On Islam & the travesty of the Mideast "Peace" deal
Islam is my religion. I make no apologies for it.
I'm no terrorist although at times I entertain violent thoughts of slapping Bush's head when I read about US pro-Israel policy and how he condones Isreal to "defend itself against Islamist terrorists". US's Israel lobby group and their strong grip of influence on the US administration makes US already a far from partial middleman to resolve the present conflict. And the latest Mideast "Peace" deal is a farce and a joke to anyone with a brain to think. How can a ceasefire policy allow Israel to continue "defensive operations"? A cease-fire that retains the right for one side the right not to cease firing is not a cease-fire.
I don't wear the Muslim headscarf, although I wish I have the courage to do so in a world where increasingly such attire is viewed with suspicion and derision. Today I read a blog by a certain someone who wrote that Islam is a religion which is "illogical" and creates "unthinking bunch of people and parents", because it forces women and children to cover up in countries with soaring temperatures. It is unfortunate that this person is an undergrad who professes to be well-travelled and cultured when she dismisses a religion as illogical without bothering to delve into the reason for the practise.
It bears mention that repeatedly, Muslim women have spoken up to the Western world, primarily, to explain that they choose to cover themselves with no compunction, contrary to popular Western thought that Muslim women everywhere in the world are a bunch of oppressed and enslaved sex who tragically do not enjoy the privilege of being able to wear sexy dresses or bikinis.
The Muslim women says: In covering one's head or face VOLUNTARILY, a Muslim woman rejects the notion that a woman is to be pre-determined on her beauty or size of her breasts.
They are saying, we are not "Baywatch" or Pam Anderson wanna-bes.
We dont wish to parade our assets like a product for sale.
What we want is for people to determine our worth through our thoughts, our compassion for others, our intelligence and our moral worth.
This week's news recounted how a Christian priest was said to have prayed that Israel will win the war.
Yet another priest when asked to comment said that, it should not be about who wins or who loses but how to heal the 2 factions so that they can again learn to live together in peace.
Also telling is that this second Christian priest called notably Bush (and Blair) "Christ-less christians" for hypocritically visiting Lebanon supposedly on the pretext of viewing the conditions there, and then continuing to say that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorists.
It is great that Bush can pass off the casual killings of 800 people, women, elderly and children as a necessary war against "terrorists". I wonder how he sleeps at night.
I'm no terrorist although at times I entertain violent thoughts of slapping Bush's head when I read about US pro-Israel policy and how he condones Isreal to "defend itself against Islamist terrorists". US's Israel lobby group and their strong grip of influence on the US administration makes US already a far from partial middleman to resolve the present conflict. And the latest Mideast "Peace" deal is a farce and a joke to anyone with a brain to think. How can a ceasefire policy allow Israel to continue "defensive operations"? A cease-fire that retains the right for one side the right not to cease firing is not a cease-fire.
I don't wear the Muslim headscarf, although I wish I have the courage to do so in a world where increasingly such attire is viewed with suspicion and derision. Today I read a blog by a certain someone who wrote that Islam is a religion which is "illogical" and creates "unthinking bunch of people and parents", because it forces women and children to cover up in countries with soaring temperatures. It is unfortunate that this person is an undergrad who professes to be well-travelled and cultured when she dismisses a religion as illogical without bothering to delve into the reason for the practise.
It bears mention that repeatedly, Muslim women have spoken up to the Western world, primarily, to explain that they choose to cover themselves with no compunction, contrary to popular Western thought that Muslim women everywhere in the world are a bunch of oppressed and enslaved sex who tragically do not enjoy the privilege of being able to wear sexy dresses or bikinis.
The Muslim women says: In covering one's head or face VOLUNTARILY, a Muslim woman rejects the notion that a woman is to be pre-determined on her beauty or size of her breasts.
They are saying, we are not "Baywatch" or Pam Anderson wanna-bes.
We dont wish to parade our assets like a product for sale.
What we want is for people to determine our worth through our thoughts, our compassion for others, our intelligence and our moral worth.
This week's news recounted how a Christian priest was said to have prayed that Israel will win the war.
Yet another priest when asked to comment said that, it should not be about who wins or who loses but how to heal the 2 factions so that they can again learn to live together in peace.
Also telling is that this second Christian priest called notably Bush (and Blair) "Christ-less christians" for hypocritically visiting Lebanon supposedly on the pretext of viewing the conditions there, and then continuing to say that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorists.
It is great that Bush can pass off the casual killings of 800 people, women, elderly and children as a necessary war against "terrorists". I wonder how he sleeps at night.
posted by Medusa aka expiringpoet at 12:14 AM
4 Comments:
I grew up amid Christian and Muslim environment in a belligerent land of Mindanao, Philippines; have Muslim friends and even had a pretty Muslim girlfriend, and witnessed killings and massacres (victims are both Muslims and Christians by Muslim and Christian rebels and government military) in the 1980s to the 1990s in my land.
I realized that the root cause of rebellion is discrimination, poverty and abuses of political and military power. Contrary to what has been portrayed about Muslims, they are peace-loving people who wanted to live in harmony with fellow human beings.
The problem is the institutionalized prejudices about Muslim –was it imbedded in the history or was it the religion itself? On the other hand, so long as we don’t leave the Muslims alone to practice their own culture and religion, there will always be trouble and retaliations to defend their faith and belief.
Terrorism is created not by a terrorist but for those who made a terrorist out of him.
regardless of religion
people are people
one would think this a fact
not too difficult to remember
heartfelt and thought-provoking writing medusa
thank you
Hi Danny,
It is a pity that the victims of all the political manipulation are eventually the innocent people at the lowest end of the chain, whether they're christians or muslims. the tragedy of life is that human life is so cheap.
The sad thing about Islam is that it doesn't influence the mass media or US politics as much as Jewish forces and lobby groups do. You keep hearing about how Islamist terrorists are bombing this or that place, but you will NEVER or hardly ever hear of Israel armies routinely arresting and putting into prison civilians and children in administrative detention (Human Rights organizations put the number at 1,700). To date 15,000 palestinians have been detained since 2002, of which 6,000 are still imprisoned, of which 350 are children. As for the systematic way in which the Palestinian businesses have been destroyed by bombs and basic supplies stopped into going in/out of the country and thousands of Palestinians denied jobs, this has led to extreme poverty in the country and majority surivive on less than $2 a day.
Well...i could go on..but you get my point...
Hey Floots,
Yeah, people are people. Very basic ain't it? But there are always individuals who will sacrifice morality and conscience to profit from the misery of others :(
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