neurotic Iraqi wife
June 19, 2007
A disastrous Nightmare...
The media can have alot of positive and negative points. Let me start by the negative ones which I just saw on TV, on Sky news. Im sure you have heard that the GZ got hammered by a number of mortars while back. And what does Sky news do???They go to their sister channel Fox news, and show LIVE PICTURES of the GZ in smoke!!! I mean what better way to encourage the insurgents of doing more??? Very good on you Sky and Fox news, you are the very best tool for the insurgents. I mean who in their stupid mind would do this???They are putting their own people at risk. And you wander why so many contractors are dying!!! Do I dare say more??? It would have been suffice to say that the GZ is being hit, thats it, no more details and DEFINITELY NO PICTURES!!! I try to be as vague as I can when I talk about attacks against the GZ cuz of the risk that I will be putting everyone in incase some idiot is reading my blog and is part of the insurgents/militias.
The military keep talking about OPSEC BS, they even barred us from using personal pics on our desktops for the sake of the so called OPSEC, yet they allow the TV channels to say it all and show it all. Yeah great planning. I can go on, but Im gonna keep my mouth shut for now.
As for the positive effect, is the article that shows the world the truth. The truth yet it aggravated the hell outta me. This is how I reacted when I first read it while I was still at work, Im not gonna edit the post I wrote earlier but please be warned I kinda cursed alot:
I am in total shock, no, thats not the word. I am speechless and close to tears. I am so sick to my stomach right now and sooooooooooo angry. I was taking a small break from the busy day I had. Reading news, checking out the latest bombing that took place, which I later found out was in the sinak area. Until I came to see the headline which read:
Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare (Read the full story here) I will just put in a few lines:
On a daytime patrol in central Baghdad just over than a week ago, a U.S. military advisory team and Iraqi soldiers happened to look over a wall and found something horrific.
"They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids lifted up their head, tilted it over and just looked and then went back down. And they said, 'oh, they're alive' and so they went into the building."
Inside the building, a government-run orphanage for special needs children, the soldiers found more emaciated little bodies tied to the cribs. They had been kept this way for more than a month, according to the soldiers called in to rescue the 24 boys.
"I saw children that you could see literally every bone in their body that were so skinny, they had no energy to move whatsoever, no expression on their face," Staff Sgt. Michael Beale said. "The kids were tied up, naked, covered in their own waste — feces — and there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for the kids," Lt. Stephen Duperre said.
I clicked on it, and I wish I never had. I wish I never had to see these images. Look at this, Look at these pictures and tell me, who in this FUCKING WORLD CAN DO THIS!!!! WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ATROCIOUS CRIME!!!THESE ARE CHILDREN!!!CHILDREN FOR GOD'S SAKE. Kids that have been orphaned. Loook at them, look at them and tell me, is this fair. IS THIS FUCKING FAIR??? I swear Im still shaking from anger. I hear atrocities taking place, I hear horrible stories, but nothing, nothing can ever prepare me for this. No way. Whoever did this are definitely not humans. No, no way. Where are you people of the world???? Where are your voices???? Where is the damn united nations and human rights???
Look at them, barely children, left starving after being sexually abused. Orphans, with no one to look after. SHAME ON YOU IRAQIS, SHAME ON YOU!!!FUCK THIS GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWS THIS TO HAPPEN!!! I am so angry, I am fuming. Maliki, WHERE ARE YOU MALIKI???? How can you accept this to happen. A government owned orphanage, this is indeed the present of Iraq. The present that has created low life people. The present that wiped away all the values, all the beliefs. EVERYTHING. This is the NEW DEMOCRATIC IRAQ!!!
After seeing these images, and reading the story, I came to realise that my mom was right after all. She is right by saying that Iraq and Iraqis are no longer the same. She is right in saying "I wipe my hand from this new Iraq". I used to always get mad at her and tell her how wrong she is. But today, today I definitely relate to her words. She would always tell HUBBY and I that we are wasting our time. That theres no point, because Iraq is no longer Iraq. No matter how much we tried to convince her, and tell her stories about our coworkers, she always shook her head and said she wasnt interested in hearing stories anymore. It pained her immensely and I think part of her denial is for her not to feel the pain of nostalgia. Today, after reading and seeing these images, I too decided that Iraq is no longer. I will still though speak the truth and bring the true Iraqi voices out. I will try my best to do that. Even if they are words, for now, this is all I have to offer.
