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THE WESTERN AGENDA TO ASSASSINATE OUR ISLAMIC/ARAB POLITICAL LEADERS!!
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From light to darkness in Iraq: the slaying of Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir AL-Hakim by Sayyed. And whosoever killeth a believer intentionally, his recompense shall be Hell, he shall abide therein and Gods wrath shall be on him and His curse, and (there) is prepared for him a great torment. Chapter 4(sura Nisa): Verse 93 of Holy Quran. For the reason did we prescribe unto the children of Israel that he whom slayeth any one (man), without (that being for) murder, or for mischief in the land, (it shall be) as though he hath slain mankind as a whole; and he who saveth it (a human life), shall be as though he hath saved mankind as a whole; and certainly our Apostles came unto them with clear evidences and yet verily, many of them even after that certainly commit excesses in the land.Chapter 5(Sura Al Maidah): Verse 32 of Holy Quran. The loss of Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir AL-Hakim for Iraq and the Muslim World is like the lamp of Islamic ideology (Aqaaid) (which involves knowledge (ilm), Imaan (faith), following the Masoomeen (AS) who are the living example of the Holy Quran in action until they meet the Prophet Muhammad (saw) at the spring of Kauther in Heaven, never to side with oppressors or compromise the principles of freedom, justice and the laws of God among other aspects of morals, prayer and duas (supplications) as a way to defeat the enemies of God) being blown out by satan (the cursed and rejected one) and a very sad day indeed for the Muslim World. In our epoch we have not only witnessed three great movements in the form of the glorious Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, the Islamic Political Movement of Iraq started by Ayatollahs Sayyed Al Hakim and Sayyed Baqir Al Sadr in the late fifties and Hezbollah (a break away group from the Amal Liberation Movement of Nabe Barrie and Sayyed Musa Sadr of Lebanon) but we have seen also, three great personalities in the form of Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhulloh Al Musawi Al Khomeini, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Baqir Al Sadr and Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Baqir Al Hakim. World leaders do not create revolutions and popular resistance but circumstances give rise to such leaders as those mentioned above. For example, Iraq and the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (saw) lost its own Khomeini of Iraq in the form of the assassination of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir AL-Hakim, an Iraqi Shaheed (martyr) of our time. To understand the dynamics of his struggle against the oppressor of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, we must understand the history behind the struggle that led to his death and understand the ideology of a man who, achieved more in terms of struggle, international recognition and military mobilization than most leaders of the oppressed in our time because he applied our Islamic ideology of Shia Islam to his struggle against the oppressor of Iraq and was winning the war against domestic and foreign oppressors when he was assassinated. Oppression of innocent and God fearing people is wrong and those who break their own laws, UN laws and international laws as well as the laws of God and the teachings of Gods representatives on earth will be severely punished as promised by God in the Holy books of certain Prophets (AS) sent to us before on earth. Gross violations of human rights and naked aggression can only be truly fought with by Islam and the power of dua while following the example set by the Masoomeen (AS). Islamic ideology sets itself apart from progressive Communists or Socialist organizations today, other religious ideologies and political organizations and certainly against nationalist or popular movement or commonly referred to in Political Science as grass roots organizations simply because it is unique in its approach and methods. To understand this, we must know the background to the struggle in Iraq and how this Islamic ideology was implemented; understanding what work Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim was doing; and understanding who we serve over and above all forms of isms, nationalism, racism, religions based on personality or named after someone. For example, Islam is not named after someone as Christianity was named after Christ, or as Judaism was named after a race of Jews and even as Hinduism was named after a caste system of economic and social discrimination, to name a few. Its this unique nature of Islam as the religion of God and of all Prophets (AS) from Adam (AS) to Prophet Muhammad (saw), the last Prophet as well as that of the Vicegerents after the Prophets (AS) in the form of our Holy Imams (AS). It is known from any political analysis that leaders do not create revolutions; rather revolutions for positive change create the conditions necessary for leaders to rise and some, take advantage of this development. However, in the case of Islamic ideology, what we see is not revolution giving rise to leaders but Allah (God) having appointed Prophets (AS) and later at the end of Prophet hood, Holy Imams (AS) as Gods representatives on earth as a choice of good governance. Indeed, in the case of Iraq, there has been instead of a popular revolution, you have had great leaders rising to the occasion out of a strong Islamic ideology met by brutal force and repression from a dictator backed by certain superpowers just as the glorious revolution in Iran in 1979 was carried out against a despotic King, Shah Pahlavi, who was backed by the superpowers which worked against Islam and Islamic ideology. The result then was a leader who followed the Islamic ideology