The former Baathist political project created many problems that threatened the community unity and social components of Iraq at its core. There has been no opportunity so far to study and address these devastating effects and results. The US occupation came with the external solution with all its elements and targets to change the system of relations between the components of the Iraqi people according to what it wants, to a relationship based on complete and overt sectarian division.

The sectarianism that is passed today is one of the most serious problems fueled by the US occupation that threatens our homeland and our society, in addition to the problems of terrorism, security chaos, corruption, difficult economic, service and living crises, and the loss of the future in a homeland that is subject to occupation and looting.

The sect and clan are components of pre-modern traditional societies. It is formed, moved according to the economic, political and social conditions, relations and interests of the state and society and the relationship between them. According to the level of development or decline of the concerned society, especially its civil section, the role and effectiveness of its institutions, the locations and size of those sects and groups, their internal and external relations, and the prevailing form of relations among them.

The size and impact of the sectarian problem in traditional Iraqi societies varies according to the historical and social conditions for the emergence and formation of the sect and its population, economic and military size, also the way the modern state is formed, the development of its national, civil and service functions. Sectarianism is an existing and dormant problem under the surface, spreading here and there, with deep roots in our history.

It is sometimes manipulated and moved by internal circumstances: cultural, social factors, or many external forces according to the need and the political situation, according to time and place.

Sectarianism is an abhorrent political system that does not lead to building a modern society. It impedes the natural development of society, but above all, the sectarian system is a system that does not believe in citizenship, meaning that it is not for everyone, because it does not adopt the modern foundations for building the state and society on the basis of citizenship and the proper relationship between the state and citizens and their natural public and private rights that are stipulated in a constitution that is drafted and decided by the people. The state should not protect sectarianism, so that it does not produce sectarianism by recognizing and accepting it as a political component that exists in itself and in its political capacity. If everyone is equal in legal status and social existence, then what is the importance and necessity of sectarian division, and the so-called sectarian rights?

“The Iraqi state and some political parties sell the idea of sectarianism to the people in the form of an argument of “transitional justice”, considering that the former Baathist regime suppressed some religious practices and some social rights of some religious components in Iraq. It is now considered the right of some religious sects to fully own the government as compensation for the previous period. On the ground, regardless of this political perspective and all these political arguments of the Iraqi parties, the representatives of these religious sects in Parliament are more corrupt than others, and their sects are living the worst periods of their lives in terms of services and standard of living.”

Workers Against Sectarianism

The most prominent sectarian experience in the Arab countries is the Lebanese experience, which was perpetuated by French colonialism, and the general external powers that were present and working in Lebanon, as well as the experience of building the modern Iraqi state imposed by British colonialism.

Sectarianism moves in Egypt, Syria and some other Arab countries, to varying degrees, and for various purposes and needs. However, the new Iraqi experience and the current sectarian problem that the new occupier wants to impose need careful monitoring and follow-up to determine its size, shape and great dangers.

The US  occupier reproduces the classic colonial political thought, put forward by the British occupier at the beginning of the twentieth century, and in almost all the colonial experiments that preceded it, which eventually failed and collapsed.

Replacing the old sectarian components with new ones will involve the same error inherent in the foundations and essence of the state and societal construction as well, which is what the current project wants and intends specifically, to sabotage and destroy the country, and not allow it to build properly and naturally rise, and this is one of the most prominent forms of conflict between the parties. Nowadays, there are many opportunities to decide the fate of the homeland, and to determine the shape of its state and its future, especially between the national direction and the occupation.

The focus here on the role of the external factor in motivating sectarianism to serve its own agenda, does not mean that sectarianism is not an old and deep-rooted internal problem, but I am talking about the issue of its intended exploitation to sabotage our societies, threaten its unity, and not allow it to rebuild itself on modern foundations, where the occupier plays Today, it plays a decisive and decisive role in everything that is going on, as it is the engine and supervisor of the process of establishing the current sectarianism.

We must decide that sectarianism in our society was of the kind that lurked under the surface, and was not dealt with in a proper way from the ground up. British colonialism played a fundamental role in establishing this form of relations and roles, in order to benefit from it whenever it wanted. The Baathist regime practiced a sectarian policy In varying degrees and methods, along with racist national politics.

The US  occupier repeated the same dirty game in our homeland again, despite the change and change of times, and sectarian and political parties and many personalities submitted to this dirty game, while they were panting after positions and did not express any objection or objection to this abhorrent policy that threatens the national social fabric, and threatens unity Patriotism, spreading the seeds of disunity, division, and the intended marginalization of some components, leading to collision and internal civil war that shows its ugly face.

Some religious, political and national forces have agreed with this project since they were outside Iraq fleeing from the Baathist regime, and the studied and gradual leaks of these concepts and opinions began in meetings and writings issued from outside Iraq, as well as in some meetings and political activities that took place before the war and occupation.