The Absurd Cause For The Faili Kurds Holocausts

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Faili Kurds Holocausts

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Politicization of Organized Religion

While our civilization reaches its peak, some group uses their organized religion to purposely destroy their society. If we look deep back in our world history, we will find many proof to support this theory. Through many centuries, mankind used any means of poor rationales to destroy the world and themselves. For example, the World War I and II were the manifestation of this destruction.

Everything after these wars, mankind devoted its full knowledge, skills, and power to produce the most dangerous and efficient weapons for so called “human protection”. So, the important question that every one of us need to ask ourselves is that, why do we need to put an end to life? Why do we need to destroy the only valuable thing we have? What happened to God’s rules and Commandments?

The previous and the current Iraqi government officials are operating on the ground of organized and polluted religious group. Religious hypocrisy is the means for a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing its real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs. Religious hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another practices and believes.

According to a well known British political philosopher, David Runciman, “Other kinds of hypocritical deception include claims to knowledge that one lacks, claims to a consistency that one cannot sustain, claims to a loyalty that one does not possess, claims to an identity that one does not hold.” Religious hypocrisy is the mask that so called religious people or politicians use to fool the public and gain political benefit.

Religious hypocrisy has been the custom of the Iraqi governments and politicians from the beginnings of developing the Iraqi democratic government. Increasingly, it has also become the central of decision making, economics performance, and cultural practices.

According to the Islam faith, hypocrisy was considered a serious sickness, and our superb Qur’an book did rail against those who claim to be believers and peacemakers, thinking that they are fooling God and others, but they only fool themselves.

As a human being, we all seek for new revolution, creating an inner division, and seek to overthrow of the existing order, but we can not force these ideas upon our people and neighbors under the hypocritical cover of religion love and euphemisms for personal power. They do this for the advantage to have a full possession of other people’s thoughts and personalities at the very spot where they are most sensitive.

Organized religious enable some groups to find or make a reason for everything that they can set their mind to do. In everyday reasoning, our politicians and leaders do little when taking positions or making decisions, and do even less to get evidence for supporting their positions.

Instead, they tend to fabricate the facts often after the decisions had already been made, and they tend to interpret “evidence” that confirms what they already believe (the “confirmation bias”). Power and control magnifies these effects. People in power are more likely to commit infidelity and to condemn infidelity as well.

Organized religion is the mean for the current Iraqi leaders and government officials; because they believe it is necessary for their existence. If they were required, at all times, to live up to ideals of honesty, loyalty and compassion in their practices, there would be no benefits for them. Being a moral person in the government positions and social institutions, it is a struggle in which everyone of them repeatedly fails to do. Thus, in their mind, a just and peaceful society depends on hypocrites who ultimately refused to abandon the ideals they betray.

In fact, religion was created to help mankind to overcome its fears and negative aspects. But we as a human being, we would not be a human being if we did not alter our course. Our believes was merged to organize our religion, that has been moved away from individuals whom it belongs.

Politicization of organize religion has caused us major devastation and the eternal struggle for human separation. However, the human separation will never happened despite persuasions. Religion influence has been hidden inside our political systems, social institutions, school systems, health care policies, etc.

Despite its peaceful nature, organize religion has been modified through the centuries, and it has become one of the most dangerous reasons for human killing and destruction. If we look in our ancient history, we will find all the facts to supports this hypothesis that most if not all of these tribes had some form of organized religion.

Clearly, they had a need for one, because their life was very threatening and they felt that some of these treats came from some superior beings, some of whom is dwelt up in the sky.

Religion should not be mixed with politics both are different things like water and oil that the two can not mix with each other. Mixing religion with politic will create the ground for human destruction, because religion is faith but politics is power. Power should not be interfere in faith it may create a disaster.

Organized religion will serve the interest of a particular group of people and this will breaks our unity and it will create the ground for foreign entity to rule our country. Rising of such a practices may even cause loss to humanity and people may get discriminated on the basis of religion in the time of need.

Politics should always be kept different from religion. Mixing between politics and religion create a mess in the whole country. As religious morals are helpful in running politics as they show the way how to develop our country. But creating a mess in the country on the name of God is completely unbearable.

Religion is a person’s identity which defines one’s beliefs, ideologies and principles. Politics on the other hand consists of activities to govern a country or a region and its people.

Through politics we developed our nation. Through politics we elect different eligible leaders so that they work for us to develop our nation and control the human being. Our current Iraqi government is consisted of many leaders whom they stand up from different religion groups and many of them take the religion as vote bank.

Organized religion creates the ground for egotism to elect a leader from the same tribe simply as the member from the same religion, as a result, people tent to vote to the particular leader without showing any eligible characters for serving our nation. For that we can’t elect good, active leader for serving our nation. Dragging religion into politic will result into nothing more than destructive results for humanity.

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan, a Canada-based Faili Kurd, PHD Candidates in Clinical Psychology.

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