Stone the terrorist
No one knows my real name
No one cared to ask
An alien entity… with lost identity
To some I’m the manifestation
Of the horror of the newspapers
The wicked one
Plotting with the axis of evil
To others I’m the one
Who ascended from the past’s graveyard
To drag humanity to the age
Of ignorance and darkness
In the eighties I was Khomeini
Then I became Qaddafi
In the nineties I was Saddam Hussein
Then I became Ben laden
Today I am Nasrullah… tomorrow who knows
But no one knows my real name
No one cared to ask
I am the suspect… the accused
The criminal… the illegal
The immoral… the uncivilised
The brainless…. the terrorist
The peace hater… the freedom loather
The democracy rejecter
To eliminate me is an honourable deed
For I am the human with no humanity
My crime is…
Being
My sin is…
Believing
Do you know who am I?
I am a Palestinian Muslim
With a hijab on
05-05-2006
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Poetry for Palestine 
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