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The Gaza-based Hamas leader later decried Judaism as having "corrupted itself in the detour into Zionism, nationalism and apartheid."
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THE JEWS OF IRAQ
by Naeim Giladi
http://www.inminds.co.uk/jews-of-iraq.html
Courtesy The Link, Volume 31, Issue 2, April-May 1998
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Settler Graffiti in Hebron [10/03/2008]
I realize very well that you are not carbon copies of each other. And I also know that there are many Jews around the world who truly despise what Israel has been doing to the Palestinian people in your name.
I earnestly commend these conscientious Jews for their morality and human decency. It is these honest people who enable us to retain the hope that counting on Judaic morality is not a lost cause.
Non the less, there are huge numbers of Jews who have found themselves transformed into soldiers of darkness and advocates of evil. There are Jews who shamelessly advocate the total annihilation of the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, these psychopaths are not isolated or marginal figures. On the contrary, they are highly respected by their hundreds of thousands of followers.
It is these misguided and misguiding multitudes of Jews I am addressing in this brief article. And, in truth, my ultimate goal is not to vilify and demonize, but rather to warn and admonish them to wake up from worshiping this modern Golden Calf, otherwise known as the State of Israel.
To begin with, I would like to remind you of a Talmudic story, which I believe is familiar to many of you. The story is told that a heathen came to Shammai with the request to be accepted as a convert on condition that he was taught the whole of the Torah while he stood on one foot. The Rabbi drove him away with the yard-stick which he was holding. He then went to Hillel with the same request; and he said to him: “What is hateful to you yourself, do not do to your fellow-man. That is the whole of the Torah and the remainder is but commentary. Go, learn it.”
Yes, yes, what is hateful to yourself, don’t do to your fellow-man. What beautiful words of light and wisdom!
Now are you mentally prepared to accept this universal law, which nearly every Jew on earth would agree encapsulates Judaic (and supposedly Jewish) morality?
If you are, then you should thoroughly examine your attitudes toward Israel, a state that has more in common with the ideas of Hitler than it doses with the teachings of Moses.
Israel is deceiving you, lying to you and betraying your moral legacy, the legacy bequeathed by the Israelite prophets, and their (our) forefather Ibrahim, who taught mankind “thou shall not murder, thou shall not lie, and thou shall not steal…..and be just.”
I am sorry to speak in such a harsh tone, but, in truth, Israel and Zionism succeeded through the years in transforming you from a people who believe in justice and value morality into murderers and justifiers of murder, into thieves and justifiers of theft, and into liars who have to change the black into white and the white into black in order to cover up their shame, and then call the lies strange names such as hasbara and public relations and political correctness.
In your name, Israel, knowingly and deliberately, is slaughtering innocent people, including children.
This is not done by mistake as Israeli leaders and spokespeople would falsely claim. When “mistakes ” happen every day and every hour and every minute, they are no longer mistakes. They are policy. Besides the images are too graphic to be ignored and too obscenely brazen to be dismissed as “Arab propaganda.” They transcend reality.
In your name, Israel has been carrying out ethnic cleansing, in its ugliest forms, all under the pretext of “maintaining Israel’s Jewish identity!!” you see the pornographic oppression, coming from a people who claim to adhere to the Ten Commandments.
In your name, Israel in the summer of 2006 dropped millions of cluster bombs or bomblets all over South Lebanon. Is this the light upon the nations that you claim to be? Shame on you!
It is because of your crimes against man and God that we, the Palestinians, have effectively become “the Jews of our time,” while you have effectively become the “anti-Semites of our time.” You, the Jews, the victims of the holocaust, and the numerous pogroms and inquisitions, have turned out to be like all underdogs, when you get on the top, you become as murderous and as brutal to your victims as your former oppressors were to you when you were underneath.
The Nazis looked down on Jews and others as untermensch, and you are looking down on us as “Arabs”.!! The Nazis sought expansion at their neighbors’ expense and called it “lebensraum.” And you are doing the same, under the pretext of building “housing units for Jews.” The Nazis carried out “pacifications” in which innocent people were mercilessly killed; and you carry out “defensive operations” during which you wreak death and havoc on innocent people. At least the Nazis didn’t lie about their criminality as much as you do about yours. You are not only evil murderers and great child killers. You are also nefarious liars.
The Nazis believed in an Aryan “master race” and you, Zionists, are trying to make a “race” out of Jews. Your methods are similar and your goals are nearly identical.
You can’t deny this; we are not naive North Americans or Europeans whom you think you can bamboozle very easily. We have been through it all, from creation to destruction.
I am saying this because in the final analysis when people, any people, including Jews, behave and act as the Nazis did, they themselves become Nazis. Evil, whether done by a “master race” or a “chosen people” is evil. Evil can’t be kosher. True, there are no gas chambers in Gaza and Hebron. But you are killing us with F-16 fighters and tanks and artillery and apache helicopters. So, the outcome is the same. Besides, the writing is literally on the wall. Come to Hebron and see for yourselves.
Too harsh?
No, it is not, because if what is happening today in Palestine at the hands of holocaust children and grand children and great grandchildren is having no effects on your individual and collective conscience, it is immensely naive to think that you will experience a moral awakening when the pharaohs of Israel, people like Matan Vilnai, choose to carry out their threatened “greater holocaust” against our people.
Many of you may be forgiven for being ignorant of Israel’s reality of evil. But you are not a people of ignorance. Which means you are doing and supporting evil knowingly and consciously. If so, you are no better than your past tormentors.
Don’t be so excited about America’s unlimited and unrestricted support and backing. America is not helping you to uphold your moral principles, America is “helping” you to destroy these principles, which you are doing anyway.
Needles to say, when an evil power “helps” you corrode your moral system, this should not be a cause for joy and satisfaction. I am sure that wise men and women amongst you understand the meaning of my words.
Finally, I call on you to wake up from this toxic arrogance of power, this collective megalomania and false sense of triumph. You are actually experiencing a collective psychosis, a virtual moral meltdown. Hence, you are really in a big trouble.
