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Thursday, 7 Sep 2006
Remember those pictures of the boy whose mom died in his arms?
Well…..
July 23 2006
September 6 2006
Yeah….
I am speechless!
(H/T LBF)
Update:
It seems that the reactionary in me got the best of me. Upon reading the article in al safir newspaper, it seems that the woman did almost die and then got saved by 11 medical operations. I have to agree with BP that the boy and his mother didn't stage this , but the media most certainly did. Whomever took the pictures made sure not to take the picture of the ambulance taking her or even follow up on it. They just left it at that. While I am more than glad that the boy didn't lose his mother, my level of trust for the media and journalists, especially war photographers, has dropped to an all time low, especially that it wasn't high to begin with. I am not sure I can blame the propagdanists who used those 4 pictures in all of those demonstrations either. They wroked with what the media gave them.
Oh well…
September 7th, 2006 at 7:56 am
I swear to g-d, they do this to us and we fall for it every single freakin time! Jenin, Al-Durah, beach incident (still up in the air on this one), ambulance bombs…
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me a thousand times and we are the dumbest Jews in the history of time.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Can someone translate the original source from Arabic for us?
September 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am
“Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me a thousand times and we are the dumbest Jews in the history of time.”
I think they are going for us not believing something that actually did happen at some point so they can then point at us and say something about how we always ignore our crimes.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am
Why have the Arabs become such shameless exponents of media manipulation?
How many instances of this shameless charade have we seen in the recent past?
Mohammed al-Dura, Jenin, Gaza and now Lollywood courtesy the ‘Party of God’
Just wait a little longer and we may be able to see some of the “victims” of Israeli “massacre” alive and kicking.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:47 am
SANDMONKEY, YOU ARE AN IDIOT……..
JUST GO READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCE http://www.assafir.com/iso/today/front/771.html
and for the previous comments:
if are really keen on not being “fooled” by the media, try getting ur news from a more reliable, non biast source (not this blog)…..
oh and I advice the sandmonkey to leave the keyboard and go play in the sand!
September 7th, 2006 at 8:47 am
Probably they have been attending Media Studies or Creative Media courses at colleges in Europe or the US, where they have been learning Photoshop tricks, video production, broadcasting techniques, etc.
By now there must be similar courses in colleges all over the Middle East too.
There are other people such as blogger Mahmood in Bahrain who use this kind of knowledge in a positive and constructive way.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:27 am
According to the original article, the mother was wounded, and the boy thought that she had died. The Red Cross rescued her, and the story had a happy ending. Unfortunately, not all such stories in Lebanon did.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:28 am
Ever since I saw these pictures I was wondering; who took them and how did he/she stand by without helping the little kid to attend to his mom?
According to the source; they were hit somewhere on the way after they left their village … where did the photographer come from in the first place? Or was the move covered live ever since they left their home?
Now after seeing the new pics; I am even wondering a bit more!!
September 7th, 2006 at 9:33 am
[...] The boy and his mother did not stage it. The mother whose name is Montaha was hurt on July 23rd. She had 11 surgeries in her hip and arm. She will have other bone operations in the future. The original Arabic story is here. (H/T The Sandmonkey) Posted by BP at 9:33 am [...]
September 7th, 2006 at 9:38 am
lol. u are one stupid gentile. u do know they want to make your their slave right? u do know that they are just using your right. When they are done they will rape your wife, your mother, your sister, they will kill u and take your wealth. Dont take my word for it. Here it is straight from the horses mouth.
Numbers 31:17-18 “Now kill all the boys and Men . And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”
September 7th, 2006 at 9:39 am
I’m afraid you are wrong this time, SM.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:41 am
What a religion.
Numbers 31:17-18 (King James Version)
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2031:17-18&version=9;
What a Pedoliphic and Murderose religion. Kill everyone, and rape little girls.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:42 am
What a religion.
