FREE PALESTINE

Antwerp, 10th of April 2003

After 21 days of fierce fighting and heroic resistance by our people in Iraq against the invading aggressors, the city of Baghdad has fallen. Baghdad the capitol of the Abbassids and one of the most important cities of the Arab homeland is now under foreign occupation. The relief felt by our people for the ousting of a dictator can not compensate the humiliation and grief they feel for the establishing of another illegitimate and oppressing authority. The American flag that was put on the face of the statue of the old oppressor, says it all, the oppression is still there, it just has an American face now. Baghdad is not free; it just changed hands from one local corrupted oppressor to a foreign more corrupted oppressor, but also an enemy of god and the nation. Except a few hundreds who were on the streets in an orchestrated scene of fake jubilation, and another few hundreds of thugs, but also impoverished people, who took advantage of the situation to embark on a looting campaign, the majority of the 6 million inhabitants of the city stayed at home with mixed feelings of bitterness, anxiety and anticipation.
Before taking any political stand, we should not forget that thousands of our young men and women are still resisting the invaders and their collaborators. Thousands are still shooting at the advancing American troops in many parts of Iraq and sacrificing there lives, not for Saddam, but for Allah and the dignity and freedom of our Arab nation. Our hearts and prayers should be with these men and women who are still perishing under the American cluster bombs, among them not only our brave warriors of the resistance, but also innocent men, women and children. The blood of all these people is on the hands of the American aggressor.
Nevertheless the Americans do not realize the size of the quagmire they have worked themselves into. Their intention is to establish direct occupation and control on Arab Soil, and eliminating all the obstacles from the way of their imperialist-Zionist project. There is no doubt on our mind that our people in Iraq is aware of this dimension of the conflict and of the real agenda of the occupation, However this people needs some time to lick its wounds and silence its hunger after a devastating onslaught and 12 years of criminal embargo. Once this happens, and once the intentions of the occupation forces are revealed to all Iraqis, popular resistance will break out.
Any government established by the occupation forces will be looked at and treated as an extension to the occupation. Iraqis who collaborate with the invasion troops are no more or less than collaborators and traitors to the Arab Nation and the Muslim Umma, and will be dealt with as such. We also reject any UN mandate on Iraq as a step backwards to colonial times. The whole of the Iraqi territory should be and will be liberated by popular resistance. All Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis should join forces in fighting against occupation and any extension of it whether it is a local puppet regime or a UN or other mandate. No democracy can come through the bayonet of the enemy of god and the nation. No one wants a return to the Saddam regime; we want a free Iraq, liberated from the enemies of within and without. We want an Iraq that is an integral part of the Arab nation, with a federated but not separated Kurdish entity in the north, and a clear Arab-Islamic government in Baghdad based upon Islamic democracy (al shoera). This Iraq will come, after the American-Zionist invaders are thrown out of our sacred land. The Intifada is coming to Baghdad. The Arab European League will keep on organizing actions and activities to support the struggle for freedom in Iraq and to end occupation. Our slogan is not NO WAR anymore, it is now FREE IRAK. We call upon our local branches and sympathizers and friends to start mobilizing under the Free Iraq slogan immediately and to undertake action defending the position that we outlined above. This war is not over, it did not start in Iraq but in Palestine in 1948, and it will not be over in Iraq but in Palestine with the liberation of Al Quds by the hands of our Arab people under the flag of Islam.

Free Iraq, Free Palestine.

"enemy of god" "sacrificing their lives for Allah"
I don't like this kind of reasoning. I call it blasphemy. Don't try to fool god-fearing creatures speaking in His name. You are human. Please speak as a human being.