Re: Requesting support for a community-wide open le
"Afdhere Jama" <[email protected]>
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salam, charmi, the anti-war 'lack' of categorising palestine as a 'war-torn' place is that ... well, uhm :) ... the darned place has been in war for thousands of years. if palestine should be highlighted, so should kashmir, ogaden, anya nya, karennia, kurdistan, nagorno-karabakh saharawia, and the long list of other regions in all of the world's continents who are under occupation, face daily humiliation and loss of life. in reality, there hasn't been much difference between kurdistan and palestine. yet, one has been ignored by the whole world far longer than the other. perhaps if it were jews who occupied kurdistan, you think? :) afdhere Afdhere Jama Editorial Director HURIYAH Publications S A N F R A N C I S C O [email protected] http://www.huriyahmag.org >From: Charmi Miller >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] Requesting support for a community-wide open le >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:18:35 -0500 > >hey br na'eem! was that YOU on the radio yesterday afternoon?? > >i was driving - which is altogether unusual in midafternoon - and heard >your name! and your voice! on free speech radio from my school's >station... and i almost forgot to go when the light turned green! >hehehe.... > > >hmmmm.... you know, i was thinking... that, though it is often possible >to recognize arabic or indian/pakistani type names or spellings of names >as muslim or christian or whatever, there is no way i would know that >your name is that of a muslim. i guess i am feeling t hat it would be >far better for us - americans i mean mostly, but not only - to realize >muslims are everywhere, not just "over there" somewhere, or clustered in >scary isolated communities which shut out non-muslims and hold enmity >towards any who are not "talibanized". i think if we heard "brother" or >"sister" so-and-so when we heard people's names, it could do a lot to >raise awareness that muslims are everywhere (eeeeek! they're among us! >eeeek! :p ) and that there's nothing alien about muslims themselves or >about islam.... and it might even do a little to chip away at the >barrier between fundamentalist christians and muslims, since both use >this term to indicate respect and inclusion - and, as it's intended to >mean, unity. > > >as for the "anti-war" people who don't include palestine in their >agenda: well, then they're just not anti-war, so they'll just have to >be re-categorized. ;) they can participate as "other". or >"anti-wars-we-don't-like". there are a lot of people who feel that way >anyway.... that some war is right and some is wrong. > >i might even be one of them, but only as a last resort - what i am >really is anti-laziness << the source of all war. (the secret is out! >:p ) war results from lack of serious effort to work things out, which >is a form of laziness. yup, pride/arrogance might appear to be the >cause, but in the end there is always a choice to not seek another >solution to whatever the underlying problem is - often one of supply, or >fear of lack of supply, or a desire to keep one's ego from being >punctured, i.e., one's failings to be revealed. << but these are just >the rationalizations behind the lack of effort... > > >cha rmi > > >_______________________________________________ >ProgressiveMuslims mailing list >[email protected] >http://willo.nitric.co.za/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/progressivemuslims ---------- Rethink your business approach for the new year with the helpful tips here.