"A Gay Girl in Damascus: My Father, the hero"

[TheDoctor455]

http://damascusgaygirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-father-hero.html

Read that.
Read it now.
Its an incredible story.
And the tragic thing is... I doubt it will ever make it to the news anywhere in the world.

EDIT:

In an attempt to amend that...

I would encourage everyone who reads this to spread this story to as many people as possible.

Doesn't matter who or how.

People need to know.

 

[TheDoctor455]

There is no meme strong to adaquitly relay how much...

Umm... what?

1. I think you mean "trope".
2. I don't see how a "trope" would help here.
3. you misspelled "adequately".
4. how much what?

 

[xmbts]

I'm just glad it ended relatively well for them.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I'm just glad it ended relatively well for them.

Same here.

This SHOULD be in the news... but I don't think it will be.

Sad.

 

[TheDoctor455]

There is no meme strong to adaquitly relay how much...

Umm... what?

1. I think you mean "trope".
2. I don't see how a "trope" would help here.
3. you misspelled "adequately".
4. how much what?

The spell check wouldn't give me "adequately" but I suppose you're right about trope (although I'm not sure what the difference is)
And that's just it, I couldn't figure out what. That was the sort of story you just don't dare hope is possible when you know humanity like I do.

Suffice to say, the New Syria cannot come soon enough.

A "meme" is something that is repeated over and over until it more or less becomes an integral part of culture.

A "trope" is well... go ask TV Tropes.com for that.

At any rate...

I would encourage everyone who reads this to share this story with as many people as possible.

This story deserves attention.

 

[ZtH]

This girl and her father are truly amazing and that is a fantastic story. I hope that it does get coverage because they deserve it more than anyone else I've seen in the news recently.

 

[kane.malakos]

That's pretty inspiring. I'm glad the guys weren't too fanatic to be convinced.

 

[PrinceofPersia]

Now that is a great man and a great daugther. Peace be with them both.

 

[Foxlord]

That story is made of win. Thank you for sharing :3

 

[Nickolai77]

Thanks for sharing, that was an awesome story.

 

[AnkaraTheFallen]

Wow, this is an amazing story, I wish more things like this were shown in the news.
It is truly inspiring, thank you for showing this to people.

 

[Vkmies]

Thanks for sharing. An inspiring read. ^^

 

[Kaymish]

that was sweet i got a strange feeling when reading it
unfortunately the media is far too concerned with the blood and guts in Syria to read this and i doubt they could even get near her to do an interview as the media loves to do

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

That is the most beautiful thing I've read in ages.

I really, really, REALLY hope this gets some news coverage. Anyone want to e-mail this link to CNN?

 

[TheDoctor455]

That is the most beautiful thing I've read in ages.

I really, really, REALLY hope this gets some news coverage. Anyone want to e-mail this link to CNN?

Well... I've emailed this to my Ops editor at my university's newspaper.

 

[DanDeFool]

I want to make every last person who's ever called anyone else a fag on XBL read this. I want to make all the Mormon church leaders who spent millions of dollars making sure Prop 8 passed to read this.

That, my friends, is a real hero.

Remember, none of us are free until all of us are, and every time you oppress someone else you sow the seeds of your own oppression.

 

[Nikolaz72]

I hope someone. Somewhere, puts this on TV.

 

[Nightvalien]

Considering that is true, that was amazing bravo indeed, too bad the news won't care about this because they are too busy being stupid with duke nukem.