Comments on: Last night I heard the screaming http://www.sawtalniswa.com/2010/09/last-night-i-heard-the-screaming/ feminist arab voices Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mooooh! http://www.sawtalniswa.com/2010/09/last-night-i-heard-the-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-641 mooooh! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:16:06 +0000 http://www.sawtalniswa.com/?p=1202#comment-641 hey Kristen. I was at the ain el-mrayseh corniche tonight and i noticed a Nissan Sunny car with plate number G 422130 that stopped. Then the driver started shouting and waving his hand, and the passenger was screaming. Apparently she was a girl. So i kept an eye on the car, then the girl open the door and got out of the car, with her hand on her left cheek. But she then entered the car and closed the door. I started thinking what to do, knowing that the police won't do anything, so i felt it's useless. but i remembered your words, and how important it's for us to act, and raise the voice, no matter what the reaction was. so i called 112 just to report it. I gave them all the details, the car details, location, what happened.. but the operator man gave me this uhhh attitude, so i asked him, there is nothing you can do? He said, if the woman got back in the car, then she knows the driver, and if wants to report the incident, we can act. Then he said that i should keep watching the car, and if there was "other things" i should call back and they will send "someone" to "talk to them"! thanks for the article love! hey Kristen. I was at the ain el-mrayseh corniche tonight and i noticed a Nissan Sunny car with plate number G 422130 that stopped. Then the driver started shouting and waving his hand, and the passenger was screaming. Apparently she was a girl. So i kept an eye on the car, then the girl open the door and got out of the car, with her hand on her left cheek. But she then entered the car and closed the door.

I started thinking what to do, knowing that the police won’t do anything, so i felt it’s useless. but i remembered your words, and how important it’s for us to act, and raise the voice, no matter what the reaction was. so i called 112 just to report it.

I gave them all the details, the car details, location, what happened.. but the operator man gave me this uhhh attitude, so i asked him, there is nothing you can do? He said, if the woman got back in the car, then she knows the driver, and if wants to report the incident, we can act. Then he said that i should keep watching the car, and if there was “other things” i should call back and they will send “someone” to “talk to them”!

thanks for the article
love!

]]> By: Susie http://www.sawtalniswa.com/2010/09/last-night-i-heard-the-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Susie Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:45:20 +0000 http://www.sawtalniswa.com/?p=1202#comment-640 it's so sad and makes me so angry! We HAVE to make laws to protect our grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, neices and daughers - and ourselves. Lebanon is destroying her women. it’s so sad and makes me so angry! We HAVE to make laws to protect our grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, neices and daughers – and ourselves. Lebanon is destroying her women.

]]> By: TQ http://www.sawtalniswa.com/2010/09/last-night-i-heard-the-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-629 TQ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:20:34 +0000 http://www.sawtalniswa.com/?p=1202#comment-629 hi Kristen, thanks for sharing. I really felt that I was listening to those screams as I was reading your article and it brought back a familiar chilling feeling. i guess we have all been in that situation before and we've all felt that kind of paralysis. yes we do need to reject the status quo in such situations - there is a fear that our actions will only bring on a worse fate to the victims of abuse, which is entirely possible and, I think, is a major deterrent for most onlookers...but it's clear that inaction is wrong, it's clear from the feelings guilt, sadness and frustration that well up within us when we witness abuse, and we can only start to find the right kinds of action by starting to move. Thanks again for a great, vivid, thought-provoking piece hi Kristen, thanks for sharing. I really felt that I was listening to those screams as I was reading your article and it brought back a familiar chilling feeling. i guess we have all been in that situation before and we’ve all felt that kind of paralysis. yes we do need to reject the status quo in such situations – there is a fear that our actions will only bring on a worse fate to the victims of abuse, which is entirely possible and, I think, is a major deterrent for most onlookers…but it’s clear that inaction is wrong, it’s clear from the feelings guilt, sadness and frustration that well up within us when we witness abuse, and we can only start to find the right kinds of action by starting to move.

Thanks again for a great, vivid, thought-provoking piece

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