In Iraq, the years of rule of the bloody dictator are increasingly remembered with warmth. The main music lover among Muslims

Iraqi politicians and theologians cannot yet decide what to do with the Koran, written in the blood of Saddam Hussein, reports today "> InoPressa.ru with reference to the British newspaper The Guardian.

In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein regularly "worked" on a handwritten book for two years with a nurse and a master of Islamic calligraphy. The nurse took his blood - it took a total of 27 liters to write the Koran. The calligrapher copied the Koran with this blood. After the capture of Baghdad by Anglo-American troops, the book is kept behind three locks in a Baghdad mosque. “The Iraqi authorities are at a loss as to what to do with this memo about the overthrown dictator,” writes the author of the publication.

He managed to visit the vault of the mosque, which Saddam nicknamed the “Mother of all battles.” "What is stored here is priceless, worth millions of dollars, no exaggeration," said Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai, head of the Iraqi Sunni Charitable Foundation.

“Getting even here - to the doors of the forbidden vault - turned out to be very difficult,” notes a journalist from The Guardian. According to him, the authorities are doing everything in their power to prevent people from seeing these relics. "The Shia-led regime is deeply wary of the return of any symbols that could create a stir around the surviving prominent Ba'athists, who still carry out bombings and assassinations within days of each other," the article says.

Sunnis, for their part, fear both the displeasure of the authorities and the wrath of Allah: according to Sheikh Samarrai, writing the Koran in blood is “haram” (forbidden by Islam). The book is kept behind three locks: one key is with Samarrai, another with the police chief, and a third in another area of ​​Baghdad. A guest can only be allowed into the storage facility by mutual decision.

As Iraq slowly assembles its fourth cabinet since the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a difficult question arises: what to do with the Saddam-era monuments that are inseparable from the image of the country? Thus, the Crossed Swords monument on the former parade ground in the center of Baghdad is associated with the city in the same way as Hagia Sophia is with Istanbul.

Several prominent politicians, including Ahmed Chalabi, one of the key oppositionists under Saddam, are confident that everything associated with the executed dictator should be removed: “It is an obvious reminder of the consequences of totalitarianism and the idealization of a person who personifies evil.” Saddam was part Iraqi history, and his legacy should be remembered by learning from both the good and the bad, argues Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, a former advisor to national security, who escorted Saddam to the scaffold. "The main lesson is that dictatorship must not return to Iraq," he says.

Ali al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Prime Minister al-Maliki, said there was no place for statues of Saddam on the streets, but said of the “bloody Koran”: “We must preserve this as evidence of Saddam’s cruelty: he should not have created such a Koran. He talks a lot about Saddam. But you can’t put the Koran in a museum: no Iraqi will want to look at it.”

Saddam Hussein decided to return to the fold of Islam after his eldest son Uday survived the assassination attempt, the newspaper recalls. Calligrapher Abbas Shakir Judy al-Baghdadi, who wrote the Koran in blood on Saddam's order, created a real work of art. But Sheikh Samarrai did not dare to let The Guardian journalist into the storage facility: “It’s not worth it, out of harm’s way. People will exaggerate this fact too much.”

Let us recall that 10 years ago, during the life of the Iraqi dictator, the Saudi newspaper Al-Bilad condemned Saddam Hussein for “outraging” the Koran and using the Holy Scriptures of Muslims for propaganda purposes.

The reason for this was the presentation of the “bloody” manuscript to Hussein in September 2000.

As the Al-Bilad newspaper stated at the time, Saddam Hussein's sacrilegious act left her feeling shocked and disgusted. The Koran - God's Word - does not need to be rewritten in Saddam's blood, "smelling of Cuban cigar butts." Every true Muslim should simply give the Quran due reverence and respect, the author of the publication in the Saudi publication reminded.

As the newspaper noted, the Iraqi leader “maliciously” used the Koran for propaganda purposes to strengthen his position and “deceive the common people,” knowing that such hypocrisy is unacceptable in relation to the Holy Scriptures.

