Humiliation does not have nationality. Humiliation of one human
being humiliates humanity and our dignity of being. Humiliation has no
nationality, religion, colour or gender. Emotions that are evoked by
pictures such as those of the American soldiers humiliating Iraqis are not
different than the stories from the days of Saddam in Iraq or from Vietnam
in the 1970s or those of Korean sex slaves for the Japanese army.
Humiliation of the Jewish and Roma in the concentration camps in Europe in
the 1940s evoke similar feelings of degradation of human dignity, values and
society.

The feelings of concern of my N American friends viewing the recent pictures
of the treatment of Iraqi soldiers is not any different from those of my
African and Asian friends or of Muslim, Hindu, Christian and Jewish friends.

Warm regards,

Sultan Somjee