And how true are the things written on the protest flag that person is
holding .... It so depicts not only the sentiments of every muslim
who's been targetted for racism, genocide, class of imperialism and
brutality but also voices the millions of Americans, Panamanians,
Rwandan, Venezveulans and every single soul who's been a victim of
"treachery disguised in fake democracy", lies, misinformed
and misguided reports. How the hell you can create peace out of
bombardments, liberate through lies and your greed. bombing to save
your own skin. Saying no we are not racists or whatever and doing
everything exactly opposite.
God help us... how can you expect people to love you when you are the
very reason for the loss of mothers, fathers, siblings and even
children... When you arm one military force only to support her to
bomb and rock the civilians' places. Impossible...
(Original words by Asma. Edited by myself. Original picture sent by a dear friend.)
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coldarif 48 months ago | reply
Superrrrrrrrr.....
Åskådaren 47 months ago | reply
Gives me the feelings about what Swedish men are going through in Sweden now...on our own soil!
Edge of Space 47 months ago | reply
@Askadaren, can you kindly elaborate on your comment? I dont think I understand the context behind it
mujaflickr 47 months ago | reply
iT IS VERY TRUE AND U I APPRECIATE U TAT U HAVE THE GUTS TO PROTEST WIT TAT BANNER ...
FUCK AMERICA..FUCK BUSH
maximas.prime 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group at www.flickr.com/groups/1213992@N24/ for unusual signs and wonders, we'd love to have this added to the group!
thanks
lee_hoyle 43 months ago | reply
Thank God that I'm not religious, as religion is EVIL, but I'm a Christian who believes there's only one God whose son is Jesus Christ; the God of freedom!!!
imontok_77 43 months ago | reply
Ganteng
sukhi87 43 months ago | reply
I love this picture, and I love the sign, but most of all I love the courage that is portrayed, sad how now it takes courage to speak the truth. Amazug photography bravo
writtersrightword 43 months ago | reply
Christmas Wish: PEACE for ALL.
Mustapha Mrabte مصطفى المرابطي 42 months ago | reply
Great shot
_-Do Mi-_ 41 months ago | reply
السلام عليكم
very true and frustrating!!
i don't nknow why but when i saw this pic i must remeber two quotes!
as sir peter ustinov said: "terror is the war of the poor and war is the TERROR of the rich!"
and my beloved oscar wilde: "patriotism is a virtue of the VICIOUS!"
N (Enne) 40 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Society's skin, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
eyesnaps 38 months ago | reply
Caffieneandpixels - bravo for the rhetoric.
i'll go to an arab country and freely express myself as soon as you go and express yourself outside your local watering hole on a friday night. When disageeing with clerics they often part words of wisdom unlike other institutions who just rape the boys on a global scale, A womans body is beautiful, well unless you live in some parts of the World where the obesity rate is so high that the women are like bears - however we await your pictures of your naked mom, granny, sisters aunts and grown up daughters. start at home and set the trend. if you think walking about legless and slurring your speech is your idea of fun then it may be the only way you can bring yourself to have some degree of intimacy with your womenfolk. Play rock music loudly in your own car and explain it to the cops when your neighbours call them out. Lastly i dont think you have ever met an American in your life. Your skin colour indicates your are the prodigy of european colonists - the ones that wiped Americans (yes those radiantly beautiful, cuturally rich, peace loving people) to near extinction, after the theft of their land. I dont recognise you as an American - give yourself whatever label you want. And your intelect or lack of it speaks volumes. As a Scotsman who's country folk did invent the television, amongst other major technologies i find it abhorent that you make a feeble attempt to credit this to America. Having said that... the national statistics for literacy and numeracy in America dictate that you probably wouldnt have the skills to differentiate fact from fiction. Oh, and have a guess which country has one of the highest incidence of rape on the planet? every 90 seconds! and its reported that only 16% are reported with 54% being children under 18! America. Suiciude rate has rocketed, murder is rife. when Islam of the middle ages gave equal rights to women in every sense including, earnings, inheritance, education, etc etc, my ancestors and your ancestors in Europe refused to recognise women as humans. To this very day europeans either in europe or colonists elsewhere in the world force their women to take on the husbands name upon marriage. why not just brand their foreheads that you own them? but that would mean that in the name of equality the only way they could ensure they owned you too would be to castrate you! stop raping your women, your children, get off the anti depressants, go to university (oops you cant cos the MOZLUMS invented them), pay your taxes (oops the MOZLUMS created that too), collect your state benefit and pension (oops - guess what?). i bet thats given you a headache - tell you what have a few beers, listen to some rock n roll, and you'll feel better running away from the real world only to wake up in the morning with another headache. dont fret tho - since you'll probably be dead of liver cirrhosis before you get old enough for your kids to dump you in a home - if they can track down who 'daddy' is.
razak6 33 months ago | reply
true
ahlam_yassin 28 months ago | reply
I love this photo!
pigneguy*michael 25 months ago | reply
Iraqis were baking bread for 9,500 years before America existed.
