I'm lovin' it
I have been quite depressed lately. My fellow muslims are being killed in Beirut and Palestine. Their homes are bombed, their country surrounded and citizens taken hostage. My brothers in Iraq are killing one another. Lunatics blow themselves up in mosques in the name of Islam. They seem to like killing one another than fighting their enemy as one. My friends in Iran are being threatened with bombs and sanctions. We are told that the whole country is led by a suicidal extremist who will threaten the whole world if he gets his hands on a nuclear bomb. Another fellow muslim country, Afghanistan, was bombed to pieces, the old regime changed and they still could not get public enemy number 1. Closer to home hundreds die in killer earthquakes and tsunamis in the most populous muslim nation in the world. Barely have they been able to recover from a disaster when another one follows. It seems the life of people who embrace Islam is cheap these days. So cheap that we can be killed at will and nobody stands up to defend our rights. Even natural disasters seem to prefer muslims to other people.
There is no doubt that as a people we are very weak. We are not united and bent on killing. So bent on killing that we engage in killing each other when we should join forces together in defending our land from our common enemy. I have never seen muslim being in such a low and weak position as we are today. And I am quite sure during my lifetime I will never see our enemies stop killing defenceless muslims. I don’t think I will ever see during my lifetime muslims rise up again and stand up to defend their rights. Our leaders are merely puppets, unable to even say out their disapproval of what is being done to their own people. Most of them keep their mouths shut lest they are next to be subjected to regime change. Our Shia and Sunni camps are always ever ready to blow themselves to smithereens in order to kill the other camp. Little do they realise that while they are fighting among themselves their oil is being pumped out to fuel development in some faraway countries.
As I am writing this the Israel military are preparing for ground invasion of Lebanon. More bombs from USA are being sent to their closest ally in the Middle East to ‘neutralise’ Hizbollah capability. We will see more muslim blood being shed. Another muslim country is being invaded on the pretext of disarming ‘terrorists’. The invader, the strongest army in the Middle East, is yet again on expansion mood backed by the only superpower in the world. Militarily we are too weak to fight back.
They say the least we can do is perhaps stop buying American products. But that’s difficult, isn’t it? I mean how can I do it when I am typing this on a Dell laptop, using Microsoft Word and now posting this on Yahoo! I don’t see our future. It’s all so bleak. Shall I just shut my eyes and pretend that this is all not happening? Perhaps I should just stay tuned to Akademi Fantasia 4 or read more of Siti Nurhaliza’s wedding on Harian Metro. Yes, perhaps that will cheer me up while I sit tight in front of my TV watching Superman on HBO, sipping Coca-Cola and gorging a McD. I’m lovin’ it!
22-7-2006
Kajang
