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Naming newborns after Saddam - Gujarat
Anand, Jan 1 (UNI) At least two pregnant women from Hadgud village in this district have pledged to name their child, if born a son, as saddam hussein after the deposed Iraqi President who was hanged.
Over 70 per cent of the people in Hadgud are Muslims. Iklas Banu is a teacher who already has a three-year-old girl whom she has named Saira Banu. This teacher, who has MA and B.Ed degrees to boast of, says she will surely name her second child as Saddam if it is a boy.
''It was wrong to hang saddam hussein. Had he been allowed to live in prison, he would have realised his follies and felt bad about his misdeeds some day,'' says Iklas. saddam hussein was not offered an opportunity to repent for his crimes, she says.
''saddam hussein was like a lion. That is why he refused to wear the black hood at the time of his execution,'' says Saida Banu, another Hadgud resident who too has resolved to name her yet-to-be-born son as Saddam.
Unlike the highly-educated Iklas, Saida, however, had to discontinue studies following the Vadodara riots in which her house too was burnt. Saida later married Ilyas and shifted to Hadgud. The couple has a five-year-old son Kabir and Saida has vouched that if her second child is also a son, she will name him as Saddam.
saddam
hussein
was
a
prisoner
of
war
and
his
execution
will
not
erase
his
memory
from
people's
mind,
says
Saida.
The
woman,
who
could
not
study
beyond
the
seventh
standard,
is
aware
of
the
opposition
to
the
capital
p
unishment
by
the
US
Human
Rights
body
and
says
that
there
had
been
haste
in
''murdering''
saddam
hussein.
Interestingly
during
the
1991
Gulf
War,
over
40
women
in
Mahuda
village
in
Kheda
district
had
named
their
new-born
sons
as
''Saddam''.