Today, we see that the turbaned man in Iraq has held multiple positions. The turbaned men have become political party leaders, heads of parliamentary blocs, and electoral list officials. He is now in charge of supervising the formation of the government booth, leading the army, developing economic plans, establishing school curricula, and speaking on security, culture, and trade. When he makes a mistake, steals the state’s and people’s money, or deviates, the judiciary cannot hold him accountable because he is a holy man, and just criticizing him becomes a path that leads to death. Today, we see in Iraq that the majority of religious men who wear turbans of various colors, degrees, names, sects are staunch enemies of the Iraqi people. They are the ones who destroyed Iraqi society, tore it to feuding shreds, and planted sectarian strife among its components using the divide and rule principle. They turned religion into a commodity to be sold to those who neglected, ignored, shadowed, stolen their money, enslaved, and openly controlled their fate.
The turbaned cleric in Iraq has become the commander, legislator, and merchant who buys and sells the fate of the Iraqi people. Both the Shiite and the Sunni sectarian turbans are in control of pulpits, voices, listeners, supporters, and militias. Also, the turbaned clergy continue to disseminate their hatred, resentment, demand to slaughter innocent people, and disdain for people presence. In order to maintain their power, religious leaders in Iraq and Iran are willing to sacrifice blood, money, and honor and they considered anyone who disagrees with the reference’s beliefs are considered its sworn enemy.
These turbans symbolize malice, hate, and assault against human life and human rights. They associate partners with their worshipped Lord. They eradicate the religion they preach. They call themselves what they call but they are the ones who condemn evil, hatred, enmity, and aggression against people. Its owners claim that they are “religious reference”, but they are not. They are businessmen, or rather, religious traders. They are rogue traders and ignorant people are their goods. They use religious language to further their aggressive projects against religion and its people because in that there is abundant profit for their cursed trade disguised as religion. The turbaned men (religious references) are more aggressive on their follower and are not interested in teaching people to read and write; rather, they are interested in encouraging ignorance, illiteracy, and backwardness because it is the best swamp for the growth of their backward turbans. The traders of religion expand like parasites by feeding on the host, who in this case are the ignorant, backward, and illiterate people. Consequently, you observe a rise in corruption and a decline in values and morality as the power and prestige of the religious authority dealer expand. Furthermore, you can observe that their gold and silver reserves and bank balances are increasing, while the people become poorer, hungrier, and more ignorant.
In order for the Iraqi people to live in freedom and dignity, the power of the reference must be abolished, and we must liberate ourselves from the grip of the turbans; otherwise, we and our sons will become slaves and goods traded by the monsters of the reference of the in Iraq and Iran. The abandonment and expulsion of advocates of ignorance and backwardness from our minds, homes, and society has become unavoidable because if we don’t, we’ll just be foolish, subservient, and dejected rabble, wooing and begging to the turbans of evil and backwardness, strengthening their evils, and becoming their preys, slaves, and tools. According to one of the thinkers, “If a believer and an unbeliever both fall into the water, only the swimmer will be rescued. God does not reward ignorance. The misguided Muslim will drown, but the infidel swimmer will be saved.”