Saddam Hussein, Al-Bilyad emphasized, behaves this way because he is confident that no one dares to object to him in a country ruled by a dictatorial regime that “does not respect religion, morality, or even the customs of a real Muslim.”

It took Saddam Hussein a whole eleven years to stay in the role right hand the then ruler of Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, to finally sit on the long-awaited throne: this happened exactly on July 16, 1979 - today, if he were in power, Saddam would have noted 34 years of presidential service in his work book.

The 42-year-old president immediately showed himself: he arrested two dozen party leaders, almost all the ministers and even his close friends. They are guilty, they say, of treason and conspiracy against a great nation. He executed everyone, and personally presided over the ceremony.

Operation Desert Storm, permanent internal and external wars, an attempt to occupy the oil fields of Iran and obtain the title “King of the Persian Gulf” - all this has long been known to the world about Saddam. But there are some rather interesting facts that not everyone knows about. The men's online magazine MPORT offers you them as self-education.

Bloody Koran

In the late nineties, Saddam worked hard for about two years on a handwritten version of the Koran. He worked in a rather unique way: he donated blood to a nurse, and the invited master of Islamic calligraphy carefully wrote Arabic script on paper using the dictator’s blood.

As the president himself boasted, he spent 27 liters of his own blood for this good cause. Today, the Iraqi authorities are at a loss as to what to do with the book. Keeping it is a shame, but you can’t burn it: the Koran, after all.

Education with a stick

Usually, Saddam turned a blind eye to the “tricks” of his son Uday, who only raped a couple of old women in Iraq. However, the formidable head of state lost his temper when the son approached the wife of the Danish ambassador with an offer to tumble - and, showing nobility, he soundly hit the heir in the legs with a stick.

After his father’s bright wrath, Uday drove a comfortable car for a month wheelchair, for which he received the unofficial nickname Lame.

Stood up for a woman

It is unimaginable that the head of an Islamic state could do such a thing. However, Saddam had an excuse: the woman was a Lebanese lawyer named Bushra Khalil, called upon to defend the dictator in court.

Source: AP

When the judge abruptly interrupted the overly emotional speaker and tried to remove her from the room, Saddam was indignant: how, they say, could infringe on a woman’s rights? “I am Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, I stand above everyone!” he said then his famous phrase. Unfortunately, it didn't work - the judge had a different opinion.

First and last

Even after his death, Saddam managed to distinguish himself: he managed to become the first dictator to be executed in the twenty-first century. According to the good Iraqi tradition, they wanted to broadcast the execution on TV, but in the end they made do with a modest recording on mobile phones.

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Beauty will save the world

According to Parisoula Lampsos, who claims that she had the honor of being Saddam's mistress, Hussein periodically did herbal masks for wrinkles and dyed his hair, wore suits by Pierre Cardin and liked to dance a little to Frank Sinatra. Well, who doesn’t want to be stylish and beautiful, guys?

Unnamed President

It turns out that a man named Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti did not have…. surnames! Saddam is the name. Hussein is the father's name, in our opinion a patronymic. Abd al-Majid is the name of the grandfather, and al-Tikriti simply means origin from Tikrit, the city where the future dictator was born. But there is no last name!

The main music lover among Muslims

The Iraqi President's passion for the music of Led Zeppelin was known to everyone in his immediate circle. You walk through the palace and hear Stairway to Heaven: it means that Saddam is somewhere nearby, enjoying meeting the beautiful.

Source: twitter

By the way, a serious incident once happened with this song: in 1991, the American radio station KLSK FM in Albuquerque decided to change the old format to a new, hard rock one. As a result, the above-mentioned composition was played on air for 24 hours straight. Concerned Americans have put forward only two theories. The first is that the DJ has a heart attack. The second is that the city was captured by Saddam Hussein and now dictates his own laws even in music.

