On Sunday I quoted, as a counter-weight to the activities of the Stoke the War dead-enders, the sentiments of Husayn at Democracy in Iraq. Now Husayn has posted some of the messages he's received from Western stoppers, with his own responses. Take a look. They call him 'mentally unstable', 'idiot', 'lying scumbag', 'blind', in the pay of the CIA. He says:
I must say that one thing I am learning through the work I am doing on my blog is that there are some people even outside of Iraq and the Middle East who seem to content to want to live under dictators, in an environment where expression is crushed.So much for internationalism, for solidarity with those trying to overcome decades of oppression. Read the whole post. (Thanks: JK.)
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This is a sample of what I have received, it is in a way a rude awakening to me of the attitudes that some people in the West hold. Perhaps I was a big naive in the past, I thought these were fringe ideas...