Shafaq News/ After the fall of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdous Square ninth of April 2003, the world knew and the Iraqis at the forefront, that the era ended with the former regime will not come back. But the legacy left from the former regime raised much controversy in the period following the change, such as the flag and national anthem, as well as the monuments erected to him during his reign, some of  which were removed while others are still  remaining .

Perhaps the most prominent thing that marked Saddam among other rulers, is writing the Qur'an using his blood, and saving that version, which is still found at the Sunni Endowment. During eight years ago, that version was out of sight behind the locks, the new rule does not know what to do for it.
The head of the Sunni Endowment Ahmad al-Samarrai said, "What Saddam did was wrong, and was prohibited from the religious view ."
But al-Samarrai says he worked to protect this version during the period of looting and chaos that engulfed large parts of the country in the weeks that followed the fall of Saddam, and he hid that copy in the homes of relatives.
According to the British newspaper "The Guardian", the, " The copy written with the blood of Saddam Hussein, needed about 27 liters of blood to  be accomplished, and it took a nurse and calligrapher for nearly two years for drawing  blood and copying."
According to sources, the Qur'an written in the blood of Saddam has been reserved in Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad for nearly three years, at the time the current political administration is trying to get rid of the long legacy of Saddam and the Baath Party, which lasted for about 35 years.
"There is fear of reprisals from the government, against those who are responsible for keeping the copy, if they opened the doors of the Treasury which has preserved the copy of this Qur'an." The paper said.
However, a spokesman for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Ali al-Moussawi, said it should be retained "as a witness to the horror of Saddam, and there is no Iraqi who wants to see it, and maybe in the future may be parked in a private museum as is the case of symbols Memorial from the era of Hitler or Stalin or other. "
"Not all that were built by this regime must be eliminated, there are statues of the signals to the dictatorship, battles and wars, some of which are indications of sectarian and ethnic lines, and these should be removed." He added.
According to the British newspaper that "a number of prominent Iraqi political figures that opposed Saddam, including the Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, want to completely get rid of the symbols of the former regime."
For his part, the calligrapher Judy Abbas said that Saddam ordered him to write the Qur'an with his blood after his son Udaiy was subjected  to an assassination attempt "to fulfill a voting offering he had made to himself."
The calligrapher admitted that he suspected about the religious legitimacy of his work but "I did not have the option to say no to Saddam which means death sentence." said he.
Judy says that he received less than three thousand dollars for his work.
The Iraqi government formed in 2005, a committee to oversee the disposal of all the symbols associated with Saddam Hussein and his reign.
Observers say that the rest of the symbols of Saddam Hussein no longer raise any controversy in the Iraqi street and  no longer involve any importance in the light of the most important issues concerning  the Iraqis such as the reconstruction of the country, and the best ways to build a healthy life  which is free from fear and bloodshed.

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