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President Saddam Hussein's Message to Islamic Summit.
12-11-2000.
Doha, Nov 12.

Saddam Hussein In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

"Nay, We hurl the Truth against Falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, Falsehood does perish."

(The Holy Quran, XXI, 18)

Brother Members of the Islamic Conference,

Brother Muslims,

Peace be upon you, and Allah's Mercy and Blessings!

When the honor of responsibility among our loyal, free, striving and honest people, the people of principles and high peaks, rested upon us, we used to believe at one time that stating self-evident truths or even citing detailed quotations to express an opinion were unnecessary when addressing high level people. But we were shocked to discover that that belief was erroneous. The discovery came as a result of previous experiences, including our experiences in summit conferences under titles different from or similar to this summit conference. Therefore, we find that the necessity imposed by the nature of the circumstance and the description of the situation dictates that we explain in some detail what our peoples regard as truisms. We will base the needed explanations on the fundamentals of our Faith as Muslims, without burdening the judicious among you who have attained the highest awareness and culture. Our excuse in this is that we have found through practical experience that what our peoples regard as truisms explained by their faith in the True Muslim Religion and its sublime and constant values, and what is regarded in their minds as decisive in accordance with the principles of the Great Faith, are not regarded so by some of the rulers. This is still a worry in the heart, mind and conscience of many a ruler.

When our peoples used to measure responsibility and its requirements against the examples set by the great models of the Ummah who took charge of government from the early period of the Islamic Message to later stages of time during its subsequent great march, they imagined, until a period before our present period, that the higher the title of responsibility was, the firmer, purer and deeper rooted faith was in the hearts. Perhaps, our peoples based that conception on what they knew and what they read about the deeds and faith of Omar b. Al-Khattab, Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, Ali b. Abi Talib, Uthman b.

Affan (may Allah be pleased with them all!) and others who assumed responsibility after them and performed acts of justice and guidance, combated falsehood and supported right without fearing reproach, while standing by the precepts of the Great Faith, and without yielding to any haughty, stubborn and reckless tyrant.

We, brothers, are from Iraq-- your country, the country of all Arabs and Muslims. We are from Iraq, which shouldered the honor and responsibility for the Armies of Victory to the countries of the East and wherever the Holy Quran reached to strengthen the believers and consolidate faith in the hearts of those who needed it and in the hearts of all human beings who needed and still need it. Allah has honored the significance of the Holy Quran by making it His Great Sacred Word to guide mankind to the right path under its light.

We, brothers, are from your Baghdad-- Baghdad of all Arabs and Muslims. We are from Baghdad which was and still is the beacon of science and the receptacle which dispenses religion in accordance with its viable rule of application. It was also the receptacle which dispensed the rules of government throughout the countries of the Muslims for a long time. It served as model for faith and radiated it east and west for centuries and centuries until Allah decreed what He decreed in His wisdom or until Man desired things to be different from what they were. Therefore, we cannot but cling to those sublime meanings, not only as an expression of what we know of the place of the Arab nation amidst its Islamic Ummah, being the heart which beats with meanings of faith in the breast of every ardent Muslim, but also in remembrance of responsibility and in fealty to that role of Baghdad and what rests upon those who lead Baghdad honorably. We will exert ourselves to achieve what we believe will bring us nearer to the true pulse of the ardent Muslim Street, and raise us to a level that will win for us the satisfaction of Allah and the history of our great Ummah.