A Gay Girl in Damascus: My Brave Father

MSNBC is reporting that Amina was kidnapped ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43306543/ns/world_news... ).

A female blogger who emerged as an unlikely spokesperson for the largely anonymous anti-government protests sweeping Syria was seized by armed men on the streets of the capital, according to a post late Monday.

~Denise
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Life. Flow. Fluctuate.

I once worked with a Lebanese man who worked for the US Embassy in Damascus. At the onset of the 6 day war in 1967, the US was assured that all its non-US citizen employees would not be taken into custody. Wrong.

In the middle of the night, they came for him, and he spent a couple of months locked away. Every day he was beaten, deprived of sleep, the usual nasty methodology. One night they came in, and he figured it was to inflict another beating. Instead, they threw him out to the street. Thereafter, he made his way to this country.

Reading her story, I thought of him, of how he described the horror of it all to me. Whether in Syria or elsewhere, those who stand in the way of oppression are courageous beyond measure.

nellewrites ( http://nellewrites.wordpress.com/ )

What an incredible post! I am just shaking my head in awe. Such bravery. Very moving. You read things like that and you feel very small.

lynn

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