racist bullshit

I'm reallly disappointed in Jenny Colagan. I really expected a lot better from her, she is usually so aware, which is what I really like about her books, by never explicitely writing about someones race or skin colour she challanges the reader to question their own assumptions. But this ending really was a let down. Spoiler disclaimer at this point.
The good asylum seeker is the one that goes back home to help rebuild his country not the the one that stays in safety. Really? What racist bollocks. Also it leaves out a lot. Saif is still in fighting age, if he goes back to Syria he would have to join Assads army and so would his sons soon, what father would do that? That is if he isn't arrested on return because he refused to join the Syrian National Army in the first place which is why pretty much all male syrian asylum seekers can't return, because they would be immediatly arrested for desertion. The whole narrative compelety leaves out Assad and the Mukhabarat and even if Damascus was safe there still is the repressive Syrian government dicatating what you can do, say, or even think. But of course the honourable things is for Syrians to go back there and take their children with them. Like I say what utter racist bullocks. Only someone who grew up in safety and freedom could come up with this "heroic" narrative. No Thank You!!

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