"The People Have Won" proclaims a blog posting from a young Iraqi in Baghdad. After all of the anguish and terror of the last year and the uncertainty of what might happen on Iraq's election day, the results are gratifying, no... the results are remarkable and inspiring, and the pictures of joyous Iraqis braving threats of death from the al-Zarqawi gang and going to the polls and voting make me proud of the courage of these people.
Al-Zarqawi issued a remarkable statement last week where he said: "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology. Anyone who tries to help set up this system is part of it." He was right about the second part, and Praise be to Allah that the Iraqi people understood it, too.
Al-Zarqawi also said that "Democracy is [...] based on the right to choose your religion, and that is "against the rule of God." This is Tyranny of Religion, a yoke around the neck of humanity which was thrown off in the West four hundred years ago. It will be interesting to see what happens in Iraq, whether they use the power of the ballot to choose a theocracy as they did in Iran, or if they will chose a secular non-tyrannic government. I am betting that Iraq will choose the 21st century instead of the 14th century.
Forget Main Stream Media; read what the Iraqis have to say about January 30th direct from the street via these Iraqi Blogs...
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