RIP Saddam
So the big story everyone’s talking about today is that Saddam Hussein was executed early this morning for his war crimes.
Rest in peace.
Ok, there’s no doubt in my mind that Saddam was an evil-minded man. However, I still hope his soul finds eternal peace. I’m anti-death-penalty, and it kind of turns my stomach to thing that he was executed, no matter how horrible of a person he was.
In the end, I guess, what can be said for Saddam is that he had some faith. Supposedly he yelled “God is great!” immediately before his execution. That takes some guts, to face death eye to eye. There’s a lesson we can all take away from that I guess.
I am in no way saying Saddam was right or good or just. Did he deserve to die? Probably. I just don’t think we, as humans, had the right to decide when.
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March 10th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Just to put you in the picture…
Saddam Hussien was executed according to the laws of his country. Right or wrong that we see those laws to be, it is still none of our business to classify them. Whether he got what he deserved or not is secondary to the fact that in the eyes of his victims and their relatives, justice was served. Looking at it from a strictly Moslem point of view, to do anything less to him would not have been “right” in the manner of the country he ruled….
The translation of his last words, “God is great” is “Allah uh Akbah”…..This is the standard battle-cry of Moslems everywhere, in fact; their is really nothing devout about it. Hussien wishes to be seen as a man of religon in his last moments, and a good Sunni Moslem to boot.
Similar things happened with German conspiritors executed for the July 20th 1944 bomb plot against Adolf Hitler. Many died shouting “Long live Germany”. It really is nothing special.
Saddam Hussien was a tyrant and mass murderer…a stain on the name of the Sunni Moslem, and a disgrace to free thinking Moslems everywhere on this earth.
I don’t agree with the death penalty either, but I’m not an Iraqi, and not even a Moslem. It is not up to us, whatever silly religon we profess to be, to judge the decisions of countries not our own…
And as for Rest In Peace, I’m not sure that sits too well with me either. Hussien deserved much that was cruel, and the quick passing that he recieved was far more merciful than the treatment handed out to the victims of his regime….