hello from an iraqi atheist.... rare lol

[finalyawake]

well about the war..... it is true allot of the soldures are just horrible people women got raped and all sorts of horrible things... most of the people that were labeled as terrorists were just normal people like you and me who didn't want to leave their home and got shot for that like in fallujah. Also religious freedom went away before the war believe it or not our neighbors were Christians and allot of Sunnis and Shi'ites lived together and even in our government we had Sunni Muslims Shi'ite Muslims and Christians.... the most famous being Tariq Aziz. but know every thing changed we are all discriminated against and you get killed depending on what type of Muslim you are... our new "free" government to me is nothing more than a slave to Iran. now i don't really see a united future for the country and about our side actually Iraq defeating saddam was the easy part really most of the time you spent fighting insurgents and most of those insurgents are not even Iraqi! most alqaida fighters are usually from outside the country and most suicide bombers are from Saudi Arabia even though western Iraq in cities such as fallujah. but for the Shi'ites on the other case most fighters were Iraqi. both sides ruined us.
and on the other story when i was a child i always was thinking about religion and at one point i hate full hate towards Jews. things changed and i started looking into things when i came to the USA i looked into Buddhism, Christianity and all the major religions except Hinduism. after that i saw many flaws in the quran and started to realize that the quran the hadiths and the prophet were not the things i thought they were. i would say more but i think you get the point lol... maby sometime ill open up a YouTube channel telling people my story
pleases excuse my english and thank you for welcoming me

Thank you, your English was fine.
I figured as much. Seems like it was just another war tailor made to profit the US after all.
Like I've said before; Saddam needed to be taken down but not with the methods used and not for the reasons he was.
Saddam should of been taken down for what he was doing to his own people. Not for the oil in his possession.
As for the methods... well you already know about them, I'm sorry.

If you don't consider it too personal could you tell us your experience of the US? Don't worry, you don't need to be flattering. Theres no rednecks here as far as I know, plus I've never even been the US.

well the first few moths were hard and i had to live what Americans may call the ghetto only for a few moths later we moved out of the big city and went to a sub urban neighborhood which was great plus it was and upper middle class one and not a ghetto so it was a big transition.
as for the people ... in st. Paul or the ghetto lol we lived across the street from a bar and their were constant parties violence and vulgar language not to mention horrible people but know i am actually really fine and i love my freedoms i have i can actually go out in the streets and they would be clean they are not all sandy it isn't so hot and we have safe electricity here in Iraq our electricity is really dangerous to play with... i can express my self dread how i want to etc.... in Iraq if you dress black and black that can get you killed ... even though that's not my style and for the people in st. Paul people were a little on the bad side doing drugs and uneducated but now people are really friendly and we talk to our neighbors and they seem interested in my culture. i have encountered racism but nothing major.
so if some one offers me a castle and millions of dollars in Iraq it still is not as good as life here.
be lucky you live in the west!

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welcome, I'm from Bahrain, I'm glad there is another Arab atheist here, that would give us much to talk about.

hello haha theirs allot of us out their but sadly no one can express that in most Arab counties