I heard about Mahsa Jina's killing online -- a scholar friend posted about it and I am ashamed to admit that I immediately had a very cynical response. I thought, 'just another victim of the regime.' We have been desensitized to such an extent that we no longer have normal, humane responses to these deaths. Then something burst. Quite literally, it felt like the center could no longer hold and everything collapsed all at once. WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. Ever since, I have often thought about Mahsa Jina dying alone. She was a tourist in Tehran. That was not her city. She was a guest. And if you know any Iranians, you know that we are very hospitable people. There is nothing we will not do for our guests. It hurts me to think of Mahsa Jina alone in a place that was not familiar to her. That she was treated with so much contempt and that she probably thought no one would care enough about her. But look now, her name has spread the fire of justice around the globe. We cannot forget her and we can never go back to being cynical in the Diaspora.
En facebookvän som , tyckte jag då, framförde händelserna "dramatiskt".
Men... jag började följa utvecklingen noga och rätt snabbt blev jag väldigt intresserad av händelseutvecklingen.
För att till slut bli skakad i mina grundvalar av det som pågår.