and having had the knowledge from Islamic Seminaries as well as certain key elements in his personality that produced after 1,000 years of struggle against oppressive leaders, the blessing in the form of Imam Khomeini (RA). That is to say, Imam Khomeini (RA) did not create the Islamic Revolution in Iran but worked as other Ayatollahs and Aalims (High Priests), to impact change within society along the lines of Islamic ideology and using Islam as a weapon to defeat despotism and oppression which had been supported for centuries by foreign powers and later by two superpowers which overthrew a legally elected government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq in the 1950s and replaced it with a despotic imposed King Shah Pahlavi and his secret police called SAVAK. This is why the ideology brought forth the saying that neither East nor West but Islam, for the common people to understand the enemy and instilled in the Iranians the need to improve themselves first before they can benefit from the Islamic Revolution which effected change in all aspects of Society. Imam Khomeini (RA) simply benefited from work already laid down by Allama (High Priests) for 1,000 years of struggles and in simple terms he was at the right place at the right time. So, too in the Iraqi situation, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Baqir Al Hakim also benefited from the work laid down by successive generations of Allama from Najaf AL Ashraf (the Shia center of learning for 1,000 years before moving to Qum, Iran) and he himself did not create a revolution in Iraq but worked with what was already there to advance the struggle for an Islamic State and a just Iraq. It is for this reason why he was a liability and was assassinated since this was not the direction that the superpowers and foreign powers wanted for the oil rich nation of Iraq. Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir Al Hakim was born in 1939 in Iraq, the son of the late Grand Ayatulloh Muhsin Al-Hakim (considered the spiritual leader of all the Worlds Muslims from 1955-1970). Sayyed Al Hakim studied in Najaf, Iraq and became the co-founder of the Islamic Political Movement established in the late fifties along with Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir Al Sadr and other scholars. Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakims political activities basically was preparing the Iraqis to oppose the oppressive rule of the American backed dictator Saddam Hussein and at the same time, provide an alternative to the unjust system of Arab Communism imposed by the Baathist which was opposed to Islam and its ideology. Ayatollah Sayyed Al-Hakims political activities continued until in 1972 when he was arrested and tortured by the Baathist Communist regime and later released because of popular pressure on the regime. In 1977 he was rearrested following the peoples popular uprising in February in Najaf and sentenced to life imprisonment by special court without a trial. He was released in July 1979 following popular pressure on the regime once again. He was then placed under house arrest upon his release from prison. Sayyed Al Hakim fled Iraq in 1980 after the eruption of the Iran-Iraq war. In that same year, 1980, a huge part of the contemporary interpretation of our Islamic ideology and economic critique of Communist economics, which came from Ayatollah Sayyed Al Sadr, was curtailed when Saddam Hussein assassinated Ayatollah Sayyed Al Sadr. A set back for the struggle in Iraq but it did not deter Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim who was closely associated with Ayatollah Sayyed Al Sadr. In exile he would do more than what most leaders of the oppressed do and by that is meant, forming the Supreme Council of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (SCIRI) in November 1982. This political organization would gain international recognition and a military force capable of overthrowing Saddam Hussein successfully if, Saddam was not persistently backed by foreign superpowers with Chemical weapons and massive military supplies from both superpowers. Indeed Saddams reaction to SCIRI, was to arrest 125 members of Sayyed AL-Hakims family in 1983, executing 18 of them and assassinating his brother, Sayyed Mahdi AL-Hakim in Sudan in January 1988 much later on. The strategies of SCIRI were: First, to establish popular and secret resistance cells inside Iraq; second, to mobilize Iraqis outside Iraq and train them on using arms; third, to establish an armed force to fight Saddams regime. Ayatollah Sayyed AL-Hakim started a military force called the Badr Brigade consisting of thousands of fighters from Iraqi refugees in Iran, Iraqi migrants and even Iraqi military officers as well as soldiers who defected from the war of aggression towards Iran (the famous Iran-Iraq war) and was estimated at the time of his martyrdom at over 10,000 inside Iraq. Since its establishment in 1982, its main office was in Teheran, Iran but it has, created offices inside Iraq in liberated areas of Kurdistan Northern Iraq; in London which covers other European nations as well and the USA in addition to Syria which covers Lebanon as well as Vienna which covers Berlin also and even in Geneva, Canada, France, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Australia and other countries not listed here. He carried out this struggle by carefully following the Islamic ideology of our Holy Imams (AS) who also resisted so-called Muslim corrupted leaders and despotic Muslim Kings as well as Arab dictators such as Yazeed and Muawia, among others. Despite all the impressive political organization by Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim, there also lies the Islamic ideology to which most Muslims do not fully understand themselves which stems from the Prophets (AS) and Holy Imams (AS) of reminding the people of Gods laws, Gods mercy