Sheikh Dari: The Resistance is to reach its goal

Sheikh Dari: The Resistance is to reach its goal

Secretary General of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, His Highnesses Dr. Harith al Dari confirmed that the resistance in Iraq cut in three fourth of the way to reach its goal of liberating Iraq. For signing a security agreement with the occupation al Dhari advised to be a little patient; because " the end of the occupation is near"

Dr. al Dhari said in an interview with al Haq Agency: “the AMSI has adopted a fatwa prohibiting the Status of Forces Agreement (Security Agreement) because; first, its origin is baseless, it is agreement between strong and weak, between the occupier and the representatives of the occupied people, destroyed by the occupying power, because so-called representatives do indeed not represent legitimately the Iraqi people; in contrast they were elected through fraudulent and counterfeit elections formed and supervised by the occupation.”

His Eminence Dr. Hareth al Dhari added that: “the occupiers will leave, therefore we consider the approval of this agreement and signature on it by any party will be considered as treason and illegal because this agreement is coercive and humiliating.”

Source: Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq

Video from Jaish al-Mu'tazz Billah

Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation

A Video from the Jaish al-Mu'tazz Billah, one of the newer additions to the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation, with an IED targeting an American vehicle near Mosul.


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There is One Islam and There are No Sects

There is One Islam and There are No Sects
by Omar al-Hakim

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

This comes as a partial response to the "Letter of Warning to All Shia" from the Salafi-Jihadist Youth of Gaza and to all who create strife, Sunni or Shia and those who seek to harm and repress our Christian brothers.

There is a single Islam, for Allah states:

And hold fast, all together, by the Rope which Allah (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah's favour on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His Grace, ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the Pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus doth Allah make His Signs clear to you: that ye may be guided. (Al-i-Imran: 103)

All other religions have broken into sects, but Allah warns of sects and their division and wrongdoings saying:

As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no part in them in the least: their affair is with Allah: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did. (Al-An'am: 153)

For as sects break and attack each other, they seperate from the religion as a whole and the path of Allah:

But people have cut off their affair (of unity), between them, into sects: each party rejoices in that which is with itself. (Al-Muminun: 53)

Therefore, no man should question another man as to his intentions, lest the acts of this man constitute clear treason and upon which the accuser brings steady proof.

What good does it do to condemn and fight amongst ourselves when the Crusaders and Zionists still occupy our soil?

In Iraq, as in Palestine, there are those who fight the enemy and do not bicker or differentiate between the supposed 'sects' of Islam, there are those righteous Christians who fight alongside their Arab brothers for the liberation of the homeland from the invaders and occupiers.

For Allah assures all that:

Those who believe (in the Qur-an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians, any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Al-Baqarah: 62)

The enemy of Islam and Arabs is not themselves, it is not other Muslims or other Arabs; the enemy of Islam and Arabs is the enemy who does not walk among us, rather he walks upon us. It is the Crusaders who invade Iraq, who send from every coffer their aid to the Zionist entity, who has their vassals invade Somalia, who seeks to conquer and subjugate the entire Ummah. This enemy must be fought and takes priority.

Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors. (Al-Baqarah: 190)

Let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter, To him who fighteth in the cause of Allah - whether he is slain or gets victory - soon shall We give him a reward of great (value). (An-Nisaa: 74)

The Holy Jihad for the liberation of Muslim and Arab lands is not a cause to be fought against those who take up the sword against the Crusaders and Zionists, the Holy Jihad is solely against the Crusaders and Zionists and let all come to fight in the cause of Allah; whether Sunni, Shia or Christian.

And to those, Sunni, Shia or Christian who seek to create strife; your work serves the cause of the Crusaders and it is only Fitna which you produce. Let all Muslims be united by the Shahadah: "“La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadu Rasul Allah”, and let no Christian fear persecution, for all are united by the Message of Allah and by the Prophets (pbut) and by Arabism.

Let all who are righteous and do good deeds by the way of Allah and seek to protect Muslim and Arab lands stand united today against our single foe: The Crusader-Zionist alliance.

An Injury to One

Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign

We are often told, that the British presence in Iraq is to help bring about “freedom” and “democracy” to assist the fundamentalist Iranian aligned “Iraqi Government“ bring about “stability“ but these brave words are spoken only by politicians whose only action witnessed inside of occupied Mesopotamia, is cowering like cowards behind the backs of soldiers.

Recently speaking to a Sergeant in the British army, he informed me that he was going to be sent back to Iraq, to continue action in a war which has already killed over one million Iraqi’s and hundreds of British soldiers, but like a growing trend among soldiers and their families, it is becoming increasingly hard to find many who actually wish to be there or any who know the reasons why they are still on Iraqi soil.

