Hope

Hi Everyone

Today I was thinking about global warming, food crisis, war etc. issues that are afflicting mankind. And I thought “hope is dead”. The minute I thought that, I heard a bird chirp. Then I looked at the sky and the warmth of the atmosphere enveloped my entire being. I could hear the birds singing the song of hope, the song of life. And I felt convinced that “hope is still alive”. Its within us, without us, i.e. if we choose to see and choose to listen. God didn’t create mankind in vain. We, humans, weren’t meant to put ourselves at the brink of extinction although the majority are doing just that. But there is still hope since its possible to change the hearts of that majority. I sincerely believe that although I don’t quite know yet how to endeavour about this task. Perhaps I will learn as I journey in this world. However, for now “reaching the destination” isn’t the point; only the “journey towards it” matters. So, let’s all journey towards peace, solidarity, understanding and love for mankind.  I think the way is not through revenge but through forgiveness inshaAllah.

Later days

Take care and God Bless You.

Keith Advices Bush to “Shut the Hell Up”! :-)

Bravo Keith and MSNBC for making and airing this video. I am hoping this video would help build up the momentum behind impeachment.

Transcript

President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and John McCain lurk.
Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States.” This ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came during a May 13 interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo.
The question was phrased as follows: “If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what’s the worst that could happen, what’s the doomsday scenario?”
The president replied: “Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face is, it’s bigger than Iraq, it’s this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives.”
Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created, includes “cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives?” They are those in — or formerly in — your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes.
Through your haze of self-congratulation and self-pity, do you still have no earthly clue that this nation has laid waste to Iraq to achieve your political objectives? “This ideological struggle,” Mr. Bush, is taking place within this country.
It is a struggle between Americans who cherish freedom, ours and everybody else’s, and Americans like you, sir, to whom freedom is just a brand name, just like “Patriot Act” is a brand name or “Protect America” is a brand name.
But wait, there’s more: You also said “Iraq is the place where al-Qaida and other extremists have made their stand and they will be defeated.” They made no “stand” in Iraq, sir, you allowed them to assemble there!
As certainly as if that were the plan, the borders were left wide open by your government’s farcical post-invasion strategy of “they’ll greet us as liberators.” And as certainly as if that were the plan, the inspiration for another generation of terrorists in another country was provided by your government’s farcical post-invasion strategy of letting the societal infra-structure of Iraq dissolve, to be replaced by an American viceroy, enforced by merciless mercenaries who shoot unarmed Iraqis and then evade prosecution in any country by hiding behind your skirts, sir.
Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!

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