A thread to honor Mohammed Bouazizi, the young man whose suicide changed the world.

[Leftist Agitator]

May you rest in peace, sir, and may your actions be remembered forever. You freed your people from a tyrant, and your example is enabling millions of other oppressed people to do the same.

Rabena Ma'ak (May Allah go with you)ربنا معاك

[Catherina]

1. RIP dear Mohammed. Your pain is bringing new life to others. n/t

[kentuck]

2. kick and rec

[dhill926]

3. K&R.............

[tabatha]

4. Tributes on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Mohammed%20Bouazizi&w=all

[defendandprotect]

5. k/r

[Fumesucker]

6. K&R

:toast:

:grouphug:

[babsbunny]

7. Sorry, but I would love to know what he did,

and maybe others are not sure..........How did he change the world? I want to change the world too!

[Cerridwen]

8. Self immolation. n/t

[Leftist Agitator]

10. He was a college graduate who was totally unable to find a job, through no fault of his own..

So he set up a fruit and vegetable stand to support himself. And then a local bureaucrat acting under the color of his corrupt government came to his stand, shut him down, confiscated his wares, and fined him on top of that for operating his stand without a permit.

He set himself on fire as a result of the extreme oppression that then prevailed all across Tunisia. He was fucked by the government. He had no way to support himself. He was absolutely distraught. And he didn't just set himself on fire, he ignited the entire Arab world.

May Allah walk with him.

And in a language that is long dead that I have come to love, Yol Bolsun, Mohammed. May there be a road...

[here_is_to_hope]

18. Well said...

Thank you for that.

[Cerridwen]

9. K & R n/t

[Catherina]

11. Tweet to Mohammed

adarwish

Wish I knew Mohamed Bouazizi, & I wish he could see what he brought about to a whole region. May he rest in peace
#Sidibouzid #Jan25 #Egypt less than 20 seconds ago via HootSuite

http://twitter.com/adarwish/statuses/31537909370720257

[Leftist Agitator]

12. I have exactly the same sentiment.

One man's desperate act changed the entire fucking world. And my money says that it is going to change much more in the weeks and months to come,

I know that he had no idea what would come from his suicide. But I'm glad that something good is resulting from his final act of protest.

[Catherina]

14. I'm beginning to really understand the term shaheed (martyr) now

Him and all those other men who self-immolated these last few months. If I could, I'd go lay flowers on his grave.

[madmax]

13. RIP Such a horrible way to change the world.

I can't begin to imagine the pain, if only for a few seconds or minutes. :cry:

[snagglepuss]

15. A tragic loss however it is too soon to say whether the changes will be for the

good as one merely has to consider what happened after the Iranian Revolution, one despotic regime replaced by another. That said I deeply wish that each of those countries will get govts that are not controlled by either thugs or lunatics.

[coalition_unwilling]

16. 46 years ago, another common man (Norman Morrison) set himself

on fire and burned himself to death outside U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's Pentagon office in protest against the Vietnam War.

So sad in both cases the waste of human life and potential . . .

[roguevalley]

17. what an impossible sadness. his family must be sick. bless his

soul for the good and for the good he did.