Iraq

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• Yazidi leader seeks protection for community after genocide
  8 December 2016, by siawi3

  Khurto Hajji Ismail, the Yazidi Baba Sheikh, or religious leader, said an edict he issued to reintegrate former captives has helped overcome traditional resistance to accepting back women who were raped or members who converted to another faith, even if it was under force.

• Iraq: Islam is not part of our genetic make-up.
  10 December 2017, by siawi3

  How does it sound if we call Westerners “good Christians”, “bad Christians”, “people of Christian heritage” or “secular Christians”? The answer is that you cannot label people from a certain geographical area in such a way. In my view this carries racist connotations and is disempowering and patronizing. There are so many ordinary citizens from the Middle East who do not identify with any of the terminologies mentioned above. Instead, they want Islam to be kept out of politics.

• Iraq : sur l’occupation de Mossoul et les villes d’Irak occidental
  3 juillet 2014, par siawi3

  La société irakienne souffre d’une crise sans précédent qui menace une coexistence future pacifique de citoyens, et augmente les génocides et les conflits civils basés sur les identités sectaires qui ont été imposées à la population irakienne, et qui ont été renforcées par plus d’une décennie d’occupation américaine en Irak.

• Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law to permit child marriage
  9 March 2014, by siawi3

  About two dozen Iraqi women have demonstrated in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers. The proposed new law’s defenders argue that the current personal status law violates sharia religious law. “We believe that this is a crime against humanity” .“It would deprive a girl of her right to live a normal childhood.”

• Iraq: ISIS is no-one’s representative
  21 August 2014, by siawi3

  In any conflict situation, the first received reports are of attacks on women, restrictions on their movement as well as rape. These are not new of such Jihadist movements or groups, which are heavily armed and extremely primitive. They have no respect for human rights or women’s rights. According to news reports, Islamists are going to houses and to families and marrying young girls or children in what they call Jihadist Nikah – which is basically child abuse and against children’s rights and human rights. They are also carrying out lots of killings and public executions. And they are carrying out terror at all levels

• France : Appel à la communauté internationale pour sauver les chrétiens d’Irak, cosigné par la LDH
  2 août 2014, par siawi3

  Depuis quelques semaines – et particulièrement ces derniers jours –, une population entière de chrétiens d’Irak fait l’objet d’une extermination ethnique et religieuse déclarée, au nom de l’islam, de la part des troupes barbares de l’EIIL (Da‘ich). Femmes, hommes, enfants, civils et religieux sont expropriés, dépossédés de leurs biens, pourchassés de leurs maisons, de leur terre, ou tout simplement lâchement assassinés. A Mossoul, des églises et des bibliothèques sont brûlées.

• Iraq: ISIS is fascism of our time
  11 August 2014, by siawi3

  An appeal in support of people of Sinjar

• Iraq: Peshmerga foil jihadist attack on oil facility in northern Iraq
  3 August 2014, by siawi3

  The Islamic State (IS), which controls the northern city, “attacked a peshmerga post in Zumar (Friday) and a fierce battle erupted”.

• Iraq in today’s litterature
  10 June 2017, by siawi3

  ’Today’s Iraqi writing is certainly much better and braver than the timid writing under Baathism.’ Trauma and a determination to survive despite the odds can spur innovative thinking, but these are not the optimal conditions for creativity to thrive. As Blasim astutely acknowledged, what is needed now is stability: “Peace is the laboratory of the imagination.”

• Inde : Sur la Palestine et l’Irak
  20 août 2014, par siawi3

  En dehors du Parlement, de nombreux groupes laïques, dans différentes parties du pays, ont organisé des marches de solidarité avec les Palestiniens. Mais quiconque lit les journaux en urdu peut voir que pour bien trop de musulmans indiens, la Palestine est une histoire religieuse. Pourtant, les atrocités perpétrées par l’Etat Islamique ont aussi peu à voir avec l’Islam que la tyrannie des sionistes a à voir avec le judaïsme.

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