And, now, a few words to Jews in Israel-Palestine. Soon you will be celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, which is for us is a profoundly inauspicious occasion commemorating evil and genocide. Because you destroyed our homes, obliterated our towns and villages, perpetrated untold massacres, and expelled the bulk of our people, at gun point, to the four corners of the globe. And you had the audacity to call all of this evil “war of independence” and to claim that “they just fled away…”!!!
Notwithstanding , you are still as blind as you are brutal despite the passage of 60 years.
If you had invested a fraction of the means at your disposal; if you had used your energies and industriousness and creativity for peace with your neighbors, peace would have been realized a long time ago.
But you were not interested in peace then as you are not interested in peace now. Instead you were busy then and as you are busy now stealing our land and building thereon Jewish-only settlements inhabited by fanatical settlers who are taught that the only way to expedite the appearance of the “redeemer” is by shedding non-Jewish blood and doing evil.
Well, since when murder and evil can produce good?
Non the less, it is perhaps not too late to try to rectify your evil ways and morbid thinking.
Try to reach out to the Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims. Remember, this is a predominantly Muslim region, and in a few decades, there will be 700 or 800 million Muslims in your vicinity. Think about your future generations. Maybe, just maybe, America’s military and economic power will have gone with the wind by then.
More over, try to show respect to Islam, because without respecting Islam, you don’t really respect Judaism. This is instead of vilifying the religion that describes the Torah as “a book of light.”
And stop this dishonorable alliance with those pseudo-Christian maniacs who advocate and actively push for a worldwide Armageddon in which hundreds of millions of people, including 99% of Jews, would perish, all in order to induce the second advent of Jesus.
But above all, stop killing and tormenting the helpless Palestinians for you had been helpless yourselves. Stop killing their children. Stop destroying their homes. Stop confiscating their land. Stop imprisoning their sons unjustly. Stop narrowing their horizons. Stop your mass murder, mass terror and mass oppression. Stop making a hell out of our daily life. Yes, stop it, if not for justice and human decency, then for your own safety. Oppression boomerangs as we saw recently in Jerusalem.
And don’t get emboldened by American officials who tell you …Kill, kill, kill and we will stand by you! because America and its immoral politicians are thousands of miles away…but we are destined to be neighbors, or even citizens of the same state.
And remember, it is not an act of heroism to murder unprotected innocent civilians, using the state-of-the-art of America’s technology of death. History won’t be kind to you.
What heroism is there in having an F-16 fighter rain death on sleeping children and women at a refugee camp?
Shame on you.
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Hard talk
Zionists occupiers… Heed my call
Like most people, I do believe in dialogue and civilized coexistence, like most people I long to live in dignity and freedom in my homeland, like most people I yearn for peace and justice for every human, like most people I like to foster loving and trusting relationships with all decent individuals; however, our problem with the Zionist occupiers is not about hate and distrust as they like to believe, it’s not about security as they constantly declare, nor is it about dialogue or lack of it thereof!
Our problem with them is not confined to the many aspects of their occupation, human right abuses, checkpoints, walls, collective punishment and assassinations.
The origin of our problem is as profound as a the roots of a fig tree, buried deep and covered up with piles of dishonesty and deceit, yet its fruits has the pungent taste of supremacy, arrogance, racism, dehumanization, theft, and war crimes, and no amount of fig tree leaves could conceal or beautify.
So, to unearth the core of the problem and spell the truth-out loud and clear, I am going to direct my words towards the Zionists of all shades and affiliations.
Furthermore, I am going to be to honest and blunt here; as the catastrophic situation that they have created does not stomach glossing over any longer
Zionist occupiers:
I must warn you; that what I am going to say is not going to be very pleasant, it will taste as bitter as the chilling years of your occupation, as cold as the barren roots of our uprooted olive trees, and as sour as the dry lips of dying babies at your military checkpoints.
My words will be parched, choking and hard to swallow; it will be as rigid and impervious as the cement of your apartheid wall
My words will smell of tear gas and burning flesh of infants while cuddled in their mothers’ arms after an air raid
My words will be burning hot like a bullet penetrating the head of a little boy as he picked a stone to throw at his oppressor
My words will be sizzling with blazing fire like the one ton bomb dropped from afar at a neighbourhood of sleeping women and children
My words will be gushing causing excruciating pain and discomfort because it stems from the depth of my wounded, distressed and agonised soul that was tormented by your people for the entirety of my existence.
So Zionist occupiers heed my words;
Our problem with you is not a “conflict” between two warring parties, who are similarly wrong and equally guilty as you shamelessly often describe… NO… NO… NO
The problem is one of aggression, oppression, colonization, theft, and occupation on your side, and one of being oppressed, exploited, and occupied on our side.
It’s one is of a crime of theft of a whole country and the ethnic cleansing of a whole nation by your people on the one hand and a displaced and dominated population on the other
It’s one of a CRIMINAL THIEF and a DISPOSSESSED VICTIM
To equate the two is nothing but an act of deception and a manifestation of moral bankruptcy.
A whole lot of your people came from ALL over the world, stole our homeland, dispossessed and expelled us, took over our homes and farms, destroyed our villages and history, occupied our country, oppressed those who stayed behind, killed and maimed who dared to demand their rights or attempted to assert their humanity, demonized and subjugated us to a racist, bigoted and ruthless set of laws that don’t apply to yourselves; then you come with chilling cold-heartedness and assert that both parties are equally guilty!!
Which planet are you living on?
By what principles do you abide?
What ethics do you follow?
Have you ever questioned the morality of your actions as multinationals who gave themselves the liberty to come to our homeland -which I am denied the right to live in- take it over by violence and bloodshed, then settle there on the ruins of the villages you’ve annihilated, dwelling in the homes of some dispossessed Palestinians, for no other justifications than the dominance of your Jewishness and the fact that we are not Jews?
Does that not smell of rotten racism, arrogance and supremacy to your clogged-up conscience?
