The myth of Freedom statue

When a man closely observes the recent history of Iraq, he would easily notice that there is something really wrong that causes such unfortunate events and catastrophes, I personally think the reason behind it is the Iraqi society itself combined with the riches of the Iraqi land which became a curse on Iraqis rather than a fortune and many other reasons combined together to make the dangerous mixture, while on the other hand there are some people who put the blame on other things; like black magic, bad luck or a curse!!

Before I get to the subject I'd love to summarize few things about the current situation in Iraq, for sure things are improving, and one can sense a political maturation and some kind of quietness but is it peaceful yet? Is there peace in Baghdad? No, no one can say that Baghdad is peaceful, but I can say it's safer…Maliki and many other politicians are making new alliances based on ideology and political interests rather than sects and religion and this is a really really great thing and a very important step, you know that I always used to dislike Maliki but now I'm 

having second thoughts about him…but let's not be too optimistic and naïve to forget that these achievements are fragile and like my Looli, a new born…let's not forget that a bombing started the sectarian violence (AlAskaris' shrines bombing), I'm not saying that another bombing like that will lead to a civil war but also we shouldn't forget that the US troops will be leaving Iraq (except for the logistics) by the end of this year and at the same time we have president Obama making what I see a mistake by trying to be friends with Iran! I'll leave the subject here and I might get to it in details in another post. 

Some people and on the head of them is the magician Thabit AlAloosi (who lives in London) who believes that all the disasters of Iraq are caused by black magic in the freedom statue.

Liberty statue was designed by the great artist Jawad Saleem by the help of the architect Rifaat Alchadirchi and the sculpture Mohammed Ghani Hikamt by the order of Abd Alkareem Nasir (the former Iraqi president) at 1959 in Baghdad and Rome, it was finished and installed at AlTahreer square (liberty) at the center of Baghdad in Bab IlShargi at 1962…it's like a Sumerian panoramic scene that contains 14 artistic pieces along it's length that describes almost everything regarding Iraq and Iraqis and giving descriptions of the Iraqi's spirit and the most obvious and important one among them is the soldier who is breaking the prison bars, it's a great sculpture…The French government offered 300,000$ to Jawad Saleem (at the time) to install the statue in Paris…it's one of the 100 famous sculptures in the world.

But many wizards and magicians and some Iraqis along with them throw the blame for the disasters of Iraq on this beautiful statue.

Jawad Saleem died in 1962 before he was able to see his artistic peace in Baghdad…president Kassim when he was taken in a tank to be hanged in 1963 he requested one thing, he just wanted to see the statue before he dies! Many people where hanged at this square and many others died and scattered in the last few years below this beautiful statue because of the explosions done by ignorant minds like those of the wizards and the ones who believes in them…

This beautiful statue have a very touching scenario, the story starts with struggles and miseries charged with anger and revolution to describe the dark years we went through and then the soldier comes and breaks the prison bars to start another era of peace and prosperity but by observing our history we would easily notice that the story is on repeat mode! It continues to run over and over, to start from the beginning till the end…And now we are waiting for that soldier to break the bars, I can't wait to see the end of the freedom statue scenario and live it.