Dear Janine Di Giovanni- congratulations on your book ' The Morning They Came For Us'. I finished it in one sitting, unable to stop turning the pages. It is the ONLY book where I have read ALL the materials after the end- the epilogue and the chilling appendices. Your ability to see both beauty and brutality in the setting of mankind's worst inhumanity is remarkable. As a physician I was especially touched by the plight of doctor's whether tending to the civilian victims or the instruments of the regime. As a writer I was moved by your suffering bearing witness to the unbearable. As a woman without children I was deeply affected by how children touched you- their feeble slippers 'on icy mud' and their 'purple toes', their silent eyes, their protests at leaving for the bread queue, their astonishment at being shot at my young soldiers or finding themselves seat belted next to a murdered sibling. As a MUSLIM, I am heartbroken to know the detail of such suffering of MUSLIMS at the hands of MUSLIMS in such gruesome and evocative testimony. As a naturalized American and as a native born British citizen I am most sickened by our inaction in the face of what I accurately or inaccurately perceive as genocide which is approaching unthinkable dimensions at a rapid velocity. This I find to be the greatest inhumanity of all - the disregard and indifference of the elite world which now harbors such animus towards MUSLIMS that only Christian refugees are welcomed by political populism in the West that only Yazidis elicit the empathy every displaced dismembered and decimated Syrian family deserves. And this apart the incredible disregard for full MILLIONS of displaced and dispossessed. I feel, and deeply sense in the public dismantling of Syria, we are witnessing our own dismemberment as the human race, our own descent into civilizational decay and our own inexorable advance to a new and escalating global decline which we have authored by our very own hand. Your words, your experiences are invaluable but I understand come at a devastating price for you and your family. We are indebted to you for your courage and heart and fortitudes. We are indebted to your family for your sacrifices. For this and for so much else, I salute you. Qanta Ahmed MD, Author, " In the Land of Invisible Women.