ASIAN LEADER Article- From the Widows, Orphans and those killed in Iraq

The Following article was published in the Asian Leader Newspaper highlighting the growing negativity and failure of US policy for Iraq and the Arab World as demosntrated through a Journalists shoe throw.

The Newspaper article can be read online on the Look Asia Website. Please click HERE to read

“From the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq”

  By Majed Iqbal- America’s campaign led on the War on Terror, regime change in Iraq for the betterment of the Iraqi people, and winning the hearts and minds of Muslim countries was thrown into abyss when a journalist threw his shoes at the outgoing American president George Bush.

 

Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist who works for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadia channel, tore off his shoes and flung them at Mr Bush as he stood beside Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, during a press conference in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

“This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq,” he shouted before being overpowered by security guards and bundled out of the room.

The American led Nouri al-Maliki government was quick to condemn the action citing it as “shameful” demanding an apology from the journalist’s Cairo-based employer, who in turn called for his immediate release from custody.

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Its Ramadhan again. There is joy and happiness, feasts at Iftaar, visits to relations, attendance at Masjids, meeting friends and colleagues and celebrating the month of Taqwa. In a land not so far away, in this very month, people are living in a state of fear, with little food, families murdered and bombed, honour taken away, lands occupied, unity severed, nations languishing in jails, tortured and brutalized, no response to their cries for help and seemingly no hope for the future.

Yes, these are the Muslims of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and the many other regions where suffering is taking place this Ramadhan. In this month, we must not forget them, their pains, their history and what the future holds for them.