So my question to you, people of the world, will you accept these atrocities taking place in your own country??? Will you stay silent??? Look at them, can you see your own sons and daughters being treated like that??? I have no kids of my own, but by god, the minute I saw these images my womb hurt, it literally did. And on top of all that, the caretakers, some were women!!! WOMEN!!! They would go and cook for themselves yet leave these kids starving. FEED THEIR OWN DAMN STOMACHS, MAY THEY BURN IN HELL AND IN THIS LIFE. UGHHHH the hatred I have inside of me, the anger. I dunno what else to say or write.
Yes this is the new Iraq. Yes this is the God damned new Iraq. How many more of these places exist that we dont know about???How many more atrocities against hundreds, maybe thousands of young kids that have no one, absolutely no one to love them or care for them is taking place??? These kids orphaned, orphaned either from the bullets of war or the daily explosions of insurgents, or the deadly militia snipers. Oh yes, the devil is having a mighty good time here. A very mighty good time.
When will these children see the light? Does anyone know? Is there a light??? I definitely dont see it anymore. No, I dont see it anymore, and definitely not after today. Iraqis, Iraqis doing this to their own people. If I know who is responsible I will tear them apart, I will tie them to beds just like they did and not only starve them, oh nooooooo, I will burn them, burn them alive for this is the least they deserve those B*****. Those ignorant selfish non humans. God, Im still fuming!!! This is truly a nightmare. A disastrous Nightmare!!!
The military keep talking about OPSEC BS, they even barred us from using personal pics on our desktops for the sake of the so called OPSEC, yet they allow the TV channels to say it all and show it all. Yeah great planning. I can go on, but Im gonna keep my mouth shut for now.
As for the positive effect, is the article that shows the world the truth. The truth yet it aggravated the hell outta me. This is how I reacted when I first read it while I was still at work, Im not gonna edit the post I wrote earlier but please be warned I kinda cursed alot:
I am in total shock, no, thats not the word. I am speechless and close to tears. I am so sick to my stomach right now and sooooooooooo angry. I was taking a small break from the busy day I had. Reading news, checking out the latest bombing that took place, which I later found out was in the sinak area. Until I came to see the headline which read:
Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare (Read the full story here) I will just put in a few lines:
On a daytime patrol in central Baghdad just over than a week ago, a U.S. military advisory team and Iraqi soldiers happened to look over a wall and found something horrific.
"They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids lifted up their head, tilted it over and just looked and then went back down. And they said, 'oh, they're alive' and so they went into the building."
Inside the building, a government-run orphanage for special needs children, the soldiers found more emaciated little bodies tied to the cribs. They had been kept this way for more than a month, according to the soldiers called in to rescue the 24 boys.
"I saw children that you could see literally every bone in their body that were so skinny, they had no energy to move whatsoever, no expression on their face," Staff Sgt. Michael Beale said. "The kids were tied up, naked, covered in their own waste — feces — and there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for the kids," Lt. Stephen Duperre said.
I clicked on it, and I wish I never had. I wish I never had to see these images. Look at this, Look at these pictures and tell me, who in this FUCKING WORLD CAN DO THIS!!!! WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ATROCIOUS CRIME!!!THESE ARE CHILDREN!!!CHILDREN FOR GOD'S SAKE. Kids that have been orphaned. Loook at them, look at them and tell me, is this fair. IS THIS FUCKING FAIR??? I swear Im still shaking from anger. I hear atrocities taking place, I hear horrible stories, but nothing, nothing can ever prepare me for this. No way. Whoever did this are definitely not humans. No, no way. Where are you people of the world???? Where are your voices???? Where is the damn united nations and human rights???
Look at them, barely children, left starving after being sexually abused. Orphans, with no one to look after. SHAME ON YOU IRAQIS, SHAME ON YOU!!!FUCK THIS GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWS THIS TO HAPPEN!!! I am so angry, I am fuming. Maliki, WHERE ARE YOU MALIKI???? How can you accept this to happen. A government owned orphanage, this is indeed the present of Iraq. The present that has created low life people. The present that wiped away all the values, all the beliefs. EVERYTHING. This is the NEW DEMOCRATIC IRAQ!!!
After seeing these images, and reading the story, I came to realise that my mom was right after all. She is right by saying that Iraq and Iraqis are no longer the same. She is right in saying "I wipe my hand from this new Iraq". I used to always get mad at her and tell her how wrong she is. But today, today I definitely relate to her words. She would always tell HUBBY and I that we are wasting our time. That theres no point, because Iraq is no longer Iraq. No matter how much we tried to convince her, and tell her stories about our coworkers, she always shook her head and said she wasnt interested in hearing stories anymore. It pained her immensely and I think part of her denial is for her not to feel the pain of nostalgia. Today, after reading and seeing these images, I too decided that Iraq is no longer. I will still though speak the truth and bring the true Iraqi voices out. I will try my best to do that. Even if they are words, for now, this is all I have to offer.
