Demanding an apology and dismissal of an Iraqi deputy who described the south as backward

Al Jazeera Net - The Qar

The statements of Iraqi MP Haifaa Al-Amin, who described southern Iraq as backward, raised the anger of the Iraqis. A number of intellectuals expressed dissatisfaction. Others called for their expulsion from Parliament, while others called for the "Surun" bloc to disown them.

"The south of Iraq is the most backward region compared to Baghdad and the Kurdistan region of Iraq," she said.

After the video, commentators said by means of communication that the deputy abused the cities of southern Iraq, and demanded an apology to the Iraqi people.

But the Secretary of State made the irony and controversy again a day after her statements, after publishing an official statement - on her Facebook page - explaining her purposes of the concept of underdevelopment, to receive hundreds of comments in criticism and ridicule for not apologizing and trying to circumvent her first statement.

Clarification
In an explanatory statement, Haifa Al-Ameen said in an explanatory statement that "the backwardness of the concepts of development is the absence of railways, paved streets, sewage or metro, nor a sophisticated and technical educational system. It does not mean that we do not have a poet. Al Mutanabbi is still second to none, In the present era. "

"Underdevelopment is to give a woman a quarterly because of a tribal dispute. The backwardness is to make a part of your people applauding you and electing you to give it a quarter of its rights. The underdevelopment is that people live below the poverty level, amid fires, microbes, landfills and nothing else. That our schools are muddy, some of them can fall, and our hospitals are in a tragic situation. "

The statement of clarification by the deputy was only cheating on the apology, according to a member of the provincial council of Dhi Qar Rashid al-Sarai in response to the Secretary's statement on his Facebook page.

hypocrisy
"I spoke in the video about a society that is backward by its customs and traditions, not about the services and performance of a government it is responsible for. What have I done to deal with it since I became a deputy and so far?"

"In your meeting you talk about something and in your apologies you talk about something else. The backwardness you are talking about in your apology is the product of injustice and failure in the performance of the officials and you are part of it, but it is different from the backwardness you are talking about in your meeting, which is the backwardness of society in its customs and traditions, This cheating? "

Ghazwan al-Ghazi responded: "You were not successful in conveying your idea, and I failed to express what I think, and I think you should apologize for the misunderstanding that resulted from your words."

Dozens of Iraqi activists criticized Twitter's comments, saying that the villain and activist at the EU Development Center, Mohamed El-Wadi, said the big hypocrisy was that the communist (in reference to Haifa al-Amin of the Communist Party) would turn a turban into a parliament seat.

"In a small meeting in Beirut, you lost your balance. Lebanon presented Iraq (backward) and the developed north of Iraq by paving the streets on South Sumer, which you described as backward, a new scourge of hypocrisy and your sense of inferiority is the biggest failure."

Regrets
The media, expert and expert on terrorism, Fadel Abu Raghef, deplored the statements made by MP Haifaa Al-Amin, in front of a group of Lebanese, describing the Iraqis as backward and Lebanon a country of progress.

"I am sorry because I know that the Communist Party is the principle of accepting the other and not excluding it and calling it the worst of the characters," Abu Raghef said in a twitter comment.

In the context of the activist and journalist Mustafa Saadoun on Twitter, "Representative Haifa Ameen descends from the south, won the votes of the people of the south, and the abuse of the people of the South, do not know that the feeling of inferiority is one of the most difficult stages in the human, do not know that the real underdevelopment is to detract from others" .

Hijab and chastity
For her part, the media commented Zahra Bint al-Nasiriyah, saying MP Haifa insulting the people of the south and describing them as backward. "Of course, it means backwardness in customs, traditions and heritage regarding the hijab and the cloak in the first degree. This affects the southern personality and does not concern architectural backwardness or civil development. Glory be to God when the adherence to chastity and morality backwardness and arrogance and estrangement civilization .. is no longer entitled to speak on behalf of the people.

This was not the first time in which MP Haifaa Al-Amin raised a wave of controversy. Last year, after her victory in Parliament and her performance as deputy, she called for more protection and criticized the services provided to the MP as bad.

Haifa Al-Ameen was born in the city of Nasiriyah (southern Iraq) in 1959 and holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and another bachelor in biology, from the University of Aden in Yemen.

And was nominated in the elections of the Iraqi Council of Representatives for the civil coalition in 2014, but did not win, and won the elections of the House of Representatives in May 2018 of the alliance, "Sason," of the Sadrist movement, which joined by a number of candidates of the Communist Party, Two seats.