Mediocrates
06-13-2011, 04:59 AM
Some of you have heard of the blog "Gay Girl in Damascus" ostensibly a blog of an out lesbian in Syria reporting on the violence there. After a bit a research, GGiD's story started to fall apart.
Well it turns out 'she's' Tom MacMaster (no female, not gay, not Syrian) who's been running this hoax for 4 years. Originally from Atlanta, GA, MacMasters works in Scotland and previously taught in Turkey.
But what's more interesting is that MacMasters has been painting the Syrian regime as more tolerant than they are with the help of Electronicintifada and Indymedia. Yes - MacMasters perpetrated a 4 year hoax in order to push his violence antisemitic agenda. And his partner, Brita Froelicher, also a teacher, has been on Syria's payroll writing academic puff pieces on the Syrian economy.
http://hurryupharry.org/2011/06/13/the-anti-israel-propagandists-who-faked-the-amina-arraf-gay-girl-blog/
As a side not, MacMasters stole someone's identity to use as the picture of 'her' for the blog. Even after he admitted to this, al Guardian continues to use those pictures. So - they're aiding in a felony...
And example:
Some of the posts from “Amina Arraf” tried to paint the Syrian regime as not as repressive as the western publicity suggested. Maybe MacMaster was planning to resolve her apparent abduction with a sudden release with her proclaiming how kindly she’d been treated by Assad’s regime.
But the supposed beautiful lipstick lesbian had quite a turn of phrase when it came to characterizing the people of Israel and the actions of its governments and people. Quite something to know that every word of this supposedly authentic Syrian Arab voice came from Mr Tom MacMaster, sometime of Georgia USA, now of Scotland and Edinnburgh University’s Students for Justice in Palestine.
As soon as I post this, I know, the defenders of the Holy Nation will come and denounce me, will ask why it is that I do not see their cause as holy and my own people, my own heritage, my own history, as nothing more than the squawkings of baboons.
Don’t laugh; I am sure they will come. And they will again and again demonstrate their arrogance and their ignorance. When not claiming that their innate superiority in all things means that democracy is not for the likes of me (after all, how else to justify their state?) or that we are all needing just a firm, pale hand to guide us, they will show their ignorance of history.
I for one know my own history. And I know my own country. I know that Jaulan was lost after the Syrians had agreed to cease fire. I know who started that war; it wasn’t us. I know that the Israelis hold Jaulan because they would steal our water and need a nice platform to keep Damascus in their gunsights. I know that there is no difference between what keeps them there and what took Saddam to Kuwait … I know of American sailors who died to keep the world from knowing (http://www.fisherinstitute.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/27-6.pdf) … I know that their own generals admitted that all the ‘vicious wicked Syrian attacks’ were provoked by them, not us …
I know also of the ethnic cleansing that they undertook up there; 131,000 people made homeless so that Russian migrants might have a place to illegally live.
And whatever happens in Palestine, no Syrian can forget that they stole our land and made our people homeless.
And we also know who here was guilty of collusion; we know who worked closest with the Soviets then to start the war, who it was who gave the orders to pull back troops from impregnable strongholds on the Jaulan, who it was who would surrender our patrimony without a shot;
The one who gave those orders, the order that, for what it’s worth, meant the death of my father’s older brother, now has a son. And that son is called the President.
Every Syrian knows that; every Syrian knows that Traitor of the Naksa’s second son is President and that another runs his squads of killers. Every Syrian knows that Bashar has never lifted a finger to redeem Jaulan.
So when the lying liars and propagandists, the makers of hasbara and singers of paeans to the so-called Chosen claims that “Bashar tricked us into killing people (if you can call mere Arabs humans and not two-legged dogs) so as to distract fromhis own crimes”, tell them to stuff it. They lie.
Well it turns out 'she's' Tom MacMaster (no female, not gay, not Syrian) who's been running this hoax for 4 years. Originally from Atlanta, GA, MacMasters works in Scotland and previously taught in Turkey.
But what's more interesting is that MacMasters has been painting the Syrian regime as more tolerant than they are with the help of Electronicintifada and Indymedia. Yes - MacMasters perpetrated a 4 year hoax in order to push his violence antisemitic agenda. And his partner, Brita Froelicher, also a teacher, has been on Syria's payroll writing academic puff pieces on the Syrian economy.
http://hurryupharry.org/2011/06/13/the-anti-israel-propagandists-who-faked-the-amina-arraf-gay-girl-blog/
As a side not, MacMasters stole someone's identity to use as the picture of 'her' for the blog. Even after he admitted to this, al Guardian continues to use those pictures. So - they're aiding in a felony...
And example:
Some of the posts from “Amina Arraf” tried to paint the Syrian regime as not as repressive as the western publicity suggested. Maybe MacMaster was planning to resolve her apparent abduction with a sudden release with her proclaiming how kindly she’d been treated by Assad’s regime.
But the supposed beautiful lipstick lesbian had quite a turn of phrase when it came to characterizing the people of Israel and the actions of its governments and people. Quite something to know that every word of this supposedly authentic Syrian Arab voice came from Mr Tom MacMaster, sometime of Georgia USA, now of Scotland and Edinnburgh University’s Students for Justice in Palestine.
As soon as I post this, I know, the defenders of the Holy Nation will come and denounce me, will ask why it is that I do not see their cause as holy and my own people, my own heritage, my own history, as nothing more than the squawkings of baboons.
Don’t laugh; I am sure they will come. And they will again and again demonstrate their arrogance and their ignorance. When not claiming that their innate superiority in all things means that democracy is not for the likes of me (after all, how else to justify their state?) or that we are all needing just a firm, pale hand to guide us, they will show their ignorance of history.
I for one know my own history. And I know my own country. I know that Jaulan was lost after the Syrians had agreed to cease fire. I know who started that war; it wasn’t us. I know that the Israelis hold Jaulan because they would steal our water and need a nice platform to keep Damascus in their gunsights. I know that there is no difference between what keeps them there and what took Saddam to Kuwait … I know of American sailors who died to keep the world from knowing (http://www.fisherinstitute.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/27-6.pdf) … I know that their own generals admitted that all the ‘vicious wicked Syrian attacks’ were provoked by them, not us …
I know also of the ethnic cleansing that they undertook up there; 131,000 people made homeless so that Russian migrants might have a place to illegally live.
And whatever happens in Palestine, no Syrian can forget that they stole our land and made our people homeless.
And we also know who here was guilty of collusion; we know who worked closest with the Soviets then to start the war, who it was who gave the orders to pull back troops from impregnable strongholds on the Jaulan, who it was who would surrender our patrimony without a shot;
The one who gave those orders, the order that, for what it’s worth, meant the death of my father’s older brother, now has a son. And that son is called the President.
Every Syrian knows that; every Syrian knows that Traitor of the Naksa’s second son is President and that another runs his squads of killers. Every Syrian knows that Bashar has never lifted a finger to redeem Jaulan.
So when the lying liars and propagandists, the makers of hasbara and singers of paeans to the so-called Chosen claims that “Bashar tricked us into killing people (if you can call mere Arabs humans and not two-legged dogs) so as to distract fromhis own crimes”, tell them to stuff it. They lie.