So my question to you, people of the world, will you accept these atrocities taking place in your own country??? Will you stay silent??? Look at them, can you see your own sons and daughters being treated like that??? I have no kids of my own, but by god, the minute I saw these images my womb hurt, it literally did. And on top of all that, the caretakers, some were women!!! WOMEN!!! They would go and cook for themselves yet leave these kids starving. FEED THEIR OWN DAMN STOMACHS, MAY THEY BURN IN HELL AND IN THIS LIFE. UGHHHH the hatred I have inside of me, the anger. I dunno what else to say or write.
Yes this is the new Iraq. Yes this is the God damned new Iraq. How many more of these places exist that we dont know about???How many more atrocities against hundreds, maybe thousands of young kids that have no one, absolutely no one to love them or care for them is taking place??? These kids orphaned, orphaned either from the bullets of war or the daily explosions of insurgents, or the deadly militia snipers. Oh yes, the devil is having a mighty good time here. A very mighty good time.
When will these children see the light? Does anyone know? Is there a light??? I definitely dont see it anymore. No, I dont see it anymore, and definitely not after today. Iraqis, Iraqis doing this to their own people. If I know who is responsible I will tear them apart, I will tie them to beds just like they did and not only starve them, oh nooooooo, I will burn them, burn them alive for this is the least they deserve those B*****. Those ignorant selfish non humans. God, Im still fuming!!! This is truly a nightmare. A disastrous Nightmare!!!
30 Comments:
NIW, as Taguba said in the Sy Hersh article in the New Yorker, when he confronted a US general about atrocities in Abu Ghraib he was told "They're only Iraqis".
And that is why this is happening.
"They're only Iraqis".
Had this happened in Denmark, Kentucky, Canada or Brisbane, what do you think the response would have been?
I just blogged about this myself but my God I had not seen the pictures!
The children look utterly deformed, devoid of any semblance of humanity, bereft of heart and soul.
You asked if there is a light. I ask myself the same question. But when I sit in a circle of Iraqis, all of older generations, they seem resigned to the fact that Iraq has seen worse.
I can't imagine worse.
And they tell me things will eventually be alright.
I wish I shared their optimism.
By the by, I borrowd the pics from you - and linked to your article -
This is a sample of what I wrote about your blog:
(Neurotic Iraqi Wife has written quite the scathing condemnation of the state of the orphanage and the plight of the children. I borrowed the pics she got on her website.
She writes from the Green Zone, but that should not take away from her fiery whipping of affairs in Iraq. She has become a very merciless socio-political commentator.
So, I ask myself, with Layla Anwar, Riverbend, Fayrouz, Baghdad Dweller, Star of Mosul, Talking about Iraq, and other patriotic Iraqi women running loose, should we - Iraqi men - leave them to run our affairs? I am beginning to believe they are far wiser and far more humanitarian than us.)
Keep writing. Don't stop. And by all means let the anger flow through you.
(I feel like a Dark Jedi just about now)
I have no words... I have grief, pain, sorrow and broken heart.
Load of crap. You will still continue to work for the occupiers in the fortified Green Zone for said new Iraq.
The blood of Iraqis are on the hands of occupiers and their lackeys and enablers. Wake up.
By the way, censoring images of the Green Zone being hit won't stop the daily attacks. They will continue until every last one of you is killed or chased out of Iraq.
Iraqi dude...who ran the orphanage? Iraqis. Who blew up the Samarra mosque? Al Qaeda with their Iraqi helpers and supporters like you. Who killed 75+ Iraqis with a truck bomb today? Terrorists with their Iraqi supporters like you. Repeat the same story over and over and over every day in iraq. Who is killing the Iraqis? People like you...who support the terrorists. The blood of Iraqis is on your hands Iraqi dude, because you and people like you are the ones killing them.
Neurotica...there is an old quote that perhaps will help you understand what is happening and to find purpose to what you do again. "All that is needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing". While the good people of Iraq are huddled in their homes or fleeing to other countries, evil is flourishing. Until the good people of Iraq stand up and fight back (or give information to the police and army to help them fight back), evil will continue to flourish. There is no outside solution to what is happening in Iraq. Evil is flourishing there because people like "Iraqi Dude" are there to encourage it and the good people who oppose it are hiding in fear or fleeing to other countries. If you want your country back...stand up and take it back. The solution to civil war in Iraq lies with the Iraqis.
very powerful images. thank you for posting.
