Dear Editor/Moderator,

 

Please oblige by publishing the following write up. Thanks.

 

Humanity Abused!

By Mohammad Asghar

 

I had seen the naked photographs of the Iraqi prisoners on the TV screen a few days ago. Those were simply disgusting and inhumane. I have no words to condemn those people who stripped the prisoners of their cloth, and then have them clutched together for the lascivious pleasures of their tormentors.

 

This has happened in a world that we call “civilized.” In this civilized world, human dignity is supposed to be above everything we do in our lives. Being mindful of how we would look without having a piece of cloth on our body, we pay great importance to providing cloth to those who are likely to go naked without our help. It is this human concern of remaining clothed as well as to cloth others that make us different from animals. If we were to remain naked, as those Iraqi prisoners were made by their keepers, then it goes without saying that it would be impossible for us to separate ourselves from animals that have no sense of dress and of shame in their lives.

 

The prisoners’ naked pictures became disgustingly gory to me when I noticed a woman posing beside them. One picture shows her face protruding over the bodies of the naked prisoners. That means she was sitting or squatting on the floor so that her face could be seen rising over the thighs of her victims.

 

How she was able to strike a smiling face over the naked bodies of those unfortunate men is something I may never be able to understand, despite my best efforts.

 

In another photograph, she is seen pointing her fingers to the genitalia of two naked men. While performing the act, she was all smiles.

 

I do not know what had made the lady so happy, and why did she chose the men’s genitalia to be the subject of her attraction? Had the naked prisoners refused to satisfy her before, hence her satisfaction at being able to humiliate them by stripping them naked? Or, is her behavior an exhibition of a sadistic nature she possesses?

 

Had she ever thought how she would have looked, if men had taken off her cloth, and made her pose with other women in the manner of the Iraqi men before a camera? Or, was her conduct the exhibition of a character she possesses, and in displaying which, she felt no shame or guilt in the company of men?

 

Can anyone help me understand the behavior of that wicked woman who has put the entire humanity to shame?

 

May 4, 2004

 

 

 

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