Apocalyptic Communitas

Streets Streaks (eyewitness):

The madness continues in the Mamoun district - one of the western districts of Baghdad, along with its neighboring Al Mansour, Adawoodi and Al Yarmouk districts, where a lucrative cargo cults of Mujahdeen (Pashtoon style short-‘Dishdashed’, Arabian Machiavellians, Baatho-forces, Anti-US forces, Star & Stripes under-shirts and God knows what) have been dancing the requiem off for the past few months.

A few days ago one young student was going back home from Al Mamoun Intermediate School for Boys where his parents were expecting him. The lad never showed up. His family – as the custom goes! – waited for the kidnapper’s ransom phone call, but that too never came.

The next morning, the first school boys who reached the school gate found the missing pupil a dead body thrown right there. He was shot twice in the head. And written instructions attached to the corpse detail the new ‘dress code’: “Any student puts jeans on, applies hair jell or wears neck chains will meet the same fate”.