Neurotica, your text is unreadable on the new background, which is beautiful, and those picture of heartbreaking.
But at least your not kidnapped
What happened to the children after this incident? Who is caring for them now?
Kathy
Geez what a truly horrific story. Thanks Neurotic for bringing this to our attention.
Can you imagine how many more are out there? Ugh
What the f*** is going on here in the damn cursed land?? What is next?
I am about to lose my mind and my patience. Christians of Iraq are being killed wholesale. In a country that has been their HOME for 2000 years.
This is the war wrought by Bushco. Iraqis of all race, religion, creed are targets.
For the love of God - and Iraq - protect the Christians of Iraq.
When I lived in Iraq, we used to visit Churches, our best friends were Iraqi Christians and Kurds and Shia. I sang Christmas Carols at the Melia Mansour and Sheraton hotels every Christmas season.
There was brotherhood. This is the war of liberation?
Were Christians killed before the war because they were christians? Were churches bombed? Were priests slaughtered? Were Christian women bludgeoned to death because they did not wear the veil before the war?
Was the Sabaean community butchered before the war?
Someone answer me. Did these attacks occur before the US invasion?
How were the Christians living before the invasion? How are they living now?
Killing of Father Ragheed
.
Burying Father Ragheed (video)
"They killed him on the Sunday after Pentecost, after he had celebrated Mass in his parish church, dedicated to the Holy Spirit, in Mosul.
They killed Father Ragheed Ganni, a Chaldean Catholic priest, together with three subdeacons who were with him – Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed. The assailants led Bidawed's wife away, and struck down the four men in cold blood.
Then they placed vehicles loaded with explosives around their corpses, so that no one would dare to approach them.
It was late in the evening before the police in Mosul were able to defuse the explosives and collect the bodies."
The Last Mass of Father Ragheed, a Martyr of the Chaldean Church June 5, 2007
"In his meeting with Bush, the Vatican said the pope raised "the worrisome situation in Iraq."
"He was concerned that the society that was evolving would not tolerate the Christian religion," Bush explained at a news conference ... He's worrisome about the Christians inside Iraq being mistreated by the Muslim majority."
...
Bush said he assured the pope—whom he described as "very smart, loving man"—that the United States was working hard to ensure that the Iraqi people live up to their constitution in treating Christians fairly.
The president said their (sic) was no discussion of "just war," (emphasis added) a Christian doctrine that says war must have a reasonable chance of success of not doing more harm than good. According to the doctrine, war must be a last resort, launched in response to unjust aggression and civilians must be safeguarded."
Bush defends humanitarian record with pope June 8,2007.
(Thanks to Imad for the post above.
Some Iraqis are raising their hands and asking where the world community is. Here is the truth: the world community doesn't care for you. Only YOU can care for you.
Iraqi resistance against the occupier and his Iranian, Al-Qaida allies.
A nationalistic, secularist resistance.
For the love of God, protect the Christians of Iraq.
Kathy,
according to the article on cbs, the children were found by American and Iraqi forces. Battle-hardened men who openly shed tears when they saw this. The children were brought to another orphanage nearby where the children were being well cared for.
"Were Christians killed before the war because they were christians? Were churches bombed? Were priests slaughtered? Were Christian women bludgeoned to death because they did not wear the veil before the war?
Was the Sabaean community butchered before the war?
Someone answer me. Did these attacks occur before the US invasion?"
Um, I think the answer is YES (to some of those questions anyway). I think that there are more Chaldeans in the US than there are in Iraq now.
I have to agree the photo is beautiful but, the text is difficult to read.
As for the latest blog. I have no words, NO,I lie. Find and kill the BASTARDS. Tht's all I have to say.
Why do you say that this is the "New" Iraq? This is the same Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of shia and kurds back in the 1980s and 1990s. The same Iraq that Saddam Hussein ruled with an iron fist! Who do you think was keeping him in power, with the death squads and rape rooms? One guess... It is not that the "old" Iraq was some beacon of human rights- but at least in the new Iraq the Americans are trying to make things better and there are positive and decent Iraqis trying their best as well..
Hey neuroticiraqiwife I hope you read this because I'm starting a blog with people from all around the World and I'd like you to be on it. Please say something: ruirochacs@gmail.com
My name's Rui and I'm portuguese.
Take care
You can press "Ctrl A" and it makes it easier to read the text against the white background.
Iraqi wife, is that you in the picture? You look very small!