The only crime that our people committed is that they existed on the land of their ancestors which you proclaimed as a God given-right to Jews only.
Your people have destroyed our culture, denied our existence as human beings, treated us for four generation with sheer cruelty, ruthlessness and contempt, and subjugated us to inconceivable savagery and humiliation, and denied us even the right to defend ourselves on our stolen Palestine under the pretext of “terrorism”
On top of all that your people have lied and lied, until they believed their own lies, you managed to brainwash yourselves with packs of cover-ups and masks of reality until truth became so blur and obscured, so much so that most of your people refuse even to acknowledge their own crimes of theft of a whole country and disposition of a whole nation
You stole the land of our ancestors and forefathers under the claim that some few thousands years back in history, some people who followed your religion have lived there, and apparently secured a contract with God affirming the eternal ownership of this land
How dare you give yourselves these abhorrent privileges of taking over someone’s home and homeland just because you belong to a particular faith?
What does an American Jew, a Russian Jew, an African Jew, a Japanese Jew, an Indian Jew or a German Jew has anything to do with the Land of Palestine?
If you think we are some kind of brainless retarded human beings who lack your “intelligence”, “emotions” and “morality” and who would just disregard what happened to them sixty years ago, and who would be happy to live as your inferiors in their own homeland; you better think again
We are sick and tired of witnessing your crimes for decades on end
We are sick and tired of your deception, false claims and the pretence of innocence and victim-hood
We are sick and tired of your orchestrated peace processes and leading-no-where road-maps
What is needed at this stage is not dialogue and reconciliation, what is most urgently needed is to STOP ALL your incessant ugly racism, supremacy, aggression and assault, to put a halt to your crimes, and to take a serious look in the mirror as a whole “population” and see what monsters have you become!
You need to address within your immoral and utterly sick society the obscene injustices you’ve inflected upon us
You need to deal with the hideous, corrupt, aggressive, militarized and wicked society that you have become
Before worrying about hate and distrust, you aught to be worrying about the crimes of your people and the injustices they have committed -and still committing- and how to facilitate for justice to run its course, and how to restore back the rights of millions that you have violated.
That requires an inner reflection of you as a whole people, it requires an honest and sincere look within yourselves, serious questioning of the “history” that you were taught, a bursting of the bubble that you are living in, it requires that you stop all your acts of aggression, theft of land, humiliation, murder, and destruction of our community, and above all, it requires that you step down from the high ground that you placed yourselves on, and be prepared to GIVE UP ALL the privileges that you have bestowed upon yourselves by the “virtue” of your Jewishness!
It also requires restoring our rights back including the right of return of all refugees, AND the compensation to ALL those who suffered from your Frankenstein creation of the racist Zionist entity.
Then and only then dialogue is possible
Zionists thieves
You don’t have many choices really, it’s one of two:
1) you either carry on with your crimes: lying, killing, stealing, abusing and oppressing an entire people, isolating themselves further, and sinking deeply into the abyss of immorality; then frantically searching for peace and security, which you will never be able to find as oppressors, aggressors and occupiers.
2) Or you take a good look in the mirror and see what monsters you have become, and admit the crimes they committed against innocent people who had nothing to do with the anti-Semitic crimes of Europe, but they have been made to pay the price of those crimes.
If you go for the first choice, you should blame no one but yourselves for a bleak, desolate, dire, and awful future that awaits you, a future in which you can no longer afford to keep living in constant fear and endless wars, a future where it’s only enough for you to lose ONE single war, and it will be over then.
We can afford to lose many wars; there are millions and millions of Arabs and Muslims that surround the criminal Zionist entity. And you can’t afford to lose any war, but when you do (it’s inevitable) you lose everything.
Now, if you open their heart and mind to the second option; which is acknowledging the wrongs you’ve committed against us, and recognizing that you’ve been unfair and unjust by stealing our country and denying us our natural human rights.
Then if you start by trying to address and correct those wrongs, and giving us our rights back, the right to live peacefully and move freely with dignity without humiliation and oppression, and with our humanity respected as your equals not your inferiors, and if you give all our refugees the right to return to their villages and towns; then and only then; we’ll be able to say to you: “we will forgive you”.
We will NOT say as some do; “never forget, never forgive”
We will forgive you.
but not before you right the wrongs you’ve committed
We have a culture that has hospitality and forgiveness at its heart.
you either make friends with your neighbours, and give them their due rights to get peace and security, or continue to create enemies by your incessant oppression until the inevitable falls upon you
The choice is yours
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The text above is in response to this blog:
http://www.shimonzk.blogspot.com/
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What does Islam mean to you?” people ask
Islam is an Arabic word that shares the same root (slm) with the words “salam” and “Istislam” Where “salam” means: peace, and “Istislam” means: submission. Therefore, Islam means: achieving peace through submission to God Islam consequently is nothing but total devotion and utter surrender to the will of the Beloved.
When we love our Creator deeply, we are in a state of constant adoration, our will becomes nothing but His will and our desire will be identical to His desire. Hence, the essence of our faith is that mankind can achieve peace by knowing and bonding with the All-Loving Creator; for souls can only find tranquillity, happiness, and contentment by being in a state of constant awareness and remembrance of the Most Loving through which intimate closeness and true peace can be achieved.
Everything observable in our world is in a permanent state of submission, they cannot break the laws of our Beloved Creator; unlike us humans (maybe there are other intelligent life forms in other parts of the universe that we are not aware of).
We are blessed with the gift of freewill. When we, out of own freewill, choose to surrender to the laws of God, we experience the ever lasting joy of tranquillity, inner peace and harmony within ourselves, with our fellow humans, with the universe around us and with our Beloved.
But what are the laws of God? These laws are found deep down in the innermost of our souls, they are known to us intrinsically, we are created to know them inherently, to recognize them by our “fitrah” or inner nature. We can also discover them by observing and studying ourselves and the universe around us, which we call the visual book of signs.
