Angry Iraqis Protest U.S. Soldiers’ Throwing Of Qur’an
“Even Saddam did not behave in this manner,” said angry Iraqis
Additional Reporting By Subhy Hadad, IOl Correspondent
BAGHDAD, October 21 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Scores of angry Iraqi employees broke out in rage Tuesday, October 21, after a U.S. soldier hurled a copy of the holy Qur’an to the ground.
The U.S. desecration started after a veiled Iraqi woman refused to let U.S. occupation soldiers use a sniff dog to search her bag because it contained a copy of the Qur’an, furious demonstrators told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Amal Karim asked them not to let the dog touch her bag because there was a Qur’an inside,” oil ministry employee Zainab Assem Assem told AFP, adding a U.S. soldier threw the copy to the ground.
“Amal started shouting: ‘Can you (Iraqis) let American soldiers desecrate our holy Qur’an?’ And the crowd was steaming with anger,” she added.
The demonstrators demanded that U.S. troops leave and be replaced by Iraqi police.
“We will demonstrate every morning until the soldiers leave the entrance to the ministry,” said Mohammad Assem, adding that U.S. soldiers fired shots in the air to disperse the irked crowd.
“Even Saddam did not behave in this manner,” said Jassem in reference to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. “Their attitude is unacceptable,” he said.
Iraqi traditions also refuse the inspection of women by men or touching their bodies or clothes by dogs, whether they were police or ordinary dogs.
Muslims consider dogs to be an unclean animal, and the use of dogs in searches has caused numerous incidents in Iraq.
According to Islamic teachings, people are not allowed to keep a dog at home for a purpose other than hunting or guarding the house (watch dogs).
In June, an angry Iraqi crowd killed six British soldiers who were using dogs in searches in Amara, 365 kilometers (230 miles) southeast of Baghdad.
Two months ago, the U.S. army decided to scale down its raids on Iraqis and house-to-house searches, admitting that this “iron-fisted” approach has proved counterproductive and alienated the people of Iraq.
Comment:
The humiliation of muslims continues during the blessed month of ramadhan and will continue until we as a muslim ummah return back to ruling according to the Quran and Sunnah. It is very easy for us as muslims to get angry over this incident and curse the americans for their wicked actions, but what we fail to realise is that we have the Quran in our homes and we wrap it nicely and put it on the top shelf and only read it during ramadhan or when someone dies. It is we who have abandoned and insulted the Quran by allowing our lands to be ruled according to man made ideologies like capitalism instead of according to Quran and Sunnah, and until we do so the humiliation of muslims and Allahs deen will continue.