Is Tehran seeking to undermine Arabic culture? …

Kitabat, Iraq

Teheran 'Infiltrating' and

'Poisoning' Iraqi Culture!

"All posts given to Shiite elements, starting with the position of Minister to that of Deputy Minister, ambassador, director-general, governor, chief of police, mayor and others … were awarded based on lists provided by Tehran and cross-referenced with lists of people working with the coalition [the U.S. and its partners]. All names were checked in terms of history and absolute loyalty to Iran, and in light of these results, these individuals were given these posts."

By Khadir Taahar

Translated By James Jacobson

January 30, 2007

Iraq - Kitabat - Original Article (Arabic)

It seems that Iraqi culture has become a prisoner of Islamic political terrorist groups. After former Minister of Culture Asad Al-Hashemi fled [a Sunni ], Jaber Al-Jabri, who formerly bore the name Mudin al-Musawi, assumed the post of Culture Minister. He's a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council , which was established by Iranian intelligence during the war against Iraq [1980-1988], and which was tasked with missions of spying, torture, the execution of the captured Iraqi soldiers and participating in the war against Iraq as a state - and not against the regime of Saddam Hussein!

It is known that all the posts given to Shiite elements, starting with the position of Minister to that of Deputy Minister, ambassador, director-general, governor, chief of police, mayor and others ... all of these were awarded based on lists provided by Tehran and cross-referenced with lists of people working with the coalition [the U.S. and its partners]. All names were checked in terms of history and absolute loyalty to Iran and in light of these results, the individuals were awarded these positions.

And when Jaber Al-Jabri was appointed Deputy Minister of Culture ... it was not a random appointment ... Iranian planners are working quietly behind the scenes to “Persianize” Iraqi culture, seeking to undermine the Arabic national identity of Iraq. Al-Jabri was put into this position to implement that plan and under the pretext of nationalism and opposing Baathism [opposing support for Saddam's political party], has begun his activities of attacking everything that has anything to do with Iraqi and Arabic culture.

Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh: Is he and other Shiites in Iraq's government Iranian tools seeking to undermine Arab culture?

In the name of "Islamic culture," Iran is seeking to penetrate and poison Iraq's national culture by suggesting that those who produced Arab culture were Persians, rather than "camel-riding Arabic Bedouins." Such were the comments of Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh , when he attacked the Saudi Foreign Minister. Solagh, who as Finance Minister is a colleague of Culture Minister Al-Jabri, is also on the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council!

[Editor's Note: In 2005, in giving a tongue-lashing to Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the then-Iraqi Finance Minister, Bayan Jabr Solagh, was quoted by The New York Sun as saying, "Iraq is heir to an ancient civilization and does not need advice from a Bedouin riding a camel." This was a grave insult to utter to the Saudi prince, since Saudi Arabia considers itself the heart of Arab culture].

When Al-Jabri took up the post Culture Minister, the ministry began speaking openly and publicly about the superiority of Persian culture, especially in regard to the Iraqi cinema and other areas. This diversion is part of a systematic process of normalizing and polishing Iran’s image within Iraq.

Jaber Al-Jabri (formerly Mudin Al-Musawi) once lived in Iran. Then he moved to Syria and Lebanon where Iran assigned him the task of publishing a cultural magazine the intent of which was to penetrate Iraqi cultural centers in Syria and Lebanon along with other countries, for the purpose of marketing and popularizing Persian culture.

Al-Jabri’s actions in Beirut won the disapproval and censure of Iraqis for threatening, intimidating and blackmailing Iraqi intellectuals with the help of Lebanese Hezbullah, which is controlled by Iran.

What's more, Al-Jabri has a fake doctorate which he obtained for money from a Lebanese university!

With people like Habib Al-Sadr responsible for media networks and Jaber Al-Jabri overseeing the Ministry of Culture, does this not suggest the decline and deliberate destruction of Iraqi culture?!

kodhayer@netzero.com

Letter to the editor

about Khadir Taahar,

author of this article

Translated By James Jacobson and Nicolas Dagher

December 21, 2007

Iraq - Kitabat - Original Article (Arabic)

I so admire the writings of Khadir Taahar! This writer raves with such frankness and clarity, and never shies away from shocking the reader with his contrarian beliefs - whether he (the reader) be left-wing, right-wing or independent. For him, all that matters is that the reader be an Iraqi. Why? Because regardless of their religious denominations or particular beliefs, Iraqis are uncomfortable with the international brand known as the “United States of America.”

To say: “They are uncomfortable” in a polite and civilized way is not to sat: “They hate or are resentful,” since I don’t wish to annoy Khadir Taahar - who is more American than the Americans and even more than Bush, Cheney, Rice or Gates. He is more part of the American intelligence apparatus than the men of CIA and more Jewish than the Jews (remember his Kitabat article from April 15th 2007, in which he called for establishing friendly relations with Israel so that it could take part in rebuilding Iraq!)

I like the work of this writer because he isn’t ashamed or embarrassed to express his ideas and political views clearly and honestly and he isn’t afraid of critics of his writings. Nor does he feel the need to respect the feelings of other Iraqis, who take umbrage at his favorite leaders, the Americans, who have inflicted death, destruction and ruin upon them in the service of Israel and her future security, and at their hands of Washington’s creation, the terrorists, who came from abroad at the behest of their [Iraqi] allies and advisers from the former regime.

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