FULL Video of Saddam’s Execution: Very Disturbing Yet Revealing

Posted on January 2, 2007
Filed Under Iraq, Islam, Personal |

The full video of Saddam’s execution was NOT pleasant. It was very freaky and my reaction to it was very different from the reaction I got watching the other video on TV. I was disturbed. The execution seemed like no act of justice at all. It was so unprofessional and it seemed like an act of pure revenge. The cheers of the crowd, especially the cheers of the pro-Sardists are revealing. Why the hell were they there??!! It’s as if Sadr’s supporters have infiltrated every single place in Iraq. That’s defintely NOT good. What was freakier is the fact that I saw a little bit of me in those who cheered as Saddam dropped to his death. A few days ago when I watched the news of Saddam’s execution, I was super happy, excited and in a state of disbelief. Little did I realize until now that the excitement I felt was in a way me getting a sweet taste of revenge. I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t want to be those people who cheered happily in the spirit of revenge as Saddam was hung.

The defiant dictator… defiant until death is now gone and he got was deserved. Never mind the fact that the execution was disturbing. When I watched it, this verse from the Quran (3:26) also came to mind:

O Allah! Lord of Power (And Rule), Thou givest power to whom Thou pleasest, and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest: Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest: In Thy hand is all good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power.

So long Saddam. The Lord will judge you now. As for Iraq, Lord have mercy!

Comments

4 Responses to “FULL Video of Saddam’s Execution: Very Disturbing Yet Revealing”

  1. moryarti on January 2nd, 2007 6:12 pm

    what else do you expect when a savage is executed by a bunch of savages…

  2. Mimz on January 2nd, 2007 7:27 pm

    The full video is very disturbing.

    It’s freaky how they yelled “the tyrant has fell” after Saddam was hanged.. gave me goosebumps. They wouldn’t even let him finish his second Shehada.

  3. Drima on January 3rd, 2007 12:35 am

    “They wouldn’t even let him finish his second Shehada.”

    I know!

  4. Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide on January 7th, 2007 12:06 am

    […] In the African blogosphere, Sudanese Thinker, suffering conflicting emotions on seeing the execution video, excoriates Saddam apologist bloggers. Next door, in Kenya, M of Thinker’s Room sparks off a debate about capital punishment among his international readership in a post entitled “They Shouldn’t Have Hanged Saddam”. UK-based Olawunmi takes a starkly different view, sending Nigeria’s leaders a memento mori, that what happened to Saddam can easily happen to other wayward leaders. Another trenchant Nigerian blogger, Akin, advocates turning Saddam’s posthumous trial for genocide into a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. But the most downbeat confession comes from Nkem Ifejika, also based in the UK: On the night he was executed, a group of us had a debate about capital punishment. I am against it. Not because I believe the worst of humankind should be spared the indignity of state execution, but for our own dignity. We, the judge, jury, and excutioner. We are the ones who need to preserve our own nobility by not killing people. What has killing Saddam gained the world? One less mouth to feed maybe, but other than that - nothing. Is it ever possible for capital punishment to be seen as anything loftier than state sanctioned revenge? I think not. When we were growing up, most of our parents told us not to hit back. Turn the other cheek. Revenge is for the Lord. But even one of the mot theocratic governments in the world, the US government, is in favour of the death penalty. […]

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