It is the Other — the ethnic minority, the immigrant — who has closed your factory, taken your job, threatened your safety.
In 2008, graffiti on the walls in the city of Basra threatened, "Your makeup and your decision to forgo the headscarf will bring you death".
And when protest threatened your position, you stood back while police beat students off the streets and threatened us with rubber bullets.
And when apocalypse threatened, your courage and tenacity – you held on long, American and Russian help arriving late in the day – saved our honour and freedom.
The text reads: DEAR INHABITANTS OF THE NHON TRACH AREA For a long time the Vietcong have threatened your lives, forced you to pay taxes and supply them with rice so that they can lengthen this painful war.
The impacts of rape don't discriminate based on your relationship with the perpetrator, whether or not he used a weapon, whether he punched you, bit you, threatened your family, your friends, your children.
