"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Speak And They Kill You. SILENT and they still Kill You

"Tahar Djaout, one of the first Algerian intellectuals cut down by assassination in 1993, had expressed the reporter’s predicament perfectly :

“If you speak out, they will kill you. If you keep silent, they will kill you . So speak out, and die.”

And he did. The nineties violence made Algeria, according to a 2012 UN report, one of the five deadliest locations for reporters in the last twenty years.  A total of a hundred press workers, including sixty journalists, were killed by the fundamentalist armed groups between 1993 and 1997....

I am always slightly in awe of Algerian journalists— the risks they ran, the truths they tried to tell. They transmitted the news of assassinated women, 17 of popular protest against terrorism, 18 and of government malfeasance."

(Karima Bennoune. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here : Untold Stories From The Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism)

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