Who are the Iraqis
By Joe Bob Briggs
NEW YORK, (UPI) — Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:
NEW YORK, (UPI) — Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:
- Twelve thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming. They got to be so good at it that, today, they can still produce all the food they need even when “sanctions” are imposed.
- They invented writing.
- They figured out how to tell time.
- They founded modern mathematics.
- In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first legal system that protects the weak, the widow and the orphan.
- Five thousand years ago, they had philosophers who attempted to list every known thing in the world.
- They were using Pythagoras’ theorem 1,700 years before Pythagoras.
- They invented artificial building materials, some kind of pre-fab-crete stuff used to construct high-rise towers.
- Ur, in southeast Iraq, is assumed to be the place we’re all descended from.
- They were the first people to build cities and live in them.
- For thousands of years, they wrote the greatest poetry, history and “sagas” in the world.
- Because they were great horse breeders, they invented the cavalry in war.
- The Iraq Museum in Baghdad contains some of the most outstanding stone, metal and clay sculptures and inscriptions created in the history of the world. Some of them are more than 7,000 years old. If a bomb hits this place, art lovers around the world will go into mourning.
- The first school for astronomers was established by Iraqis. This is how the “wise men” got to be so wise. They knew how to follow the star.
- Beginning around 800 A.D., the Iraqis founded universities that imported teachers from throughout the civilized world to teach medicine, mathematics, philosophy, theology, literature and poetry.
- For the first 1,200 years of its existence, Baghdad was regarded as one of the most refined, civilized and festive cities in the world.
- Abraham, the father of Israel, was from Iraq.
- Abraham, the father of Islam, was from Iraq.
- Abraham, the father and “model” of Christian faith, was from Iraq.
- Saddam Hussein doesn’t regard himself as the heir of Abraham, or even as the heir of Muhammad. He regards himself, first and foremost, as the heir of Nebuchadnezzar. He identifies, in other words, with the enslaver, not the enslaved.
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Iraqi People
Ehtnic Groups
Arabs
They are almost 75% to 80% of Iraq’s population. Kurds
They are about 15% to 20% of the Iraqi population, They live in the north and have had a lot of trouble with the central government. Regardless, the situation for Iraqi Kurds it is much better than that of Kurds in neighboring countries. Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other
Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other are part of the iraqi socity. They live mostly in the main cities of iraq. Religions
Shiaa Muslims
They are about 60%-65%, mostly living in the south of Iraq. Sunni Muslems
They are about 31% to 36% of the Iraqi population, they live almost all over the country with concentration in central Iraq. Christian
They are about 3% of Iraq, living mostly in Baghdad and also in the northern parts of Iraq. Others
They are about 1% of Iraq, There are Jews and Yazeeden , they are few but still part of the Iraqi socity.
Arabs
They are almost 75% to 80% of Iraq’s population. Kurds
They are about 15% to 20% of the Iraqi population, They live in the north and have had a lot of trouble with the central government. Regardless, the situation for Iraqi Kurds it is much better than that of Kurds in neighboring countries. Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other
Turkmen, Assyrian, Chaldenian Jews, and other are part of the iraqi socity. They live mostly in the main cities of iraq. Religions
Shiaa Muslims
They are about 60%-65%, mostly living in the south of Iraq. Sunni Muslems
They are about 31% to 36% of the Iraqi population, they live almost all over the country with concentration in central Iraq. Christian
They are about 3% of Iraq, living mostly in Baghdad and also in the northern parts of Iraq. Others
They are about 1% of Iraq, There are Jews and Yazeeden , they are few but still part of the Iraqi socity.
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