Point Zero...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

...They make me sick Layla. They really make me sick. - Who is they? - All of them - specially those people in the West. - What makes you say that? - They write and write but really don't give a damn. I tried telling a few, they change subjects...they are not interested. Or when they express interest, they are condenscending, patronizing, looking down at me as if I was some reject that they need to save. They are the cause and they want to save me. Let them save themselves first. Even out of our misery, they want to make trophies for themselves. Competing as to who shouts louder but they really don't give a fuck about us. I will give you an example. I saw this article a few weeks ago, the title was "Iraqis are people too." I don't even want to remember the name of the author. Can you imagine what kind of person would write a title like that. What kind of vision this person has to need to go overboard and ascertain that we are people too. Needless to say I did not even bother to read the article. With a title like that, what else can come from it but more crap along the same lines... You know what bugs me most? - What? - They are either colonizers or missionaries. They are either here to steal, rape, inflict pain, destroy and kill or they play the holy ones and want to save us from their brethren hands. But of course, they never look at their brethren and see they are made of the same blood and flesh. And when I say missionaries, I don't mean priests and all that nonsense...We have those too. They come and rob and massacre us and then preach to us about deliverance and loving thy neighbor...How I hate them all. They come and tell us what is good for us and what is bad for us...They believe they know better what our lives were like and then sit and pontificate on how we should be and what is the best outcome...when they know fuck all...How can they? They have not even walked one yard in our shoes...

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