Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi
By Pepe Escobar


"In September 2012, for the first time in three months, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka The Surgeon, released a 42-minute video special to "celebrate" the 11th anniversary of 9/11, finally admitting the snuffing out of his number two.

His number two was none other than Abu Yahya al-Libi - targeted by one of US President Barack Obama's cherished drones in Waziristan on June 4...

Asia Times Online has been warning for over a year about blowback in Libya - and potentially in Syria..."


Make of this what you will, but I hate the sound of Arabic, about the same as I hate the sound of Hebrew when I've just watched an alQueda video, or seen a news report of unrest or violence.  A native English speaking Muslim told me that I was wrong for hating the sound of the call to prayer in Arabic and that the sound of church bells bothered him. Ok, I didn't expect him to apologize for his feelings, why should I?  Maybe if my noticing the sound of the language hadn't happened after 9/11 I would feel differently. Maybe if I had grown up hearing the call to prayer more it wouldn't make my gut churn, because I'm not a hateful person and I love the fact that I hear many languages in my region, and I don't believe religion is a bad thing in moderation for people firmly planted in reality. I won't apologize for the way I FEEL when I hear it. Do I react that way when I hear people conversing in Arabic? Why no, I don't. Maybe it's just that it would drive me batshit crazy to have some asshole on a loudspeaker hollering at the whole town that it's time to go pray 5 fucking times a day. I don't need to pray with a herd, or a flock or whatever you want to call it. I can pray any time I want to, and anywhere I want to.