"Why I Threw My Shoes At Bush" (Alternet)

[hiphopnation]

Apologies if it's a dupe - required reading.

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In the name of God, the most gracious and most merciful.

Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war.

Firstly, I give my thanks and my regards to everyone who stood beside me, whether inside my country, in the Islamic world, in the free world. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act.

But, simply, I answer: What compelled me to confront is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.

And how it wanted to crush the skulls of (the homeland's) sons under its boots, whether sheikhs, women, children or men. And during the past few years, more than a million martyrs fell by the bullets of the occupation and the country is now filled with more than 5 million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. And many millions of homeless because of displacement inside and outside the country.



http://www.alternet.org/world/142741/why_i_threw_my_shoes_at_bush?page=entire

[LeftishBrit]

1. k&r

[hiphopnation]

2. kick?

:kick:

[LeftishBrit]

3. kick

[yellowwood]

4. beautiful writing

Please click the link to read the whole thing. Very nice writing. I don't know how much of it cn be attributed to the translator, but, whatever, it's worth reading.

[malaise]

5. This is profound

It will be the definitive people's response to the invasion and occupation.
Mutadhar al-Zaidi is a hero. I feel his pain.