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Iraqis In France Pin High Hopes On Reborn Resistance
Shocked and distressed by the Anglo-American occupation of their motherland, Iraqi immigrants in France have a strong feeling that the Iraqi people will stand up to the occupation. âIt is nothing but a defeat for all Arabs that resembles the defeat of the Palestinians and Arabs in 1948. All people failed us; the Arabs, the Kurds and the TurksâŠbut Allah Almighty will never do,â Shaker Al-Saaidi, head of the Iraqi immigrantsâ society in France, told IslamOnline.net. âWhen Baghdad fell in the hands of the U.S. Marines, I was shocked. I was feeling like running barefoot in Paris and shouting how on earth a country like Iraq that carries 5,000 thousand years of civilization behind it falls in the hands of a bunch of mercenaries of no history,â Saaidi said, lamenting the fall of Baghdad on April 9.Maybe because the people and the army were sick of their dictator? And the Merkins had the heavy artillery? Just a guess, mind you, but that combination is usually what does it... âHow can Baghdad, the diamond of Islamic caliphate, collapse? On this ill-fated day, I switched my cellular off and went to a Paris café all by myselfâŠI did not want to talk to anybody; silence was most telling,â he recalled. Take an aperitif and lie down... Ahmad, an Iraqi who has been residing in France for some 18 years, feels disappointed at the current situation in Iraq. âIraq has went through many crises, such as the 1980-1988 war with Iran and the 1991 second Gulf War, but we have never felt homeless or that the Iraqi identity was targeted as we do nowadays,â he asserted. âMy nine-year-old daughter always asks me whether or not we will visit our relatives in Basra.â Maybe you should wait a month or two... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-15 |
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