Arab Kids Abused: Child-Play with Sex-Pervert Adults

When child-play is exploited by adult, perverse, sex-games; Post-Saddam Arab Spring numbness to Iraqi deaths; Dishonor killings by a father of all 6 daughters, "Because two talked to boys on the phone"; Conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semetism is a specter that still looms large; And what kind of mafia in Lebanon is this demonized guild?

Child-play should never be a sinister or sexual game, and adult role-play should only ever be innocent doctor-patient/
shop-keeper customer style scenarios.

An Arab Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) [2]

Yazan Amin – His story (1st chapter)JUMP TO COMMENTS

In response to CSA blog comes a shared tormented experience of sex-game exploitation of child-play. "It had started with a game… as many years of aching have passed; time has come to make confessions about late night games going behind locked doors. The weather was cold, the room was dark lit by a yellow dim light, I can remember clearly the bed on which we played, it had a stain of a blue marker."

Naser K [3]

Saddam post Arab Spring

Iraqi deaths and suffering have lost their potency, especially since the wider Arab struggle - or Revolt: "I would say this has been one of the most shocking films I've ever watched, not because I learned something I didn't know existed before through it, but because it made me realize that I have developed an immunity - especially in the earlier period of the American invasion - towards any news and new discoveries regarding let's say, mass graves found in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad." "I attended the screening of the Iraqi film "Son of Babylon" yesterday at the RFC, it takes you in a journey of a child and his grandmother in the search for her son (the child's father) who has been missing for 9 years, they travel across Iraq to reach the prison where it is believed he is being held, the events take place 3 weeks after the "Fall of Saddam" ...."

Kinzi Blogs: My Treasure [4]

DisHonor Slaughter in Pakistan – Six Daughters Gunned Down

Not confining her well-documented series of dishonorable crimes to the Mideast, but logging them in the wider Muslim world also: A Pakistani father acting in the name of 'honor' murders all six of his daughters. Why? The crime? "Because two talked to boys on the phone." "A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighborhood."

The Moor Next Door [5]

An Arab Uprising List: History Would Be Useless If It Taught Us Nothing

The Arab Uprisings in context: analyzed or scrutinized away from the heat of the Arab 'moment'. "Understanding the Arab uprisings takes more than day to day media reports or longer articles (or even, now, books) churched (sic- churned-Ed) out in the heat of the struggle; it requires reflection on similar events elsewhere in history. Arab history and the histories of other peoples can help place these things in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere in perspective."

Desert Peace [6]

BEST TO THINK TWICE BEFORE CRITICISING ISRAEL

New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada. Since, “Attempts to silence opposition to the illegal Israeli occupation and policies is un-American and amounts to political and academic censorship.” Then comes this: "A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada."

Beirut Spring [7]

Lebanon’s Most Reviled Profession

If the clue were in 'mafia' and 'men' , we could be dealing with any number of gangs in Lebanese society: politicians, factions, football teams! "First, take a guess: What is the subject of the paragraphs below? Not Sunnis or Harriri's goons, nor Aunis' mob or Hizballites. "[They] rush towards the car and surround us. One of them asks me to open the window […] while his other hand is already grasping my door knob trying to open. […] Jesus! This a reenactment of a 1982 militia barrage in downtown Beirut!" "A mafia that monitors customers like an organized security network, and terrorizes business owners like roaming bandits."