Rashideen

Niall Farrell
Advertiser.ie
The Prophet Mohammad, when asked why he had never visited Damascus, replied that you “only enter paradise once”. Thus advised, I joined a group of international peace activists on a tour of Syria.

The Badawi family. Victims of the Rashideen suicide car attack. Interviewed by Vanessa Beeley July 2017 (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
“They sieged us, starved us, mocked us and then tempted our children with potato chips before blowing them up. Have they no heart?”