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Ayotzinapa Resistance: “This is just getting started”

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Ayotzinapa Resistance: “This is just getting started”

by Dawn Paley

screen_shot_2014-11-09_at_9.05.43_am Youth lit 20 vehicles on fire yesterday in front of the main government buildings in Chilpancingo, Guerrero

The forty three students disappeared by municipal police in Iguala, Guerrero on September 26, 2014, are still missing. As much as the state wants to put a lid on the protests, families and fellow students of the missing young men refuse to accept the official version, and have vowed to continue searching until they find the 43 alive.

The government of Mexico is facing the largest crisis of legitimacy since the war on drugs started in December, 2006. One of the chants at the marches is “It wasn’t narcos, it was the state!” This is a common sentiment, and one which undermines the state’s ability to produce hegemonic discourse with regards to what happened to the students.

The state is trying to lay…

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Jerusalem: Historical Illiteracy And Political Exploitation.

Nervana

Juresalem

( Photo via Facebook)

While handing me Karen Armstrong’s bookA History of Jerusalem,” my Jordanian colleague said, “Start from the eighth chapter, the earlier chapters are irrelevant.” Like many Arabs, my colleague has never been interested in the early history of the holy city. He said, “Why should we be? The modern history is more relevant to the city.”

 The perpetual turmoil in the city comes from all sides choosing to have a selective memory. Arabs want to ignore the city’s ancient history, which is largely a Jewish history. This Arab indifference is equally matched by Jewish bias against the Arab and Muslim history of the city. In other words, both choose to consider ____ and twist ____ half the story of the holy site and ignore the other half. Historical illiteracy does not help in any political fight; in fact it only creates strife.

This mindset…

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Lights and Sounds

Written Lines and Rhymes

The kids lunged the bag of crackers
Down their decorated drive
Decked in lanterns, pretty candles
And a string of blinking lights
Just outside the gate they stood and
emptied every single case
They spread the crackers out then lit them
In excited childish haste
But in their haste, what they didn’t notice
The boy that hid inside the park
Whose heavy eyes watched everything
The tears reflecting every spark.
The kids then picked up the rockets
Put them in the bottle stands
Lit the tails then jumped back quick
Careful not to burn their hands
The boy saw the rocket go up;
Explode in a dramatic way
Innumerous bits of golden light
Fire against the darkened gray.
And as the embers fell, he put out
Both of his small, calloused palms
In hopes of catching just one gold light
Thinking it could do no harm
The kids then took the…

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Time is two days, one of safety, one of danger & Zaman iki gündür , güvenli ve tehlikeli & by Imam Ash sha’afi (rahimullaah ta’ala)

YA BAKİ ENTEL BAKİ

Semra-Imam Shafi

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And from misery is that you love, and (the one) who you love, loves other than you,

Or that you want good for a person, and he wants to hurt you..!!

و من الشَقاوة أن تحبَ

و من تحبُ يحبُ غيرك

أو أن تريد الخير للأن

سان و هو يريد ضيرك

Ne büyük bahtsızlıktır,sen onu severken onun başkasını sevmesi

Yada sen o insana hayır dilerken onunda  senin zararını istemesi…!!

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They said, ‘You’ve been disputed but yet you keep silent?’

I said, ‘Indeed a response will only be a key to the doors of evil.’

Remaining silent from an ignorant one is indeed a virtue

And in it is also reform and protection of honour.

Do you not see how the lion is feared, although he is silent?

And yet dogs are disgraced, but by God do they bark.

قالوا : سكت و قد خوصمت، قلت لهم: , ان الجواب لباب…

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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 45 ( Nov 3- 9)

Nervana

Egypt? Greece ? Cyprus

(Leaders of Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus meet in Cairo, photo via AP)

Main Headlines

 Monday

Tuesday

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“Beep-beep, mmm beep-beep, yeah!”:-)

my virtual playground

“I’ve found a driver and that’s a start… Baby, you can drive my (rental) car…” – btw, can you also fly my ‘fake’ airplane and my airboat?… 😉 – I know you can ’cause you’re sooo SMART… 😉

Drive My Car – The Beatles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ts2U1mkfz4

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A Plea

The images are raw and shocking – but this is always the way in wars on civilians – maybe if those doing the fighting and killing had to see their intended and unintended victims they would stop. No one can say they are just taking orders any longer – the killing has to stop. Mercy and forgiveness to those killed and the killers and kill no more.

Poetry for Palestine

Dearest of all

This soul is aching

Trembling in pain

Bodies of maimed toddlers

Bleeding in vain

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O dearest of all

Heal this aching soul

With heavenly cure

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O dearest of all

This soul is shattered

Weeping in despair

Is this our planet home , or is it really hell on earth

Does anyone notice, or even care

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O dearest of all

Please mend this shattered soul

Caress her to endure

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O dearest of all

This soul is tarnished

Screams of the dying, what a nightmare

Babies soaked in blood

More than anyone can bare

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O dearest of all

Please rinse this tarnished soul

With mist and snow

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O dearest of all

This soul is cold

Bombing all around, death is everywhere

Crowds of gazing eyes

But no one is there

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O dearest of all

Please warm this cold soul

Love divine serene azure

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O dearest of all

This soul is dimmed

Its spark has long…

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