Wow! So I just checked out the posts relating to the tag 'muslim' and I was pretty taken aback to find phrases like 'Is terrorism a Muslim problem', 'Allah's reward to the martyrs of 9/11' and 'Islam religion of hate and terror'. Its really sad for someone like me who has found so much peace and self-empowerment from being a Muslim to read people just writing off a religion, which I'm pretty sure they know nothing about, as something so useless.
I do get it though- if I watched an advertisement claiming that the American government is hundred percent honest, I surely wouldn't buy it. However, if I watched it hourly for a month my mind would gradually begin to believe it. I think any one's mind can believe anything then, if you show it whatever image or make it hear whatever sound for a long enough time. But where are the people who think, who question, who doubt and who are determined to get to the bottom of an issue? How can anyone not question what they see on television or what their friend talks about? Everyone knows that Muslims are depicted as terrorists in the media. Did you ever question why the American government, I don't care how powerful they are, entered another nation in the name of whatever they call it. Oh right democracy. Place yourself for a second, as an American- you're living the life. Yes that life that everyone else all over the world dreams of living but never does because their land is made up of meaningless nothingness which can be attacked and destroyed by anyone whenever they wish, and because America, the beautiful america, is the land of freedom- the land of opportunities. Anyhow, so you're living this great life of yours and then some arab army comes and breaks down your home, and kills everything that you associated with your previous life. Could you deal with it? Would you sit back and smile and be like sure go ahead do whatever it is you have planned for me- I am waiting oh so ever eagerly. I am your dog, when you tell me to bark- I will, when you tell me to play with you- I will go fetch you your ball, when you ask me to lick you- I will do that too.
Recently, the Virginia tech tragedy occured. Death is death, or is it? The faces and mini-biographies of the victims were splashed on all the newspapers, magazines, newschannels and radioshows all over the world. So many times I read that these were people who had dreams- who were going to go places. An International relations student, a proffesor. What the hell is wrong with the sane world- oh right I get it. The shooting of ten children in Palestine- daily, is scribbled somewhere in that little corner which no one reads. Do these children not dream, do they not have the right of education, of being somebody of purpose in the world. And as far as suicide bombers go- what the hell is wrong with the people of the world...when you unjustly bomb someone's mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son, home, workplace...do you not think that this kind of person will be psychologically disturbed? Does he not have the right to do what was done to him? Its so ironic that the virginia tech murderer has been easily labelled as a psychologically disturbed boy- he killed 33 people, and nowhere did I hear the word terrorist. Is murder not an act of terrorism? Did someone unjustly kill his parents and sister? Who do you think actually had real reason to be psychologically disturbed?
But I am speaking to deaf ears- to a people who have lost their heart and soul. To a people who know deep down that what they see before themselves today is a world where the powerful is unjustly oppressing the minority. We will all keep watching and no one will speak. People will die, but we remain silent. Maybe this is what we call life.