By the way, according to the Iraqis interviewed in this story, this was a fabrication by American soldiers!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19337478/
The IRAQSlogger site has an update on the children with a bunch of nice photos.
http://www.iraqslogger.com/
It seems to me that the people who want the Americans to leave should just stop killing each other and put all that effort into making Iraq better. Then have a vote and ask the Americans to leave - or just wait it out and let the next election in the US do it for them... I sure would love to see our troops come home and I think that is the majority view in the US.
When we expect Iraqis to become peaceful and Democratic we are asking far too much. Their childrearing simply will not allow it since it is still medieval. Read below:
"The people of Baghdad, he said with a strange pride, survived only because of prostitution. It was as if nothing, for a man to come home and find his mother, or his wife, or his sister piled up in a bed with a stranger. In fact, the man himself had, in all likelihood, offerred the women to any and all who could pay."
Visitors to families throughout fundamentalist Muslim societies report on the "slapping, striking, whipping and thrashing" of children, with constant shaming and humiliation, often being told by their mothers that they are "cowards" if they don't hit others.17 Physical abuse of children is continuous; as the Pakistani Conference on Child Abuse reports:
A large number of children face some form of physical abuse, from infanticide and abandonment of babies, to beating, shaking, burning, cutting, poisoning, holding under water or giving drugs or alcohol, or violent acts like punching, kicking, biting, choking, beating, shooting or stabbing…18
Islamic schools regularly practice corporal punishment—particularly the religious schools from which terrorist volunteers so often come—chaining up their students for days "in dark rooms with little food and hardly any sanitation."19 Sexual abuse—described as including "fondling of genitals, coercing a child to fondle the abuser's genitals, masturbation with the child as either participant or observer, oral sex, anal or vaginal penetration by penis, finger or any other object and [child] prostitution"—is extensive, though impossible to quantify.20 Even mothers have been reported as often "rubbing the penis [of their boys] long and energetically to increase its size."21 According to the recent survey of Palestinian students, boys report having been used sexually even more often than girls—men choosing to rape little boys anally to avoid what they consider the "voracious vaginas" of women.22 In some areas, children are reported to have marks all over their bodies from being burned by their parents with red-hot irons or pins as punishment or to cure being possessed by demons.23 Children are taught strict obedience to all parental commands, stand when their parents enter the room, kiss their hands, don't laugh "excessively," fear them immensely, and learn that giving in to any of their own needs or desires is horribly sinful.24 All these childrearing practices are very much like those that were routinely inflicted upon children in the medieval West.25
Jason,
You are as racist as they come.
But, all too easy.
Let us deconstruct your most ridiculous of comments.
First off, we begin with the phrase "Their childrearing...".
Notice the use of the word "Their" to indicate the separation between "us" and "them".
This is a classic ploy used by hardcore racists.
For example, in the American South until the 1960s or so, African-Americans were considered to have no souls.
They were all grouped into one category with the use of such phrases as "Their" and "them" in stark contrast to "our" "us" and "we".
African-Americans were also thought to have lower IQs than the "White man" and primed for physical labor.
[For further reading, try: Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865.
The homes of the New world; impressions of America. / Hemmen i den Nya verlden.
New York, : Harper & Brothers, , 1853
2 v.]
In fact, African-American historian Marcus Garvey wrote of this most serious of racist stereotypes.
This is also a good site to see what I mean African-Americans DO have souls
This, of course, led to segragation (we all know the Rosa Parks story and have seen the pictures of washroom, restaurants et all with signs declaring "No coloreds allowed".
This is also the logic of the Nazi party vis a vis the Jewish peoples of Europe. They were separated into concentration camps, removed from normal society because they were wrongly called "abnormal".
Apartheid works the same way. This is all built on the fearmongering associated with the word "their".
So, do not think this is a harmless statement.
The author is trying to paint all Iraqis with a certain brush hoping to indicate that Iraqis are different from all other human beings, that their methods are archaic, inhumane, etc.
This is the same tactic used in psyops etc, but the author here has made so many mistakes, calling this exercise psyops is an insult to the term.
Secondly, the quote about Iraqi prostitution and that Iraqi men pimped thei wives, mothers, and sisters.
Where did this come from? Who is the person who so beamed with pride? I would like to see its source.
Yes, there were incidents of prostitution in Iraq because of the United Sanctions regimen which entirely uprooted what was left of Iraqi civil society.
