US man admits he is 'Syrian gay girl' blogger

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Human rights campaigners have reacted furiously after a US student based in Scotland unmasked himself as the author of the "Gay Girl in Damascus" blogs, which charted the security crackdown in Syria.

Tom MacMaster, a 40 year-old Edinburgh University masters student, admitted that he was "Amina Abdallah Arraf", who had described herself as a Syrian political blogger.

Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports.

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  • Welcome to the Internet where men are men, and so are women...

  • I am many things

    i am an Arab

    i am Syrian

    i am a woman ... i am queer

    NO! I AM ACTUALLY A 40 YEAR OLD AMERICAN MAN PRETENDING TO BE THESE THINGS ...lol whata loser

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  • Tom Macmaster - another stupid fuck brainwashed

  • BREAKING NEWS 9.OCTOBER.2011 SIRTE Victory of Libyan army and Libyan moujaheeds

    Sirte. Libyan army and Libyan moujaheeds on eastern front broke the seige of Sirte, and on Southern rats were hited from back by Libyan army and Libyan moujaheeds from Bani-Walid, Tarhuna and other Green towns.

  • right, as if the secular regime cares about gay people. what a no brainer!

    only brainwashed idiots believe that. under muslim brother rule gay women would be lynched.

    which will never happened, of course! because syria is united and stands again foreign agents.

  • CIA fake online identity, so called 'sock puppet'.

    I've seen many of these lately.

  • La Syrie laïque ne réprime pas l’homosexualité qui ressort de la vie privée. Par contre, les takfiristes ( Syria's salafist and wahabbi armed bands) qui tentent depuis deux mois de renverser le régime souhaitent instaurer un État islamique qui punirait de mort l’homosexualité.

  • Western world Should stop attacking Muslims.

    You keep making lies.

    YOu created Al Qaeda  its the CIA

    YOU DESTROYED YOUR OWN TOWERS ON 9/11

    Leave us alone you freemasons

  • this is an example of the GREAT AMERCIA... Shame on YOU. You have been nothing but trouble to the world...

  • Check out the channel :) Oh and feel free to send me your videos! I'll check them out :)

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