Posted on 12/08/2010 11:09:33 AM PST by Mister Ghost
Iraq has officially become like Iran and Saudi Arabia. It is now a country that bans music, theater and alcohol, a country that I can call the New Islamic Republic of Iraq.
What a tragedy! Why don’t they call it “banning life”?
Is that art?! Last week, the Iraqi government shut down social clubs that serve alcohol in Baghdad, enraging the educated class who demonstrated against the extreme Islamic-inspired order. Today, Iraqis woke up to hear a far worse order; the Iraqi Ministry of Education has banned theater and music classes in Baghdad's Fine Arts Institute, and ordered the removal of statues showcased at the entrance of the institute without explaining the move.
In a country that went through wars, sanctions and a horrific totalitarian regime, art remained defiant against Islamic extremism throughout centuries. Art has always been an integral part of Iraqis’ lives. Yet today the turbaned Mullahs, who are turning secular Iraq back into the Stone Age, have denied Iraqis’ the right of keeping art part of their country, erasing the Mesopotamian heritage that we inherited thousands of years ago. I wish the Sumerian makers of the Golden Guitar were alive, 3000 years later to see what has happened to their country.
(Excerpt) Read more at bassamsebti.com ...
What was it that we saved them from, again?
> There is no fun in Islam... Ayatollah Khomeini
This is what 5,000 Americans died for.
Sorry, but this really is Bush’s fault.
We should have written their Constitution for them, the way we did for Japan.
I’ll wait to see a little follow up on this...
This is more evidence why Bush should have stuck with fighting Al Qaida in Afghanistan. With the twisted Islamic concept of justice, there is no such thing as a democracy. Give it some time, and Iraq will be down there in the sewer with Iran. The crazies with the dark robes and turbans are in the shadows, awaiting U.S. pullout.
Al Qaeda has pretty left Afghanistan. Now they are in U.S. "allied" Pakistan. I would have been better if Bush had stayed out of BOTH these quagmires.
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