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Friday, April 7, 2017

Day 4 - Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged!

"Where's the Christian version of ISIS," he asked.

Remember,
the 400 years
of trans-atlantic slave trade
that maimed and raped,
killed, kidnapped and enslaved,
over 20 million Africans "heathens"
to bring them to Christ?

Remember,
the manifest destiny,
and what it did to Native Americans?
or the 90% of Australian Aborigines
who were wiped out
in less than a century
by Christian Europeans?

Remember,
Salem Witch Trials?
the Spanish Inquisition?
Or Crusades?
Or the lord's Resistance Army
that has raped and killed
over 100,000 Ugandans
in past 15 years
to establish Biblical law?
And by the way - not to defend -
but that's far more destructive
than ISIS, won't you say?

Remember,
American white supremacists
are identified
as a larger terror threat
to American security
than Muslim extremists
by law enforcement agencies
and research organizations?

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article142989399.html#storylink=cpy

Remember,
the UN reports that say,
in central Africa Republic
Christian militia
has destroyed
every single mosque
and enforced ethnic cleansing
on Muslims?

Remember,
George Bush,
a devout Christian said,
"God told me to invade Iraq",
and killed over 1 million civilians
in this so called war?

Oh, brother!
There are people
who misrepresent Qu’ran,
but Qu’ran itself
doesn’t produce terrorists,
just as the Bible
didn’t produce
the Ku Klux Klan.

You ask about ISIS,
which by the way
is a result of that bomb
you dropped in Iraq
in the name of your God.
So they invoked their Allah,
with equal falsity in their intentions.

So before you would want
any Muslim to speak for ISIS,
remember, my brother, what Jesus said,
judge not, lest ye be judged.

- Based on Qasim Rasid's Twitter Post in response to being asked to speak for ISIS.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Day 03 - The True Goal

All at once,
the papers started coming out
with feature after feature,
organised campaigns,
and letters-to-the-editor,
demanding, for example,
the extermination
of the pigeons,
from one end
to another
in the city.

And they ensured,
those pigeons,
those ugly, grunting grey things
would be exterminated.

Then, they came
for those four-legged things
some major drives
were directed
against the dogs.

While people - not the four-legged
or the feather bearing ones
but those others
- you know who I mean, yes?
they were still disconsolate
over the catastrophe
of the occupation,
the radio,
the television,
and even the press
went on
and on
about the dogs.

Oh look!
How they soil our streets and parks,
endanger our children's health,
fulfil no useful function,
and yet must be fed!

Only after a year
did the accumulated malice,
which until then
had been vented,
for the sake of training,
on animals,
find its true goal:
the people!

People
started being removed
from their jobs,
then homes,
arrested,
put on trial,
interrogated,
humiliated.

And then at last,
the pigeons and the dogs,
butterflies and the frogs,
the cows and the rats,
the pigs and the cats,
and all them
who were still not people,
and will never be,
could breathe freely.

- A modified piece from Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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