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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Fri Jul 12, 2019, 06:45 AM Jul 2019

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Derek Johnson tweet; "He is not your son. Sleep peacefully..."

Link to tweet

Derek Johnson ✔ @derekjGZ

"If it was your son
you would fill the sea
with ships all by the millions
acting as a bridge
to get it through.
But don't worry,
He's just a child of lost humanity,
of dirty humanity,
which makes no noise.
He is not your son.
Sleep peacefully,
it's not yours."

— Muhammad Najem

12:09 AM - Jul 12, 2019

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Derek Johnson tweet; "He is not your son. Sleep peacefully..." (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 OP

oh my... handmade34 Jul 2019 #1

Who is that boy? Is he being rescued, so that's why he has a lifejacket? Honeycombe8 Jul 2019 #2

I don't know either, but it appears to be shallow water judging by the adults in the background. cwydro Jul 2019 #3

. pazzyanne Jul 2019 #4

Too sad malaise Jul 2019 #5

No words cate94 Jul 2019 #6

we are going bdamomma Jul 2019 #7

But wherever he is landing, is he safe? RVN VET71 Jul 2019 #8

Written by a teenager covering the horrors of war in Syria. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2019 #9

Beautiful. The poet's message is the foundation of any true religion. Shame Christians Karadeniz Jul 2019 #10

Anyone who would tell you he shouldn't come here is NOT a Christian, regardless of what Stonepounder Jul 2019 #15

K&R... spanone Jul 2019 #11

The Christians would tell you he should not have come here. onecaliberal Jul 2019 #12

.. Politicub Jul 2019 #13

How heartbreaking! smirkymonkey Jul 2019 #14

handmade34

(22,756 posts)

1. oh my...

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:05 AM

Jul 2019

powerful

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

2. Who is that boy? Is he being rescued, so that's why he has a lifejacket?

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:30 AM

Jul 2019

Is that his inflatable boat behind him?

Whoever he is, he breaks my heart. I just want to reach out and pick him up to comfort him.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

3. I don't know either, but it appears to be shallow water judging by the adults in the background.

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:39 AM

Jul 2019

I hope he’s safe. (And not in one of our kiddie concentration camps).

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)

4. .

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:41 AM

Jul 2019

malaise

(269,004 posts)

5. Too sad

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:46 AM

Jul 2019

cate94

(2,810 posts)

6. No words

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:50 AM

Jul 2019

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)

7. we are going

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:50 AM

Jul 2019

over the edge, we are losing our moral compass.

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)

8. But wherever he is landing, is he safe?

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:51 AM

Jul 2019

Will he remember the dangerous voyage -- or the safe and humane treatment he received when he came ashore?

Or will his treatment, once ashore, bring him even more danger and horror from the hatred of those whose land he has reached?

A vicious would-be emperor and his empowered sycophants have ensured that the children of Central America who reach our borders -- after a thousand mile march away from corruption, murder, and horror -- will enter the gates of hell, be ill fed, left thirsty, unwashed, isolated from those they depended on for protection. If they succeed in finding safe harbor in America, perhaps the warmth of caring neighbors and extended family will help to soothe the rips in their hearts and souls. Perhaps.

But if they are forcibly removed and sent away, those who survive will remember. And their memories are likely to create not a thirst for peace but a ravenous hunger for revenge in their hearts.

America, beware the struggling little stranger you treat with hatred, cruelty, and brutality. He may be kin to Timujin.

Just sayin'.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)

9. Written by a teenager covering the horrors of war in Syria.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 10:01 AM

Jul 2019

Muhammad Najem
Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/muhammadnajem20

YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-EfChHemLJ4KX2p-HhuVA

Description
I am Mohammed Najem I am Sixteen years old and my city is called Al Ghouta Al Sharqiyah I publish videos from inside Al Ghouta about the suffering of children.

Early Manhood for Muhammad Najem in Eastern Ghouta
By Hana Levi Julian - February 28, 2018
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/syria/early-manhood-for-muhammad-najem-in-eastern-ghouta/2018/02/28/

(snips)

In the once-beautiful region around Damascus known as eastern Ghouta, manhood has come early to a 15-year-old teenage boy who uses social media to share the horror of the world around him.

More than 400,000 civilians have been left hungry, sick and under siege as the Syrian regime continues its bombing campaign. Muhammad Najem contends the missiles are sometimes loaded with napalm.
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Having accused President Bashar al-Assad from the outset of “killing his childhood,” Najem now tweets his calls to those in the international community to take action “before it is too late.”

Russia, says Najem, is a “state of occupation in Syria” and the failed truce “just to cover up its crimes in the killing of children and women in the eastern Ghouta and to emerge as a state sponsor of peace, not war.”

KY.......

Karadeniz

(22,516 posts)

10. Beautiful. The poet's message is the foundation of any true religion. Shame Christians

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:21 PM

Jul 2019

Ignore it.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)

15. Anyone who would tell you he shouldn't come here is NOT a Christian, regardless of what

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #10)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 01:36 AM

Jul 2019

they call themselves!

They ignore just about everything that Jesus taught, everything he stood for, and everything he said. I don't understand how they can call themselves Christian and then hate everything that Christianity stands for!

Just as Trump is destroying everything that the Republican Party stood for, these people calling themselves Christians are working to destroy Christianity!