Official Website of Ahrar Party

"President Saddam Hussein did not come to us from a different planet. He is one of the Iraqi people and was brought up in this culture. He is the natural heir of the Arab and Islamic state that has been there for fourteen centuries; the thing which needs to be reconsidered.

This inspires the necessity of separating religion from the state, in order to protect religion itself." Said Mr. Ayad Jamal Aldin.

This statement of Mr. Ayad Jamal Aldin, the Iraqi immigrant and clergyman who returned from the exile to his country thanks to the support of the British tanks, is considered to be to core of the message that prominent Arab and Middle Eastern figures, who got dazzled by the Western civilization and its liberal and democratic regimes, try to spread.

On the contrary, everyday, Western essays, researches and studies reveal "obstacles" in the democracy of the West and confirm that the path before its human options is blocked, starting from the philosophical and intellectual option up to the political option and the Bush-Blair failed, dishonest experience regarding the last Iraqi state. By the way, all those who write about the offenses of the Western liberal system are Americans and Westerner. Those who oppose Bush-Blair immoralities and tighten the grip around them are westerners themselves. Today, we can rarely find respectful, educated western thinkers who praise the current options of the administrations of Bush or Blair.

I know I should not have mixed the intellectual, philosophical options of the ruling regimes in Washington and London with the behaviors or practices of the administrations of Bush and Blair.

However, what the Iraqi cleric who returns to his country on the Western tanks- even it represents the injustice experienced by an Iraqi because of the brutality of Saddam Hussein and his gangs in every sense of the word- and what the leading Arab newspapers and the media of displaced and migrant elites, launch of explicit calls for separating religion from state and excluding the clerics from the government as the «most effective solution, the magic key and the antidote came from Iraq for the salvation of our peoples from their despotic rulers and all dictatorship practices!!», are the reasons that pushed me towards the above-mentioned linking.

I am not defending any of the rulers who may come to your minds, but I only mention that Hitler and Mussolini, then Nazism and Fascism that came from the ballet boxes of the western liberal democratic system; slave mass murder in Africa, opponents massacred in countries allying the western systems in our third worlds, and toppling the popular systems which were willingly selected by the majority in the third world, by the western democratic countries leaders; sponsoring a whole century of individuals and group terrorism, then the state organized terrorism, all forms of oppression, apartheid, spite, inhuman aggression, odious occupation, and all types of neo-fascism, by the great western circles at the top of which the British and American democracy in Iraq; did not make one of the liberal elite overwhelmed by the western philosophical and intellectual systems, hesitate, for one moment, in his stand regarding the soundness of this choice!! On the contrary, he sticks more to such system by time, while if he sees a conduct or practice of individuals or groups not in line with what he read about the Islamic system or Sharia, he decides to wreak his wrath on the «Islamic option», calling for immediate separation of religion from state, as being a magic solution for our problems. However, I do not claim or allege that I have a workaround, but I'm sure that what the other belief in is not the solution, if not a complication of the solution itself, and an aggravation of the calamity we experience. The following are some of my arguments:

First: Religion is a way of life, and a global system, not limited by a doctrinal, political or administrative system so that we can separate it from the state or any of life activities. On the contrary, we are demanded to bear religion in mind in all walks of life and especially the government and political activity.

Second: It is required to prevent politicians and rulers in particular from trading with religion, confiscating it, or making it a subsidiary of policy regimes «and its tools» or the its rules of the game, and monopolizing those who speak in the name of religion since it is for all of the nation. Furthermore, the options to understand and deal with others through and on the basis of religion are open and infinite pursuant to the famous saying: «The roads to Allah equals the number of creatures breathes».

Third: If it is true that religious tyranny is the worst form of tyranny as it casts holiness to the tyranny of the ruler- but it is true also that the problem is primarily in oppressive individual or group before the idea and the saying that man could, with his despotism, modify and change as he pleases without any restraint or moral deterrent, when necessary, whether he speaks in the name of freedom and democracy and «religion», as does George W. Bush or, as do the Muslim Arabs rulers and others who speaks in the name of nationalism or religion- there is no difference. This situation is actually represented by the holy verse: « Hast thou seen him who takes his own evil desire for his god», or by the saying of Imam al-Hussein Bin Ali, peace be upon him: «people are life slaves, and religion is just a lick on their tongue, they observe it when it goes with their interests, but when they put to the test, it turns out that sincere religious people are very few».

Therefore, the problem does not lie in the saying itself, but in the individual or group. To make it clear, we cannot deprive people from air to save them, for example, from harmful dust or types of poison gas caused by man himself, but we are required to purify air from suspended toxins.