Iraqi Suffering

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:30:00 -0400
/society

Never let anyone tell you freedom isn’t expensive. Iraqis are just starting to find out with their first boy band. This is the most incredible quote:

“We lived under dictatorship for 35 years. I’m not prepared to go through that again, and I don’t think anybody is,” said lead singer Nadeem Hamed, a 20-year-old biology student. “If people attack us for being in a band, that’s terrorism.”

It seems even non-native speakers of english have absorbed the redefinition of terrorism.

Let’s hope they can just compromise on a law forbidding the sale of music to under 16’s.