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Letter from a readerDear Hussain,
I am a keen reader of your website and am from your island. I reside in Dhoodigam ward. I am not a member of any political party. I am just concerned about foreigners meddling in Maldivian politics. Please post my mail on your reader’s letters section.
To all fellow Maldivians and well wishers:
Who is Hardingham?
Who is this man? What has he to do with our beloved country? Does he himself have no life? No family? Does anyone care?
Legend has it that he had a child who died under very sad circumstances. The child had some mystery, incurable illness and like any loving father David Hardingham tried his best to help his child live. But his best was not good enough; in fact it prolonged the child’s agony.
Does this lamentable experience qualify him to be a political expert? To be a judge of a culture, a society and individuals who he has never come across except in his idle time twiddling between Gary Glitter endorsed websites.
Of course a person has a right to feel bitter under these circumstances. He may curse his ill fortune; he may even disown his own family, his wife, and his faith. But does he have any right to meddle in other peoples’ affairs?
Hardingham has publicly stated his intention to cause grievous bodily harm to the Maldivian president. Hardingham says Maumoon is a cruel man. 90% of Maldivians say Maumoon is a benevolent, kindly leader. Maybe Hardingham is, in his warped mind, seeing the failed father, the cruel parent elongating a suffering child’s life for his own fatuous (selfish) ends, elsewhere?
I feel that everything Hardingham says about Maumoon is a subconscious comment about himself. Torture in jail actually reads “here child, one extra pill, one extra injection, one extra operation, it won’t hurt, it’s for your own good”. Lies, all lies. And for what? To prove to himself that he was a good father? To prove that his genes are not corrupted?
Maumoon is a dictator? How did Hardingham treat his kid? Did the child have a say in his medical programme? No. He was forced a cocktail of drugs. The child was sick to the bones, throwing up several times a day. But Hardingham had his way.
Deep psychological scarring does not lend itself well to objective judgement. 300,000 of us Maldivians say that we love Maumoon and that he is a good leader and is doing well.
In my opinion Hardingham does not qualify to judge our people. He has numerous personal issues he needs to resolve before he can take his ambitions into the political arena. I wish him a speedy recovery and return to normal civilised society.
My email is fikuree_Adm99@hotmail.com
Thank you.
Fikuree Adham – Dhoodigam Avah, Nyaviyani Fuah Mulaku.
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