The Sergeant informed me that he had no wish to serve a third term in Iraq and wondered why the British Government continued to keep troops there, when it was blatantly obvious that the continuing presence was not wanted and the present Green Zone regime seemed to be incapable of bringing about any type of civil order to the country, as he said “all you have to do is look around” to see that “freedom and democracy” simply do not work inside of Iraq.

In a recent interview with one newspaper, Nouri Al-Maliki said that the British are “not necessary for maintaining security and control,” in Iraq but then claimed that "There might be a need for their experience in training and some technological issues,” which to many soldiers and their families is Maliki biting the hand that feeds him, but with the devastation which the occupation has brought to the people of Iraq, it is obvious that no one can have any confidence in the regime of Nouri Al-Maliki.

This perspective would not come as a shock for realists outside of Downing Street, who have been oblivious to the five million child orphans inside of Iraq and appear to have even gone so far as to pander to sectarian death squads, by allowing representatives such as one for Muqtada Al-Sadr to enter into Britain and even speak on public platforms at one Stop the War Coalition rally.

But then again, a growing anger is mounting, as many in Britain view the silence of the Brown Government and their desire to maintain a presence of British soldiers in Iraq, as also playing a role which is standing back while ethnic cleansing is taking place, such as that against the Christians, who have witnessed a never ending stream of violent attacks since the occupation began in 2003.

If the British media was to be believed, you wouldn’t even know that a child had been crucified, or that priests are being kidnapped, beheaded, along with women being forced into wearing the veil, raped and claims that businesses owned by Christians are being made the targets of extremists, in an attempt to force them to flee Iraq. Even US soldiers have noted their concern over the persecution of Christians in Iraq, that one serving soldier even wrote in response to my article “The War Against Christianity“, that “I know from experience that what he (Hussein al-alak) says about what's going on in Iraq is accurate.”

How can either the British or Iraqi regimes be treated with any credibility, when the talk of “progress” is constantly being discredited by facts, when Asia News reported recently that “a Christian of the Chaldean rite, was recently shot dead in front of his home in the neighbourhood of Nor, the same neighbourhood where Fr. Ragweed Gani and three deacons were killed in 2007, and where Archbishop Paulo Farj Rahho was kidnapped and killed” only this year.

The threats against the community and the inability of either the Iraqi government or occupation forces to protect them have become so dire, that the Christians of Iraq have been forced to establish their own “militia“, so “armed with heavy machine guns and assault rifles,” according to one member, who spoke to Islam Online in August , such a move "was the only way to protect our families and friends from attacks because we are tired of waiting on action from the “Iraqi” government which is preoccupied with politics and never look after us."

Reasons why the Iraqi Government have chosen to ignore the plight, which must be added never occurred under the government of Saddam Hussain, is because the British and American “trained” Police force have decided to turn a blind eye, as one senior Police Office even admitted, "Sometimes it is better to close your eyes towards some facts” but Iraqi’s are not closing their eyes and are uniting with Iraq’s Christians against this ethnic cleansing.

In a recent appeal, the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq stated that attacking Christians is “not approved by Islam and its tolerant teachings under which Muslims and other religions lived in tolerance, peace and security”, such as before the occupation began but also warned that such attacks were “inconsistent with the requirements of true national unity” and urged Iraq’s “Christian citizens to not weaken their moral and national position” in bringing about an end to these hostilities.

These sentiments were also echoed by a school teacher, who speaking to Islam Online earlier this year stated, "During the years we lived in peace in this land where I was born. All Muslims were happy to be part of our lives, share our thoughts and respect our decisions," which is the common experience for the majority of people from before 2003.

As a child, born and raised in what would now be called a “Shi’ite family”, like many Iraqi children, we never questioned the religion or ethnicity of our friends and family and it was considered to be discourteous to even ask and now, the Quisling Maliki and his occupation masters expect us to believe that Iraq is built along ethnic or sect lines, lines drawn up by himself and the US/UK and expect us to stand back while our neighbours are ethnically cleansed from our country. So hear this, “an injury to one, is an injury to us all!”

Source: Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq

End Game for Colonialism in Arabia

End Game for Colonialism in Arabia
by Malik Abu Bakr and Omar al-Hakim

As we steadily approach the end of 2008, we approach also the end of Colonialism and Imperialism in Arabia.

