29-06-2010, 08:36 AM
I've been subscribed to Layla Anwar's RSS feed for maybe 3 years now. A lot of her stuff is very difficult to read and she nurses a visceral hatred for all things American that can blind her to the many Americans and others who can see the evil that is the US State as clearly as she can and who do their best to combat it. I don't remember its precise content but I recall making a sympathetic comment on the blog maybe two years ago - I got roasted by way of reply. I'm not complaining either. She has been through hell and is currently exiled with her extended family in Syria. Her main point about 'do-gooders' in the west is that it's just tooo easy to be armchair sympathisers who, when the chips are down, are as complicit as the rest of a placid population in the crimes of the West. I have to say she has a point.
She's Sunni and also nurses a visceral hatred for both Iranians (of whatever stripe) and shi-ites - with especial venom reserved for al Maliki and his 'collaborators'
As you say though, the blog does give shocking insights into the despair that is the lot of the Sunni population of Iraq, living as it does in a state of perpetual terror, forced homelessness and exile.
It's odd how things turn out too sometimes. It was Layla Anwar - an Iraqi exile in Syria (of all people) who introduced me to the music of Canadian folk singer Loreena McKennit - of all people. She was smitten by her 'Caravanserai' piece and posted a link to it. I have probably listened to more Loreena McKennitt since that introduction than almost any other - much of it anguished, soul-full, heart-rending stuff - some setting the words of Keats poetry to song and lots of it her own stuff - Recommended FWIW.
She's Sunni and also nurses a visceral hatred for both Iranians (of whatever stripe) and shi-ites - with especial venom reserved for al Maliki and his 'collaborators'
As you say though, the blog does give shocking insights into the despair that is the lot of the Sunni population of Iraq, living as it does in a state of perpetual terror, forced homelessness and exile.
It's odd how things turn out too sometimes. It was Layla Anwar - an Iraqi exile in Syria (of all people) who introduced me to the music of Canadian folk singer Loreena McKennit - of all people. She was smitten by her 'Caravanserai' piece and posted a link to it. I have probably listened to more Loreena McKennitt since that introduction than almost any other - much of it anguished, soul-full, heart-rending stuff - some setting the words of Keats poetry to song and lots of it her own stuff - Recommended FWIW.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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