At the core of these laws, and as in the case of the universe lies BALANCE, which translate in our human terminology as JUSTICE. The rest are also easy to identify, it’s in the yearning for perfection in our most intimate imprint, and it’s longing for idealism, excellence, morality, goodness and compassion from the depth of our souls. Even though we had this inner knowledge, God still did not leave us to our own devices with no guidance.
Many prophets, messengers and inspired teachers came to remind and to give glad tidings for those who embrace the truth and those who desire goodness. Every single one of them came with the utterly simple yet superbly comprehensive message: believe in God and be Good (i.e. follow the inner law) All knowledge is available to all, transparent, clear, organic, effortless, open, and natural.
There is no secrecy, no occultism, no darkness, no hidden knowledge, no privileged few, no murkiness or deception, no shadowy characters, no obscure concealed information, no hierarchy, no ones are more enlightened than others. This is the simple yet profound message of Islam (submission that leads to peace) that ALL the prophets adhered to. The differences that we observe between the followers of those good people are all man-made interpretation, which could sometimes misunderstand, overlook, and add flawed human construal to the original simple message.
We as Muslims see absolutely no difference between the essence of all the messages nor we differentiate between the messengers. They are all brothers and their message is ONE. The Arabic word for God is: Allah. This word is unique in its characteristics; it has no plural, it is not a feminine or a masculine (unlike all Arabic nouns). It reflects perfectly the Islamic perception of God, who is not personified in a human form, God the Unique, the One, and the matchless. When we refer to God with “He” or “His”, it’s not that we perceive God as a male for God has no gender; it’s simply because of linguistic requirements.
All nouns are referred to either as a male or female in Arabic, there is no neutral, the general rule is that things that come in multiples are depicted in a feminine form (such as eye, ear, hand, foot) and things that we don’t have in pairs we use the masculine to describe ( nose, mouth, chin) Hence, God being Unique, we use the masculine to refer to Him.
This faith we embrace is that of Love and pure goodness; it is summed up by the words “allatheena amanou waamilou essalehat”; those who believe and do good deeds. Love of the Creator and all creation is the hub of that faith; aspiring and striving to live by the highest moral attributes that belongs to the Most Perfect and exists in its Ultimate Excellence in the Most Loving Creator.
This message leads to inner and outer peace through following the fitra (innate nature) that has been implanted inside each and every one of us. This embossed intrinsic yet veiled knowledge is where all our morality stems from.
This subtle awareness is precisely what leads us to long for, love, mimic and impersonate the example of God’s perfect and beautiful attributes.
The all Merciful (Ar-Rahman)
The Most Merciful (Ar-Raheem)
The Most Gracious (Al-Hafi)
The Most Friendly Most Kind (al-Rafeeq)
The Most Compassionate (al-Shafeeq)
The All-Loving (al-Wadoud)
The All-Gentle (al-Ra’uof)
The Most Tender (al-Hannan)
The Beneficent (al-Muhsin)
The All-Subtle (Al-Lateef)
The All- Good (Al-Barr)
The Enricher (Al-Mughnî)
The Ever-Giving (Al-Wahhab)
The Benefactor (Al-Mannan)
The Magnanimous (Al-Jawâd)
The Light (An-Nur)
The Guide (Al-Hadi)
The Ever-Truthful (As-Sâdiq)
The Secure (Al-Ameen)
The Faithful (Al-Wafî)
The Guarantor (Al-Kafeel)
The Praiseworthy (Al-Hameed)
The Guardian (Al-Wakeel)
The One Who Suffices (Al-Kâfî)
The Timelessly Eternal (Al-Qadeem)
The Pre-Eternal (Al-Azalî)
The Post-Eternal (Al-Abadî)
The Abiding (Al-Bâqî)
The Everlasting (Ad-Dâ’im)
The Constant (As-Sarmadî)
The Safe-guarder (Al-Muhaymin)
The Ever-Forgiving (Al-Ghaffar)
The All-Pardoning (Al-Afuw)
The All-Forbearing (Al-Haleem)
The Most Patient (As-Sabour)
The All-Perfect (As-Subbuh)
The Utterly Pure (Al-Qudus)
The Perfect Peace (As-Salam)
The Pure (At-Tahir)
The Magnificent (Al-Adheem)
The Majestic (Al-Jaleel)
The Most Beautiful (Al-Jameel)
The Most Generous (Al-Kareem)
The First (Al-Awal)
The Last (Al-Akher)
The Outward (Az-Zahir)
The Inward (Al-Batin)
The Trust-worthy (Al-Mu’min)
The Most Faithful (Al-Wafi)
The Just (Al-Adl)
The Equitable (AL-Muqsit)
The Judge (Al-Hakam)
The Ever-Thankful (Ash-Shakour)
The Unique (Al-Waheed)
The Unequalled (Al-Fard)
The Originator with beauty (Al-Badee)
The Creator (Al-Khaliq)
The Ever-Truthful (As-Sadiq)
The Ever-Sure (Al-Mateen)
The Lord of Majesty and Generosity (Dhû’l-Jalâl wa’l-Ikrâm)
The more we live by, and the deeper we acquire of these attributes the more joy and delight our souls could experience and contain, and the more people recognize and appreciate. The more hope for our world to attain peace and justice for all.
Whether we recognize it or not, this engraved undeviating yearning for God is what leads us to pursue every good sublime principal and ideal there is. It is the real drive behind our desire for perfection and the longing towards pure goodness and excellence. And this is what’s meant by the concept that we are created in the image of God; not as mistakenly understood in the physical sense.
That is why whoever strive for, and live by these high morals are much closer to the Most Loving than they can ever imagine even if they deny it; yet those who act evil in the name of religion yet claim to be religious are much further away. No man or woman dies before their time; the duration of each life span is precisely determined by the All Knowing Creator.