and a need to change their way of life in order to combat evil via dua (prayers) to God and believing in the victory of God and His promise to His believers over the Kufur (unbelievers). The Islamic ideology has been addressed by prominent Ayatollahs including Ayatollah Kashani, Imam Khomeini (RA), Martyr Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Baqir Al Sadr, to name a few. It is an ideology which follows the examples set by all Prophets of God, all Holy Imams (AS) of God, and all the laws sent down by God to human kind throughout the ages in Holy Books as Sahifa of Prophet Noah (AS), Sahifa of Prophet Ibrahim (AS), Zaboor (Psalms) of Prophet David (AS), Old Testament of Prophet Moses (AS), the New Testament of Prophet Jesus (AS) and the Holy Quran revealed to Prophet Muhammad (Saw) in which the laws do not differ nor did the message which forms the basis of the ideology. This ideology is a complete change of lifestyle, actions, concerns for the environment and for others in faith, laws and practices which serve God alone and no idol or nothing that breaks the first of the 10 Commandments in the Holy Bible on the unity of God and a political ideology which has come from it suggesting that no one sides with an oppressor. This ideology stems from the Ahadith (traditions) given to us by our Holy Imams (AS) on how to combat the evil of satan and his followers and most of all to achieve our end goal of growing closer to Allah. All the Prophets (AS) suffered in some form or another either in part or for most of their lives but they showed concern for humankind because they believed in Gods compassion and understanding and most of all His forgiveness knowing very well that despite the FREE WILL we have to do either good or bad, choose heaven or hell, and that shows Gods compassion for us, we still are imperfect beings in need of our creator. Such an ideology is crucial to understanding how the Islamic movement has been used to fight oppression, something that many leaders of the oppressed today in other countries have not fully understood because like most Arab leaders, they are trying to impose imperfect systems in the Middle East and the Islamic World which will not work since they are devoid of morality, an understanding of the justice of God and forgiveness as well as punishment for deliberately doing wrong. The Western concept of doing evil is summed up in confession one week, only to do it again in the coming week which is a mockery of Gods laws and yet, God is merciful in our epoch than any other because of Prophet Muhammad (saw) being sent as a mercy to mankind for the Muslims and even non-Muslims giving them many chances to change for the better. Upon the fall of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim returned to Iraq in May 2003 from Iran after 23 years in exile. Just like Imam Khomeini (RA) of Iran who came back after 14 years in exile from France, Europe after also being in Iraq too, so too this beloved Ayatollah was seen as the hope for Iraq. Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim crossed the border to Al Basrah on the 10th of May 2003 where 100,000 people entered a stadium to hear him speak, such was the effect he had on the masses. In a speech he thanked Iran for its support and rejected any foreign attempts to provide a government for Iraq. While the average westerner do not understand or have no idea of the struggles of Iraqis; Iraqis are very much aware of their struggle against the dictator who had killed 300,000 people as well as received weapons of mass destruction from his superpower friends to gas the Kurds in the north and to use against the Iranians during the 8 year war with Iran. Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim wanted to bring justice to Iraq which the superpowers knew but claimed only after his assassination at the age of 63 years on August 29th 2003 in two car bombs outside Imam Alis (AS) Holy Shrine, that he had been working with them and that he was a friend to them. Evidence from his own speeches will show that he was no friend of a nation that preaches one thing and does another. A nation that claims to be fighting a war on terror but has supported and created terror in the form of individuals, bases, dictators and imposed rule of oppressors for more than half a century now. Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim was not a hypocrite and certainly stood against oppression and occupation. In one of his speeches, he said:I call on Iraqis to converge in Karbala to oppose any sort of foreign domination and support establishment of an Iraqi government that protects freedom, independence and justice for all Iraqis. He advocated a multi party system for Iraq and an Islamic State, which in his words will not be like the fundamentalist Taliban government of Afghanistan.Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim understood that the Islamic movement is above all forms of isms such as Communism and Capitalism, nationalism, racism, and religious fundamentalism. In trying to understand his assassination and why it took place, the main issue is who is responsible for this assassination and whom we should question regarding this? Allah shows this in the Holy Quran in the relation of Prophet Yousefs (AS) brothers who took him away and claimed a Wolf ate him. Allah shows that this is an Islamic principle in which the brothers were directly responsible for his safety. Since this is an international principle, it shows that since the occupiers of Iraq could not protect Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim then, they are directly responsible for his safety and for what happened to him in Iraq. Even when he was alive Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim refused to meet with superpowers and foreign occupiers; he did in fact, agreed to meet the then UN head, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who