Sicher sicher.....ein Poster gemacht von der "Free Amina" Kampagne, kurz bevor "Amina" entlarvt wurde. |
Weil die gesamte Geschichte gestunken und erlogen ist. Als Amina damals angeblich verschwand, begann die Öffentlichkeit über sie berichten (zuvor hat "Amina" sogar ein Interview mit CNN geführt). Besonders die amerikanischen Medien, weil Amina ja auch US-Angehörige war. Naja, als eine Zeitung mit angeblichen Bildern von ihr auftauchte, reichte eine Kroatin (die nichts mit Amina oder Syrien zu tun hatte) Klage ein, weil ein Bild von ihr verwendet wurde. Nach einer Weile kam heraus, dass es keine Amina gab - "Amina" war ein amerikanischer Student, der in Schottland studierte. Daher kam auch die naive Beschreibung der Gesellschaft in Syrien, und die Verharmlosung der Kriege mit Israel und so weiter (er selbst war mit vielen pro-palästinensischen Aktivitäten verbunden).
Jedenfalls hat damals auch die bisexuelle Journalistin Minal Hajratwala ein Manuskript, dass "Amina" ihr vor der Entlarvung geschickt hatte, ins netz gestellt. Hier ist es.
Hier einige Ausschnitte:
Ihr seht schon wie es aussieht, das hier war nur die Einführung.Here I start and, since I am the one writing here, I will begin this my way (since, ofcourse, that’s the best way):Bismillah ar-Rahman ar Rahim;which means:In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate;and is the way any account is Supposed To Begin.And having a simple way of beginning, a formulaic one, if you will, saves some troubles.I set myself a task: make sense of contradictions and explain myself to me. But to do that, I realized, I needed to understand the parts that make me. If I were to do that wel, I decided that Iwanted to explain ourselves to us and asked everyone who we were and everything seemedendlessly complicated. Every beginning led to another tale, every answer another question.Where to begin? is just the first of those questions. Should I start at some randomlychosen day in my life or at the time of some great epiphany? Should I start with my birth or myearliest childhood memories? And, when I’ve shared that, paste together those otherremembered things …Or should I begin with some intricate formula: perhaps, I’ll set the tone by beginningeach section with a new letter like so:“A: am Amina Abdallah Arraf, an Arab and an American. All along are adventures andamusements Amina asks an audience’s attention and Amina articulates Arab activities andAmerican assimilation. Amina arrived at Atlanta after awesome adventures around Aleppo …”But other people have done that sort of writing better than I have and, amusing though itmight be, it’s not exactly the most natural way of writing (and not all ‘A’s are A’s; some arealifs, others are ayns … and so on).
Ein Teil der Familiengeschichte von "Amina". Liest sich wie ein pseudo-fantasy Roman.Now, Hajj Musa tried to take Nashqua to his bed for she enraptured him. She refusedhim, saying that, though she was a servant now, she had been born free in her own land and wasof an ancient noble lineage; if he would have her, he would need first to ask for her hand and doall things properly. She was no slave and would be no man’s doxy.And, despite himself, Hajj Musa did as she asked for this young girl from a strange landhad stolen his heart. He couldn’t think of anything save her strange gray eyes and pale skin, herthick dark curls and the shape of her. So, he went to her brothers who were little more than boysand were themselves barely more than beggars and asked them for her hand. Then, he went withher to a qadi who was his cousin and they were wed.
Ja, die Verharmlosung von "den Juden ins Meer stoßen".... zeigt ja auch nur, wie viel diese Nuttheads über die Region wissen.Where he had been a gentleman without need for work, now his sons would need to learntrades. Amr went off to the army and trained to be an officer; they always said he’d been thefiercest of them. Though he was only a child, Amr had pledged in 1948 that he would go,personally, to free Palestine and avenge the Arabs or die trying. When he was older and risingthrough the ranks of the army, the family half-joked, half-whispered that, one day, Amr would bethe officer seizing power for himself.
Es gibt viel mehr kranke Einsichten in dem Manuskript, aber es sind zu viele um sie hier zu posten.
Der ganze Fall wurde ein Jahr später jedenfalls vom Fall Irena Wachendorff in Blödheit übertroffen.
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