New Delhi: After execution of the deposed Iraqi President, at least two pregnant women from Hadgud village in Anand district of Gujarat have pledged to name their child, if born a son, as Saddam Hussein. Over 70 per cent of the people in Hadgud are Muslims.
Iklas Banu, 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. Iklas, a teacher, already has a three-year-old girl whom she has named Saira Banu.
UNI quoted Iklas as saying, ''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.'' Saddam Hussein was not offered an opportunity to repent for his crimes, she says.
Another Hadgud resident Saida Banu, who too has resolved to name her yet-to-be-born son as Saddam said, ''Saddam Hussein was like a lion. That is why he refused to wear the black hood at the time of his execution.'' Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war and his execution will not erase his memory from people's mind, she says.
Saida could not study beyond the seventh standard and is aware of the opposition to the capital punishment by the US Human Rights body and says that there had been haste in ''murdering'' Saddam Hussein.
Saida has a five-year-old son Kabir and she has vouched that if her second child is also a son, she will name him as Saddam.
Interestingly, during the 1991 Gulf War, over 40 women in Mahuda village in Kheda district of Gujarat had named their new-born sons as ''Saddam''.
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