On August 8, 2005 Reuters reported , "... The war in Iraq destroyed the country's seed industry, putting the country's domestic food supply at risk, the United Nations food age......ncy said on Monday as it appealed for aid to rebuild farming. "
"Order 81 is just one of 100 Orders that have been imposed on the people of Iraq by the U.S. government. These orders are sometimes referred to as the Bremmer Orders. No one in the U.S. or Iraq was ever allowed to cast a vote in the ballot box for any of these Orders. This says a lot about the kind of democracy that the U.S. is imposing on the people of Iraq..........Order 81 prohibits Iraqi farmers from using the methods of agriculture that they have used for centuries. The practice of saving seeds from one year to the next is now illegal in Iraq. Order 81 wages war on Iraqi farmers. They have lost the freedom to choose their own methods of agriculture..........Prior to the U.S. invasion, agriculture in Iraq was flourishing. The Fertile Crescent had developed a system of farming that was the envy of the world. Now, under Occupation, centuries of progress have been destroyed, almost overnight. "
"The most significant part of Order 81 is a new chapter that it inserts on ‘Plant Variety Protection’ (PVP). This concerns itself not with the protection of biodiversity, but rather with the protection of the commercial interests of large seed corporations.
To qualify for PVP, seeds have to meet the following criteria: they must be ‘new, distinct, uniform and stable’. Under the new regulations imposed by Order 81, therefore, the sort of seeds Iraqi farmers are now being encouraged to grow by corporations such as WWWC will be those registered under PVP.
On the other hand, it is impossible for the seeds developed by the people of Iraq to meet these criteria. Their seeds are not ‘new’ as they are the product of millennia of development. Nor are they ‘distinct’. The free exchange of seeds practiced for centuries ensures that characteristics are spread and shared across local varieties. And they are the opposite of ‘uniform’ and ‘stable’ by the very nature of their biodiversity. They cross-pollinate with other nearby varieties, ensuring they are always changing and always adapting.
Cross-pollination is an important issue for another reason. In recent years several farmers have been taken to court for illegally growing a corporation’s GM seeds. The farmers have argued they were doing so unknowingly, that the seeds must have carried on the wind from a neighbouring farm, for example. They have still been taken to court. This will now apply in Iraq. Under the new rules, if a farmer’s seed can be shown to have been contaminated with one of the PVP registered seeds, he could be fined. He may have been saving his seed for years, maybe even generations, but if it mixes with a seed owned by a corporation and maybe creates a new hybrid, he may face a day in court.
Remember that 97 per cent of Iraqi farmers save their seeds. Order 81 also puts paid to that. A new line has been added to the law which reads: ‘Farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph (C) of Article 14 of this Chapter.’
The other varieties referred to are those that show similar characteristics to the PVP varieties. If a corporation develops a variety resistant to a particular Iraqi pest, and somewhere in Iraq a farmer is growing another variety that does the same, it’s now illegal for him/her to save that seed. It sounds mad, but it’s happened before. A few years back a corporation called SunGene patented a sunflower variety with a very high oleic acid content. It didn’t just patent the genetic structure though, it patented the characteristic. Subsequently SunGene notified other sunflower breeders that should they develop a variety high in oleic acid with would be considered an infringement of
the patent."
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12547
China Yuheng 17 months ago | reply
End the madness. Vote Green Party.
Tetley T 16 months ago | reply
Great shot!
greenac1 2 months ago | reply
blow up huge buidlings full of people who most likely didn't even know what a muslim is then blow up children watching their parents run in a marathon then attempt to blow up a train in a very nice peacefull place like Canada. that is what muslims do fix it or stick some explosives up your ass
**** j a z z z i *** 2 months ago | reply
@http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandy739123/
"When coworkers have unkind words about Muslims, I remind them of a like comparison. I remind them that the IRA or the KKK do not represent Christianity, and that terrorists, even if Muslim, do not represent Islam.
If I lived in Boston, I would take you out for coffee and together breath the fresh air of freedom. But I live far away, and so this email will have to do.
Be at peace, you have friends. We may not worship in the same place, but we live in the same country. And that is good enough for me."
Scott Pitta
Deacon of the Assembly of God Church
Descendant of Martha Washington