For the past 60 years, the main centre of Colonialism and Imperialism in Arabia was Palestine, occupied by Zionist settlers. By 1991, Iraq became the new target for Imperialism and Somalia was added as well. With the Invasion of Somalia by US-proxy state Ethiopia and the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US and its 'Coalition', some Western observers hoped and prayed that a new day had arrived, when Arabs would happily submit to Western-governance and Imperialism. This dream which started in the heads of the British and French Imperialists turned into a nightmare for them, as it now has for the United States.

The liberation of Kismayo and several battles in Mogadishu have indicated that the Young Mujahideen Movement and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia will achieve total victory. Similarly, the salvos of the liberation of Baghdad already ring as Northern Baghdad swings towards the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation. The struggling of the Zionists and their sudden drive to hand over the West Bank is only indicative of their fears that a growing Arab population will soon take over their Zionist-state.

At this time, there is no need for compromise, victory is at-hand. Within 5 years, Somalia and Iraq will be entirely liberated, it is likely that the Zionists will still be struggling to convince their extremist-populace of the virtues of retreating from the West Bank and perhaps, the US economy will be in an even further state of collapse.

It is now time to begin the plans for the Post-Imperialist Arabia; where the dream of Arab Unity can become a reality. There is much in the attitudes of citizens and rulers which needs to change, and this change starts from the ground-up. The League of Arab States must change from a once-a-year meeting spot to the foundation of a single Arab State. As Arabia strengthens and moves closer to reunification, it is with little doubt that more nations will wish to join Arabia as well and this is the only possible destiny for Arabs, as the creators and vanguards of civilization.

Path to Victory in Iraq?

Path to Victory in Iraq?

Kosta Harlan

Is Bush on the path to victory in Iraq?

In a word: no. That’s simple enough. The whole world can see the occupation’s days are numbered. But it’s not enough to know the government’s cause is unjust or that the occupation is failing. We need to understand why.

The causes for the failure can be summed up simply:

1. To achieve "victory" the occupation needs a political process to rule over Iraq.

2. The Green Zone political process, the puppet government set up by the occupation authorities, is a failure.

3. Therefore, the war will end in defeat for the United States, and in victory for the people of Iraq.

I. Why the occupation needs a puppet government

The origins of the current U.S. aggression against Iraq reside in two landmark events. The first was the 1958 revolution that swept the British-supported monarchy from power and established Iraqi independence and political sovereignty. Fourteen years later, the Baath Party nationalized the country’s oil, which ended the domination of Big Oil in Iraq. That laid the foundation for Iraq’s economic sovereignty.

Sovereignty is intolerable for imperialism, because imperialism seeks domination, not freedom. Iraq had both political and economic independence. It had the means and the political will to chart an independent course. It therefore presented an obstacle to imperialism’s plans for dominating the political and economic life of the Middle East.

From this we can determine the principal goals of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. First, to uproot the anti-imperialist Iraqi government and replace it with a puppet regime that would be friendly towards a U.S. military, economic and political presence in Iraq; and second, to hand over control of Iraqi oil to U.S. oil corporations

With these two aims, U.S. imperialism hoped to gain geopolitical power over the Middle East, and by extension, over the world. And of course, they sought to make trillions of dollars in revenues from oil production and export in the process.

Now to do all this meant that the U.S. would have to come up with a way to rule over Iraq and its people. The U.S. cannot indefinitely maintain its military presence in Iraq. For one, it simply doesn’t have the numerical strength or political will to continue at its current level. More importantly, the occupation forces are hated by the broad masses of Iraqis, who quite rightly want them out now.

Therefore, the U.S. was tasked with coming up with an "Iraqi face" for a political process that would pursue the same goals of domination and control long after the withdrawal of combat forces. This is called neo-colonialism. As Harith Al-Dari of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq wrote, "The occupiers could get out from the door by the effect of jihad and resistance, but enter from the window by the effect of those whom are assigned to administrate the country".

II. The puppet government is a failure

At first the U.S. appointed "viceroy" Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority to govern Iraq directly. That was a colonialism of the old type, and Iraqis soundly rejected it. Four months later Bremer created a CPA-appointed "Iraqi Interim Governing Council", to give an Iraqi face to the occupation process. This too was rejected. Finally in 2005, the current Green Zone government was established. Has this government succeeded?

For it to be considered a success by the occupation, the puppet government has to be able to rule, and it has to serve the aims of U.S. imperialism outlined above. By these criteria the current Green Zone government has failed.

Of course the principle reason for its failure is the growth and development of a massive tide of armed resistance to the occupation. But an important secondary reason is the nature of the puppet government itself.

The Iraqi puppet government is composed of political parties and personalities who quite literally rode to power on the back of invading American tanks. Trained and groomed in exile, many of the prominent personalities lived abroad in places like London, Washington, or New York. Prior to 2003, many of them had not set foot in Iraq since the 1970’s or 80’s. Thus they lack any kind of popular base. Without the support of the U.S. military, their governing power would collapse.