Death is tragic only if we leave unprepared and unaware. Here, I would like to end with a short affirmation: Praise be to God, Most Compassionate, Most Kind. I bear witness that there is no divinity but the One God (Allah in Arabic), the Most Gracious, Most Merciful, the Creator of the universe, of the heaven and the earth and all therein, God The Unique, The All-Perfect, The Most Just, the Most Loving, The Source of Peace, who is exalted above all deficiency and imperfection, to the Almighty belongs all Perfect and Beautiful names and attributes. God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammed and all the prophets and good teachers known and unknown, mercy and peace be upon them. I bear witness that God is Truth and God’s promise is truth, and the gathering of mankind to a day of accountability is truth.
I bear witness to the simple, intact, unaltered, and comprehensive message of Islam that has been taught by all the Prophets And finally, a simple message to my family and friends: I urge all of you to keep hope alive in your hearts, keep doing the good work that you do, never give up; for every good thing you do is worthwhile.
Be like a tree, people attack with stones, yet it gives them its fruits in return Be like a rose, generous and graceful, giving its fragrance even when cut off, and even to those who end its life. Never despair; for with the company, grace, and bliss of the Beloved, All Loving, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful there is neither misery nor despair. Have faith and trust in humanity and the Creator of humanity; as through that faith and trust you can find everlasting happiness and endless joy. Try to hold on, embrace, and get absorbed with this trust as a baby utterly trusting while held in his mother’s arms.
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Letting go
You were there in front of me…
And I was missing you already
I was gazing at you
Couldn’t keep my eyes off you
Going to your shirts, you hang up
At the back of the door
Smelling them
Holding your jumper in my arms
Covering my face with, and sobbing
Trying hard
Not to show you my anguish and distress
I didn’t want to wash your clothes
I wanted to keep your scent… around
Holding on to your glasses
Kissing them… looking through them
Longing to see your eyes… behind
People kept telling me
“Don’t worry
It’s a routine operation”
We’d come through it
Seventeen years before, I know
But deep… deep down
In the bottom of my soul
I knew…
I used to pray, pleading
“Please God let my feelings be wrong”
One week before surgery
We went to hospital for final tests
When we came back
I burst into tears
Couldn’t stop
Time was getting closer
And I couldn’t face what was to come
Losing you was more than I could bear
You didn’t know what was the matter
Nobody knew… but me
But I couldn’t say anything
I cried all afternoon
You followed me
Trying to comfort me
You held me in your arms
Until I fell asleep
Do you remember?
One night before the operation
You were admitted
But you didn’t know
I’d set my mind on
Staying with you tonight
When I packed your bag
I put the little book I wrote for you
A collection of my letters,
Cards and poems
Gathered over the years
You’d never seen the book before
When the surgeon came
He talked of many things
He wanted to explain details of what’s to come
And to answer our questions
“Can I stay here tonight?” I asked
He didn’t expect that
He hesitated…
“I’ll ask the sister in-charge”…
“It’s against the regulations
But we’ll let you off tonight
Don’t ever ask for another”
“I won’t… I promise” I said
That night, we shared our last meal together
We sat and talked
Trying to encourage each other
We both put on a brave face
We prayed together
We read some Qur’an together
Then, I gave you the little book
Holding hands
We read our last memories together
Everything I wanted to say to you
Was there, Habibi
In those modest words
We relived our life that night
We relived our love that night
Habibi… do you remember?
Hand in hand
We fell asleep
You on a hospital bed
And me on an arm chair
Next to you
We surrendered to what was to come
Most beautiful night
Most peaceful night
Most tranquil night
I think we were surrounded
By angels that night
We woke up next day
Prayed together
And got ready
When they came to take you
I walked alongside your hospital bed
Towards the operation room
And there at the door
And for the last time
We looked into each others’ eyes
Into each others’ souls
Smiling
Holding our breath
Our eyes mesmerized
Our bodies frozen
Until the big white door
Separated us
Then came the waiting
Hours of agonizing pain
It felt eternal
I wanted to know what was happening
But I dreaded the phone
The surgeon had said
“Don’t worry if we don’t ring
It’s most likely good news
Only worry if we do ring you”
The phone rang
My heart stopped
“The surgeon encountered some problems”
The shaky voice from the other end announced
“He needs to see you”
Collapsing… I rushed to the car
Expecting to hear what I most feared
“Complications… beyond our expectations
I’ve done this operation thousands of times
Never seen anything like
What I’ve seen today
I’ve tried my best
We are only humans
It’s all in the hands of God now”
Two days later
They rushed you again
For an emergency surgery
That day was sooo long
Longer than my life
At night we received a phone call
The surgery was successful
But you’re still critical
Day after day
Night after night
I waited… for a miracle
That you’d pull through
Our friend Tareq
Kept ringing me
“Dear sister
Kneel down and pray
Beg for Khaled to survive
Plead for his life
Say to God
‘For the sake of all the orphans
Khaled sponsors, looks after
And supports
Don’t let his children become orphans’ “
I tried to do just that
But couldn’t
I felt embarrassed
To ask for something
When I knew God wanted something else
I felt it was greedy to ask for more
People get a one month honeymoon
One year, two years, five years honeymoon,
I got 23 years, 6 months, and 9 days
How can I want more?
All through my life
I was constantly surrounded by love
Some people don’t experience
A fraction of the joy
That always immersed me
It was time to give back now
And I knew it…
“You will not attain virtue
Unless you’re able to give
Of what you love most”
I surrendered…
I can’t show misery now
How can I?
