Salah Hassan Baban - Erbil
The political class in Iraq after 2003 employed religion and the names of references, religious, tribal, and regional slogans to promote themselves and their political orientations in all election campaigns and various occasions to cover up their corruption and waste of the country's wealth and huge budgets without providing any services that meet the aspirations of the Iraqi citizen.
Iraqi society is distinguished, despite the multiplicity of doctrines, religions and components therein, in general in terms of religiosity. This phenomenon increased after the American occupation in 2003, and the matter reached sectarian and sectarian intolerance, especially during the years 2006 and 2008, with thousands of victims as a result.
Religiously, Iraqi society consists of Muslims, Christians, Sabeans, and Yazidis, and Muslims are Sunnis and Shiites, each with political parties and currents, in addition to representatives and representatives in parliament, government, and other institutions.
The supreme religious authority in Najaf (south of Baghdad) announced its full support for the political process since 2003 within the general framework without the support of one party at another expense, stressing the need to participate in elections and in all political activities from writing the country's permanent constitution to a referendum in 2005, considering that A moral and patriotic responsibility and a valuable opportunity to bring about a change in the political atmosphere according to the conviction of the people.
Wrong packing and
playing the adherence of the political class in Iraq to regionalism, sectarianism, nationalism, and tribalism is one of the prominent factors to cover up its corruption and shuffle the cards, to win the sympathy of the public, which seems prone to these trends in most cases with the exception of a small percentage of them.
A large part of the politicians take the cloak of religion, religion, nationalism and tribalism as a shield for their corruption, tyranny and rebellion against trust. According to the opinion of the head of the Thought Center for Dialogue and Reform, Sheikh Majeed Al-Aqabi, who said to Al-Jazeera Net, people naturally adhere to people who demonstrate an image of loyalty to doctrine and regionalism that differs in terms of nationality, religion and language.
Al-Oqabi adds that citizens pinned their hopes on this image, and politicians excelled in how to dominate their corruption coverage by suspending hope on this personal candle and political problems, and this contributed to increasing the terror of the Iraqi individual from his brother who lives with him as a result of pressure, promotion and wrong media mobilization towards sectarianism and regionalism.
He continues that the religious authority in Najaf closed its doors in the face of the entire political class for a long time, but this layer still insists that it follows the steps of the reference and this is a false lie and slander, and the reference only supported security, social peace and balance between all groups and components through parental care.
Religious symbols - according to Al-Uqabi - were used incorrectly by politicians in Iraq and promoted them as present "utopias" and represented on behalf of the Lord and the estate and religion, without any commitment from them to sectarian and regional affiliations with their dissociation from values, stressing the need for Iraqi society to mobilize new against the media that This layer is depicted as the guardians of religion and doctrine.
Increased awareness
and Iraq is distinguished from others by the fact that the religious authority - whether Shiite or Sunni - has a broad, strong and effective presence in the street, and this is what drives politicians to raise pictures of religious figures and references or claim to belong to them, so that they achieve popular support for their programs and political interests, according to the academic. And social researcher Dr. Ahmed Al-Muhdar.
Iraqis still believe in the slogans raised by political parties despite the decline of this phenomenon in recent years after the increase in public awareness, and the people have come to distinguish between the credibility of the parties or not and they raise religious slogans, and this can be sought, as the Mohdar asserts to Al Jazeera Net in the October demonstrations The past when the people of all sects went out against corruption and the corrupt with angry protest demonstrations and its calls to hold them accountable and bring them to justice.
The Iraqi academic believes that what is difficult to hold corrupt people accountable is the existence of parties whose Islamic claims provide a kind of cover and a stumbling block to holding them accountable because of the quota system in the country since 2003, in addition to the fact that each political party has corruption files against the other party, and on this basis silence or tolerance of corruption is tolerated Rampant in all sectors.
What do the people rule?
Iraqi society is governed by two basic systems, after the legal system, which are tribal and religious, and this makes its political cuisine completely different from other kitchens. This is also said by Professor of Sharia at Anbar University, Sheikh Dr. Mazen Mezher Al-Hadithi, who pointed out to Al-Jazeera Net that the Iraqi individual tends to be religious regardless of religion, nationalism and sectarianism.
Politicians in the country took advantage of this paper to win the sympathy and sympathy of citizens, and a large part of them managed to politicize some clerics and put them in the political process and became an integral part of the rampant corruption.
According to Al-Hadithi, the Iraqi individual is constantly deceived, describing it as a "major problem", attributing the reason to the prevalence of emotion over the mind, and based on the validity of his opinion on the conviction and view of the Iraqi people to the talk of the imperative political class under the cover of religion that it is a divine constitution that cannot be departed from nor Especially in the early years after the American invasion.
The people refuse
and this conviction has declined during the last few years when the people after the destruction, devastation and loss of huge budgets due to the corruption of politicians, while Sheikh Al-Hadithi expected the failure of the political class in the upcoming elections to use the names of references, clerics and religious slogans to cover up their corruption after raising slogans against this trend in Protest demonstrations, including "Basem al-Din Bakuna (stole us) forbidden".