Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim Advocates Dialogue to Solve the Nation’s Problems and to Mark the Coming Year by Major Regional Settlements

    Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, cautioned against sedition that may deteriorate the nation, if erupted, without being limited to a specific region, but including the whole nation. His eminence called to recognize each other and to put up with the differences regarding the ideology, vision and attitude details by facing the sedition and incitement speeches and taking action along with the condemnations and holding conferences while young Muslims are fighting with each other in the name of ethnic cleansing. He also called on the whole world to find solutions around the table of dialogue and to re-distribute roles among themselves and mark the coming year by major regional settlements.

    In the International Conference of Islamic Unity held in Tehran, on Sunday December 27, 2015, His Eminence declared that it is time to make serious recommendations to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the United Nations and all the other relevant international organizations to criminalize the sectarian and Takfiri speeches, the incitement and spreading hatred and to prosecute them all over the world, in addition to stopping incitement and sedition and obliging the social media to close the accounts of people who incite hatred, violence, sectarianism and extremism as they are the biggest challenge facing the Islamic nation all over its history. He warned of the transboundary sectarian sedition and the great hatred that grip the minds of young Muslims.

    His Eminence called on unity and on following the example of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), declaring that communities mean the variety of readings which are a source of wealth and prosperity since they make diversity, the basis which reflects a real societal need that interconnects people more than scattering them. He pointed out that the risk is in opportunism, fanaticism and predominating factional interests over the public interests, in addition that bigots have no relation with religion and sectarianism is not a religion, yet a political project aiming at dismantling people. His Eminence explained that secularism is not a system of government, declaring “secularism may be a character for a democratic or dictatorial regime, because it does not treat the problem saying that the strong will prevail over the weak and make the society lose its immunity represented by its spiritual and moral balance; thus it constitutes a social framework that exposes the human trait of the human being to risk”.

    His Eminence noted that the Islamic Middle East Region is going through large shifts today, and there is who is talking about a new Sykes – Picot, expressing his belief that the region is not in front of a change in the geographical map, but in front of shifts and changes in the new influence and distribution of roles. Sayyid al Hakim urged the Islamic countries in the region to sit to the dialogue table and to put their own limits and areas of roles among themselves without accepting to the international forces to interfere in this regard and tamper with the destiny of the people according to its desires and interests. His Eminence added that the Islamic Middle East is represented by Islamic States, where it has to reach an agreement concerning a reconciled view with each other, aware of their interests, and understanding for their needs and requirements of the various countries according to an applicable vision over the next 50 years. He also called for a Middle Eastern dialogue that restores to Muslims the lead and heals their wounds, citing the saying: “as an Islamic Nation, we are facing a single destiny and a coherent existence, and our enemies does not differentiate between us and are planning to undermine all of us through internal conflicts.

    Concerning the victories achieved by the Iraqi Forces from the Army, the Police, and the Popular Mobilization Forces, Sayyid Ammar al Hakim confirmed that Iraq has achieved major victories on the terrorist ISIS and regained 23% of its usurped territories and is continuing to liberate 17% of the remained usurped land. It is striving make the liberation operation on the hand of all the Iraqi energies with its various backgrounds. His Eminence explained that the Shiite, the Suuni, the Muslim, the Christian, the Sabeans, the Yazidis, the Turkmen, the Kurdish, and the networkers are fighting side by side and their blood mixed to defend their land and the honor. Iraq has transformed the terrorist challenge into uphold and national unity, and they are working on returning the displaced people into their liberated areas. He stressed on the importance of finding a security solution along with a political solution, confirming that the Iraqi solution is a solution to Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, and all the inflamed Islamic countries. His eminence also called the factions of the Islamic Resistance in Palestine to unite their word in the face of the Zionist entity. Victory can be achieved in Palestine, Iraq, and all the states if their word united.