I remember when I was little, my mom used to tell me: “Son, don’t do this or that because you’ll have to pay the consequences”. The same way, she used to tell me: “When you do good, you receive good”. However, something happened recently that doesn’t show the inherent true of those sayings. I’m talking about the sentence to this Iraqi reporter also known as: “The shoe-thrower”. When I say Iraqi reporter and don’t call him by his birth name is totally on purpose. That man, to me, is not only the reflection of the Iraqi people in general, but of a large part of the entire world. Thus, you can call him however you want because it will match perfectly.
That anonymous hero, in the most illogical way, was sentenced to three years of jail, for something that per se is not an act of crime, or war, or genocide, or drug related or anything punishable with such a penalty. Actually, what that brave man did was materialize a feeling of frustration spread all over the world against that president and everything he represents. We’re talking here about invasion of a sovereign country, occupation of foreign land with military troops, disrespect of holy places, and so on. What he did? That man threw a shoe, one of the most humiliating things you can throw to another human being, at least in those far away lands. That’s what he did, and the leathered-projectile came with some words that transformed the poor and dirty shoe even in a more ferocious insult: “This is for you, dog. This is for the widows, the orphans and all the victims in Iraq”.
One Iraqi man said in an informal interview: “That man should be decorated instead of condemned”.
You know what? I totally agree.
