My grandmother used to tell me about how Ramadan was in the past, how beautiful it was, it has beautiful customs and traditions that bring the family together, how love increases between people in this month.
This month used to bring people together, especially after a “Eftar” to share sweets with Muslim, Christian and Jewish neighbors in Old Baghdad.

In Ramadan, charity works and love of helping others increased, I used to imagine with her the beauty of this month, the beauty of the streets in Ramadan that were lit up with different colors of lamps, the sounds of drums in the early morning, which we call “Suhoor”.

The times after “Eftar” when people gather in cafes or restaurants or in the neighborhood to play (the game of mahbis): It is a popular team game in which many people participate in, the number of participants in one game reaches 200 people.
All these beautiful and enjoyable activities were sadly gone away, when this extremist sectarian system came to steal the Ramadan culture from society, making it a purely religious ritual devoid of its social and cultural content.

In this episode, we will talk about the sectarian policy of the Iraqi government towards Muslims and non-Muslims inside Iraq, we will also talk about the restriction of freedoms that occurred in our society, the difference between Ramadan in the past and Ramadan now under the mercy of this sectarian government, and how the cultural content of Ramadan was stolen in order to turn it into a sectarian religious occasion with the support of the international community. In this episode, we will also talk about the city of Nasiriyah, explore its ancient history, the reason behind the strength of political movements in it. We will end the episode by talking about Muqtada al-Sadr’s recent sectarian activities and his sectarian conflict with “Sarkhi”.

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