Numbers 31:17-18 (King James Version)
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2031:17-18&version=9;1
What a Pedoliphic and Murderose religion. Kill everyone, and rape little girls.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Ever tried to get out of a parking ticket or speeding ticket ? All’s fair in love and war. Perhaps rather than wonder why people would engage in such shameful and manipulative propoganda (no brainer) rather why the media with all its investigative, university trained journalists, keep falling for the same sensationalist stuff. Headline grabbing and saleable as it is, oooooh, did I just answer my own question ? Bias comes next. The media ? Surely not ! Despite the fact that we all adhere to the principles of comment which is, opinion is stated as such and comment purporting to be fact HAS to be supportable, have we ever been duped ? I’d say we have. This stuff is to be expected, analyse better.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Yalla, I’m glad she’s not dead, for her son’s sake. I don’t think this family is to blame, the stupid media that makes use of thin air for its own good is.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Anyone got some juicy quotes from the Quran to feed the Libyan animals with?
September 7th, 2006 at 10:11 am
LibyanWarrior: (yawn) - same kind of references exist in the Koran. Usually we see people tossing references back and forth, ignoring the fact - these Old Testament references are historical, applied to a specific time and place, thousands of years ago, and are no where embraced by Jews or Christians. The Koran references, calling for death, destruction, torture etc. for all nonbelievers, are actively embraced and acted upon by Moslem fundamentalists. So just how far have their moral teachings progressed in a thousand years?
September 7th, 2006 at 10:30 am
SM, are you so fond of US such that English ejected Arabic from your brain and become your mother tongue!! Can not you read an Arabic newspaper even when it is your source for another ridiculing, defamatory and demonizing blog about the people who happen to be living in your country!!. if you do not want to profane your blog with Arabic so at least translate your Arabic sources and if you do not want to profane your mind with such a retarded language ask some of the many retarded Arabic speaking people around you to do so. Unfortunately you will have to make the effort of improving their silly English into a one worthy of a pro-US guy.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:46 am
to roba,
I do not think that you would call an explosion that shatters your mother to the extent of needing more than 11 operations to be assembled again, “thin air”.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:49 am
i am sorry SM, but you missed this one. This picture isfrom As Saffir newspaper in Lebanon and it says that the kid thought his mom died but when the Red Cross showed up he discovered she was a live.
the way you are positioning it is as if it propoganda.
here is the link to the article in arabic http://www.assafir.com/iso/today/front/771.html
September 7th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Did SM prove my last point ?
September 7th, 2006 at 11:47 am
It is not hard to think that the original pictures were staged when the son and mother are giggling like idiots at the very sad event that had just impacted both of their lives. This picture of them smiling is perverse. I agree that we are all pleased that the mother didn’t die but this picture of them giggling like this is just insane. I am sorry but this kind of gives us all some insight into some of the warped minds wondering in some parts of the Arab world. The original picture was tragic. Not hard for anyone to think the follow up picture was a ” Hah….just kidding ! ” Fucking ridiculous !
September 7th, 2006 at 11:54 am
My heart breaks when I see a picture like that to begin with.
To twist it the way it was is unconscionable.
September 7th, 2006 at 11:58 am
By the way, just in passing, LibyanWarrior should be put in a cage…………….
or something. Just don’t let him roam the streets unescorted!
September 7th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Yes frenchman,
“just insane” , “warped minds” … who are you talking about?
Is it the people on both sides who kill each other every day and then justify it? Of the people that kill civilians form both sides?
Nooo … that, you can understand and justify, but a mother and her son being happy and giggling for having escaped death during the war. Unconceivable! Insane, Warped minds … How dare they laugh one more day in the rest of their life? Oh the in-humanity!
That is what is bothering you ?!
Fucking ridiculous indeed (you comment that is)
September 7th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I think SM’s point is that the media would show us the before picture without showing us the after picture, and add a caption which expressed their beliefs rather than the facts.
Who among you would react angrily to the first, not knowing about the second? Who wouldn’t look at that first picture and have a strong sense of staging? And why the hell would a photographer snap pictures like this when they should be helping? Makes me think the photographer is a faux-tographer.
I am glad that mom is ok. It is a shame that she was injured in the first place. War is hell.