When I was given so generously
Grant me patience
Grant me grace
Grant me dignity
Grant me serenity
Grant me ability to let go
As tender as you were
Your departure was as tender and gentle
And I was given two weeks
To help me let go… of you… Habibi
10-02-2006
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Feelings and words
Trying to squeeze
Feelings into words
Is no act of justice at all
It distorts… it disfigures
It belittles… it demeans
It’s a great offence without a doubt
And to my shame and disgrace
Indeed I am to blame
Truly “Guilty” I declare
Defend me not
I don’t deserve
For feelings can only be felt
So, when I write about my love
Don’t ever think
That I’m making sense
No language can ever convey
The eternal
For expression falls short
By far
And feelings can only be felt
When I write about my sorrow
Don’t dare believe
My words or verses
My speech is nothing
But hollow hues
How can the infinite
Ever be defined
Feelings can only be felt
And truly “Guilty” I declare
02-2006
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Oh I wish
Sweetheart
How painful for me
To watch your tear
Saying good-bye to mine
Oh how I wish
To have been your fingernail
Not even death could split us apart
Eternal union
Oh how I wish
To have been an eyelash shielding your eyes
As they close
You’d be the last thing I see
Oh how I wish
To have been a thread in your keffen*
It would’ve been the perfect excuse
To be buried with you
Oh how I wish
To have been a tiny cell in your heart
So I wouldn’t have to live one moment there after
Or face the world alone… without you
Sweetheart
How painful for you
Watching my tear
Saying good-bye to yours
02-11-2006
Keffen: a white piece of fabric that a dead person is shrouded with in the Muslim culture
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Forever Friends
When I was a little girl
I had many… many friends
From all walks of life
Some of my friends were humans
Some were aliens
From far away galaxies
Some from planets
Only near by
Some from the future
Others from the past
Some were Young, others very old
Some could fly, others could only crawl
Some were dark, others very pale
I really had many… many friends
Some were giants… Others very small
Some were rich… Some very poor
Some were princes
Living in castles
Others were maidens
Forest wooden cottages
They used to call home
The most wonderful thing about my friends;
Happy and playful, never getting angry
Even if I said or did the wrong thing
They just knew
How much I love them
They also knew
My love is genuine
I used to take them out
Show them around;
Friends from the future
Fascinated with our homes
Our buildings, buses and cars
You see… every thing is different
where they come from
Still… they loved ours
So much
Friends from the past
Were amazed by simple stuff
Every cup and saucer
Tables and chairs
Radios and TVs
Dolls and teddy bears
No end to their amusement
Many hours of endless joy
We spent together
My giant friends would carry me
As we toured their land
On the palm of my hand
My tiny friends enjoyed the ride
When my rich friends came over
I always made sure
My poor friends were there
Accidentally on purpose, they would meet
Tell each other about their lives
Their very different lives
My rich friends were kind
Often swapped places with the poor guys
Always helped making their lives better
Sharing everything they had
My alien friends
The most intriguing
Delightful… and curious
Constantly bemused
By everything they saw
I really mean every thing
Their whole world was different
The colours of their skies were different
Their suns, their moons, their planets
Oh… what can I tell you!
Shall I tell you about their excitement
Or about their joy
When they saw the sunrise
Swam in the sea
Spotted a mountain
When gazing at a tree
You should’ve seen their faces
As they held a rose
Or when stroked a stone
Oh… what can I tell you
What shall I say!
My friends shared their lives with me
I shared mine
I am forever indebted
For the many things they taught me
I cannot even count!
How to see everything anew
As if first time
How to feel with those
who are not so fortunate
The most precious lesson
However
How to view the world
Through the eyes of the other
My friends are faithful
Even today
Still come sometimes
Just to say hello
22-03-2006
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Muslim Women… The Real Oppression
I find it really outrageous and inconceivable to watch this fierce campaign rallying in “defence” of “our rights”, the rights of Muslim women, such as the recent staging of the Islamo-fascist Awareness Week in USA sponsored by David Horowitz.
What disturbs and frustrates me about this impious movement is the fact that those who are holding the banner of our “liberation” are precisely the ones whose hands are dripping with our blood, the blood of Muslim women!
Wouldn’t it be a good idea if they stop killing us first (in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine with the imminent threat to Iran)?
I mean honestly, at least their hideous and bogus calls might gain some legitimacy and credibility then.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea if they could spare us their fake concern, and their crocodile tears weeping over our state of affairs and act honestly for once, by stopping their genocide against us, and by washing our blood off their hands?
This shrieking and fussing calling for our liberation from the “oppression” and
“dominance” of Islam; is not innocent, it’s rather sinister and disturbing dare I say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/14/pressandpublishing.religion
The Zionists are discovering that their long concealed hideous crimes in Palestine have been exposed now, they are realizing that slowly but surely they are losing the world support, so they are trying to regain their grip and manipulate the world’s opinion by using new tactics; and by doing so they kill two birds with one stone:
1) They create a rift between Muslims and the progressive antiwar left, through their ever favourite “DIVIDE and CONQUIRE” game, as they convince many on the left that’s it is not befitting for liberal people to side with “Islamo-fascists” who value religion, and who practise “uncivilized” life-styles of subjugation and oppression of women and minorities.
2) They present themselves as the victims of the “Islamic terror” who are fighting on behalf of the civilised west against the religion of “terror”.
Zionist new propaganda techniques:
They claim that:
{The greatest danger and the most ruthless enemy of the world now is Islam, and they the "poor brave" Zionists are living amidst millions and millions of "Islamo-fascists", "terrorists" or "potential terrorists", and they courageously are trying to fight this “evil” to save the “civilized” world.
What they are doing in Palestine is not occupation, not oppression, not human right abuses, not racism, not apartheid, not theft of land, not destruction of a civilization, not criminal, not collective punishment, not murdering babies and children, none of that… it is simply fighting the "Islamic terror"! }
They are claiming that Islam is the “enemy of civilization”, the “oppressor of women”, ( http://www.zionism-israel.com/ezine/Islamism_and_women.htm ) the “hater of peace”, the “opponent of democracy”, and the “foe of humanity”, and that they the "poor and brave" Zionists are the spearhead of morality and evolution that’s actually fighting this monster on behalf of humanity, all alone.
Their favourite new propaganda technique now is not defending the Zionist dream, or the need for a homeland for the Jews, rather, it’s the claim that they are the "brave, humane, moral and civilized" society that is standing against the destruction of the world by Islam the "evil, backward, and uncivilized” religion, the religion that "preaches hatred, violence, terrorism and oppression of women and minorities, and promising its followers of 72 virgins for doing so"!!
