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After the last explosions in Baghdad on the 8th of December where two cars exploded in Baghdad and killed more than 127 person with about 330 wounded, I did not find any energy to write or comment. I just posted the story on my Facebook, a prayer that God, Allah, or any mighty force up there should give the Iraqi people a break. In fact I was more depressed as many of my friends know I had became a heavy guest on one of the European countries after I received death threats in Baghdad, and as we like to say in Arabic world (guest is a our king for 3 days with all his wishes to be fulfilled, then on day 4 either he leave or explain why he want to stay), and I can tell you my 3 days in Europe has expired a long time ago. In fact, all European countries are feeling sick from people coming to Europe seeking a new life, they feel that we bring a part of our Mideast crisis with us, with our Islamic ideas and way of life. You can see that Islamophobia and xenophobia has became the new trend here and the ban of minarets in Switzerland is an example of that new wave.
I respect the European stand on immigrants, I mean I had been here for some time and see many people really giving horrible examples of abusing the west’s respect of human rights. I respect their beliefs and their fears, but this really will not solve my problem. I am living here on temporary permits that give me few rights and under fear I may lose it any day. My country is a war zone with no man or government accepting to take the blame for it.
The problem with cases as Iraq and Palestine is that we started to grow old, our countries lost its spark. Reporters are not getting new feeds on us, the terror and death and politics in our countries are repeating themselves, making it hard for media to bring new angels and make it hard for people to sympathies with us and harder for us to escape death. Our options are limited ether you shut your mouth and live in your country, walking near the wall (my mother used to say: leave all this political shit and focus on your life, get married and forget about changing anything.) Well I never listened to mom and never got married. Today I watch all this politics, shit burns in my lovely city Baghdad, killing my people and I can hardly do anything, just shut my mouth and send a short prayer of peace on my Facebook page.
I try to keep posting and sharing with the few people who care to see what I have posted. I try to sign another petition for peace, and share latest human rights video, I try to support change in Iran and keep the voices of activists’ in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan and Tunisia, etc, keep their voices being heard. Try to bring new ideas to the people who read my Twitter or Facebook or my blog.
I try to survive. I am not doing great work in it but I try. So maybe one day someone up there in the heaven above decides that the Iraqi people need a break from corruption, sectarian violence and ignorance and could use some human rights, freedom and peace.
Maybe I can go home that day.
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Wamith,
I can feel your sorrow and sadness, actually helplessness as sitting there way from your beloved Baghdad…. but I still say it is, and will still stay useless as you (staying still) waiting for..:
to decide for you !!
There can never be peace in Iraq while the Americans still stepping on the Iraqi faces and plundering their resources, as the same Palestine will never see peace unless we see the last zionist leave our homeland … and this will never come with the “peace” process(s) but only with force and … the zionists will keep living in horror behind their walls and inside their physical and mental Ghetto until their power will betray them soon !!!
Occupation can never be a normal state nor will last forever, The Americans must fail in Iraq and Afganistan as the same the zionists must fail in Palestine, as they still after over 60 years are still living the ghetto again !!
What we have to do it to get out of their deceptive discourse of “human rights”, “democracy”, “transparency”, “peace” and the stuff they use to silence us and use some of us against their own people !!! Only force can liberate us and nothing else but the free-will of our freedom fighters !!!
Sami, the bedouin.