We have seen an unstoppable flood of agitprop masquerading as news reports coming from the region, expressing specific and strong biases in a single direction. We know how off the media is, they no longer are content to report news, they prefer manufacturing terrible content, or at least colluding with those who do, such as hezb.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Anonumous Leb,
Chill fool ! I have commented countless times on the horror of wars, so don’t assume you know my position. I also very clearly stated that it was a relief that the Mother survived. No one, especially me, minimizes the impact of such an event on anyone’s life. I am entitled to read a picture the way I desire and I just find the expressions on the boy and mother in the the after pick to look almost as if they find the whole thing amusing, especially when many did not survive. Maybe I was squewed by the premise of SM’s story ” that it was staged “. Maybe it is the newspapers fault, because almost anywhere else in the world, they would have simply shown the two smiling without having to have the before shot in the frame. The Mother has the look as if she is saying ” look at me, I cheated death motherfuckers, fuck you ! “.
But for you to go off and make stupid statements insinuating I take war and death lightly is just well…..stupid. Get off your high horse and stop with the ” poor me ” bullshit. I know that you just got pissed off because I accused some Arabs of being warped, but please tell me I am wrong, after all isn’t this what this whole website is about.
I find myself having to repeat that I have many Arab friends that I love, that I respect the rational Middle East and that the West has as many idiots as the ME, whenever I am confronted with yet another defensive Arab, who is unable to distinguish between a simple comment about a very specific issue and racism.
War is war and it is depressing and sickening but stupid images like this do not help the outsiders empathise. Maybe it was the newspapers fault, but the after picture, especially the Mothers expression looked like they were poking fun at it all, not reveling in their survival. Maybe the newspaper needs better editors.
September 7th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Sweet, I am glad the woman is alive and well. Lebanon doesnt need anymore orphans.
September 7th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
[...] …und die Medien wollen es glauben! — [...]
September 7th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
fuck france
September 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
sherif Says:
September 7th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
fuck france
your are lost, not a kind of flair for a sherif !
September 7th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
War is hell. Regrettably, the world is standing by while HA rearms for the next round. Meanwhile, the lesson Israel has learned is that self-restraint - to the extent that they practiced it in Lebanon - only succeeded in convincing HA that they won.
September 7th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Libyan Warrior,
You have much to learn about Judaism, but I assume you have little Jewish education - either formal or informal - so I can hardly fault you for it. Next time in NYC, why not look me up and we can have a friendly and interesting exchange of ideas. I promise not to use your blood to bake cookies or whatever.
September 7th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
BrooklynJon
I would like that. If you want to have a fair and civil conversation, where we can honestly discuss religion without attacking one another, then I am all for it. lol. Yes I am pretty sure that you wont use my blood to bake cookies.lol.
September 7th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
LW,
I’d love it. I’m in a situation where I’m surrounded by a wide diversity of people, so I’m used to people who disagree with me (and am not threatened by it), so long as they’re not threatening me.
What always amazes me about the hateful fringe (of whomever) is that their identity is inevitably an accident of their birth, more or less. Had they been born to different parents, in a different location, they might have been a member of the group that they despise.
In NYC?
September 7th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
am glad shez alive
September 7th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
sherif said : ” Fuck France ”
Fais gaffe petit !, there is more than one Frenchman on this site and wars have been started for less =)
September 7th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Exactly BrooklynJon, an accident of birth, that’s been my opinion for a long time, yet most of us fail to realize that, and take the easy path of the soccer hooligan’s attitude towards the “others” and find it an excuse to hate and dehumanize, well said man.
Texanesone, is your mind really that twisted to rationalize what the libyan has quoted, really, give me a break.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
MM,
I don’t speak for Tex, but I don’t think he was trying to rationalize at all. He was trying to put it into a context, as I understand his comment.
Many religions have holy books that include xenophobic passages. The Torah is no exception. Although I do not know the context of that quote, it certainly sounds xenophobic. But here’s the critical nut. The Torah has been analyzed and modified and explained over the millenia. Frankly, I don’t think the Torah sits in quite the same position as the Koran (my apologies if I misspell).
