What do I feel as an Arab activist and dissident? I feel immense rage. Not at Saudi Arabia but at the so-called "free world". We have been fucking warning you for 7 years and you have nothing but fucking ignored us while shaking hands with our persecutors. Here's the result.
What do you want me to do? Go back to my Twitter archive and retweet everything I tweeted over the past 7 years? Or re-publish everything I've written in the past 5?
When we spoke you basically patted us on the back like we're freaking idiots who don't understand how the world works, and continued your amoral policies all the same. And now you're faced with the result. Fuck you and your mock outrage.
And yes, if a journalist wants to get in touch with me, I'll gladly write this piece - but only if you'll actually print the word "cocksuckers" in an article.
They murdered us, they destroyed our lives, they made us into a generation of traumatized refugees. They disappeared us, they tortured us, they jailed us. And you sat there and feigned concern while you *still* shook hands with them. Fuck you.
You know how we got here? You know how we got to the point where a freaking 33 year old nutjob is blackmailing the world? It's your fucking hypocrisy. If you weren't so fucking hypocritical about your values, they wouldn't be at risk now.
"Hey Iyad why don't you work for a think tank? You're really good why don't you advise on policy?" Because think tank and policy circles are full of fucking careerist cocksuckers, that's why. "Stability at all costs?" We were the cost. And now this is the cost.
I'm already getting responses from people feeling butthurt about the criticism. How many of you lost friends? How many of you got tortured? How many of you lost everything for the very rights that you were handed on a silver fucking platter at birth?
No I'm not only talking to the political class. I'm talking to everyone who failed to take their own elected leaders to account. I freaking speak about democracy every day and I've never had the right to vote for an hour of my life. What were you all doing with your votes?
Stop the your butthurt and accept personal responsibility. Accept personal responsibility. Without that change can *never* happen.