For God’s sake would any one show me where does the Qur’an preaches such nonsense!!
The Zionists have lied their heads off for decades regarding what they did and still do to Palestinians, they have used every trick in the book to conceal the truth about their crimes whether by threat, intimidation, or even murder; and now their smear campaign continues with wider victims this time; Islam and Muslim.
That is done overtly as well as subliminally, and it’s enough to read some newspapers and watch some Hollywood movies that mention Muslims to see what I mean.
When a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or an atheist comments a crime, he/she is “so and so” committed a crime…. Their religious affiliation is never mentioned.
When a Muslim commits a crime however, he is a “Muslim” terrorist, and a “Muslim” murderer.
From what one reads in the news one is led to believe that all Muslims are none but a cult of psychopaths.
They accuse Islam of oppressing women and the backup their claims by selective reporting that highlights cases of criminality within the Muslim societies and present it as if it is a consequence of the teaching of Islam.
They rattle on about honour killing, genital mutilation and forced marriages for example as if they are characteristics of Islam and Muslim societies, when in fact:
§ Hhonour killing is a CRIME in whatever society, and no matter what ethical standard is used, more so from an Islamic stance.
§ Genital mutilation is a cultural practice in some parts of the world that is practised by all in those cultures. It has absolutely no connection with Islam.
§ And forced marriages are NOT legal under Islamic law, they are considered invalid.
Of course we have bad men who might be cruel and who might abuse women, and of course we have some bad cultural practices that blatantly contradicts the teaching of Islam. but it’s not up to any outsider to come and change those bad practices, people in those cultures are no less humans, no less intelligent, and no less moral than Westerners, they are well capable of evolving and modifying these bad practices in their own time, and in their own way NOT anyone else’s.
Islam exists in almost every country in the world, there isn’t something that you can call the unique Islamic culture, different races and different geographical areas have their own customs and traditions.
Believing that Muslim women are oppressed, makes some racists bigoted people feel good, it makes them feel morally superior, I am sorry to burst their bubble and tell them that the propaganda that they are fed day and night about us –Muslim women- is nothing but what it is just mere PROPAGANDA.
The Zionists and their supporters influence and manipulate people through playing with our emotions of hate and fear; when someone reads a story of a young Pakistani girl killed or forced to marry, we instinctively become emotionally entangled with sympathy with her and loathing to her “Muslim” (criminal, yet conveniently omitted) father, and we lose sight to see that this is a criminal case and not a genuine Islamic practice.
When the media raises the alert of terrorism from green to yellow to orange or red, they play with our fear, we cease to be rational, we lose our level-headedness and we fall an easy prey to whatever they want us to swallow.
Any fair-minded researcher cannot fail to see that all these accusations and allegations have nothing to do with the authentic teaching of Islam, bad cultural practices exists in all human societies.
In fact if those propagandists are truly genuine in their defence of the rights of Muslim women, they would’ve discovered that the best way to counteract and defeat these bad practices is by teaching those illiterate and poor Muslims the correct Islamic views regarding these matters.
Those Muslims who are engaged in criminal activities due to ignorance can only be helped through teaching them what Islam really say about their misdeeds, and it’s through their pure love and reverence to Islam that we might hope for any success in challenging all those wicked practices.
All good people of the world need to wake up URGENTLY and not swallow the lies of Zion so easily.
All of you can read, for God’s sake, then; READ.
READ about Islam from its authentic and original sources, and make some effort to talk to Muslims, listen to what we have to say!
and if you truly care about our oppression as Muslim women, please come and talk to us, listen to what we have to say, not what Horowitz, Dershowitz, or Cohen have to say.
Do not just swallow the Zionist bait!
The future of our world depends on your informed choices
Since its inception, Islam had been perceived by its followers as the driving force for women liberation as seen by those who understood the message. The prophet of Islam zealously condemned the mistreatment of women in the ancient Arabian culture.
He campaigned tirelessly for the rights, equality and protection of women in a society where women were not seen any thing more than a commodity for the service and pleasure of men.
Our history is teeming with prominent names of Muslim women scholars in all fields of knowledge, material as well as spiritual; starting from arts ending with philosophy, including all what’s in between such as poetry, science medicine, theology and much more.
Muslim women have always had the financial independence for example, as a fundamental and unquestionable right; whatever a woman earns is hers and hers alone. She is under no obligation to spend it on anything but what she wishes. Her husband on the other hand is obliged from a legal and spiritual perspective to provide for her and her children, no matter how well she is doing financially.
Muslim women do not change their name when they get married, they are independent entities and not defined by their association with their husbands.
In other words, we do NOT carry the baggage of oppression that European women had endured, nor do we harbour their -understandable- animosity to men.
Furthermore, we are not interested in a life of quarrel and antagonism with men, we love our men, as husbands, brothers, fathers, sons, uncles, and friends, and we view our relationships with them as one of complement and harmony rather than of conflict, competition and hostility.
To get to the real truth about Islam and women, one must be equipped with enough historical, theological, and cultural knowledge about that which he/ she are criticising.
If anyone wants to criticise Islam, by all means feel free to do so, but DO NOT do it ignorantly or arrogantly, without equipping yourself with sufficient and reliable FACTS from authentic and original sources.
It is unscientific, irrational, meaningless, and dishonest to be critical of something that you know nothing or very little about, (and that which you know, comes mainly from shallow media sources or phoney stories from Hollywood rather the authentic books of that religion).
Academic integrity requires the application of proper criteria of research; it necessitates that one must study the valid sources, otherwise all research would be a sham and a scam, and all conclusions would be lacking in credibility, faulty and flawed.