persuaded him to let SCIRI join the governing council. However, the ruthlessness of a certain superpower to continuously raid SCIRI offices, claiming they were looking for links to Iran, proves that they were not committed to justice or protection of those they occupy thus, even violating the Geneva Convention to which they have signed themselves previously. The superpowers concept of peace, democracy, justice and freedom has never ever been defined except in terms of their own selfish interests. In finding out who is responsible, they first, accused baathist loyalists but even under Saddam Hussein, they never attacked Imam Alis (AS) shrine; they claim it was foreign fighters but even foreigners were in Iraq helping their fellow Iraqis free themselves from foreign occupation and its illogical to cause division in a war against a common enemy; they even accused the Ayatollah Sayyed Al hakims rival, Sayyed Moqtahah Al-Sadr, who also regards Irans theocracy as a model for Iraq but differed with then Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim by saying that leadership belongs to those who never left Iraq. Sayyed Al Sadr is the son of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Al Sadr, who was assassinated by Saddams agents in 1999. Ayatollah Sayyed Al hakims other rival is Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Al-Sistani, who is believed to be supportive of keeping Iraqi Clergy out of Iraqi politics but even him will not want to kill another fellow Ayatollah. Another rival was Sayyed Abd Al-majid Al-Khoei who was assassinated in April in Najaf in the same year too, a few days after returning from exile from London, England. Sayyed AL-Khoei had actively supported a foreign intervention in Iraq. So, all his so-called opposition or enemies are not even alive or capable of assassinating him and that leaves logically the present occupiers of Iraq which has been opposed to him from day one, to be fully responsible for someone under their protection. In fact, in his own words he himself condemned the superpower:Do the Americans accept it if the English govern their country, even though they share a similar culture? How can we accept a foreign government whose language is different from ours, whose skin is different from ours? Oh brothers, we will fight and fight so that the government we have is independent, that it is Iraqi. Understanding Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakims struggle in Iraq is to understand the Islamic ideology and discipline that comes with it. It is to understand that justice and freedom comes as Martyr Al Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) said when Afro Americans are willing to die for their freedom they will be free (he was concerned that Afro Americans were too busy singing, clapping, dancing and accommodating their oppressors and thus failed without understanding Islam).Similarly, Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakim never gave into Saddam Hussein nor did he give into any foreign power but kept true to Islam and the oppressed people of Iraq. He served God and as such he was allowed to best serve the Iraqis. Resistance against the foreign occupation is natural when you consider what the superpowers have been doing across the World in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Iraq today in 2003. While there have been groups as Iraqi Resistance Brigade, Army of Mohammed, Muslim Fighters of the Victorious Sects, General Command of the Iraqi Armed Resistance and Liberation Forces, and Islamic Armed Group of al-Qaeda (Fallujah branch); the fundamental fact remains that Iraq is not free and its lack of freedom comes from the very superpower which occupies it today and is directly responsibility for the safety and protection of human life in Iraq. A superpower has left thousands of miles away to occupy Iraq, impose a government which has no power, no army of its own, no air force, no navy, not even control of what their children are studying in school since the books are produced in that superpowers country and they start with propaganda on the myths of freedom and democracy when it oppresses this same ethnic group (Arabs and Muslims) inside its own Empire. The attacks will get only worst until the this superpower realizes, when its too late, that occupation of anyones country is wrong under any law: man made laws or Gods laws. This superpower have taken a country with one huge problem of a dictator it once supported and turned it into a country of legitimate fighters seeking to free their country at all costs including using their own lives. Perhaps the greatest effect is this superpower has created a vacuum to be filled by real terrorists who seek to terrorize as a way to battle for power using their own inappropriate policies against them. So, instead of fighting terrorism; they are fuelling acts of terror against themselves and innocent Iraqis. Standing up to occupiers and oppressors is part of the Islamic ideology set in the same land by Imam Hussein(AS) when he stood up against the evil Yazeed of his time. While attacks have been mounted not only against Allama and Ayatollah Sayyeds but many non-Sayyeds who were martyred in Irans glorious revolution in 1979 and in Iraqs struggle for justice and a system for the believers that will enable them to grow closer to Allah. Many Sayyed families have continuously been under attack as the Sayyed Al Sadr, Sayyed Musawi, Sayyed Al Hakim, and other Sayyed families who continue to pay then price for freedom with their blood collectively while the Shias continue to be under attack in a post Saddams Iraq. The issue of the responsibility for Ayatollah Sayyed Al Hakims martyrdom rests with the present occupiers of Iraq and this is a fact that cannot be denied in international law or even in the Holy Quran.
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