Always worth reading but today's entry is especially telling.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/Everyone is worried about raids lately. We hear about them from friends and relatives, we watch them on tv, outraged, and try to guess where the next set of raids are going to occur.
Anything can happen. Some raids are no more than seemingly standard weapons checks. Three or four troops knock on the door and march in. One of them keeps an eye of the 'family' while the rest take a look around the house. They check bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms and gardens. They look under beds, behind curtains, inside closets and cupboards. All you have to do is stifle your feelings of humiliation, anger and resentment at having foreign troops from an occupying army search your home.
Some raids are, quite simply, raids. The door is broken down in the middle of the night, troops swarm in by the dozens. Families are marched outside, hands behind their backs and bags upon their heads. Fathers and sons are pushed down on to the ground, a booted foot on their head or back.
Other raids go horribly wrong. We constantly hear about families who are raided in the small hours of the morning. The father, or son, picks up a weapon- thinking they are being attacked by looters- and all hell breaks loose. Family members are shot, others are detained and often women and children are left behind wailing.
"Fathers and sons are pushed down on to the ground, a booted foot on their head or back."
I have read that there is little more humiliating for a Muslim than to be forced to bow down on the ground as they will only do that for Allah. Add a booted foot on the head or the back and each time you have someone who might now be willing to pick up a gun to shoot an American.
The people responsible for this farce will never learn until it is far too late. (on edit - it's already far to late.)
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