The Torah is noted for having a number of “troubling” passages, and a student is instructed to look to the Mishnah and the Gemarah for clarification (taken together these form the Babylonian Talmud), as well as later commentators. Jewish religious students do not memorize the Torah, and frankly it’s not really emphasized at all. It’s too topical to be prescriptive. The “Daf Yomi” movement (literally, a page a day) is about reading a page of the Talmud a day - not the Torah. It is out of the Talmud and subsequent texts that Halachah - Jewish Law - is derived.
The Talmud itself includes the records of intellectual and religious debates through the ages. Often, conflicting arguments are recounted alongside one another in the text. Sometimes the conflicts are resolved, with one side getting the better of the other. Sometimes not.
The far more relevant questions are: What do practitioners of the religion do with this stuff? And what is the theology and world outlook of the religion.
The answer: Plenty of Jews take as prescriptive the commandment to settle the land (yes, the land that folks are fighting over). Essentially no one takes as prescriptive any commandment to kill anyone or treat anyone badly.
As far as the theology is concerned, Judaism is not a catholic religion, that is, Judaism does not expect anyone to convert to Judaism. Conversion is neither encouraged nor prohibited. Judaism feels that your religion is fine if it brings you closer to G-d and encourages you to perform good deeds. And non-Jews need only to follow the seven laws of Noah (morality lite) to gain salvation. We Jews have 613 commandments on our plate. We’re happy for Muslims and Christians and everyone else to continue being what they are, and we don’t need to conquer any land for the sake of G-d. (Tho’ we are commanded to live in the land of Abraham)
Ultimately, that’s the important point. When push comes to shove, the overwhelming majority of Jews feel that their religion commands them to live and let live. While many Muslims no doubt feel the same, it is not clear to me that the majority is quite so overwhelming.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Libyan warrior, are you still at Auburn?
September 7th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
BrooklynJon et al,
The quote specifically was not from the Torah but from the Bible, Old Testament.
Of course there are similar quotes in the Torah regarding Phinehas, and similar in descriptions in the Quran and the way the Midianites (Medayan) were / should be treated for being idolators.
I think it goes to show the little difference between Judaism, Christianity and Islam and how we really all should get along.
For as it says in the Quran:
“And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our Allah and your Allah is One, and to Him do we submit.”
(Al Ankaboot: “The Spider” 029.046)
September 7th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I think the mom’s smiling because she SURVIVED A NEAR DEATH. I’d be pretty giddy if I also survived a near death experience. I guess the people here who are so upset by such public displays of relief would be depressed that their lives were saved. Weird.
September 8th, 2006 at 2:14 am
“accident of birth”
September 8th, 2006 at 3:05 am
X-9,
What Christians call the Old Testament is identical to the three works which comprise the Jewish Bible, the first of which is the Torah. Numbers was one of the books of the Torah, last I checked.
But the important differences between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are not related to who has the most xenophobic holy books. Rather, it is what these religions encourage their followers to actually do in real life that matters most.
September 8th, 2006 at 3:06 am
MideastBeast,
Re 42,
Yup.
September 8th, 2006 at 4:24 am
BrooklynJon,
You are of course correct. I’d forgotten that. Bamidbar = Numbers. Well, I’m a goy so…
I agree with your second statement in general. However all three of the Abrahamic faiths have the capability to expound upon xenophobic themes and do. Not in their mainstream, but it does happen in the extremes. Just as their are extreme fundamentalist Muslims, there are extreme fundamentalist Jews and Christians.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Thanks for the information BrookllynJon, also thanks for the level of civility in conveying your point, which, quiet frankly is non existent among the predominantly nut cases reading this blog.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Libyan warrior, are you still at Auburn?
Where in gods name did u get that Idea.lol. I have never been Auburn in my life.lol. Very Weird question.lol.
Hey BrooklynJon. I am a pretty far away from New york, on the otherside of the country.lol. I always wanted to visit NYC, I hear its pretty cool.
