Baghdad Burning update about The Rape of Sabrine...
The Rape of Sabrine...
It takes a lot to get the energy and resolution to blog lately. I guess it’s mainly because just thinking about the state of Iraq leaves me drained and depressed. But I had to write tonight.
As I write this, Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on Nilesat), showing Americans how to get out of debt. Her guest speaker is telling a studio full of American women who seem to have over-shopped that they could probably do with fewer designer products. As they talk about increasing incomes and fortunes, Sabrine Al-Janabi, a young Iraqi woman, is on Al Jazeera telling how Iraqi security forces abducted her from her home and raped her. You can only see her eyes, her voice is hoarse and it keeps breaking as she speaks. In the end she tells the reporter that she can’t talk about it anymore and she covers her eyes with shame.
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posted by Nadia @ 10:37 AM
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All crimes that have been done in the hidden are difficult to know if they have happened or not for an outsider. That is why examinations and investigations are always needed. Even then the wrong conclusion can be the result but it’s the only option we have.
So whether this girl is telling the truth, the whole truth or lies does not change that facts we already know. And that is that rape is being committed in Iraq on men and women in prisons, by both Iraqis and occupation people since before. And nothing have been done to stop it.
Of course the local news has all sorts of horror storys about young girls being abducted from their homes, and school shootings. And I almost feel numb when I hear about soldiers who died overseas in this war. I'm only 17, but I feel like I've heard these things a million times.
And then there are news storys about who the father of Anna Nichole Smith's baby may or may not be, and things like the war get brushed over.
It is really ironic to see that differance, and I totally get where you're comeing from. The U.S. is pretty wasteful. Like, I read an artical in which a lady wrote that to be anti- consumerist is to be anti- feminist, because women bond by SHOPPING. Honestly, if that's the case, I'd better get my chromosones checked.
I hope that if she was raped, the people who did this will be brought to justice. Sex should be an act of love, not hate :(
So she thinks its anti-feminist... ha ha ha thanks for that Anastasia!
Then I think I'll join you and check my chromosones too ; )
So what do you think will happen in the U.S, will U.S people be able to kick Bush out of office?
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