It shows my cynicism that this surprised me, doesn’t it? It’s the kind of thing that makes me stop and go, “huh… wow”. When you consider everything that happens to the people over there and in addition to that all of the problems that my country has caused them one would think that they would have no reaction to this. Or even hear about it to begin with.

Then they turn around and do this. Frankly I find it quite touching.

Here is one of the best quotes that I’ve ever seen come out of Iraq:

“We denounce the shooting in Virginia Tech because it targeted students of knowledge,” said Hassan Abdul-Karim, a junior engineering major who said he has lost two friends to deadly insurgent attacks in his neighborhood of Baghdad. “Al-Qaida in Iraq does the same thing here in an effort to make ignorance prevail so its ideology can win.”

Right on.

Hm. An enlightening way to start the day.

~Steph

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