Comments on: Is Riverbend OK?

By: rs

rs — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:08:57 +0000

I too am desperate to hear Riverbend and her family are well. If any one knows anything please let us know.

Riverbend – you words mean more than I can try to describe and today mean as much as the first time I read you blog

May Allah look after you and your family.

AH
R

By: Kristine

Kristine — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:20 +0000

As do I. Her book was so insightful and we need to learn what it is like on the “other side”, since our news is so censored.
Riverbend, please know we are all worried about you and need to know if you are alright.

By: Tobey Llop

Tobey Llop — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:07:10 +0000

I treasure two replies I got from Riverbend in the days when I’d write to thank her for shining so much light in and on the darkness spread by the Western Empire in which I was born. I found this thread when thinking of her, read a bunch and skipped over a year of posts to where here, on July 11, of 2009 I see I’m not alone in wishing her and hers well, sending them love, whether they’re in this world or the next.
But, Riverbend, dear one, if you read this, as Rumi would counsel us, there is no death to Soul, ever, and true lovers of truth are never separated from the Heart of God, and therefore not from each other in spirit no matter how much space or time or custom or the follies of human power would make it seem so. Though we may never meet in this world, I take heart knowing God’s love sustains us all unflinchingly. If and when you again grace us with the mirror you hold so beautifully to the world, our hearts will be glad.
Still yours,
Tobey

By: A. J. from Saudi Arabia

A. J. from Saudi Arabia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:07:29 +0000

I keep searching for Riverbend in hope that I’d find her, but to no avail. Riverbend was a fixture in my life and the lives of many. It is breaking my heart to be clueless of her welfare! I keep rereading her posts over and over so I do not allow myself to forget a person who one day meant so much.
I still treasure an e-mail reply that she’d sent me in 2004, and reread it with my anquish…
We love you Rever, and that you must know.
May Allah bless you

By: Helga

Helga — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:32:58 +0000

Riverbend, if you are able to read this and all the other mails, please, let us know you are well! You gave us a glimpse of your life, let us be with you, feel with you, suffer with you, get very upset about your and your country’s situation, if that is possible sitting comfortably at the computer in a free country! My prayers are with you. I miss your beautiful and intelligent writing very much. Please, be well……

By: Dan in Oakland

Dan in Oakland — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Another Riverbend fan. I look for news on her every few months and am beginning to despair. I hope she is ok.

By: coneco

coneco — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:36:56 +0000

Just another one on the lookout for Riverbend’s safe return. I wish nothing but good luck to her and for all her family & friends.

By: Vicky Chapman

Vicky Chapman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:47:36 +0000

Just adding another voice expressing concern for Riverbend & her family.

She may well have suffered the fate of many other Iraqi refugees, the only difference between her and all the other ‘faceless’ people was that she had the skills and the guts to publish what was going on.

She was a light in a very dark place.

By: stu Piddy

stu Piddy — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:01:54 +0000

Maybe the Americans have decided that she or members of her family needed to be interrogated.

Maybe Iraq OBama felt she needed to be rendered. Obama seems to enjoy doing everything Bush did.

Maybe the American don’t want people like her around. People who say things like “Sunnis and Shiites got along fine before the Americans came”. The Americans don’t want anyone to know that.

It says a lot too, about the so called “progressives” who only like to listen to themselves speak, that there would be no interest in losing a valuable voice “on the ground”.

She has a publicist…I imagine they might know something.

I hope she’s well….it doesn’t sound like it though. She may very well have gotten lost in the system of refugees and become a “nobody”.

Even the star of Slumdog millionaire …you’d think there would be some outrage on how this boy and the two other stars of the film were treated by Danny Boyle…..one of the boys just had his house torn down in the slums by the government….they paid him 1500 for the film, took him to the oscars, flew him back to his slum and left him there. He’s used for show….

America and Britain are Predators.

She is a victim of that predation.

By: becky

becky — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:43:10 +0000

And a long while later. Seems no one knows what happened to Riverbend. History rolls on, and I’m thinking we’ll never know. For me she was the heart connection, same age as my own daughter, so brave and articulate and just so very young.
Well. Round the bend. Sigh.