Honestly, we Iraqis are really suffering from the problem of Identity, it's quite difficult to define our identities in a word, saying that we are just Iraqis is such a higher stage that we are not going to reach soon. Nowadays, ID are Shia'i or Sunni!
Before that we had those clashes between the different ideologies controlled the Iraqi society - if not societies - among the last century and especially before the American Invasion. Ba'athism, communism, and Shia party (Da'awa) but the last one wasn't that famous or important back then. Before the Ba'athists took control over Iraq, we haven't seen any real hate and fight between Iraqis (Here I'm talking about those who are into politics and culture etc), we had this sense of respecting the multiculturism in our society and the other Ideologies. But by the time of Ba'athists and especially Saddam (Go back to Nabeel's song- a book about an Iraqi poet living in London) we had a real BATTLE in Iraq. And those dark emotions were moving from a generation to the next. In my case, I have an extreme hate toward Ba'athists, I just hate them, I want to erase them from the face of world, if they are 4 millions, so what? we can kick those out of Iraq as they did to more millions of Iraqis. But my feelings were making me blind that I was believing anybody who was telling me that this or that writer has written a poem about Saddam saying that He's the fucking Arab hero! I was believing anything because I was under the feeling of REVENGE!
I forgot that there are thousands of Iraqis inside Iraq who had to say that they r Ba’athists so they can live and feed their families, I forgot that all the teachers and doctors and other employees had to say that they are Ba'athists to get a job. My country is really tough to live in.
I still believe that every Ba'athist who harmed an Iraqi has to be punished by being kicked out or sent to jail (I'm against Capital punishment).
We have to notice that Iraqis are sometimes harsh to each other that u c Iraqi writers, artists, politicians fighting each other and say that this or that was with Saddam. It's a new movement in the Iraqi society. An easy one. A movement that never existed in any other societies where the brothers eat each other.
God Help my Iraq (if there's a God!) ~~
Before that we had those clashes between the different ideologies controlled the Iraqi society - if not societies - among the last century and especially before the American Invasion. Ba'athism, communism, and Shia party (Da'awa) but the last one wasn't that famous or important back then. Before the Ba'athists took control over Iraq, we haven't seen any real hate and fight between Iraqis (Here I'm talking about those who are into politics and culture etc), we had this sense of respecting the multiculturism in our society and the other Ideologies. But by the time of Ba'athists and especially Saddam (Go back to Nabeel's song- a book about an Iraqi poet living in London) we had a real BATTLE in Iraq. And those dark emotions were moving from a generation to the next. In my case, I have an extreme hate toward Ba'athists, I just hate them, I want to erase them from the face of world, if they are 4 millions, so what? we can kick those out of Iraq as they did to more millions of Iraqis. But my feelings were making me blind that I was believing anybody who was telling me that this or that writer has written a poem about Saddam saying that He's the fucking Arab hero! I was believing anything because I was under the feeling of REVENGE!
I forgot that there are thousands of Iraqis inside Iraq who had to say that they r Ba’athists so they can live and feed their families, I forgot that all the teachers and doctors and other employees had to say that they are Ba'athists to get a job. My country is really tough to live in.
I still believe that every Ba'athist who harmed an Iraqi has to be punished by being kicked out or sent to jail (I'm against Capital punishment).
We have to notice that Iraqis are sometimes harsh to each other that u c Iraqi writers, artists, politicians fighting each other and say that this or that was with Saddam. It's a new movement in the Iraqi society. An easy one. A movement that never existed in any other societies where the brothers eat each other.
God Help my Iraq (if there's a God!) ~~