Comments on: Violence “Plunge?” Depends on Your Perspective

By: Siun

Siun — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:12:47 +0000

Mohammed, I will make certain that Jane sees your message. It will mean a great deal to her as it does to all of us. Your brother Ali is remembered by us all and it was very important to our team to express our condolences.

Thank you for all that you do and to the Guides team.

By: Mohammed Ibn Laith

Mohammed Ibn Laith — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:10:03 +0000

I should let the ones who have made this possible get some rest. My thanks to them, both to my colleagues here in Irak and my colleagues who now live in exile.

My thanks to you Christina for raising your voice against the slaughter of my people.

I have left until last the most important thanks for me personally.

The foundress of this site wrote a remembrance of my brother Ali, when he was killed. I would like to give her particular thanks for this comfort.

Mohammed Ibn Laith.

By: tw3k

tw3k — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:57:25 +0000

likewise, thank you Mohammed.

By: Siun

Siun — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:55:43 +0000

Mohammed, I want to thank you again for sharing this time with us. As it is getting late here - and must be very early there - it seems a good time to close. I know if is very complicated for the team to make this possible and I want to thank everyone involved.

I hope we can share some time again and talk further. It is a great honor to have you as our visitor.

Thank you so much.

And may peace be with you always.

By: Mohammed Ibn Laith

Mohammed Ibn Laith — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:52:17 +0000

Yes both Basil and Yusuf are Christians.

By: Siun

Siun — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:43:02 +0000

I remember that post from Du … thank you for the link. And I believe I remember you writing about your friends and soccer, from all religious groups. Someday I believe Iraq will once again play together.

By: Mohammed Ibn Laith

Mohammed Ibn Laith — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:40:51 +0000

Yes it is enough to make me cry with rage and shame as is the name of the article I used to write about Christians and the persecution of them:

“Nearly One Million Christians - Most Of Them Now On The Run”

I think of how Du and I would go to his church and how he came with me to the Baratha Mosque which is a place of pilgrimage both for Muslims and Christians. He wrote about it on our old site. I have friends and colleagues who are Christian. It is shameful and evil that they are persecuted.

By: Siun

Siun — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:38:52 +0000

I miss Dubhaltach a great deal and hope he is well and safe.

I always particularly appreciate the way your writing captures what I imagine is the “flow” of Arabic - and perhaps the Qu’ran verses.

By: Mohammed Ibn Laith

Mohammed Ibn Laith — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:33:46 +0000

Thank you. I should explain that I write in Arabic first then I translate and Ali and when he is present my friend of my childhood and brother of my heart Dubhaltach Ibn Mhaircaish help me correct my English.

By: Siun

Siun — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:32:39 +0000

Mohammed – your comment above about Christians developing their own militia is so sad … to think that everyone now needs a separate militia just for basic protection.