Dear Western Activists : We Don’t Want Your Pity | TheSleuthJournal
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via @cdb_77 et Stefano Liberti sur Twitter
As new arrivals to Europe from the Middle East, we come from countries where death in war has become an almost mundane, non-urgent event; I am now in an environment where war is understood not as brutal current events but as historic ones. For us in the Middle East, by contrast, war is just another unpleasant reality we live with, like many others: occupation, poverty, dictatorship, corrupt governments, marginalization, etc…