Friendship with America

Despite his hatred of the United States, in 1999, twenty years after ascending the throne, Saddam even wrote a letter to Bill Clinton, where he agreed to make concessions and apologized for his behavior. He promised to end the war with Israel, carry out reforms and become a guarantor of peace in the Middle East.

In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein regularly “worked” for two years with a nurse and a master of Islamic calligraphy: the nurse took his blood (a total of 27 liters), and the calligrapher copied the Koran with this blood, The Guardian reports. After the capture of Baghdad by Anglo-American troops, the book is kept behind three locks in a Baghdad mosque. “The Iraqi authorities are at a loss as to what to do with this memo about the overthrown dictator,” writes journalist Martin Chulov.
The journalist visited the vault of the mosque, which Saddam nicknamed
"Mother of all battles." "What is stored here is priceless, worth millions of dollars, no exaggeration," said Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai, head of the Iraqi Sunni Charitable Foundation.
“Getting even here - to the doors of the forbidden storage facility - turned out to be very difficult,” notes the author of the publication. According to him, the authorities are doing everything in their power to prevent people from seeing these relics. “The Shiite-led regime is deeply wary of the return of any symbols that could create a stir around the surviving prominent Baathists, who still carry out bombings and assassinations within days of each other,” the article says.
Sunnis, for their part, fear both the displeasure of the authorities and the wrath of Allah: according to Sheikh Samarrai, writing the Koran in blood is “haram” (forbidden by Islam). The book is kept behind three locks: one key is with Samarrai, another with the police chief, and a third in another area of ​​Baghdad. A guest can only be allowed into the storage facility by mutual decision.
As Iraq slowly assembles its fourth cabinet since the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a difficult question arises: what to do with the Saddam-era monuments that are inseparable from the image of the country? Thus, the Crossed Swords monument on the former parade ground in the center of Baghdad is associated with the city in the same way as Hagia Sophia is with Istanbul.
Several prominent politicians, including Ahmed Chalabi, one of the key oppositionists under Saddam, are confident that everything associated with the executed dictator should be removed: “It is an obvious reminder of the consequences of totalitarianism and the idealization of a person who personifies evil.” Saddam was part of Iraqi history, and his legacy should be remembered by learning from both the good and the bad, argues Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, the former national security adviser who escorted Saddam to the scaffold. "The main lesson is that dictatorship must not return to Iraq," he says.
Ali al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Prime Minister al-Maliki, said there was no place for statues of Saddam on the streets, but said of the “bloody Koran”: “We must preserve this as evidence of Saddam’s cruelty: he should not have created such a Koran. He talks a lot about Saddam. But you can’t put the Koran in a museum: no Iraqi will want to look at it.”
Saddam decided to return to the fold of Islam after his eldest son Uday survived the assassination attempt, the newspaper recalls. Calligrapher Abbas Shakir Judy al-Baghdadi, who wrote the Koran in blood on Saddam's order, created a real work of art. But Sheikh Samarrai did not dare to let the journalist into the storage facility: “It’s not worth it to stay out of harm’s way. People will exaggerate this fact too much.”

In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein regularly “worked” for two years with a nurse and a master of Islamic calligraphy: the nurse took his blood (a total of 27 liters), and the calligrapher copied the Koran with this blood, The Guardian reports. After the capture of Baghdad by Anglo-American troops, the book is kept behind three locks in a Baghdad mosque. “The Iraqi authorities are at a loss as to what to do with this memo about the overthrown dictator,” writes journalist Martin Chulov.

The journalist visited the vault of the mosque, which Saddam nicknamed the “Mother of all battles.” "What is stored here is priceless, worth millions of dollars, no exaggeration," said Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai, head of the Iraqi Sunni Charitable Foundation.

“Getting even here - to the doors of the forbidden storage facility - turned out to be very difficult,” notes the author of the publication. According to him, the authorities are doing everything in their power to prevent people from seeing these relics. "The Shia-led regime is deeply wary of the return of any symbols that could create a stir around the surviving prominent Ba'athists, who still carry out bombings and assassinations within days of each other," the article says.