Further, these parties are constantly at war with each other. On occasion, they are able to come together to adopt this or that resolution. But the general rule is that each party is out for its own, narrow (ethnic or religious) interests. It’s also worth pointing out that some of these parties – such as the Dawa and Supreme Islamic Council parties – were trained and rooted in Iran, and therefore brought another contradiction internal to the puppet government. For now the U.S. has to contend with another puppet master pulling on the strings.

The result of these internal weaknesses: the puppet government is barely able to extend its rule outside the perimeter of the Green Zone, a tiny, walled-off area in the heart of Baghdad.

It failed to unite the various collaborating parties over the fate of Kirkuk, a city of enormous importance due to its proximity to some of the largest oil fields in Iraq.

It failed to pass a hydrocarbon law that would spell out terms for distributing oil revenues. Without this law, there is no legal basis for inviting the oil giants back into Iraq to develop the fields.

It failed even to negotiate the continued presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil, the sole guarantor of its security. The main reason is that masses of Iraqis are adamantly opposed to a formal treaty that would so openly sign away Iraq’s sovereignty.

Finally, it is failing in the task of reconciling the Sahwa, or Awakening Councils, with its own security services. The Awakening Councils are about 100,000 strong, about 80% of the fighters are Sunni Arabs. The sectarian government in the Green Zone has vowed to exclude them from the security forces, because their inclusion would weaken the sectarian parties’ grip over the army and police.

These are a few of the problems that collaborating politicians wrestle over in the 4 square mile bunker known as the Green Zone. What about the day-to-day realities for the ordinary people of Iraq?

In the three years that the puppet government has ruled over Iraq, the social and economic conditions faced by Iraqis have been crushing. The infrastructure of Iraq remains a disaster. Electricity averages around 11 hours a day, and in some neighborhoods of Baghdad, 2 hours per day is the norm. Most Iraqis lack access to safe drinking water or proper sanitation facilities. Unemployment and under-employment is at 55-60%. 2,000 doctors have been killed since 2003. 20,000 have left the country. Hospitals are understaffed and lack critical supplies. Oil production, virtually the only productive sector in the Iraqi economy, still has not surpassed pre-war, sanctions-era levels of 2.5 million barrels per day. And if one subtracts oil production from the picture, then the economy is stagnant, with a growth of only 0.4% over the past year. Iraqi industry and agriculture is a shambles. Corruption runs rampant through the puppet government, which was ranked 178 out of 180 countries in level of corruption for 2007 by the Corruption Perceptions Index.

Finally the humanitarian impact is difficult to contemplate. The occupation has created an enormous population of refugees. At least 2.7 million Iraqis are internally displaced, while 2.4 million have fled the country. This is almost one in every five Iraqis. The same percentage also know someone directly who has been killed or wounded. Over 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed, with hundreds of thousands more maimed. Lest anyone think this is the result of sectarian violence and not U.S. aggression: back in 2006, when Iraqi deaths numbered about 655,000, a study that appeared in The Lancet demonstrated that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for at least 346,000 Iraqi deaths.

This is the daily reality that Iraqis face. Given this reality, it is hard to believe, as we are so often told by the media, that "the situation is improving" and that, therefore, Iraqis would welcome the continued presence of occupiers on their territory.

III. The war will end with the victory of the resistance

The Iraqi resistance remains the main obstacle to the U.S. consolidating its control over Iraq through a puppet government. Following a decline in activity over the summer, the past four months have seen a consistent average of about 40 resistance attacks each day against U.S. occupation forces and the puppet government. That translates to between 280 and 300 attacks per week, or between 1100 and 1200 per month. (Assuming that these numbers are not deflated to provide a better picture of 'security’ during the election season) On a political level, the resistance is increasingly unified, with dozens of resistance groups merging into a handful of large organizations, such as the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation, the Patriotic, Nationaland Islamic Front for the Liberation of Iraq and the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance.

If the occupiers are unable to solve the problems that appear before them, it is because at root, it is the occupation that creates the problems. A sovereign government cannot emerge while under the boot of 150,000 foreign combat troops and 200,000 foreign mercenaries. Genuine reconstruction efforts cannot take place while counter-insurgency operations constantly devastate Iraqi infrastructure. National unity and national reconciliation will never emerge from the framework of a sectarian political process that was designed to pit ethnic and religious groups against another. And so on.

