Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari is still missing a day after she was abducted by the Syrian regime thugs. Amina, the editor of A Gay Girl In Damascus blog, had been in hiding since the last time the thugs tried to "arrest" her for being critically vocal of the Syrian regime's crack down on the Arab Spring protesters.
Followers of her blog are spreading the word as far as they can to generate media attention and apply political pressure against the regime to free her and the thousands of innocent Syrians who are being held without trail in the prisons of the Syrian regimes, where they reportedly brutally tortured and murdered.
Amina is an "out" lesbian, a Muslim, and holds dual Syrian and American citizenships. She was brave to openly declare herself a lesbian in a world that is more conservative than the bible belt of the america, but considerably less conservative than say Saudi Arabia, but still conservative enough to consider homosexuality a fatal sin. Some people have come out posting bigoted remarks about her homosexuality, refusing to allow her to herself Muslim quoting, out of context, Islamic verses to justify her "evil" fate, judging her deserving of it because of what the scriptures say. these people are ignorant bigots whom have forgotten the true essence of the humanity of their religion. forgotten that this is a well educated and decent woman. forgotten that even the Koran, especially the Koran, gives her the right to live her life the way she chooses and not how others, who interpret the holy scriptures any which way they like to suite their personal ideologies, will it to be. If these bigots wish to deny Amina her god given right to be what she chooses to be then they should first look at a mirror and judge themselves unworthy of their own religion before they utter a word. bigotry is not a part of Islam. bigotry, according to Islam, comes from ignorance and ignorance comes from the devil. no one has the right to tell Amina what she can be and what she can not be, and if they disagree with her then let them know that their opinion is their own opinion and not the opinion of god, Islam or the Koran.
Not only is Amina openly gay, but she is also well educated, highly intelligent and a human rights advocate. it is not Amina's homosexuality that got her marked for abduction. it is her inelegance and crafty writing targeting the regime of the butcher of Syria, Bashar al Assad. The Fact that she is gay, though incidental, will be used against here. The regime has tortured and killed for less reasons than sexual orientation as was the case of Hamza. The regime of the butcher of Syria will use any information they have to destroy anyone who speakers out against them. And Amina has been not only vocal in here criticism, but also highly informative in an almost academic way with her accurately factual accounts of the Syrian history and background.
A few posts back Amina wrote describing a ritual she and her father undergo almost on a daily basis. they right their names and identification numbers on each others bodies so that if they end up dead someone would at least know who she was and let the world know. I pray it never comes to that. But when I first read her words something dormant stirred within me. i cried. i cried because i knew and understood the kind of danger she and most Syrians are in. i cried because i knew for a fact that the butcher of Syria will stop at nothing to quell the Arab Spring that is now in season and at his door steps.
Though i am an atheist, i pray for Amina's deliverance, and i pray for the speedy liberation of Syrians from the clutches of the butcher Bashar and his criminally intent thugs.
One of the blog comentators apears to be from the American consulate and has offered their support and willingness to intervene and rescue Amina from her fate. i hope they manage to do so as fast as possible. but i also wish that they could free all those who's only nationality is Syrian and whom have no one to look after them, protect them, or fish them out of the rain of hell brought upon them by the butcher of Syria.
Free Amina. Free all the innocent Syrians protesters..
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