janvier 2011
18 billets
Dear US and all other colonial countries,
We are slowly turning the table and soon the balance of forces will shift. You cannot forever have your foot on our necks. Our petrol will flow to the benefit of the poor and not to the pockets of your rich companies. And Palestine will be free!
Watch us go,
Supporters of a free Arab world.
Who cannot see the hypocrisy of European and North American governments as they are publicly silent on what their ally Egypt is doing to the protesters ? When it was Iran last year, the same governments were up in rage and taking such noble moral positions against the Iranian regime.
One of the biggest fallacies of today is that Muslims hate Jews. I can’t believe how easily people forget that it was Christian Europe that shamelessly killed Jews for centuries and then went for all out glory with the Holocaust, while the Ottoman Empire and Muslim Spain provided sanctuaries for the persecuted Jews. As far as Israel/Palestine is concerned, it’s a simple issue of land...
On the Palestinian Papers, what they show and...
Thanks to Al-Jazeera, we all know what we, especially the Palestinians, already knew. These papers further confirm our conviction that the Palestinian Authority is bent on selling out the Palestinians. What Mahmood Abbas wants is to legitimize his power and position, and agree to any sort of Palestinian state so that his group can rule Palestine. If the PA has to compromise on principles, it has...
There is an astounding amount of cynicism in society which sees polygamy as wrong, male domination and exploitation of women, but at the same time regards an unmarried man who sleeps with several women as a ’ player ’ or some other praiseworthy thing, while the same type of women are looked down as sluts, whores, bitches and all that.
Schools
Schools have long been used to pacify, discipline, kill creativity and destroy a child’s capacity to think critically and independently. Mass education was first used in England in order to control peasants and to beat it into their heads that the system under which they lived in is not to be questioned. Nothing has changed today. After the upheaval of 60s and 70s - the Civil rights...
Long live the revolution.
I fully support the uprising in Tunisia and hope that it inspires a third Intifada, along with similar movements in the Arab world, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
GAZA'S YOUTH MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE!
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order...
“There is an unmistakable coincidence between the experience of Arab Palestinians...”
– Edward Said.
On class behavior // An excerpt from Tolstoy's...
In reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only in resembling others like themselves: there were damasks, dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes - all the things people of a certain class have in order to resemble other people of that class. His house was so like the others that it would never...
On sexism // An excerpt from Tolstoy's The...
… and now people assure us that they respect women. Some give up their places to her, pick up her handkerchief; others acknowledge her right to occupy all positions and take part in the government, and so on. They do all that, but their outlook on her remains the same. She is means of enjoyment. Her body is a means of enjoyment. And she knows this. It is just as it is with slavery. Slavery,...
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
– Rosa Luxemburg
Notes from history
In 1929 a Hindu wrote a book “Rangeela Rasul”. The hindu author was assassinated by a Muslim in Lahore, and the killer became a hero for Muslims. Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, fought his case, and advised the killer to say in the court that he committed the act in a state of delirium in order to be acquitted. But the assassin accepted proudly his act saying that he had no regrets and...
Pakistan and the blasphemy law.
To my Pakistani friends : Abolishing the blasphemy law is not going to cure anything as extremism, militancy, ignorance, hate, intolerance and lunacy do not follow any law.
