Iraq: Torture and Rapes
In particular, women writing letters from prisons or sending messages indirectly, say they are exposed to rapes, that they are forced to carry the ‘American and British bastards’ and appeal to the resistance fighters to blow up the prisons and thus put an end their embarrassments and their contaminated lives. Just at this point, it is no concidence that some media organs, which regarded the struggle against the invasion forces as ‘terrorism or violence,’ have decided to bring the episodes of torture to the agenda in their news reports and commentaries, trying to prove that the invasion was legal from the very beginning. This is another aspect of the issue that should be noted.
The Iraqis are actually writing epics in Fallujah and in other places. As Terry Jones wrote in the Guardian newspaper (May 1, 2004), "Pregnant women are killed, children wander the streets, old people sit in front of their houses and patients taken to hospitals are attacked. At last, the invasion forces attempted to blow up the whole of Fallujah. In the wake of this, negotiations started. The snipers claim that they are cleaning up the ‘nests of mice and snakes.’
The same newspaper correctly diagnosed the photos of torture that have been published: "It is an exact proof of the collapse of the sexuality and degeneration of the West." Actually, these are things that people, who have not yet lost their sense of ‘being human’ could do, even though they had launched an unfair invasion. When people descend to a certain level, then ‘a sub-human’ level, the lowest degree, is reached; however, since this lowest degree refers to animals in the chain of living beings, these kinds of people cannot even be referred to as ‘animals.’ This is because animals act according to their temperament. This lowest degree to which human beings fall into refers to something that is more than being an animal, ‘belhum adall,’ using an expression in the Koran. (7/Araf, 179). This is the collapse of a culture and its contracting a deadly disease.
The diagnosis to be made here is certain: These so-called humans laughing, having fun and posing before the painful bodies of people they exposed to torture are all sick to the degree of ‘belhum adall.’ Perhaps, it is necessary to see ‘these acts of torture and rape’ that they commit with sadistic pleasure, as a symptom of an epidemic disease, in terms of the entire system they belong to and the duties they perform. These are not separate/individual cases. No [soldier] torturer can carry out an act of torture without the permission of his commander. As a matter of fact, in the report published by the U.S. Army, it was revealed that torture was widespread and systematically carried out. According to the remarks of General [Janet] Karpinski, who is in charge of the notorious Abu Gharib Prison where these disgraceful incidents occur, "The military intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staff are responsible for these acts."
The aim of this torture is either to take revenge on the person on the receiving end or try to suppress his resistance by undermining his honor, or through humiliation. The psychological condition of the Israeli soldier urinating on a Palestinian soldier whose hands are tied in Ramallah, and the psychological condition of the British soldier urinating on an Iraqi in Basra are the same; the Guardian reports that America follows and closely emulates Israel. These are signs of a very different state of mind that normal people will have difficulty in understanding under any conditions. A disease is of course first diagnosed by its symptoms.
For example, the Israeli soldiers, I exclude those in the ‘conscious refusal’ movement, see every Palestinian as a ‘goyim’ found in the lowest circle in the chain of living beings,’ no matter whether they are children, women or old people; and these people do not refrain from saying that Palestinians are ‘low-down animals.’ Putting a collar around the neck of an Iraqi, a U.S. Army officier drags him like a ‘dog.’
The fact that one of the Iraqis, striving to stand above the block, with electric cables tied around his body, was dressed in the Ku Klux Klan-style [hood], indicates that Americans have a ‘racist viewpoint’ towards the Iraqis. However, it would be wrong to think that this racism, which has revealed systematic and widespread tyranny, was directed only against Iraqis and Arabs. Very different cultural impulses are concealed in its depths and background.
