Last Monday, UMass Amherst was paid a visit by probably the most courageous person I have ever met. He is an Iraqi named Samir Adil, and he is president of the Iraq Freedom Congress. Samir was speaking in the Pioneer Valley as part of a two-week tour of the East Coast, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee.
Some background on the IFC: formed in March of 2005, the group opposes the American occupation, Islamic terrorism, and sectarianism – what Samir describes as a civil war that has been going on since the invasion began. In terms of solutions, the IFC also opposes handing Iraq over to the United Nations. Instead, they argue that “an independent, democratic, secular, non-ethnic and mass organization