Context is a big part of reading religouse manuscripts. When reading the Quran you Must look at the verses prior to the verse you are stating and the verses which follow, and the reason and the situation why such and such verse was revealed. Many people are ignorant of this and hence problems arise, this goes for the Old and New Testaments as well. The Verse from numbers was a particular command to the prophet at a certain time and a certain place, just as many of the instances in the Quran are revealed to the Prophet at a certain time and a certain place, pertaing to a certain situation which is occuring at the time. In Numbers God gave a command to his prophet to do the following, the lord hath said it and so it must be done. This by no means is a set rule, this is one particular situation. What bothers me is that nowaday people are taking the Quran and picking up verses, and fashioning them to their liking, in order to spread the message the Islam is a religion of intolerance. The people usually doing this are Christian which is odd, becuase many of the instances that they qoute are much more common in the Bible. So I am stuck in a strange place, where I am compled to defend my religion by resorting to similar tactics, cutting and pasting verses from the bible and fashioning them in a similar fashion. Another thing that bothers me is the fact that Jews and Christians claim that Islam is a violent religion because some of its so called followers commit violent acts, but if this is so surley the follower of Christianity and Judism do the same. 1,000,000 Muslims where slughtered in Bosnia not 10 years ago, by a Christian Army, but no one speaks of this, a man sets of a Bomb that kills 50 people, and all of a sudden Islam is a violent religion. The US is slaughtering indiscriminatly in iraq and Afganistan, and Israel has been carrying out a genocidal campaign for the past 60 Some years, and no one speaks of the Violent nature of these faiths.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Libyan warrior, are you still at Auburn?
Where in gods name did u get that Idea.lol. I have never been Auburn in my life.lol. Very Weird question.lol.
Hey BrooklynJon. I am a pretty far away from New york, on the otherside of the country.lol. I always wanted to visit NYC, I hear its pretty cool.
Context is a big part of reading religouse manuscripts. When reading the Quran you Must look at the verses prior to the verse you are stating and the verses which follow, and the reason and the situation why such and such verse was revealed. Many people are ignorant of this and hence problems arise, this goes for the Old and New Testaments as well. The Verse from numbers was a particular command to the prophet at a certain time and a certain place, just as many of the instances in the Quran are revealed to the Prophet at a certain time and a certain place, pertaing to a certain situation which is occuring at the time. In Numbers God gave a command to his prophet to do the following, the lord hath said it and so it must be done. This by no means is a set rule, this is one particular situation. What bothers me is that nowaday people are taking the Quran and picking up verses, and fashioning them to their liking, in order to spread the message the Islam is a religion of intolerance. The people usually doing this are Christian which is odd, becuase many of the instances that they qoute are much more common in the Bible. So I am stuck in a strange place, where I am compled to defend my religion by resorting to similar tactics, cutting and pasting verses from the bible and fashioning them in a similar fashion. Another thing that bothers me is the fact that Jews and Christians claim that Islam is a violent religion because some of its so called followers commit violent acts, but if this is so surley the follower of Christianity and Judism do the same. 1,000,000 Muslims where slughtered in Bosnia not 10 years ago, by a Christian Army, but no one speaks of this, a man sets of a Bomb that kills 50 people, and all of a sudden Islam is a violent religion. The US is slaughtering indiscriminatly in iraq and Afganistan, and Israel has been carrying out a genocidal campaign for the past 60 Some years, and no one speaks of the Violent nature of these faiths.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Libyan warrior, are you still at Auburn?
Where in gods name did u get that Idea.lol. I have never been Auburn in my life.lol. Very Weird question.lol.
Hey BrooklynJon. I am a pretty far away from New york, on the otherside of the country.lol. I always wanted to visit NYC, I hear its pretty cool.
