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!]
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