A mother's fervent plea for peace:
Al-Zarqawi's Mom visits Crawford Texas, rails against
Bush
Monday, June 12, 2006
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's mother, exhausted from traveling the globe after watching her tragically young son (he was only 39) perish in a war he didn't choose to fight, spoke in Crawford today, calling for Bush's impeachment.
"You listen to me! If my son were alive today, he would say, 'please don't hurt the children," she said, overcome with emotion as a tearful Michael Moore helped support her fragile frame. "My son believed in peace, and if you don't believe me then I will cut you to pieces and feed you to the birds."
"And then I will feed those birds to my cats."
According to the distraught mother of Ahmad, Zakaria, Asad, Abdelhaleen, Abdul Jamal, Mohammed, Yasim , Amin Mohamed, Abdul Shakur,, Ahmad Mustafa, Saad Khalid and Brad, the blame for the atrocities in Iraq should be place on Bush, not her son, who she describes "as an angel sent from the heavens." She also blames the president for the beheadings and kidnappings that have somehow been attributed to her son. "He hated violence. It would take him forever to kill a chicken. He would take it off to the desert and be gone for hours. When he returned, he'd be covered in blood. But there was never any chicken. I guess he set it free. He was like that."
The 82-year-old spoke before 16 peace activists, representing a "broad strata" of the galvanized left, who had all had gathered under the vaulted ceiling of a local church to sing songs and chant against Bush. Many of them also began weeping, but that was later found to be caused by an overwhelming presence of peanut sauce in the catered salad. Many peace activists suffer from peanut allergies.
Star-struck celebrities like Mike Farrell and Mike Farrell's cousin Seth (an orthodontist) gaped in
wonder at the peace movement's latest guiding light - a normally publicity-shy grandmother who prefers to spend most of her time in caves beating damp clothes against a rock. Or it might have been "beating her children against a damp rock" (the translator was unclear). All of this hoopla is new to her, but she's getting used to it: having already purchased a new azure burqa for her appearance on the View. She has never seen the show before, but says, "where I come from, these women would be stoned to death. Especially that fat Jew."
Afterward, a select group from the Huffington Post will be escorting her to the Huffpo offices where she will begin her week of guest blogging. When asked what she would be writing about, she replied, "I will probably focus on Bush and his war on children. And Gitmo. And goats. I am also looking forward to meeting John Conyers. It has been a long time."
"Of all the people who have taken our concerns to the president, there are few who
have had the impact as Al-Zarqawi's mom," said Becky Pork, executive director of PEACE.COM.ORG. "She's speaking truth to power. And in Pashto. What a moment!"
After her speech, in which she denounced Bush as "the grinning Satanic devil villain" and praised her dead son as "very well-liked student who collected knives and was good with his hands", she was immediately whisked off in a black Prius. "This car is a joke," she muttered, before the door slammed shut. Beforehand, a reporter did manage to ask her where she would be going next. "I don't know, Six Flags or Bloomingdale's or some such thing."
You can read more of al-Zarqawi's mom's blog right here