Fathin Hameed and the Finger

So the story about Fathin Hameed giving the finger to a journo is not going to slip through our fingers now that the Information Minister have got his finger in the pie. According to him “Fathin should apologize (if she gave the finger) to a press photographer” Minivan News. However Aneesa Ahmed apparently seems to think that the photo was doctored.

It is easy enough to play around a photo these days. Anyone who knows how to fiddle around Photoshop will not find it difficult to doctor a photograph and make it seems real. However, we should not point our finger at the person who took this photo just because we can play around Photoshop.

Fathin Hameed is the niece of our beloved Leader for Life and one of his unelected appointees. She was definitely in the Special Majlis because of who she is and not because she is someone with her finger on the pulse of the people of Maldives. As far as I have been told by a someone who claims he is a good friend of the family (I doubt about the “good” after hearing this story though hehe) that Fathin was always at odds with her own family even as a child. She had a long and amorous same-sex relationship with a colleague when she was working in the President’s Office and she later ended up with a PhD scholarship to New Zealand which was in reality given to a student from the Atolls. But Fathin managed to get it by giving her address as Reynige, Lh.Naifaru (the address of her mother). Anyway that’s the low down on Fathin Hameed according to this guy.

I am not trying to lay the finger on Fathin Hameed’s personal life. I do not give a toss if Fathin Hameed had a lesbian affair or not. However, as a Maldivian, I am concerned about the actions of our legislature. We cannot let this kind of behaviour slip through our fingers. If Fathin Hameed did indeed raise her finger, then she should be disciplined. The people of Maldives have burned their fingers too many times with the rotten behaviour of our legislature. This cannot continue.

First of all, our media works their fingers to the bone in trying to bring the news to the populace of Maldives. Just because someone is Golhabo’s niece she should not be allowed to get away by abusing our journalists. They need their protection as much as anyone else. Secondly, this type of behaviour is a god-awful example to our young. Perhaps when Fathin Hameed has had her child, she would realize that children are quick to copy adults and this sort of behaviour is just the thing we need to keep away from our children.

We cannot let this die down quietly. We cannot let Aneesa or DRP try and wrap us around their little fingers and forget about it. If they can have their way, they will not lift a finger to get to the bottom of this issue. Finger crossed (oops!), I mean Inshallah, Fathin Hameed will be made to realize that she cannot get away by this kind of abhorrent behaviour in public and should apologize to the press photographer.

AND I SAY NO MORE FINGERS.