Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, has been abducted off the streets of Damascus by the criminals of the Syrian regime of Bashar al Assad. Amina has been a very vocal opponent of the Assad regime since the start of the popular revolt against him in Syria earlier this year. The Gay Girl in Damascus blog has been a rare window in to the atrocities that are taking place in Syria, where the regime is killing protesters at random. A few weeks ago a 13 year old child, Hamza Alkhateeb was brutally murdered after he was severely tortured, severely beaten, electrocuted, castrated, and then shot dead. A man who was caught during one of the protests has come out and spoken of the kind of brutality exercised against him, and others like him by, the criminals of the Assad regime. Details were also conveyed by the Aljazeera journalist, Dorothy Parvaz, who was detained, about a month ago by the very regime, and who has witnessed the atrocities of Syrian jails.
Amina, the gay girl from Damascus, has been a brilliant beacon in the middle of these dark times brought forth by the Syrian regime. She has helped to educate the world on Syrian history and the history of the conflict of the region. She has bravely come out and spoken words against the regime that, under normal circumstances, would have earned her imprisonment, but with her vocal criticism of the Assad regime in the middle of the Arab Spring that had reached the borders of the oppressive Syrian regime, there is now acute fear for her well being.
This is a regime that has murdered more than 1,200 innocent civilians protesting, demanding, their rights as human beings. This is a regime that descended upon villages with armed thugs who dare to call themselves soldiers, tanks and heavy artillery, destroying villages, killing anyone that stood in their way be they women, children or elderly. This is a regime that has no conscious, that has no moral values, that has no shred of decency. This is a regime that oppresses civilians with force with all the brutality that it can muster. This is the same regime that had slaughtered 10,000 civilians in Hama , under the rule of then Hafez al Assad, father of the current tyrant and criminal against humanity, Bashar al Assad.
This is the regime that has caused much turmoil in Lebanon, from where thousands of Lebanese citizens have been abducted years ago and whose whereabouts and fate remains unknown. This is the regime that has robed the Lebanese of their dignity through the 30 years of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. This is the regime that has used the threat of the Israel aggressor, real as the threat may be, to subvert and justify the brutal oppression of the voices of descent.
This is the regime that has lied to the world claiming the uprising of its people to be the work of foreigners (Israel and the US) or the work of Islamists, totally denying the reality of the situation and the aspirations of a people that finally stood up and said enough, that they will not allow the regime to deny them their dignity anymore.
This is the regime that Hassan Nasralah of Hezbollah, the so called “champion” of the arab cause, still unequivocally and unconditionally supports the butcher of Syria, his master. Nasralah, who was once revered for standing up for the oppressed and downtrodden, disgustingly stands beside his Syrian master, the man accused of crimes against humanity and his own people, Bashar al Assad. Nasralah, who shamelessly advocates for the Arab spring to the media yet turns around to back stab the very people that once revered him, the Syrian people, all for political gains. Nasralah, the hypocrite, the lap dog of the Assad criminal regime, has finally shown his true colors, as if he had not shown his true colors with his violent war against innocent Israeli citizens. While the cause of the resistance is justified, the means of this resistance are by no means so.
Amina, a peaceful advocate of peace, justice and human rights, now counts among the thousands of missing, abducted Syrian citizens, her fate so far unknown. She was abducted on the 6th of June 2011 at around 6pm Damascus local time by three regime thugs in a car that is distinctive of the moukhabarat (secret service) thugs of the regime due to the obvious tell tale stickers of Basil al Assad, the older dead brother of Bashar the butcher. They whisked her off the streets as she was making ready to meet with another protester.
Amina stayed behind in Syria with her elderly father, a heroic man who has a heart condition and who has stood in the way of the regime thugs in the past to protect his gay daughter, of whom he is proud of, from an otherwise in-tolerant regime. I can only imagine how terrified and hysterical this old man may be at this moment. A very concerned parent who will do anything in his power to save his daughter from the clutches of the barbaric regime of al Assad, even if he has to die for her. This man is a true hero.
We can only hope and pray that Amina is not subjected to the brutality of the regime. We can only hope and pray that they do not harm her in any way. we can only hope and pray for her quick release, for her deliverance from the hands of the criminal things of the Assad regime. But the reality is that this is a regime that knows no boundaries. This is a regime that knows nothing other than brutality. We can only hope and pray for her return. Even I, an Atheist, feel compelled to pray to the god that I do not believe in for her safe return.
We must do more. All of us. the entire world. This is no longer an Arab mater. This has now become a worldwide humanitarian issue. we must all pitch in and do more. Alone we will accomplish nothing but together we can change things. Together we can do more. People, please circulate this information where ever you are. People, we ask you to stand up in solidarity with the Syrian People and wit the Libyan people, and with the Yamani people. We ask you to stand up in solidarity with the Arab people and publicly denounce the atrocities of the tyrants. Westerns especially for western governments are partially to be blamed, historically at least, for the state of current affairs in the Arab world. Western powers may not wish to admit this but their imperialist expeditions of the past century as well as the cold war and the war on “terror” has played a major role in shaping the Arab world as it is today, ruled by oppressive tyrants. The western world owes a great debt to the Arabs, not the tyrannical regimes that they have supported in the past, but the actual Arab people who are now struggling to regain their dignity and freedom from these oppressive regimes.
Call your MPs, ask them to put pressure, real tangible pressure, on the Assad regime. Circulate this news, make your friends aware of the atrocities of the Syrian regime. Stand up for humanity, stand up for Hamza, Stand up for Amina, stand up for the Syrian people and help stop the brutal and tyrannical regime form killing more innocent civilians, stop him from killing children and women and innocent men. Stop them murdering and detaining people whose only crime was to ask for their legitimate and universally acknowledged human rights from a regime that has no conscious.
May justice catch up with Bashar and his minions. Stand up and let them know that what they have done is inexcusable and that they have nowhere to run and that the only option they now have is to step down and kneel before their own people and unconditionally surrender to the protesters.
I know that the protesters are scared, but would it not be prudent for them to join and walk towards the prisons of the regime. To surround them. To lay siege upon them until they release all the prisoners.
Free Amina. Free all the innocent Syrians protesters..
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