Thanks to a friend at another forum, I learned of these sites and I'm fascinated and heartened to read the blogs. Haven't gotten to all of them yet, but all the bloggers so far seem to rejoice in the freedoms Iraqis now enjoy and have great hopes for more.
I realize many who read threads in this section of CF aren't Christians; if you are please pray for the Iraqi elections on 1/30. Pray that these voices and others like them are heard for the rest of their hopefully long lives and that they will form an independent, democratic nation with religious freedom.
http://iraqilibe.blogspot.com/
The title of this guy's page ...a Sunni who would've enjoyed more freedom than many under Husseins rule is
"Free Iraqi
I was not living before the 9th of April [2003] and now I am, so let me speak"
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Copied and pasted blog from an Iraqi Christian. Emphasis mine.
http://www.iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Order
Order is needed in every system, and law would assure the order in any society. Law either respected or enforced, so if the society would not respect the law then it must fear it.
After spending five day in a business trip to Basra again, I have came home three days ago filled with admire ness and respect to the Iraqi southern society which I found very cooperative and marching towards prosperity with steady steps.
I don’t want to exaggerate but on a scale of 10, if problems in Baghdad evaluated with 9 then it’s only 2 in Basra, and I was in Basra a little more than a month ago and I felt difference there this week for better. What really made me happy is the respect IPs are getting there which means respect for the law. And the same is happening in Samawa, Omara, Nasiriya, and Koot, (all are southern cities). On my way to Basra and my way back I didn’t see any multinational forces or any INGs, all were policemen on all check points (about 11 of checkpoints), all asking for IDs and our heading and searching the car. As usual looking at the bright side of our situation in Baghdad I felt it’s a matter of time to be just like the Iraqi southern or northern societies, we do have problems in Baghdad, the most important one of them is the people here are not respecting the law, so simply they must fear it and to enforce law you must have an elected government not a provisional one, and that’s what we are going to have in few days from now.
Election is a fact and is going to take place on the 30th of January no matter what, and may be some of us are not going to see the day after that day and loose their lives electing the right people or at least who we think right people, but it will be the price for our freedom, may be we didn’t pay enough to remove Saddam, so it is the price we are going to pay that day, the 30th of January 2005 to overcome our fears and be free people who did pay for their freedom.
Its not a dreamy words and not banner words for election campaign, I am not a candidate and I am not going to be one but after few years from now inside Iraq or any where else in the world it will be very prodding to sit beside a chimney fire and tell the story of that day to a grand sun or two, or at least to remember that day a lone and remember that we weren’t afraid of a bunch of masked head choppers who wanted to take us to dark ages where we would be slaves of evil.
The same day of my return to Baghdad I felt sleepy at evening when my wife came to me running awaking me saying “someone on the door”, I opened my eyes and went to open the door and saw a multinational solders with INGs urging me to open and I opened and they went in to search the house….my house, and started to ask questions fast “ any AKs?, do you have a pistol?, what do you do for living? And more “, I took the matter easy and answered the questions and showed them the place for the rifle and the pistol and gave them the permits for those. After checking my permits they cleared to me that it was a precaution check for the neighborhood to protect the election center which is going to be in it, and I cant carry any weapon that day and if I have any information about terrorism I may tell about and urged me to go to the election and assured to me that they will be there to protect the people. After thanking us they went to the other houses for the same. It was a new experience for our family, we have never had a house search before even before April 2003, but law is law and we must respect it and let it assure our life’s order otherwise we are going to fear it as we did all our life before April 2003.
I realize many who read threads in this section of CF aren't Christians; if you are please pray for the Iraqi elections on 1/30. Pray that these voices and others like them are heard for the rest of their hopefully long lives and that they will form an independent, democratic nation with religious freedom.
http://iraqilibe.blogspot.com/
The title of this guy's page ...a Sunni who would've enjoyed more freedom than many under Husseins rule is
"Free Iraqi
I was not living before the 9th of April [2003] and now I am, so let me speak"
-----------
Copied and pasted blog from an Iraqi Christian. Emphasis mine.
http://www.iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Order
Order is needed in every system, and law would assure the order in any society. Law either respected or enforced, so if the society would not respect the law then it must fear it.
After spending five day in a business trip to Basra again, I have came home three days ago filled with admire ness and respect to the Iraqi southern society which I found very cooperative and marching towards prosperity with steady steps.
I don’t want to exaggerate but on a scale of 10, if problems in Baghdad evaluated with 9 then it’s only 2 in Basra, and I was in Basra a little more than a month ago and I felt difference there this week for better. What really made me happy is the respect IPs are getting there which means respect for the law. And the same is happening in Samawa, Omara, Nasiriya, and Koot, (all are southern cities). On my way to Basra and my way back I didn’t see any multinational forces or any INGs, all were policemen on all check points (about 11 of checkpoints), all asking for IDs and our heading and searching the car. As usual looking at the bright side of our situation in Baghdad I felt it’s a matter of time to be just like the Iraqi southern or northern societies, we do have problems in Baghdad, the most important one of them is the people here are not respecting the law, so simply they must fear it and to enforce law you must have an elected government not a provisional one, and that’s what we are going to have in few days from now.
Election is a fact and is going to take place on the 30th of January no matter what, and may be some of us are not going to see the day after that day and loose their lives electing the right people or at least who we think right people, but it will be the price for our freedom, may be we didn’t pay enough to remove Saddam, so it is the price we are going to pay that day, the 30th of January 2005 to overcome our fears and be free people who did pay for their freedom.
Its not a dreamy words and not banner words for election campaign, I am not a candidate and I am not going to be one but after few years from now inside Iraq or any where else in the world it will be very prodding to sit beside a chimney fire and tell the story of that day to a grand sun or two, or at least to remember that day a lone and remember that we weren’t afraid of a bunch of masked head choppers who wanted to take us to dark ages where we would be slaves of evil.
The same day of my return to Baghdad I felt sleepy at evening when my wife came to me running awaking me saying “someone on the door”, I opened my eyes and went to open the door and saw a multinational solders with INGs urging me to open and I opened and they went in to search the house….my house, and started to ask questions fast “ any AKs?, do you have a pistol?, what do you do for living? And more “, I took the matter easy and answered the questions and showed them the place for the rifle and the pistol and gave them the permits for those. After checking my permits they cleared to me that it was a precaution check for the neighborhood to protect the election center which is going to be in it, and I cant carry any weapon that day and if I have any information about terrorism I may tell about and urged me to go to the election and assured to me that they will be there to protect the people. After thanking us they went to the other houses for the same. It was a new experience for our family, we have never had a house search before even before April 2003, but law is law and we must respect it and let it assure our life’s order otherwise we are going to fear it as we did all our life before April 2003.
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