A good reference: A strong feature of the volume is that it makes visible the lethal effects of the sanctions regime. Many of the articles trace, on more than the economic and social level, Iraq's path from a rather prosperous nation to a Third-World-status with mass poverty; unprecedented social and economic dislocation; and outbreaks of epidemics such as typhoid and cholera, as a result of raw sewage being dumped into waterways. That the sanctions function as a device to continue the American (-Anglo) war by other means has found sad illustration. The remaining two parts of the book on the "Effect of War and Sanctions" (part 4) and "Regional and International Politics" (part 5) are in general substantively argued and well sourced. Part 5 takes up internal developments in Iraq, caused by more than ten years of sanctions regime and the effects of the wars, by addressing some of the most urgent issues that Iraq is currently facing, namely the environment, the economy and women. The chapter on "Women, Gender Relations, and Sanctions in Iraq," by Nadje El-Ali, provides a pessimistic account of the situation of Iraqi women under the sanctions regime whose lives have been dominated and determined by the daily need to cope with the reality left on the ground, including the impact on education, marriage, and gender relations.
Thirdly, in the third paragraph the author tries to pull the wool on the readers' eyes by including some script on education in Pakistan.
Let us deconstruct this as well. First faux-pas: "fundamentalist Muslim societies."
Now, I cannot speak for other socities but Iraq was never a fundamentalist Muslim society. NIW herself is a testament to my statement. In fact, if you ask ALL the Iraqi bloggers, NONE will attest that Iraq was EVER a fundamentalist Muslim society.
Anyone who has even studied the topic of Arab Society will quickly come to realize that Iraq was perhaps the most modern, most secularist of Arab societies.
So, here we have the author trying to connect to two contexts that simply do not apply.
The first is fundamentalist Muslim societies and the second is Pakistan.
Perhaps the author believed Afghanistan which borders Pakistan, is also referred to as Iraq as it is one of the battlefronts of the so-called war on terra.
Finally, we come to the last rather long and boorish paragraph.
It begins with "Islamic schools".
Where are these Islamic schools? In Iraq? No, there have NEVER been Islamic schools in Iraq.
In fact, the Iraqi education system produced tens of thousands of graduates who went on to pursue bachelors, masters, and doctoral studies.
Iraqi universities were considered the pride of the Arab world luring thousands of students from the region.
Baghdad University, for one, has a long and industrious history, blighted now because of the invasion and occupation.
So, what is the author trying to achieve here besides wasting the time of educated readers and trying to mislead those who do not know of Iraqi society?
There is a syrian saying which goes like this: Baba, shu huwe akl il khara? Ibni, ifta7 timak we i7ki.
Translated: A boy asks his father: What is eating shit?
Father responds: Open your mouth and say what you like.
And this is what the author has accomplished.
Jason, did you really, really expect to get away with your deception here?
You start by introducing Iraq, then switch to fundamentalist Muslim socities, followed by an excerpt about Pakistan.
Personally, I have never been raised in the way outlined in the lead above.
Neither have any of my cousins in Baghdad and Mosul. I would wager that NIW's family wasn't set up that way.
In fact, I know of NONE of my friends who have been raised this way.
In fact, Iraq had one of the most modern socities in the Middle East including a flourishing middle class.
So, the question, again, why did the author put all this together.
Answer: racism. To paint a distorted picture of "their" and the "other" so that one may grow to hate, fear, and distrust "their" and the "other".
When all arguments of support for the invasion, occupation and conduct in the past four years fail, the tactic is to demonize the Iraqi.
NIW, can you please put this author back in his place?
Since you and Neurotic are not terrorist or supporters of Saddam I doubt you were raised in this fashion. So I wasn't talking about you. But somebody supported Saddam, somebody tortured and killed all those Iraqis under the Baath regime. And somebody has killed and tortured 100 iraqis a day. This somebody is your neighbor. "Good" decent Iraqis did this. These iraqis must of been horribly abused just like the "good" decent Germans that gassed all those Jews. Germany was a very modern educated society too and then it was completely destroyed by it's own people because Nazi childrearing was still medieval. You just can't blame Saddam or Hitler. The same goes for the "good" Americans who starved 500,000 Iraqi children during the embargo and have killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in this war. Americans don't hold themselves responsible they just blame Bush and the government. Easy. Every nation does this. Just blame one guy sitting in an office somewhere. But that's a truly ridiculous notion.
The ultimate reason why Americans are killing Iraqis is the same: Child abuse and neglect. Although in general child mistreatment is not nearly as bad as in the Middle East, it is still bad enough to drive them to kill in war. This is denied by almost everyone. Most Americans will tell you they were NEVER abused by their parents period. Nor will they tell you that child sexual abuse is extremly widespread either.And that most INFANTS are routinely SMACKED during their first year. So by the time they are 3 or four years of age virtually all of them have been routinely HIT. They are not telling the truth. I don't know one American who wasn't routinely mistreated by their parents to some
degree.
