Posted on 11/10/2005 10:26:04 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
"In a small dusty classroom, dirty with mold but brightened by a red plastic flower in a vase, English teacher Azhar Hashim tells a student practicing the words "I'm from Iraq," to raise his voice when he says that.
"We all have to be proud of our country," she says, her black dress stained white with chalk.
In the next room, Thanaa Mohamed asks her students to describe the rights of Iraqi citizens. "Equality and freedom," answers 12-year-old Jiwan Arasin.
"Who can define equality?" Mohamed asks. "All people were born free," answers Esraa Jabbar.
And freedom? "To express your opinion freely," answers Walid Khalid."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
re: "We all have to be proud of our country,"
I hope none of the children end up in schools here in America and express this sentiment! Many of our schools have done everything possible for the last 40 years to tell students that we should be ashamed of our country. Leave it to a teacher in a country where the people know firsthand of the pitfalls of other forms of government to hit the nail on the head!
Is this the AP?!
Dream Land Cafe
I will take being poor, struggling and free , over being content to live with a dictators boot firmly placed on my neck.
Too bad Iraqis lived with Saddam for so long. But when that is all you know, you know no different.
Now they are tasting a bit of freedom , and I think they will like it.
What? You mean those Arab muslims want normalcy and normal life? What a lie. They simply want dictators breathing down their necks each day and cutting their fingers off. Don't you know? </s>
Indeed, it is.
Twelve hundred and fifty positive words about Iraq.
That fulfills the monthly quota. Now, we return you to our regular reporting, The Democrat Agenda...
Happy to read this. Proud to have served there. The word is leaking out even though liberal media tries to maintain a strangle hold on the truth.
I think for the AP this article fulfills the whole year 2005 quota for positive news :)
N/A/H -- that is one TERRIFIC, no, make that a HORRIFIC site linked on your profile page... if America ceases to be One Nation, Under God, we ourselves risk such tyranny....
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
On this day...I say...Thank you.
don't miss this video and song
http://www.terry-kelly.com/pittance.htm
Conditions in Iraq may not be perfect, but when you think of what they endured under Hussein for years and years, today, their daily lives are a blessing.
"The teacher of Islamic education is under orders to tell children they are all Muslim."
Interesting.
Thank you for posting this. I'm going to share this article with my coworker, who just got back from Iraq a few weeks ago. He was doing convoy protection (Army), which has to be one of the most dangerous jobs over there.
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