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were most entitled to. Allah has knowledge of all things. (Surat al-
Fath: 26)

Allah has created people with different races and colors. Man is a
helpless creature, fully dependent on Allah, so nobody has any right to
claim to be superior to any other person or nation. At the moment of
death, on the Day of Judgment or in the hereafter, such things as race
will be of no importance. On that day, nobody will be able to hold any-
one else to account for their race or origins. Those who are now behav-
ing savagely because of their race, killing people and even burning
them alive, will on that day realize how helpless and needy they are, no
matter their race. In one verse Allah reveals the following about the
Day of Judgment:
Then when the Trumpet is blown, that Day there will be no family
ties between them; they will not be able to question one another.
(Surat al-Muminun: 101)
In addition to racism, Saddam also believed in fascism. He in-
flicted fascist repression on his own people, and just like Hitler and
Mussolini, he believed that war a sacred virtue with a perverted men-
tality. Whereas apart from certain causes set out in the Qur'an, starting
wars is a great evil and a grave sin. What Allah says about the unbeliev-
ing sons of Israel applies to all wicked people: "... Each time they kindle
the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it. They rush about the earth cor-
rupting it. Allah does not love corrupters." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 64)
In short, since the 1970s, the Muslims of Iraq were subjected to the
cruelty of a dictator who was far removed from the morality set out in
the Qur'an, but one who believed instead in racial and tribal bigotry,
had no hesitation about killing hundreds of thousands of innocent peo-
ple to satisfy his own desires, and who took great pleasure in cruelty
and torture. Even after Saddam, Iraq has still not achieved stability and
well-being. The conflict in the country continues and security has not
been fully established. It is to be hoped that Iraq will soon attain an en-
lightened order that will bring peace and security to all ethnic and reli-
gious groups.