If one is loved alot and not abused growing up one does not need to become a war hero, religious fundamentalist, martyr,war supporter and in need of violent dictators like Saddam or war addicts like Bush.
Here is the Iraqi prostitution source:
Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg,
"The Road to Martyrs' Square:
A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber."
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, Page 41.
Here are the sources for the childrearing post.
17. Mazharul Haq Khari, Purdah and Polygamy, p. 107.
18. Samra Fayyazuddin, Anees Jillani, Zarina Jillani, The State of Pakistan’s Children 1997. Islamabad Pakistan: Sparc, 1998, p. 46.
19. Ibid, p. 47.
20. Samra Fayyazuddin et al, The State of Pakistan’s Children 1997, p. 51.
21. Allen Edwardes, The Cradle of Erotica. New York: The Julian Press, 1963, p. 40.
22. Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia and Safa Tamish, "The Rates of Child Sexual Abuse…," p. 1320; Fatna A. Sabbah, Woman in the Muslim Unconscious. New York: Pergamon Press, 1984, p. 28.
23. Samuel M. Zwemer, Childhood in the Moslem World, p. 104; Hilma Natalia Granqvist, Child Problems Among the Arabs: Studies in a Muhammadan Village in Palestine. Helsingfors: Soderstrom, 1950, pp. 102-107.
24. Soraya Altorki, Women in Saudi Arabia: Ideology and Behavior Among the Elite. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 72-76.
25. Lloyd deMause, "The Evolution of Childrearing." The Journal of Psychohistory 28(2001): 362-451.
Hi Neurotica,
Thanks for posting this.
I came across these pictures in a news article by a friend a few days ago. I remember I was at work and I always open these things quickly, but I didn't expect these pictures.
This is absolutely horrible, really horrible.. To be honest, if the kids were killed it would have been slightly less shocking.. but to torture them like that is just an insult to humanity.
I was going to blog about this, but you put it to words much better than I can.
Finally...
Thanks to the "alliance" for their vision of a new Iraq. Many many thanks.
That was just awful! So sad and terrible. I will pray for you that you can stay sane after seeing these pictures (I turned my eyes away not to see too closely -- but it looked like Auschwitz or maybe worse). How much can human beings bear? :-(
I do not like this at all but then bare in mind ther following:
1- each 48 hours you get 1 hour of electricity.
2- the heat in Baghdad is 48 C.
3- add them together what do you get?
thatb was a basic way for servival. it is very painfull it is inhumane but its better than letting them die.
I'm sorry again. but this is the fact of life inside Iraq and outside the International Zone.
yes the children were covered with there own dirt and yes you may say they were neglected, buty when its so hoty and you have no electricty no fuel to fire up a generatorin such heat at the middle of the night with paralized children, this is what you get... the perfect story.
I was shocked when I first saw the pictures myself but then I got my Iraqi cap back on and starting realising.
k i think you have explained everything pretty good and your veiws on it, nicely done, but just to open your eyes a little further...
you think the war and fighting and killing only started there after america invaded? there is horrific violance over the world everyday, it is only noticed there because western people are there atm, how about tibet or some of them places.. they wont matter for another 4 months until the olypics get closer and then god help us all they only started dying last week.
Now the other reason it is shown is *western Culture* is hell bent on trying to instill fear into people. I am sure if you could find the *true* numbers somewhere that violence is probably down 50%odd since america arrived over there, but everyday you can see on your tv and on the radio's of more people are dying all the time, doesnt quite add up.
Now after that i am not for or against the war, i believe some just have to be had, and i dont particularly care why it is started but all should be treated equally anyway. after all we are trying to free there land or whatever, and as they see it is all they can do is fight to try and protect it, cause lets face it 1st world countries couldnt give a shit about anyone else these days.
anywho a well written peice you have done there =)
I'm from America and I am not surprised Iraq can get like this seeing how many Iraqis died in other wars and the American wars.The first gulf war, there was this line of fleeing Iraqi army vehicles that were just bombed to death. Some were even just hondas and other civilian cars to compare just how cheap the army was. There are probably a lot of orphans because there was so much death. The news, however, always shows Americans and people from Europe practically 90 percent of the time in regards to Iraq and there is hardly anything from a real Iraqi citizen. It's always our poor troops, patriotism, and things that really doesn't matter like the percentage of people from Germany and Franch that dislike America. Instead of signs that promote liberation of a promise of a better Iraq, there are blue ribbons and flags instead, Meaning to say our government and army get all the sympathies instead of the people we are trying to help. And if the war was really about terrorism, Iraq probably is not the best place to fight the terrorism war so what was it really about? With 24 hour news, I still don't have a straight answer even today. And if you go to 4chan on the /b board, you can see how Americans and some English speaking countries can be. Now I'm not intentionally trying to bash Americans and the West and I don't care what other people have to say to try to change my point of view because I'm pretty tired seeing Americans and patriotism and I don't care what people think of me. But consider that I believe it's more patriotic to say my mind unlike Fox News which are full of people who bash things unpatriotic which I think it detrimentle to anything. With the terror alert rainbow and an unflinching poise to try to not see anything wrong with the united states government, thier credibility just flies out the window for me.
