princessnijireiki:lexaproletariat:“When I decided to hit Bush with the shoe, it was a natu
princessnijireiki: lexaproletariat: “When I decided to hit Bush with the shoe, it was a natural reaction, to the killing of a million of my people, the orphaning of five million children, resulting in tens of thousands of handicapped persons, tens of thousands of prisoners in American jails in Iraq, and the everyday scandals caused by the American occupation: rape, Abu Ghraib prison, bringing down roofs on people’s heads with Apache helicopters and F16 planes. Despite all this, Bush was saying the Iraqi people are happy, and the Americans liberated the Iraqi people.” Muntadhar al-Zaidi The quote above does not turn up any results in Google outside of Tumblr; but in 2009, Muntazer al-Zaidi wrote “Why I threw the shoe” about his reasoning & actions. He deserves not to be misquoted & to actually have his own words heard & elevated. The Washington Post has an article up about al-Zaidi for the tenth anniversary of the shoe throwing incident, that also goes into more detail on the political context at hand & how al-Zaidi was imprisoned and tortured afterwards. His bravery & conviction are commendable, and both those articles are worth the read. -- source link