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If you have no more shame left in you, then feel free to do whatever you want to‏

What Ails Arab World

There is an Arab proverb that says, “If you have no more shame left in you, then feel free to do what you will” and by observing the present Arab mood, one is struck by how much this proverb applies to the Arabs now, whether they are the general public or the ruling elite and intelligentsia.

Arabs have nearly failed in all ideological and political projects they have undertaken in the past 60 years (barring minor successes here and there). All they have held to be sacred such as Nasserism, Arab nationalism or Baathism have only brought bitter disappointment. They lack any sense of pride in their achievements. This toxic mixture has produced a thoroughly rotten state of being. This afflicts the entire Arab world with slight differences related to each country’s specific historic and cultural background. This putrid atmosphere, as I said, covers all segments of the Arab society — both the general public and the elite.

As a result of this sickening atmosphere, the Arabs simply surrender all reason or self-respect when confronted with the possibility of failure or defeat. They don’t know how to resist or react to the challenges to their very existence, particularly the Palestinian cause. We have become spectators desperate for strangers to take the lead in our own play.

There exists an unspoken wish in the Arab minds that the Palestinian problem would somehow or other go away even if it means the disappearance of the Palestinians themselves. It is as though we are wishing them away. We behave as though we are in the position of someone burdened with the responsibility of taking care of a gravely handicapped member of the family and who after many years of desperate care wishes that the crippled kin simply died sparing him the pain and agony of looking after the unfortunate fellow. So, we are now hoping the Palestinians would just vanish and leave us, the rest of the Arabs, in peace, to live, enjoy life and go about those mundane things which define other people’s lives. We desire nothing more than to be spared the gruesome spectacle of Palestinians crying for our help and dying.

As we regurgitate our personal agony remembering the thousands who died for the sake of Palestine and many more who have been maimed, we choose to ignore the fact that we have countries to return to. We have homes and families living free on their own land with dignity while the Palestinians have died by the tens of thousands since 1948 and the rest have been living as homeless, wandering refugees since 1948, not to say anything of those living under a brutal and humiliating occupation since 1967. Arabs feel they have suffered taking care of their handicapped kin but does their suffering reach anywhere near that of the Palestinians?

The word that captures the Arab world’s mood now is “Business.” They talk of the rise in petrol prices, the economic boom exploding all over the Arab world, the reforms in economic laws and liberalization of the economy. Words like globalization and free trade are all the fashion now while we build new cities to express this new direction in Arab societies. All of it is good and should be done to improve the living standard of the Arabs. Yet, lost in this economic euphoria is all the rest. Does the solution for the problems of the Arab world lie in the creation of a few billionaires? How can we try to fix the pipe in a house that is burning down? If you feel I am exaggerating things, then look around you.

The situation in Palestine has never been this worse. An entire nation has been put in concentration camps and left to starve and the Arab world finds that it doesn’t merit a crisis call? Iraq is occupied and brutalized and you don’t even call for resistance or support the one already on the ground, preferring to denounce the chaos without accusing or holding to account those who are responsible for it. Somalia is virtually gone and you haven’t budged. Soon Iran will be bombed and then more chaos will engulf the entire region but you are enthusiastically talking about economic growth. It is as though you are building a house over an active volcano and worse it is already rumbling and all you talk about is how you are going to decorate it. And if anyone, God forbid, resists or even thinks of resistance he or she is condemned as a fanatic. The fearless defense of Hezbollah in Lebanon last year won them no thanks from Arab regimes or many of the Arab people. They passed over the first true victory in six decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict with nothing more than scorn.

In many ways the girl from Qatif, as she is now known to the entire world, has become to me a metaphor for what ails the Arab world: A woman gang-raped yet punished for being a victim! Anyone who defends her is also held accountable. She defines what is very wrong with our state of being in which the God-given rights are perverted and wrong becomes right and cruelty becomes justice. Now, in the Arab world it is the victim who is punished, it is the victim who will not be allowed to seek justice or defend himself. It is the law of the jungle in which the strong are rewarded and the weak persecuted. So, feel free to do what you will since we have become a people bereft of any shame.

By

Reem Al Faisal, Arab News

— Reem Al Faisal is a Saudi photographer. She is based in Jeddah.

 

US COMMANDER CONVERT TO ISLAM

US commander converts to Islam
Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:32:05

The US commander of International Security Assistance Force in the Andar district of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan has embraced Islam.

The commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) embraced Islam in the presence of 2,000 people on Thursday.

Cap. Cormier Michel - 45 - commands 300 ISAF troops in the Taliban-infested district. The Ghazni governor, district chief, provincial council members, local officials, elders, ISAF soldiers and students attended a ceremony marking the commander's conversion to Islam.

The ceremony, which lasted well over three hours, concluded with chants of 'Allah-o-Akbar (Allah is Great).

Cap. Michel, who changed his name to Abdul Wahed, started his brief speech with Bismillah (In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent and the most Merciful). During the last five years, Abdul Wahed pointed out, he had been studying Islamic books and he concluded that Islam is the first religion.

Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood, but terrorists and extremists are bringing a bad name to it," he noted.

ONLY IN JAPAN

ONLY IN JAPAN

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

Be Aware

Plz clear your mind and think

• I think you are not aware of GEO...its been funded by USA govt......just think what Jew /Indian/ American lobby want ……… the basic idea is to promote frustration, and despondence in a nation, so they start to demoralize and the future can be mapped as they want to project it in the minds of 50 percent illiterate population.. ..that are born Muslim, can't read, but can see.
• Why on earth USA is concern with only GEO, why CNN, BBC and bush quote GEO? Why not other TV channels in china, japan, Cuba, India, Saudi Arabia, France? Why only Pakistan???? ??
• Why geo showed peoples’ bodies without head, only finger parts, people dying after bomb blast? Does any other channel show these things?
• Just think…… in India more than 2000 Muslims were killed in Gujarat in three months!!!! Did you see any 36 hours live coverage of these killings? Has any one seen this on ZEE or star or Sony etc… any Indian channel????
• Babri Masjid was destroyed by Hindus…. any live coverage???? Nuns in Tamil nado of India were burnt alive in a church and for next 6 hours the church kept burning. Did any Indian channel or CNN or BBC show that???? In France, 700 cars were burnt in one day… yet no coverage.
• There were 89 separatist movements in India in 2007 …from Bihar to Kashmir Assam etc… Did you see on any Indian channel showing 250 million people sleeping on footpath???? ?
• Zee India never showed killing of Kashmiris and the attack on GOLDEN TEMPLE, killing of Sikhs on Indian soil
• How many Israeli channels show killing by Israeli soldiers, when they kill Palestinians? ????
• Have you ever seen Indian president or politician being verbally abused on TV channels during live coverage????
• There have been reported 30,000 rape cases in USA… do you see on TV???? But you see Mukhtaran maee on geo/cnn/bbc
• Why geo was not concerned with Benazir’s wealth and property?? And Nawaz sharif’s property?

WHO is GEO????

Just think… they telecasted false news about emergency and hence the stock market crashed in Pakistan…

• Do you know Kamran Khan was getting RS 25 lakh per month?
• Do you know Dr. Shahid masood, was a member of NSF student party (a political left wing student party against Pakistan and Islamic forces…. with RS 22 lacs per month and home in dubai and Karachi
• Same amount been paid to Hamid Mir editor “Ausaf”……even Nadia Khan with Rs 6 lacs per month… Such huge amount, just to for free????
• When they were not able to broadcast the 8-hour cricket match, they said they lost 1 billion rupees, and just imagine without any money just for free they were broadcasting judge activity in peoples party car for free, Nawaz sharif and benazir for free……all 36 hour coverage just for free????? By a private channel!!!!! !
• 50 percent Indian dramas on geo and 25 percent with mix cast (Indian and Pakistani) and Indian films.     
• Movie like 'khuda key liyaeh' an issue of religion, so that people can play with Islam and its culture was telecasted.
• Alim online where Mr. Amir Liaqat sitting in grave and dramatizing Islam. He translated the dua of imam kaba and broadcasted his name on TV.... Audience: 50% jahil people in pakistan 
• geo did not show any good news like Islamabad Peshawar motorway but instead it showed dead people in karachi ....they never discuss 5.1 billion dollar of oil refinery in Pakistan, instead they show beheading of Pakistani people... never discuss why America is telling musharf to take off his uniform????/ why is USA interfering in our business!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

Itna jhoot bolo, k log sumjhen kuch to succh ho ga …

Prophet Muhammad said…BuddGumaanee nahi karna chahiyeh… and he also said that for a Muslim it is a lie if he states without any enquiry /investigation

A COUNTRY where 60 percent of population cannot read and has never been to school, is  media playing its role for the deprived population or promoting the motto of Elite class..

 

 

Regards . . .

A Pakistani 

 

She is only asking for your prayers

I am forwarding to you some information about a young girl and her family who is going through a very tough time. This was sent to me by one of our members and I think this family is in Karachi, Pakistan.

The girl's mother is only asking for your prayers.

Thanks

Asslamualaikum,
 
My daughter Salma, who is just 12 years old is battling for life at a Local hospital, she is suffering from cancer and is presently in the last stage. The doctors have given up all hope but then I have trust in ALLAH and in the power of dua. Therefore as a helpless mother of a dying child I beg all of you to pray for my daughter, please include her as a part of each and every dua of yours. Please pray to ALLAH that He should give her body the strength to respond to the medication, that He should somehow miraculously heal her of this disease and I NSHAALLAH grant her a healthy and long life (AMEEN)
 
Please, please pass this message on to as many Muslim brothers and Sisters as you can. If even ten percent of you would remember to pray for my daughter then it would mean a lot for us. Your duas and Allah's mercy is our ONLY hope.

Thank You,
 
 
Parveen
 
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