Muqtada al-Sadr says 'reform project' overcame corruption, marks Ashura message

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist Movement, said in a written statement released on Friday that Imam Hussein secured victory through his martyrdom and that the "corruption project" had collapsed in the face of the reform path. He said the Umayyads had "cut off Hussein's head," while reformers held their heads high and the corrupt kept theirs bowed. Sadr added that Hussein's camps had become a qibla for free reformers and ruins for the palaces of the corrupt. He said Hussein, together with his family, wrote an epic of freedom, and that the memory of the Prophet and Ahl al-Bayt cannot be erased. The Sadrist leader said God would complete His light "no matter how much the corrupt oppose it." He closed the statement with a message of condolence marking the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, his sons and his companions.