Shocking letter from the Prison of Abu Gharib

Fatima's Letter:

"In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving. "Say He is God
the One; God the Source [of everything]; Not has He fathered, nor has
He been fathered; nor is anything comparable to Him." [Qur'an, Surat
112 "al-Ikhlas"]

I chose this noble Surah from the Book of God because it has the
greatest impact on me and on all of you and it strikes a particular
kind of awe in the hearts of Believers.

My brother Mujahideen in the path of God! What can I say to you? I
say to you: our wombs have been filled with the children of
fornication by those sons of apes and pigs who raped us. Or I could
tell you that they have defaced our bodies, spit in our faces, and
tore up the little copies of the Qur'an that hung around our necks?
God is greatest! Can you not comprehend our situation? Is it true
that you do not know what is happening to us? We are your sisters.
God will be calling you to account [about this] tomorrow.

By God, we have not passed one night since we have been in prison
without one of the apes and pigs jumping down upon us to rip our
bodies apart with his overweening lust. And we are the ones who had
guarded our virginity out of fear of God. Fear God! Kill us along
with them! Destroy us along with them! Don't leave us here to let
them get pleasure from raping us! It will be an act to ennoble the
Throne of Almighty God. Fear God regarding us! Leave their tanks and
aircraft outside. Come at us here in the prison of Abu Ghurayb.

I am your sister in God (Fatimah). They raped me on one day more than
nine times. Can you comprehend? Imagine one of your sisters being
raped. Why can't you all imagine it, as I am your sister. With me are
13 girls, all unmarried. All have been raped before the eyes and ears
of everyone.

They won't let us pray. They took our clothes and won't let us get
dressed. As I write this letter one of the girls has committed
suicide. She was savagely raped. A soldier hit her on her chest and
thigh after raping her. He subjected her to unbelievable torture. She
beat her head against the wall of the cell until she died, for she
couldn't take any more, even though suicide is forbidden in Islam.
But I excuse that girl. I have hope that God will forgive her,
because He is the Most Merciful of all.

Brothers, I tell you again, fear God! Kill us with them so that we
might be at peace. Help! Help! Help! [Wa Mu'atasima!]" [END]

Subsequently, approximately 100 resistance fighters launched a fierce
attack on the prison, forcing US troops to take cover inside their
barracks within the compound. Fighters pounded the Americans with
barrages of 82mm and 120mm mortar rounds. Large crowds of people
gathered outside, fearful that the bombardment might harm the
prisoners but they were assured by the fighters that they knew the
layout of the prison camp very well.

Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent in Baghdad reported that the
fighters succeeded in destroying part of the walls of the prison
camp, blasting a hole four meters long in the inner and outer fences
that encircled the camp.

The fate of Fatima and the other woman with her is unknown.

On a final note, an individual responded to Fatima's letter yesterday
on the Ansar site and wrote:

"Sorry, sister, we are not men. Only true men can answer your cry for
help. Men are in a very short supply these days. Sorry again sister."

It is comments like these that speak to the lack of honor and duty
that characterizes many Muslims today. At JUS, we have insisted that
rape has been going on since the occupiers landed their muddy boots
in Iraq, which has for the most part, fallen on dead ears. We feel
great frustration and failure over the receipt of Fatima's letter
because we know there are many more Fatimas being raped in prisons in
Iraq and Afghanistan and many other sisters who are being violated
who are not in captivity. What must we do to make these voices heard
and where are the Muslim men to defend their honor?

In previous times, glory and honor were integrated into the lives of
Muslims as part of the complete system of Islam. For instance, a man
tied the end of that woman's dress to a chair while she was shopping
and when she got up, a portion of her private parts became visible.
She screamed "Wa Mu'atasima", calling for the Khalif himself. The
Khalif wrote this letter to the head of the cross worshipper's state:

"To the dog of Rome, I am coming to you with an army whose front is
at your door and whose rear is right here"

This is honor and glory in action for something much less than rape.
This is an army instead of 100 fighters. Those were the days when
Muslim men could be found.