Simply put: do your homework
Did it ever occur to you to ask why is it that 4 out of 5 converts to Islam are women; knowing that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world? http://www.islamicweb.com/begin/results.htm
Total Number of Muslims on the Earth (1998) …. 1,678,442,000
Expected Number of Muslims on the Earth (2000) 1,902,095,000
34,000 Americans have converted to Islam following the events of September 11, and this is the highest rate reached in the U.S. since Islam arrived there.
http://sultan.org/articles/convert.html
Interesting also to notice that in the so called “Democratic Free World” the number of women in Parliaments is less than those in the “Undemocratic, Un-Free” Islamic countries
The free world: US 16.3% , UK 19.7%, Israel 14.2%, and France 12.2%
The “other” world: Rwanda 48.8%, Afghanistan 27.3%, Iraq 25.5%, United Arab Emirates 22.5%,Pakistan 21.3%, Monaco 20.8%, Sudan 17.8%
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
At this point, suffice to know:
What the Quran say about women:
“Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith, verily, to him will We give a new Life, a life that is good and pure and We will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions”. (16-97)
“The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practise regular charity, and obey God and His Messenger. On them will God pour His mercy: for God is exalted in power, Wise”. (9:71)
“If any do deeds of righteousness, be they male or female – and have faith, they will enter Heaven, and not the least injustice will be done to them”. (3-124)
“Then shall anyone who has done an atom’s weight of good, see it! And anyone who has done an atom’s weight of evil, shall see it”. (99:7-8)
“It is He who created you from a single soul, and made its mate of like nature, in order that he might dwell with her (in love)”. (7:189)
“And among His Signs is this: He created for you mates from among yourselves that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He plants love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect. 30-21
“For Muslim men and women, for believing men and women, for devout men and women, for truthful men and women, for men and women who are patient and constant, for men and women who humble themselves, for men and women who give in Charity, for men and women who fast (and deny themselves), for men and women who guard their chastity, and for men and women who engage much in God’s praise; for them has God prepared forgiveness and great reward”. (33:35)
“O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other. Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of God is (one who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)” (Qur’an 49:13)
“O mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord, Who created you from a single soul, created, of like nature, its mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women-reverence God, through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for God ever watches over you” (Qur’an 4:1)
“Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he/she male or female: you are members one of another…” If any do deeds of righteousness, be they male or female, and have faith, they will enter paradise and not the least injustice will be done to them” (Qur’an 4:124)
“Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: of what the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge of”. (36; 36)
The very FIRST revealed verse in the Quran -which was addressing both men and women- was the word: READ;
“Read!! in the name of your Lord Who created.
Created man from “alaq” (something which clings)
Read: And thy Lord is the Most bountiful,
Who taught (the use of) the pen,
Taught man that which he knew not.
Nay, but verily man is rebellious
That he thinks himself independent and self-sufficient.
Surely to your Lord is the return” (96:1-7)
Some of Muhammad’s sayings:
“Women are but shaqa’iq (twin halves or sisters) of men”
“I commend you to be good to women”
“Heaven lies at the feet of mothers”
“The best of you are the kindest to their wives”
“Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every Muslim male and female”
Any honest observer and researcher will not fail to notice the Islam is a practical religion, a religion of “fitra”, inner nature, and indeed Islam deals with human-nature rather than suppresses it, it does not deny it nor go against it.
It combines the materialistic side of our human-nature with the spiritual, without compromising either.
One of the nicest descriptions of Islam I’ve ever heard was from a new Muslim friend, who said: “Islam is organic, it just feels so natural”
And another convert friend said: “Islam is a treasure covered with a blanket of Muslims”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-768956312207897325&q=when
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312980342283025421&q=empire
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7502243539190558658&q=empire
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=94144204270367302&q=empire
Every person of integrity, every peace loving and harmony seeking human; should set their prejudice (that was picked up from Hollywood and tabloid newspapers) aside and to try to answer the simple question: why do one quarter of the world chose Islam as a faith?
Is it not worth real investigations and honest research?
To summarize, from a Muslim woman’s standpoint; our real oppression comes not from Islam, but rather from those who wage war against our people in the name of "democracy", "liberation", and spreading “civilised” values, while not only ignoring our feelings and opinions but also murdering our beloved ones, and destroying all that is dear in our lives.
To believe in God or not believe, to have a faith or not is not the issue, it will forever be matter of disagreement, it is the individual’s choice of how he/ she perceive the world; but what is of crucial importance for the survival of our world is: are we able to learn to live together -as compassionate human beings- with those differences by putting into practice our high principles of tolerance and respect of those who chose a different view of the world.
Finally, I call upon all truth and justice seekers, freedom hunters and peace lovers to exercise their right of FREEDOM of THOUGHT and investigate, examine, and explore this mystifying religion, and please do not think that I am proselytising, in fact this word sickens me…
All I am asking is: for the sake of a better future of our world, people need to educate themselves about the Islam, and not be afraid of KNOWLEDGE and AWARNESS.
The atheistic call for killing God, terminating religion or uprooting faith from humans’ hearts and minds is a mirage, it’s an impossible dream, because humans will always thirst for spiritual fulfilment, and will forever ask the inevitable and challenging questions about our reality and the purpose of our existence.
The longing for answers for existential questions will never cease to exist as long as humans exist.
Atheists are free to reject religion, they can deny God all they like, but their denial simply would offer nothing for a seeker’s inquisitive and curious mind.
Their denial is powerless; as it fails to provide any contentment, tranquillity or peace to one single longing soul.
Islam, with its utter simplicity, pure logic, and total comprehensiveness, will always exist, as a philosophy that satisfies the inquisitiveness of many hearts, souls, and minds; hence, it’s wise and worthwhile that secular people on the left come to terms with this reality, and acknowledge that there is room in the intellectual-world, as well as the material world, for all of us.
Therefore, a dialogue with Muslims is inevitable, and our hope for a peaceful world requires a minimum degree of understanding of the other that should enables TRUST -rather than fear- to flourish and COOPERATION -rather than aggression- to be the norm.
Our dream of a peaceful future for our children necessitates taking the dignified step of setting our prejudices aside and opening our hearts and minds to finding out the truth about the other, beyond this murky thick fog of propaganda.
We can only see with open eyes
We can only hear with open ears
We can only think with open minds
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