What surprises me about Riverbend's blog is how many different elements of life during wartime she includes in her posts. Some posts might be about defending her own self, describing her responses to comments or personal attacks about her. Other posts might be absent of the explosions of war, and they would just focus in on Muslim life and what it is like to submit yourself to Islam. However, many of her posts are in regards to the political and real-time destruction that was taking place in Iraq.
Riverbend's blog doesn't necessarily change my perspective on the war, but Riverbend is very revealing in her writing. With her ability to cover all sides of what life was like for her during this time, she is then able to act as a news outlet. Meaning, many of the posts she made were events, protests, bombing, etc. that you wouldn't have heard about on cable news in the United States. At the time, I wasn't using the internet for means of gathering non-biased news, so my only front was from the television. Riverbend's posts read like a chronological journal. You can see the natural flow of events that led to the turmoil in Iraq, but what's interesting is on top of all the destruction, Riverbend still encompasses the lighter sides of life such as her devotion to Islam and her family.
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