Wow.
| (In a conference on the GWOT, 9/11 and "Islamic ideology", I was in the speaking panel) | |
| Young British man in the crowd asks me: | Are you apologetic about 9/11? |
| Me: | No. I don't apologize for 9/11. Why should I? I had nothing to do with it. I'm only sorry about the lives lost - regardless of who they were. But I am NOT a spokesperson for Al-Qaeda. No sensible Muslim is. Do I ask British people to apologize to me for colonizing my country back then, taking the rights of the masses away, ending freedom of speech, creating problematic borders that led to bloodshed, sexually assaulting the women of my land, westernizing the entire pedagogues in the subcontinent, turning my culture and my identity into a mystical subject for orientalist authors to go capitalize on? Have I asked you to say sorry to me? |
| Him: | (remains silent) |
| vahhh mannnn just VAH |
Pripyat, an abandoned city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
The Road Through Chernobyl
via wired.com
is it wrong to have a fascination with nuclear disasters?
Jürgen Berger / Mahendra Sonawan
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imagine if u were really high at 7/11 and you saw a frickin face on the chocolate milk jug, id start whispering to it
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