I wish I'd never opened this page, those images are very disturbing and I wonder how people can live with themselves after doing that to CHILDREN! I'm just after reading a couple of books with by children who suffered in different systems - autobiographies which are very upsetting, that is how I came across this page as I'm now researching these cults and institutions. Mainly because I could not believe the human race could be that cruel. I'm now very disillusioned in my fellow man and feel disgusted by what some people call normal. I wouldn't even call them animals because animals would not treat their young in such a terrifying manner. They are just plain and simply EVIL!!! Shame on them!
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The original post is now two years old. But, I am hoping this message is still read by all interested.
We can become enraged, cry, curse, vent our frustrations and mourn. But, we that is all done, the problem still exist. The weak and innocent are still being abused and neglected.
So, then, what can we do to stop this? We must pray! Pray is the most effective weapon of warfare.
Look around our world. We are not fighting against flesh and blood. Though man is many flawed things, they are not savy enough to dream up the evil that plagues our world today. This is an unseen enemy that influences the minds of men. We must pray for the defeat of this unseen enemy.
There is a GOD, a single GOD that created all things and is MASTER of the Universe. He is the KING of Kings and LORD of LORDS. He is the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the Great Elohim, His Name is Yaweh and He sent is only begotten son, Yeshua (Jesus) to take away the sins of the world. He says in His holy word, if we will only humble ourselves and pray, turn from our wicked ways back to Him that He will heal our lands.
I know that the seed of Abraham live in every nation, including Iraq. The prayers of just a few can change the entire nation. I'm in Phoenix, Arizona USA and I will stand with any Iraqi that has had enough of death, enough of evil and I will pray with you, heart to heart from across an ocean...together we can do this.
LORD GOD, help us. Evil has surrounded my brothers and sisters in Iraq. I don't know if the US governement should be there, I don't know if what they are doing is helping or hurting, but I trust YOU O LORD, You know all things and nothing is too hard for YOU. Nothing is outside Your control. LORD, I am asking You in the precious name of JESUS (Yeshua) to fix the situation in Iraq. I am asking You LORD, to protect the widows, the orphans, the sick, the weak, the wounded, and the old. I am asking in the name of Jesus to set free those that have been abducted, abused, neglected, I am asking that you deliver them safefly to those that will comfort, nurture and protect them. I am praying for peace in their minds and for love in their hearts, love that is given and love that is felt. I am praying for peace in Iraq O LORD. The enemy is pleased to see the death and destruction on innocents, but no more O LORD, I am praying for deliverance of the Iraqi people from ANYTHING that is not like you LORD. I pray that YOUR Word spread throughout this wonderful nation, that many will turn to You and yeild to Your call that their sons and daughters may be saved and their land be healed. Deliver them as you delivered Israel from Pharoah, deliver them as you delivered me from a life of darkness. You said in Your word that You are no respector of persons and that You would do the same for us as You did for those in Your Holy Word, if only we follow You. Well LORD, for the sake of every believer in Iraq that follows You, that is called by YOUR name, I am praying for their deliverance and the deliverance of their people. I am praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit over all of Iraq, even for those that assume Kill me as look at me. Even for Iraqi Dude who posted on this blog, LORD I am praying for deliverance from evil, I am praying that You give him an ear to hear Your voice, help him to know Your truth, for him and those like him. The enemy cannot have the Iraqi men, women or children. Save them O LORD, You Word said that it is Your desire that all be saved and none be lost. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world which includes these. These too are eligiable for an eternal life with You. Help them O LORD. Guide them and direct them in the way that they should go. I am praying for my brothers in sisters of Iraq and in the precious name of Jesus (Yeshua)
AMEN
This is what the Christian religious extremism done in Iraq it is crusade war for your President boush
Reap our country is ruined and injustice
What you see is a fraction of what is happening is Iraq
this was never happed before your ecupation
This is what the Christian religious extremism done in Iraq it is crusade war for your President boush
Reap our country is ruined and injustice
What you see is a fraction of what is happening is Iraq
this was never happened before your ecupation
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