The time is here and now. The days of men counting female members of their families as stock and chatel must be brought to an end. It is not enough for Muslim moderates to tutt-tutt in disapproval or shake their heads in dismay whilst sitting on the fence of complacency; it is time for all moderates to raise their voices loud enough to drown-out the radical diatiribes spouted forth from the mouths of barely literate self-serving clerics, intent on poisining the minds of young hotheads.
90% (or more) of the world's one and a half billion Muslims are outraged by the horrific Taleban shooting of a heroic school girl, who dared to stand-up for women's rights within a male-dominated community in northern Pakistan... Mulala fighting for her young life 14 years-old Mulala Yousefzai may well become the iconic symbol for Muslim women to lead a march out of the medieval interpretation of Islam, into the caring , sharing, religion Islam was intended to be. Mulala's small gesture of defiance was tantamount to Muslim women, brandishing rolling-pins and using them to brain every Taleban Mullah and firebrand Muslim cleric, turbans and all.
The time is here and now. The days of men counting female members of their families as stock and chatel must be brought to an end. It is not enough for Muslim moderates to tutt-tutt in disapproval or shake their heads in dismay whilst sitting on the fence of complacency; it is time for all moderates to raise their voices loud enough to drown-out the radical diatiribes spouted forth from the mouths of barely literate self-serving clerics, intent on poisining the minds of young hotheads.
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Here we go again... Another leader of a nation armed to the teeth with hi-tech and nuclear weaponry, declares to a world still breathless from a series of futile wars that another nation famous for its carpet weaving technology is now moving into the terrifying field of (MPL) Mass Production of Loofahs with which to threaten the entire civilised world. Haven't we seen this show before in 2002..? Or is this the sequel to the Iraqi (WMD) farce, scripted, produced and directed by the same theatre company and being sold to the same audience? It seems that Netanyahu the great impresario already has the sheet music to this new opera of war and is playing its overture with the backing of the Congress Clapping Orchestra and the lead vocals by the boy soprano Mitt Romney appearing on the same stage. I am constantly amazed by the Republican Party's capacity for producing bespoke political marionettes, whilst the world is still reeling from the after-efects of the last puppet they installed in the White House. The world may in fact never recover from the inimitable George W. Bush, as the pages of history will forever resonate with his words of wisdom and bow in deference to his literacy. When it comes to politics, I prefer to remain an outsider looking-in, but like most quasi-detached observers I was soothed by Barak Obama's eloquence and comforted by his emphatic promise of change, until I found that he changed Phantoms and Cruise missiles for unmanned killer drones to dispense justice to turbaned illiterates thousands of miles away from his own shores, and inflicting western-style democracy upon nations which do not possess a single democratic gene in their DNA. This notwithstanding, Mr Obama has -at least thus far- been steadfast in his resistance against Bibi Netanyahu's political arm-twisting, and is refusing to fully join the Iranyahu War Opera Choir by placing US national interests first, and for this great deed he deserves international applause. As for Mr Netanyahu..? Perhaps it is time for him to draw from the deep well of Jewish wisdom and realise that his attempts at diverting the world's attention from the 700.000 Jewish settlers on stolen Palestinian land, will not always work no matter how many false wars he creates, and that his claims to a "God's promised land" are about as legal, moral and ethical as Islamist Sharia law being imposed upon the non-Muslim residents of Manhattan. |
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