Context is a big part of reading religouse manuscripts. When reading the Quran you Must look at the verses prior to the verse you are stating and the verses which follow, and the reason and the situation why such and such verse was revealed. Many people are ignorant of this and hence problems arise, this goes for the Old and New Testaments as well. The Verse from numbers was a particular command to the prophet at a certain time and a certain place, just as many of the instances in the Quran are revealed to the Prophet at a certain time and a certain place, pertaing to a certain situation which is occuring at the time. In Numbers God gave a command to his prophet to do the following, the lord hath said it and so it must be done. This by no means is a set rule, this is one particular situation. What bothers me is that nowaday people are taking the Quran and picking up verses, and fashioning them to their liking, in order to spread the message the Islam is a religion of intolerance. The people usually doing this are Christian which is odd, becuase many of the instances that they qoute are much more common in the Bible. So I am stuck in a strange place, where I am compled to defend my religion by resorting to similar tactics, cutting and pasting verses from the bible and fashioning them in a similar fashion. Another thing that bothers me is the fact that Jews and Christians claim that Islam is a violent religion because some of its so called followers commit violent acts, but if this is so surley the follower of Christianity and Judism do the same. 1,000,000 Muslims where slughtered in Bosnia not 10 years ago, by a Christian Army, but no one speaks of this, a man sets of a Bomb that kills 50 people, and all of a sudden Islam is a violent religion. The US is slaughtering indiscriminatly in iraq and Afganistan, and Israel has been carrying out a genocidal campaign for the past 60 Some years, and no one speaks of the Violent nature of these faiths.
September 9th, 2006 at 4:20 am
And what about that poor Coptic family in New Jersey? Wheren’t they murdered by…
oh ya… 3rd rate burglers, not Mahz-Luhmz. Oops, not much of a story anymore.
September 9th, 2006 at 11:19 am
I’m really sorry for this #37… Yes, wars have been started for less than this……but they were never won by the French..cest le guerre…riposte
September 9th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Resurrection
It all depends on what the meanig of the word “dead” is. This boys mother was injured. But the reporters with their Hizb, Allah “minders” either failed to follow through or were not allowed to. They also were not allowed…
September 9th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
LibyanWarrior;
I have a problem with two of your statements:
“The US is slaughtering indiscriminatly in iraq and Afganistan…”
No, we’re not. Think about it. If we were truely being “indiscriminate” they body counts would be massively higher. Also it would be just much more efficient for us to drop nuclear weapons or even conventional weapons and carpet bomb. But we don’t. We take extreme care in trying to protect non-combatants.
The second part of your sentence implies that the United States is a single faith nation which couldn’t be further from the truth (and it sounds like you live here so you should know better). There are a majority of Christian based religions (and I say Christian based as there a various congregations and branches), but there are also significant Muslism, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh, etc. faiths represented as well. None of them get preference over another (at least not legally) and none of them represent the United States as it is illegal (enshrined in the Constitution no less) for the United States to endorse one religion over another or repress any religion at all.
September 9th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Jawa-
Can you back that statement up? Any evidence that:
1) This was widely reported in the news media?
2) Most of those news media failed to follow through?
September 10th, 2006 at 3:45 am
hmm my post seems to have gotten “lost”
to sum up .. this is the result of the whole Reuters fiasco and Pallywood ..
September 10th, 2006 at 3:57 am
[...] Well, she didn’t. But I haven’t seen anything in the media about this. [...]
September 10th, 2006 at 7:33 am
[...] Another Egyptian blogger Rantigs of a Sandmonkey explains it some more: [...]
September 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
ooo so not one lebanese person died in this war…interesting
September 13th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
[...] The Sandmonkey brings to light another case of the media lying to the public. The media ran a series of pictures of a young boy crying with his “dead” mother in his arms (Lebanon of course). It hit all the news sources and the pictures of him and his mother were used in protests all over the place. So what is the problem? [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Are you stupid or something? if she was wounded like that and the kid was all bloodied, to you, she had to die for the pictures to be ‘true’? I don’t understand. So the woman survived the attack. Why is this taken against her or the person who took the picture or the media? The agony the boy must have felt when she was wounded in his arms and lying there.. this means nothing to you? she had to die for it to be tragic enough for you?
This is not even a ‘photoshop’ ‘paliywood’ situation as your posters have claimed. She was wounded and then survived. Duh!!!
What a fucking moron!!!