We know that at each stage of the war, the U.S. occupation has responded to failure with intensified warfare. There is no reason to think otherwise of the current situation. In any case, it is certain that as long as the occupation exists, there will be resistance. We should not forget that Iraq has a long history of successfully resisting and defeating imperialism. Much of what is happening now has been attempted before, and like the efforts of past occupiers and aggressors, those efforts are destined to fail.

The Iraqis have nowhere else to go. It is only with the victory of the Iraqi people’s national resistance that the war will end. It is the unity of our resistance at home and the resistance in Iraq that will bring about the end of the occupation, and the starting point for building a world with peace, justice and equality. Now is the time to intensify our antiwar organizing and to raise the just demands of support for the Iraqi liberation movement and to end the occupation now.

A presentation at REFAL Community Center, Newark NJ USA on October 18, 2008 by Kosta Harlan, a member of Students for a Democratic Society in Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

Source: al-Moharer

What is Baath Socialism?

What is Baath Socialism?
by Salah al-Mukhtar,
Translated and Abridged by Malik Abu Bakr

How do we understand Baath Socialism? Is it different from Socialism-Communism? If the answer is yes, another question arises: Where and how do we differ? Before answering these questions it becomes necessary to determine the meaning of Socialism, as it has been oft-attacked by religious movements in general.

The essence of Socialism is proposing solutions to the social problems that bedevil society, in particular, poverty resulting from sharp class differences and the consequences of poverty such as lethal diseases, illiteracy, corruption etc. all of which cause social conflicts. Socialism is the system which removes the basis of poverty and provisions basic human needs such as bread, education, medicine and other services essential to the human body for free, and for the end of social-ills.

So the Socialist State with a social responsibility to provide basic human needs in order to liberate it from all constraints on his creativity and social action and remove the evils caused by deprivation and class disparities. Thererefore, it is humane and ethical at the same time to return to his humanity and preserve human dignity and provide a proper climate, free from corruption and all diseases created by poverty, either directly or indirectly.

The key question here is whether all divine religion rejects Socialism and the desire to build social justice and remove injustice? The answer all too often depends on the stereotype set by Western circles on the basis of the Communist model of Socialism. What are these stereotypes of Socialism which have been accepted by many religious parties without scrutiny? The first manifestation of the stereotype is the image of Socialism combined with the dialectical materialist universal-philosophy of Communism which deployed with the saying "religion is the opiate of the masses"! The second stereotype is that Socialism is a system which eliminated all individual property rights and deprives ownership. Last, but not least is the stereotypical image of Socialism as beyond all national boundaries.

Are these stereotypes true Socialism? Let us deal with Baath Socialism to see how this image is unfair and incorrect.

There are three fundamental differences between the Socialism of the Socialist Baath and Marxism-Leninism, a philosophical difference (religious), disagreement over ownership and differences over national interests.

Many have tries to force links, falsesly and unjustified between the philosophical outlooks of Marxism-Leninism and their controversial materialism which denies the existence of Allah and promises religion is the opium of the people. We have dealt with historical materialism, the social philosophy of Marxism-Leninism and Socialism in terms of social history. The Baath says the continued social evils relate from class differences, however, we support Socialism from the standpoint of social justice as a religious requirement, because Allah created human beings and did not create differences of class, placing all humanity equal in value.

One manifestation of Socialism within Islam is the wealth of experiance of the Khalifahs, where wealth was divided equally amongst Muslims and there was no difference between an ordinary citizen and the Khalifah. A story of the Khalifah Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) tells of how he referred to the main source of evil in society as poverty. The Baath rejects Communist atheistic thought and asserts Socialist faith which is consistant with the teachings of Islam.

Another advantage of the Socialist Baath is that she has never denied ownership at all, but has denied ownership of an exploitive nature. In this sense, Baath Socialism reconciles between the responsibilities of public ownership to ensure justice for society and its production and services and individual property that meets the need of the natural person to own property which is one of the most important incentives for work, production and creativity in humans. To prevent individual property rights leads to inaction and the deterioration of personal creativity and weakens and disrupts the incentive to work, this is one of the most important reasons for the failure and degradation of Communism.

Last but not least, the Baath rejects Communism and it's jump over the nation for 'universality'. How can it be that even the UN was based or built? One must first have complete national unity before any sort of broader thinking unity. You cannot have the higher without the lower.

Baath Socialism is the system of social rules to provide a proper environment for the complete rights of spiritual activities without concern or pressure from financial need or a threat to human needs. A system which opens the way for individual economic activity because it is a creative catalyst for producton and compliments the role of the state in providing goods and services. Certainly, Islam is the source of the foundation of Baath Socialism, all must understand Islam correctly, so they may reach the conclusion that it is true Islam as a faith which contains Socialism.