Why on earth would they hang Saddam on an Islam holiday of peace and forgiveness?

Question

It offended many. Are they nuts or just stupid?

Answer 1

It was the decision of the IRAQI government. If Bush would have interfered, you guys would be bitching about *that*!

Answer 2

TBH, they have been too form on him.... if he became into given to the human beings then he would have particularly suffered a greater bizzare and historic loss of life... i recommend see how the sunni/shia killing one yet another now.... this is as though they do it for relaxing (beheading, drilling, burning with acid, bilateral cutting)............ i'm an iraqi and all i will say is that he became into the reason of why alot of the Iraqi human beings lost their humanity.... Saddam became into the biggest dictator of the fashionable age, yet what made the entire situation interior the 90s worse became into the fake promise of the u . s . to help the 1990-ninety one revolution and the stupid UN implementing sanctions which had no result on saddam by any ability yet instead became right into a loss of life sentence on many babies of Iraq.............in spite of everything of this what became into one existence well worth to be bothered approximately saddam?? the victims have been predicted (((((((((((((((( 5 hundreds of thousands)))))))))))))))))))))..... in Kurdistan on my own in a single day (80,000) human beings died in Halabja interior the 1880s using chemical weapons below the direct order of saddam (verify disgusting youtube pictures of that incident)..after that ask your self the question you published, particularly you'll want an answer

Answer 3

They are not nuts or stupid... right now the political power in IRAQ is with Shiites' so what they did is to show the Sunnis that right now they have the power and from now on it's Shiites' who is gonna rule IRAQ....that is exactly why theres a civil war or a secterial war going on there.. don't you people watch NEWS...oh and about the Islam Holiday that day was Sunnis' holiday and only after that day came the Shiites' holiday...even if they are from the same religion they have different dates on their holidays.....

Answer 4

They did not they did it about 3 minutes before the holiday began, no I do not think they are nuts for hanging a man that gases and killed his own family and people by the houndreds of thousands

Answer 5

there are three groups over there and the one leading the pack did it to anger saddam s group of people its a civil war over there and were in the middle of it and nobody in iraq would listen to us they just had to hurry up and get it over with

Answer 6

Just making a point in making a monkey out of ancestor's custom who is not even the creator of heaven and earth in planet of apes.
That ancestor's custom was past dirty old men like you and me who made blunders and slip-ups with human errors in planet of apes.

Answer 7

Is it me or could this be another fine example of what a farce the peaceful religion of Islam is? Their judge, their jury, their rope, their hangman. I wasn't offended in the least little bit.

Answer 8

You're not the only one who thinks so. Here are the words of an Iraqi woman:

"It's official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a new low. It's outrageous- an execution during Eid. Muslims all over the world (with the exception of Iran) are outraged. Eid is a time of peace, of putting aside quarrels and anger- at least for the duration of Eid.

This does not bode well for the coming year. No one imagined the madmen would actually do it during a religious holiday. It is religiously unacceptable and before, it was constitutionally illegal. We thought we'd at least get a few days of peace and some time to enjoy the Eid holiday, which coincides with the New Year this year. We've spent the first two days of a holy holiday watching bits and pieces of a sordid lynching.

America the savior… After nearly four years and Bush's biggest achievement in Iraq has been a lynching. Bravo Americans.

Maliki has made the mistake of his life. His signature and unhidden glee at the whole execution, especially on the first day of Eid Al Adha (the Eid where millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage to Mecca), will only do more to damage his already tattered reputation. He's like a vulture in a suit (or a balding weasel). It's almost embarrassing. I kept expecting Muwafaq Al Rubaii to run over and wipe the drool from the corner of his mouth as he signed for the execution. Are these the people who represent the New Iraq? We're in so much more trouble than I ever thought.

And no- not the celebrations BBC are claiming. With the exception of a few areas, the streets are empty.

Now we come to CNN. Shame on you CNN journalists- you're getting lazy. The least you can do is get the last words correct when you write a story about an execution. Your articles are read the world over and will go down in history as references. You people are the biggest news network in the world- the least you can do is spend some money on a decent translator. Saddam's last words were NOT "Muqtada Al Sadr" as Munir Haddad claimed, according to the article below. If anyone had seen at least part of the video they showed on TV, you'd know that.

"A witness, Iraqi Judge Munir Haddad, said that one of the executioners told Hussein that the former dictator had destroyed Iraq, which sparked an argument that was joined by several government officials in the room.

As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account."

From the video that was leaked, it was not an executioner who yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr". See, this is another low the Maliki government sunk to- they had some hecklers conveniently standing by during the execution. Maliki claimed they were "some witnesses from the trial", but they were, very obviously, hecklers. The moment the noose was around Saddam's neck, they began chanting, in unison, "God's prayers be on Mohamed and on Mohamed's family…" Something else I didn't quite catch (but it was very coordinated), and then "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada!" One of them called out to Saddam, "Go to hell…" (in Arabic). Saddam looked down disdainfully and answered "Heya hay il marjala…?" which is basically saying, "Is this your manhood…?".

Someone half-heartedly called out to the hecklers, "I beg you, I beg you- the man is being executed!" They were slightly quieter and then Saddam stood and said, "Ashadu an la ilaha ila Allah, wa ashhadu ana Mohammedun rasool Allah…" Which means, "I witness there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is His messenger." These are the words a Muslim (Sunnis and Shia alike) should say on their deathbed. He repeated this one more time, very clearly, but before he could finish it, he was lynched.

So, no, CNN, his last words were not "Muqtada Al Sadr" in a mocking tone- just thought someone should clear that up. (Really people, six of you contributed to that article!)

Then again, one could argue that it was a judge who gave them that false information. A judge on the Iraqi appeals court- one of the judges who ratified the execution order. Everyone knows Iraqi judges under American tutelage never lie- that explains CNN's confusion.

Muwafaq Al Rubai was said he was "weak and frightened". Apparently, Rubai saw a different lynching because according to the video they leaked, he didn't look frightened at all. His voice didn't shake and he refused to put on the black hood. He looked resigned to his fate, and during the heckling he looked as defiant as ever. (It's quite a contrast to Muhsin Abdul Hameed's public hysterics last year when the Americans raided his home.)

It's one thing to have militias participating in killings. This is allegedly the democracy the Americans flaunt. Is this how bloodthirsty and frightening we've become? Is this what Iraq stands for now? Executions? I'm sure the rest of the Arab countries will be impressed.

One of the most advanced countries in the world did not help to reconstruct Iraq, they didn't even help produce a decent constitution. They did, however, contribute nicely to a kangaroo court and a lynching. A lynching shall go down in history as America's biggest accomplishment in Iraq. So who's next? Who hangs for the hundreds of thousands who've died as a direct result of this war and occupation? Bush? Blair? Maliki? Jaffari? Allawi? Chalabi?

2006 has definitely been representative of Maliki and his government- killings like never before and a lynching to end it properly. Death and destruction everywhere. I'm so tired of all of this… "

Answer 9

Well,it was the Iraqis decision. And I doubt it offended the Kurds and other people ,who's relatives he killed.

Answer 10

Do you really believe that there is an Islamic holiday of peace and forgiveness? That's just some shlock that they tell us. Islam is the religion of jihad and vengeance.

Answer 11

Maybe he only got hung on TV.

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