Word: saladin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast Saddam merely as a gangster is to misunderstand not only why he invaded Kuwait but also why he has gained so much popular support among the "Arab masses." Saddam's propaganda variously portrays him as Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King who destroyed Jerusalem in 587 B.C., or as Saladin, the Kurdish warrior who fought off the Crusaders...
PERHAPS the most compelling reason why all Arabs ought to condemn this modern "Saladin" (sic) is because of the endless number of atrocities which he is currently committing against his fellow Arabs and Muslims, against helpless human beings. There can be no justification for the systematic executions, imprisonment, rape, wholesale looting and robbery in Kuwait. Can we simply chalk up these crimes to the neccessities of subduing a conquered land? Would they in time abate? The answer, judging from Saddam's history of human rights violations, is an uniquivocal...
...genocidal murder with poison gas of 8000 Kurds in the town of Halabja. Saddam kidnapped over 90 members of his own dissident family, and more than 20 have been executed. Saddam executed 600 members of a Shiite opposition group in 1984. To compare Saddam Hussein to the noble Saladin would be a gross affront to Islam. To fail to oppose him would be nothing short of criminal...
Saddam fashions himself such a savior, the new Saladin to wrest the holy land from the crusaders--in this case Israel, the only non-Islamic and democratic enclave in all of the Middle East...
...West cannot allow this scenario either. If Saddam becomes the next Saladin, he will throw the entire Middle East into a chaos that the rest of the world will be unable to ignore. The specter of catastrophic war involving Iraq, Israel and superpowers will be at hand...