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LAST ‘FARENHEIT’ POST…CROSS MY HEART

There was an awkward moment in the movie where an Iraqi woman is giving an interview in Arabic. Subtitles provide the explanation that her house has just been destroyed in a bombing attack even though there were no weapons or terrorists there.
The reporter asks her something (it wasn’t translated but based on American journalists I assume the question was something along the lines of “How does it feel to have lost your home and everything inside?”) and she begins beating her chest and crying out to God.

“Why has this happened. Oh, God. Where are you, God. How could you let this happen to us?”

Then her lamentation takes a turn.

“Oh God, revenge us. God, make them pay for what they have done here, Oh, God make them suffer.”

At this, a few people in the theater start applauding and doing that whistle sound of support.

After the movie, I said something like “umm…wasn’t that weird when those people started applauding that woman’s call for vengeance?”
“Yes! Did you notice that, too?”
“Uh huh… I wonder if they understood the whole vengeance for her would likely mean death for them?”
“Yeah, I have to say, I’m all for nobody’s house being bombed down, but to the extent that her house has already been destroyed, there is no need to further the cycle of violence by destroying, say, I don’t know…my house.”
We laughed and then in a moment of pure genius (probably due to my TV-free mind enhancement), I devised a plan of a volunteer victims organization.

Like the volunteer military, these fine people who wish to help this lady get her vengeance could sign up to have their houses destroyed as retribution.

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