{"id":483,"date":"2015-04-02T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=483"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:13:50","slug":"iraqi-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/02\/iraqi-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2015\/03\/iraq-hero-abu-azrael-tikrit-battle.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is an interesting insight<\/a> into Iraqi psychology, insomuch as such a thing can exist in such a fragmented country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ghayyath al-Kateb, a writer and social researcher, sees the Abu Azrael phenomenon in the context of\u00a0Iraqi mythology. \u201cThis extraordinary and legendary hero is a product of Iraqi thought throughout the ages. Iraqi mythology, across multiple eras, has seen the emergence of many superheroes, the most prominent of which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=622430694511018\" target=\"_blank\">Gilgamesh<\/a>, who appears in the epic tale named after him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Before Abu Azrael,\u200b\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hekar.net\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=6650\" target=\"_blank\">Adnan al-Kaissie<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0a popular hero among Iraqis in the 1970s. Pictures of the professional wrestler, a media favorite,\u00a0filled Iraqi homes and\u00a0streets. Everybody wanted to be like Adnan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kateb, it is\u00a0the nature of Arabs, and Iraqis in particular, to create legendary men who accomplish great things. Because of this tendency, political parties in Iraq have tried to exploit the Abu Azrael phenomenon. A number of government\u00a0ministers and officials have met with him. The local media reported that Transport Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/sngiq.net\/wordpress\/?p=10451\" target=\"_blank\">Bayan Jabr<\/a> received him March 16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This probably explains Saddam Hussein&#8217;s survival at the top &#8211; a willingness to believe in the importance of the role of the strongman, which he certainly fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting insight into Iraqi psychology, insomuch as such a thing can exist in such a fragmented country: Ghayyath al-Kateb, a writer and social researcher, sees the Abu Azrael phenomenon in the context of\u00a0Iraqi mythology. \u201cThis extraordinary and legendary hero is a product of Iraqi thought throughout the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/02\/iraqi-psychology\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}