Feeling ‘complicit in a hate crime’ during the 2003 Iraq War, at just 10 || UNAPOLOGETIC

“I can still see the face of the man in the gas station looking at me, I can still see it, and this was 20 years ago”
Jess Natale, founder of the So.informed instagram account (which currently has over 3.1million followers), recollects the time when she was just 10 years old and her dad took her and her little brother to a gas station and derided a man of Arab descent, on the day the US began invading Iraq in 2003
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[@johnMCMANUS-pi1kd]

I keep saying it ,the younger generation is the ones that will sort it out. Bravo 👏 👏 young lady

[@AnthonyOneill-ho9jw]

Stand firm, free Palestine 🇵🇸🇮🇪

[@williamwilson6499]

I was 44, standing in an operations center waiting for the name of the campaign to be issued. When it came out as Operation Iraqi Freedom, I knew it was a boondoggle to get America in a mess where people will suffer and the defense contractors will get richer. Selah.

[@shehlatanveer2731]

Thank you, young lady! God bless! Be the change.

[@sashalalaa]

What a blessed generation this is. They are outraged for the right reasons and are selflessly protesting for JUSTICE. Olders generations have a lot to learn from them. They give hope for a better world in the future

[@karimb972]

That poor little girl. How awful. And he's still a bigoted devil after all these years. May God support that poor woman and her brother.

[@nicencozy1069]

This is sad all around. Hope that gas station worker is okay. Don't drag your innocent children into your mess.

[@MrBeard-ig5zc]

How many people have veteran friends who will get drunk and start crying telling you about the horrendous things they did and begging god for forgiveness. I’ve seen it more than once.

[@karimb972]

sad

[@karimb972]

And the people that did this to Iraqis and to US soldiers are still walking in the halls of power and sitting on boards of mega corporations. Still piling up money through violence, death and destruction

[@يااللهيارب-ف2ق]

انَا اختكمَ مَن اليمَن وّالَلَه ماتكلمتَ الَا من جوّع وًّمَنَ ضَيَقَ الَحَالَ انَا وًّامَيَ وًّاخَوًّتَيَ تَشَرَدَنَا مَنَ بَيَوًّتَنَا بَسَبَبَ الَحَرَبَ نَحَنَ فَيَ حَالَهَ لَايَعَلَمَ بَهَا الَا الَلَهَ حَسَبَنَا الَلَهَ وًّنَعَمَ الَوكيَلَ فَيَ مَنَ اوًّصَلَنَا الَى هَاذا الَحَالَ 💔💔وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين من الحرب انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 20 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967717354582 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خيرا،.،.،:^:؛^:;";""💔😢😭»)/«(»)/«(»)/🎉😢😢🎉🎉🎉😢😊😢

[@Freedom4PalestineEndZioNazism]

May Allaah guide this good person to Islam ❤

[@williamwilson6499]

I don’t think she needs an imaginary friend.

[@Freedom4PalestineEndZioNazism]

@@williamwilson6499 You're right. And?

[@ahmeda.3198]

Don’t know who the lady is, but this was sad to hear. I remember that period well. Would hope the father forgets to put the truck in gear, then steps out and have it rollover on him.

[@williamwilson6499]

You’re as bad as he is.

[@ahmeda.3198]

@@williamwilson6499 Try again, I don’t go up to random people and try to terrify them, or make it a family affair. I remember that period very well, and how people like that guy were frothing at the mouth to go destroy Iraq. Unlike most others, he didn’t just have bad will, he had to go act on it against some random person, who for all we know was from Pakistan or India. They’re all the same to this bad ass trucking driving guy.

[@ericferguson9989]

Your dad , I can safely say, is the most American man ever.

[@shahankhan7685]

True

[@jaskadn]

👏👏👏🇵🇸

[@Fishing-jb7cy]

In Genesis 6:5 As God looks at the pre-flood civilization He says, "Every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually." The heart is the thinking, the seat of behavior. From it come the issues of life. "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies, and these are the things which defile a man. This world is on a timer. Don't get caught up in stupid arguments. Get right with Jesus. Do not miss it!

[@brunocardoso608]

For you, my brothers, have modelled yourselves on the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea, in that you have suffered the same treatment from your own countrymen as they have had from the Jews, 15.who put the Lord Jesus to death, and the prophets too, and persecuted us also. Their conduct does not please God, they are the enemies of the whole human race.