Posted on 01/21/2016 10:43:02 AM PST by TroutStalker
Hosni Kaliya pulls a cigarette out his pack with his mouth. When he poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire, most of his right hand was consumed by the flames and all that remains is a stump without fingers. He still has four fingers on his left hand, but they jut out like claws, burned, stiff and contorted. His fingernails are curled. He wears black wool gloves with the fingertips cut off, so that they won't dangle emptily. A knit cap protects Kaliya's head, where his hair was burned off, and his unusually small ears. But the disfigured face, the work of doctors using old and new skin, how could he hide that?
Kaliya needs medication to sleep. Should his head fall backwards, he could be strangled by the skin on his neck, because it's stretched too tightly across his larynx. He shouldn't smoke, because the flames and soot severely damaged his lungs and trachea. But he does so nonetheless, as if he were trying to destroy what he has turned into: this figure that instills fear in children, a prisoner in his own body. "I wish I could die," says Kaliya.
Everything burns, inside and out. Everything hurts, his body and his soul, because he blames himself: for the destruction of his family, for the death of his brother and several friends, and yes, he even blames himself a little for the Arab Spring, the uprising that began in Tunisia five years ago and has since turned into a tragedy. Two men triggered the Arab Spring. The world remembers one of them, the fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi. The other was Hosni Kaliya.
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And what for? "It was all a mistake," says Kaliya. "I didn't know what would happen. I no longer believe in the revolution."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Deadpool?
Jigsaw.
Self-immolation — it seemed like a good idea at the tine.
Obama? Soros? Putin? David Rockefeller? ?????
No.
Some average guy that no one ever heard of....
Yeah, OK. Sure.
Plus the entire leftwing and GOPe press. Even when the Muslims raped one of their reporters, they pretty much ignored the story, or blamed it on . . . Bush.
I love these guys who work for me for free!
ESPECIALLY we in FR
Our own particular brand of f######upness (EVERYone has their brand) is seasoned with real life scenarios of memory
Akin to We Were Soldiers Once is .. We were Young Once ...
(substitution of "idealistic" for "young" OK)
What a sad piece. Still there were some very faint glimmers of hope in it.
“”It was all a mistake,”...”I didn’t know what would happen. I no longer believe in the revolution.””
Sounds like something an American university student (who learned something about reality) would say.
Fugly...
Hang yerself, Tard...
“...at the tine?”
Sohhhh, yer saying stick a fork in him?
Surviving heroes can become a burden when they criticize the heirs of a revolution.
Much better to have a martyr than one who survives.
bump
19 Do not fret because of evildoers Or be envious of the wicked;
20 For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
21 My son, fear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those who are given to change,
22 For their calamity will rise suddenly, And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?
Proverbs 24
Yeah...no place for him now. Still, he was doing it out of personal desperation mostly...not for some bigger cause.
This goofball didn’t even have an agenda, a cause, or a plan! He was mad that he got beat up, so he lit himself on fire! I’ll bet that showed those bullies!
Easy to have Utopian dreams... ask any Bernie Sander's follower...
I will include this fellow in my daily prayers from now until I die; may he live forever.
Obama embracing the “Arab Spring” has ensured that the middle east will be completely unstable and run by wahabbists for generations....
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