Can you still hold your head up high and proudly declare “I am an Arab”?
Can you still puff-out your chest with pride asserting “I am a Muslim”?
Do you still launder your children’s brains and bore everyone else who would listen with tales of the glorious history of the Arab-Islamic Empire that ruled much of the world for a thousand years? The victories of Saladin and others like him over the infidel western armies of the Crusaders?
For God's sake stop... Take a deep breath... And look around the 21st century!
While the accursed western infidels revel in a life of harmonious co-existence, freedom, democratic rights, technologies we can neither understand nor aspire to acquire, and luxuries that we can only dream of, we the blessed faithful have set our grounds aflame, our cities are piles of rubble stained with the blood of our friends, neighbours, brothers, sisters, parents and children. Millions of our displaced and dispossessed are risking life and limb to run to the infidels and bang on their doors to beg for refuge. And when a queen of the infidels opens her heart and her country’s doors to 1.5 million asylum seekers at a great political risk to herself, a rabble of these refugees destroy the New Year’s celebrations for the populations of Cologne and other German cities by assaulting and robbing hundreds of their terrified women!
Our plaintive cries of foul are loud enough to be heard by the little green men on Mars when Israel commits one of its long list of atrocities against the occupied Palestinian population, also when the American-Western alliance bomb our cities under false pretenses. We can rightfully blame much of our downfall on enemies whose only interest in any part of our lands is the wealth that lies beneath. But the worst tragedy of all is that our enemies have learned not to risk the life of a single soldier, or fire a single missile to send our countries back to the dark ages. All they have to do is help us do the job ourselves.
While one of our thorny crowns the Assad dynasty are dropping barrel bombs on their own cities in a desperate bid to hold-on to power, a leader of one of the so-called “Jihadist” opposition groups eats the heart of a rival on camera to impress his generous benefactors: the (thorniest crowns of all) the Al-Saud dynasty with their minion gulf potentates are bombing Yemen into oblivion, and all to consolidate the hegemony of the Wahabi-Selafi sects over the whole of Sunni Islam, despite conceiving and giving birth to the murderous El-Qaeda thugs and the psychopathic savagery of their Da’esh off-shoot... Confused..? Who isn’t?
By birth and parentage, I am an Iraqi, an Arab and a Muslim, but before my life on this earth is overtaken by the passage of time, my dearest wish is to proclaim all three in a strident voice rather than a coy whisper. It is time for an Islamic Spring, an awakening, a revolution of reform. A revolution that might one day be led by our long-oppressed women, courageous women who would defiantly drive cars at high speed through the streets of Riyadh and Tehran, with cheerful music blaring out of their car stereos, or marching down the high street chanting “Free At Last” beneath banners of burning Hijabs; their own crowns of thorns.
In the meanwhile please spare a thought for the millions of innocents who are fleeing for their lives, and 4 minutes of your time to watch this video on Youtube:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBfCyFLBfA