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Mar 26, 2003 0:07:00 GMT -5
Post by Mondiaux on Mar 26, 2003 0:07:00 GMT -5
Why this Board? I, like many others around the world, have been reading the blog of Salam Pax ( http://www.dear_raed.blogspot.com/) with interest. I wanted to give something back to a person who has given a perspective on the life in Iraq and the war that is unique and precious. In the past few days, as the war has started, more and more people have come to his blog, and I suspect that many of them would like to get in touch with him. My own attempts to email him have failed: the message bounces, saying that his mailbox is full. I thought it would be a good idea to set up a place where people who visit his blog can leave him a message, if they don't mind it being public. With that in mind, I've set up some ground rules: 1) This forum has the purpose of writing messages to Salam Pax, the blogger from Baghdad. 2) Any posts which are off-topic will be deleted. For example, posts with gratuitous profanity, commercial solicitations, or general discussions on the war or politics will be deleted. 3) Please write with respect. So please follow these rules and start writing!
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Post by Arte Paz on Apr 6, 2003 0:21:42 GMT -5
Hello - I just found your <html><u>dear salam</u></html> blog. I am doing the same thing - gathering letters and posts from those around the planet missing the voice, the words of Salam Pax. My blog is called<html> <a href="http://dear_salam.blogspot.com/"> Where is Salam?</a></html> and you can <html><a href="mailto: where_is_salam@yahoo.com"> E-mail me! </a> </html> Please link my site up to yours. I am new to the blogging world so, if you have any tips, I would love the help.
Below, a few words for Salam... Salam Pax's blog received 91,000 hits last month. His blog is #4 according to whoever makes those charts. Last Monday, March 24, Salam Pax's site, <html><a href="http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/">Where is Raed </a></html>went down - due to zapped internet providers, a power shutdown, evacuation, bombs... we don't know. What we do know is that he opened a door to a world inaccessible to many of us out here.
There are now several sites around the world dedicated to archiving messages to Salam Pax. With the hope that he will read them one day. As the trenches burn and the bombs rain down on the city that is in everyone's hearts and minds, a city home to 5 million people, how many of us sit staring at computer screens, in every single city on this planet, wondering what we can possibly do to stop this senseless madness? Salam's words somehow made it possible for me to feel again. As I watched the US military buildup and the ridiculous charades of the disappointing governments, I began to shut down. Salam's words helped me open back up, gave me strength to speak, to write, to create. Reminded me that, though bombs are falling, I am still alive and I have a responsibility to DO something. He painted a human element on the face of an ancient city, an ancient people. I have worn an "I heart the people of Iraq" pin for several months now. Since discovering Salam's blog, when people question the pin, I pull out his blog, now converted into a little book and read them his own words.
We need a million voices speaking now. Salam was one voice. We were many ears listening. And from listening comes understanding comes ideas comes change comes a better world.
As Salam sought his friend Raed, we now seek him. Finding his words alive again, will be finding some bit of the humanity being eaten up by the massive war machine and spit back out in undigested, bite-sized news clips. Until he emerges from the rubble that was his home, our own words are all we have.
The <html><u>Dear Salam</u></html> blogs connect the many people who were touched (educated, inspired, informed, shocked, awed... sorry) by the words of one person living his one life in a city that has become a war zone, again. I only hope he will be able to read our words one day soon.
Salam. Peace.
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