'Urgent message By Association of Muslim Scholars To Iraqi Revolutionaries'
18 June 2014
By Association of Muslim Scholars
Due to major victories bestowed by God to you and for
the major defeat suffered by Iraqi people's enemies
and destruction of their centers, which represents the
falling leaves in autumn, it is crucial to draw your
attention to the following points:
We want victory over the enemies and defeat of their
conspiracies. God willing we are going to have greater
victories in coming days. To this end, we wish to
underline the following points:
1. God has bestowed victory to you and this must be
appreciated.
2. Your victory has had a major impact inside and
outside Iraq. Obviously, the enemy is conspiring
[against this victory] full force. They intend to
tarnish the image of the revolutionaries.
3. The most important issue now is the victory of our
revolution and we must gain the trust of people. The
revolutionaries must serve the people. They want to
remove injustice against the people. You must
safeguard this phenomenon. Must try to turn every
liberated city into a symbol for other cities.
4. You must know that liberating people from the
tyrants is not an easy task. But, the main issue comes
after achieving freedom. The revolutionaries in Mosul,
in particular, have taken up the running affairs of
the people up to this point. But we must bear in mind
that Mosul is a big city and thus requires independent
local management and this is very important for the
revolutionaries. Therefore, local revolutionary
councils must be set up to include all sections of the
society.
5. The revolutionaries must be open to people and
understand their problems wholeheartedly and try to
resolve them.
6. Must try as much as possible to provide the needs
of the people. This relates to the fate of tens of
thousands of families.
7. Revolutionaries in Mosul, Salaheddin and other
liberated areas must pay attention to this.
8. Treatment of minorities must be according to our
religious values (treated nicely). The revolutionaries
must present a very decent image of themselves to the
world. Any restriction against them must be removed.
This is very important for protection of the
minorities and their beliefs.
9. You must bear in mind a very important issue in
relation with other countries and in particular the
neighbors; right now, taking hostage Turkish consul
and number of others has already turned into a major
problem and this has not served the interests of the
revolutionaries and their movement. Nobody is allowed
to act contrary to the will of people.
10. In the current situation, the most important point
is unity and the evil must not be granted the
opportunity to carry out its plots. No one is allowed
to make strategic decision in this respect.
Revolutionaries are no one but part of 30 million
Iraqis. People of Iraq are those who have been staging
peaceful demonstrations in 16 cities since February
25, 2011, but after few months Maliki opened fire on
them. Demonstrations and protests started in six
governorates after that. Iraqis held sit-ins for more
than a year and presented their just demands but
Maliki responded by iron force and fire followed by
tanks and heavy weapons leading to hundreds of deaths
and injuries. Iraqis were left with no other option
but to respond in the same way. That was people's
revolution and any movement or group thinking that
holds the leadership of the revolution is wrong and
lives in illusion... Children of the revolution have
decided to remain in conciliation with all those who
stand by them in their fight against tyrants… but,
they will not allow anyone to snatch their revolution,
whoever they might be. They will neither allow anyone
to cause sedition among revolutionaries, like what
happened in Syria, this will not be in the interests
of anyone but the enemies of Iraq and Iraqi people.
11. The revolutionaries' slogan is very clear and it
is the same slogan used by Prophet Mohammad when he
conquered Mecca and which was forgiveness and
compassion. This is what our revolutionary children
did… forgiveness is the key to conquer people's
hearts. But with respect to tyrants, they will be
handed over to a just judiciary system to be tried at
the right time in criminal courts. A judiciary system
that will not resemble in any way a sectarian and
politicized judiciary set up by Maliki. It will not be
an establishment to justify killings and contrary to
practices of Prophet Mohammad…
12. The target for the revolutionaries now is to reach
Baghdad and this is their right, because the ruling
regime in Baghdad is a tyranny committing crimes
against people… and the revolutionaries have no other
alternative but to remove tyranny and injustice.
Within this context, we warn against calls on the
revolutionaries to move on Najaf and Karbala and other
places. Such calls are unacceptable and rejected and
it is an irresponsible issue by any one… this will be
a prelude to a defeat and diversion from its objective
to help the oppressed and will lead to sedition among
the united nation. Everybody knows that the majority
of Iraqi people in the south reject Maliki and his
gang, and like the rest of people they suffer severe
injustice and poverty, trampling of their dignity and
rights, and the domination of criminal parties and
paramilitary forces over them. We advise all
revolutionaries to refrain from any act prompted by
sectarian emotions. This is what all the known major
and minor governments are doing for their destructive
agenda against Iraq and the whole region.
We are all the children of the same country and we all
work together to remove injustice from all Iraqis
without excluding any religion within the society, and
prior to that we try for the victory of the religion
and restoration of justice and removal of injustice.
We do not recognize any distinction among people or
various religions since we share the same land and
future.
These were our urgent observations. We hope you would
pay attention to these points and accept them from
your brothers. These observations are the results of
past experience… and for you to achieve higher
objectives. God willing, we will continue with our
contacts with you where ever the interests of all are
concerned until the major victory…
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