Sunnis, for their part, fear both the displeasure of the authorities and the wrath of Allah: according to Sheikh Samarrai, writing the Koran in blood is “haram” (forbidden by Islam). The book is kept behind three locks: one key is with Samarrai, another with the police chief, and a third in another area of ​​Baghdad. A guest can only be allowed into the storage facility by mutual decision.

As Iraq slowly assembles its fourth cabinet since the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a difficult question arises: what to do with the Saddam-era monuments that are inseparable from the image of the country? Thus, the Crossed Swords monument on the former parade ground in the center of Baghdad is associated with the city in the same way as Hagia Sophia is with Istanbul.

Several prominent politicians, including Ahmed Chalabi, one of the key oppositionists under Saddam, are confident that everything associated with the executed dictator should be removed: “It is an obvious reminder of the consequences of totalitarianism and the idealization of a person who personifies evil.” Saddam was part of Iraqi history, and his legacy should be remembered by learning from both the good and the bad, argues Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, the former national security adviser who escorted Saddam to the scaffold. "The main lesson is that dictatorship must not return to Iraq," he says.

Ali al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Prime Minister al-Maliki, said there was no place for statues of Saddam on the streets, but said of the “bloody Koran”: “We must preserve this as evidence of Saddam’s cruelty: he should not have created such a Koran. He talks a lot about Saddam. But you can’t put the Koran in a museum: no Iraqi will want to look at it.”

Saddam decided to return to the fold of Islam after his eldest son Uday survived the assassination attempt, the newspaper recalls. Calligrapher Abbas Shakir Judy al-Baghdadi, who wrote the Koran in blood on Saddam's order, created a real work of art. But Sheikh Samarrai did not dare to let the journalist into the storage facility: “It’s not worth it to stay out of harm’s way. People will exaggerate this fact too much.”

For two years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein was inseparable from a nurse and a master of Islamic calligraphy. Medical worker took his blood (about 27 liters), and the calligrapher copied the Koran with this blood.

According to the Express-K newspaper, the Koran, written in the blood of Saddam Hussein, is kept behind three locks in a Baghdad mosque. One key belongs to the head of the Iraqi Sunni Charitable Foundation, Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarra, another to the police chief, and the third is kept in the opposite area of ​​​​Baghdad.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai said that what is kept in the mosque is priceless and, without exaggeration, is worth millions of dollars. Let us add that Saddam himself called the storage facility “the Mother of all battles.”

After the capture of Iraq by Anglo-American troops, the country's authorities are perplexed as to what to do with the “talking” relic of the overthrown ruler? They do everything possible to prevent strangers from accessing the relic.

The Shiites, who are now at the head of the Iraqi government, fear the return of any symbols associated with the Baathists, who still organize bombings and killings at intervals of several days.

Sunnis, in turn, fear both the discontent of the authorities and the wrath of Allah. As Sheikh Samarrai says, Islam forbids writing the Koran in blood. That is why the mysterious book is guarded so carefully.

The question of what to do with what Saddam Hussein left behind is very pressing in Iraq. After all, most of the relics are inextricably linked both with the dictator himself and with the general appearance of the country. Oppositionists argue that all monuments associated with Saddam must be destroyed, because they are evidence of totalitarianism and the “idealization of a person who personifies evil.” While the opposite view is that the former leader is an integral part of Iraq and its history, it is only necessary to understand the difference between good and bad.

Prime Minister al-Maliki's spokesman Ali al-Moussawi says Saddam's memory should not be on the streets of Iraq, but the "bloody Koran" should be preserved as proof of the cruelty of Saddam, who should not have committed such an act. And although the calligrapher Abbas Shakir Judi al-Baghdadi, who wrote this Quran commissioned by Saddam, created a work of art, the book cannot be placed in a museum, because the Iraqis will not want to look at it. That is why the “bloody Koran” is kept in a vault behind three locks, where there is no place for outsiders yet.