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The "Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party (Arabic: حزب
الدعوة الإسلامية
/ Ḥizb Al-Daʿwa Al-Islāmiyya), is a political
party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of
the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance. It was
founded in 1958 and its purpose was to create a party and a movement
which would promote Islamic values and ethics, political awareness,
combat secularism, and create an Islamic state in Iraq. This came at a
time when politics in Iraq was dominated by secularist Arab
nationalist and socialist ideas. A "twin" Islamic Dawa Party was also
founded in Lebanon by clerics
who had studied in Najaf and supportedthe resurgence of Islamic values
there as well. Al-Dawa gained strength in the 1970s recruiting from
among the Shia ulama and youth. It waged an armed insurgencyagainst
the Iraqi government which initiated a crackdown on Shi'a political
activism, driven in part by the secular nature of the Ba'thist
ideology and in part by their view of a politicized Shi'a as a threat
to the stability of the regime. Widely viewed in the West as a
terrorist organization at the time, the Dawa party was banned in 1980
and its members sentenced to death in absentia by the Iraqi
Revolutionary Command Council. Dawa supported the Islamic Revolution
in Iran and in turn received
support from the Iranian government. During the Iran-Iraq War, Iran
backed a Dawa insurgency against Saddam Hussein's Baathist government
in Iraq. In 1979, Dawa moved its headquarters to Tehran. Most leaders
of al-Dawa remained in exile in Iran and elsewhere until the American
invasion of Iraq in 2003. During this period, some of its factions
moved to SCIRI. Al-Dawa
party, in contrast to the other Shia Islamic Iraqi opposition parties,
took a stance against the war. This party is par of the coalition of incumbent
Prime Minister al-Maliki."
For additional information go to:
http://www.islamicdawaparty.com/ (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 17 June 2014
The flag is the
logo in the middle of a white horizontal flag as seen
here.
Esteban Rivera, 17 June 2014
