Scientology in Kurdish Iraq

I just got this story in my e-mail from the Scientology International Library Campaign.  It’s from someone who has been working to get Scientology & Dianetics books into all of the libraries of Earth:

Several days ago I picked up a scribbled handwritten message from our Receptionist. This message mentioned that a person wanted to buy a book from our company. On the note was a long phone number — and from a glance at it, it was not from the U.S.

I sat down and called the number and it sounded like I was calling some number in a VERY far away land. A person picked up the phone and did not say anything. I heard a language I did not recognize in the background – one I had never heard before. Then suddenly a strong “hello” came across the line.

Library in Kurdish Iraq

I told him who I was and where I was calling from. He replied in broken English that he wanted to buy one of our paperback books. He and his wife had saved up enough funds for the past 3 weeks to come up with $15. Mysteriously he mentioned to me that he had read “The Secret Book”. Politely I asked him if it was a Dianetics book or a Scientology book. He replied that it was the first book I had mentioned. He continued to say that it completely changed his life and he wanted to tell his family and friends about it. In a roundabout fashion, he told me he had “gotten it from some friends”. He told me that he was in Iraq and that he was Kurdish.

I found out that he is a professor in a University in Sulaimanyah and wants to teach Dianetics and Scientology to his students.

I asked him, “Would it be okay with you if I sent you donations of the 18 hardcover books for your University library?” He had a 15 second comm lag and replied, “Are you fooling me?” To this I replied “No, I am not. I will send you donations if it is safe for you to have them.”

Once again he comm lagged for another 15 seconds and then said “If you did this, you would make me the happiest man on Earth!”

Weeks later I received a reply from Brwa Qadir Saeed (the name of the public) and his reply is as follows:

Studying the Scientology & Dianetics Basics in a Library in Kurdish Iraq

“Thank you very much for your assistance and I will be in very high spirits if I could help you with anything please. Your help is the best thing which has happened to my life and thank you again, and I don’t know what I could say to give my appreciation for your help. Thank you very much again, and I will let you know if I need anything.”

This is the very first reach for Dianetics and Scientology we have ever received from this area of the world — Northeast Iraq.

Getting Scientology Books into the Libraries of West Africa

Contact Bridge Publications or New Era Publications if you are interested in this campaign, and they can send you a full-size version of this map.

No matter where one is on the planet, everyone deserves to be able to find out for themselves about what Dianetics and Scientology are, for real — and nowhere is that better done than via the pages of a book.

L. Ron Hubbard said, regarding this:

“The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.”  -L. Ron Hubbard

As such, Bridge Publications and New Era Publications (publishers of the works of L. Ron Hubbard) have been running a massive International Library Campaign, with the aim to immediately get a full set of L. Ron Hubbard’s Basics books into every single library on earth.

The set of books being donated to every library is all 18 books of the Basics — the full chronology of the development of Dianetics and Scientology.   Read more about the Basics here.

Due to generous donations from individuals around the world, Scientology books can now be found right in the local libraries of communities everywhere.  Many countries are already completed, such as Poland, most of North Africa, the Ukraine, most of the middle east and Southeast Asia.

Since the first sets of books began shipping out to libraries last year from our International Library Campaign, requests for more LRH books in all languages have been flooding in to us.

Some libraries want multiple languages so all their public can benefit. Others want multiple sets in existing languages due to pure demand for Scientology in their areas.

An example of this is the following feedback that was received from a library in Sierra Leone:

Scientology books are eagerly being checked out by library patrons of Sierra Leone, Ghana, and other West African Countries.

“These latest editions are the first we have received of L. Ron Hubbard’s works and will be earnestly added to our collection and will be monitored for evaluation. Scientology is a relatively new subject capable of arousing library patrons and public interest. More donations will be necessary to boost our collection of the subject.”

—B.K., Librarian, Sierra Leone Library Board, Rokel

YOU CAN HELP!

Right now there are only 12 libraries left to complete all of the Libraries in Ghana – a country with a good people and a wealth of natural resources, who yet live through some of the most horrific human rights abuses ever seen.  They need the technology of life as contained in Dianetics and Scientology books, and you can help bring this to them.

Donations from generous individuals is the way to get these books into the hands of the millions that need them.  Contact the International Library Campaign for more information, or you can make a donation here.