I am a Muslim not a Commodity

Love this! So true!

Be free to speak your mind and call it living in the west

If this moron held a sign like this in ANY MUSLIM country, he would be imprisoned and killed - by the government of that MUSLIM country. The selective outrage of the Left in the U.S. is apalling and hypocritical.

Really,This is True,I think You are The Real "X" In our Life

Demonstrations- a great way to feel a sense of achievement without achieving anything.

So true

Absolutely Wrong, u are saying what u don't know

You say do this in West..... but if you say opposite in Arab , you will be Killed

I am a Muslim not a Commodity by Edge of Space.

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. Just in few days time ... Afghanistan was destroyed... Iraq was destroyed ... lebanon was destroyed ... just to safeguard your own political and material interests ...

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...

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д§mд says:

Scary and sooo true :/
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Edge of Space says:

Ah, Asma, you got that so right. Scary and true. Truth is scary, that's why we have mastered the art of camouflage, disguised, misguided beliefs and building comfort zones. Glad you saw it. Only because it's better to be more informed than living in denial however sweet that could be. Keep up the faith, kiddo.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

howie silvers says:

Is this Viet nam all over again?

Howie Silvers
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

** j a z z z i * says:

Democracy, what the Bush administration calls for, is different. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. The law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws aren't necessarily based upon reason but power. In other words, democracy is just another form of tyranny – tyranny of the majority.
Majority rule is a zero-sum game with winners and losers, with winners having the power to impose their wills on the minority. Conflict emerges when the minority resists.
(quoted from "A minority view" by Walter E. Williams)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Edge of Space says:

Howie Silvers, I am not too sure either. But my best guess is this time the whole world's trying to end not just one war but the war of the wars.

Jazzi bhai, this is good controversial subject, I guess. I personally wanted the last word to be "liberation" instead of Democracy because that's what the US Govt. has been yelling about the whole time. Ah, liberation. You know it's widely discussed that US has been growing interests in Liberating Iran of its current islamic doctrine and legislative body etc... Liberation, as you can see, is another fine word made of silky satin deceit.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Shahbaz Asi says:

i think asmas right
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

sly.sloan says:

I can't wait til my mom has to walk around with a sack over her head.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Alexbip says:

I'm 100% with you on this one... So much hypocrisy in this vocabulary!
But I'm also very sad to observe the lack of political awareness in the muslim world... When will muslims will unite against their own fanatics and their socio-political agendas, which are as harmful to this beautiful religion as Bush's "democracy" in the middle east ?
I've been leaving in North Africa for quite a while now, I've been looking for that and I don't see that happening very often...
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Edge of Space says:

Alexbip, yes.Traditionally or historically the majority of muslim world has avoided the political awareness and understanding. I don't see that happening very soon either. But yeah, I agree to you.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Bobby Alcott says:

I'm sure I'll be on my government's watch list for saying this, but frankly, this sign and this sentiment is in line with what I think is **really** going on in your country (and all around you). I'm so tired of the song and dance the Bush administration performs when it needs a reason to take over someone's oil... I've said for years, "They don't hate our freedoms, they despise our policies".

As Alex has said, there needs to be more awareness in the Muslim community, also -- but how can we blame people in this region for being upset with everything that is going on? How can we blame them for feeling threatened?

Thanks for posting this, Ejaz - and for all your lovely comments.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Edge of Space says:

Thanks Bob, for your kind and nice comments. I truly believe that whenever Muslim world says that "we hate america" it's the government and the policies of mindless pres. bush it despises so dearly and it has every reason to, as you rightly said.

And the fact that Bush's policies and Government is not only a threat and source of contempt for muslim world, it's a big bunch of lies and injustice to its own people who are just the same happy and nice people like everyone else in the world mostly. the fact that most of muslim communities, be it Pakistanis or Arabs, in America have been contibuting to its wealth, peace and social areas for many years really really suggests its not men against men but men against governments.
Thank you for your kind visit, Bobby. Much appreciated and humbled.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Muslim Veganista says:

:( but great photo. it reminds me of the 'Congratulations America, you have just been brainwashed.' --

What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people? - A terrorist
What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?-A brave American pilot.

What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land? - A terrorist attack.
What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?- Self-defence

What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favours? - Bribery.
What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favours?- A campaign contribution.

What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens? - A dictatorship.
What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings? - A democracy.

What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial? - A lynching.
What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial? - Operation Enduring Freedom.

What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor? - Robin Hood.
What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich? - The US government.

What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people? - A weapon of mass destruction.
What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children? - Sanctions.

What do you call an army that will fight for whoever pays the most money? - Mercenaries.
What do you call an army in Afghanistan that will fight for whoever pays the most money? - The Northern Alliance (or United Front).

What do you call an attack on the Pentagon, a command and control centre in the US? - A cowardly attack on American freedom and democracy.
What do you call the destruction of an Afghan village by US bombs? - An attack on a Taliban command and control centre.

What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US? - An atrocity.
What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war? - A mistake.

What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people? - Greed and selfishness.
What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries? - Globalisation.

What do you call it when people are slaughtered? - A massacre.
What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi's are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)? - The Gulf War.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

hex786 says:

Sad thing is that we all know this is true and now our own people have began to buy in to there claim, We have started to change our way of life and start adopting western ideas, in the name of moderation, progress, westernization (not modernization) and women's right. We have to modernize. make progress and deal with the women's right issue but not in the image of the west but in the image of Allah.

Al-Imran - 3:8
"Our Lord!" (they say), "Let not our HEARTs deviate now after Thou hast guided us, but grant us mercy from Thine own Presence; for Thou art the Grantor of bounties without measure.

Al-Imran - 3:118
O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

YAHQQLIGAN says:

How can I talk to anyone who mentally lives in the 14th century?
AND needs someone to preprint his banner for him!
This picture is So "set-up" for the media to feed off
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Aberdare Blog says:

Excellent.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

AWMA says:

Indeed
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Blue Mariena says:

Wow. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

¤~Al Ain Eyes~¤ says:

true...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

caffeineandpixels says:

Tell him to go to an Arab country and see how freely he can express himself. See how he can explore other religions outside of Islam, look at the beautiful photograph of a naked woman, or drink a bottle of ice cold beer, while playing rock music loudly in his car. See what happens when he questions authority and disagrees with the Clerics.
Do not unlease the dogs of war and then complain when someone is bitten. Stop harboring terrorists, stop growing poppies, stop treating your woman as less than equals and get out of the middle ages. You don't like being racially profiled? Then pick up a gun and fight the people in your own country who are the ones making your lives what they are. You don't like America? Then stop using our inventions...The tv, computer, electricity, the light bulb, etc. etc.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

KamyarLA says:

im so annoyed. are you for or against muslims...

Peace in the Middle East!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

.aseel. says:

so true!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

wontonga says:

I'm a poor Muslim
Our Muslim leaders are a pile a murderous psychotic butt fuckers!
Instead of teaching us to embrace and love our fellow man they abuse us left and right and have us convinced that the western world is the big white DEVIL.
Boo Hoo
Blah Blah Blah
Poor poor Muslim.
Do us a favor and go blow yourself up!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Janz Images says:

democracy PAHAHAH our administration doesnt even know the meaning of it. Its all imperialism and the fact that We dont want to be seen as a weak country (which we are not) Everything on that banner is sooo true they are trying to make it seem liike we are helping but in reality we are making things worse for the civilians of those of the middle east. They are the real victoms getting told what to do by the Tyrants of our country

What sux about me is that I live in Texas WHERE BUSH CAME FROM so I can never EVER talk about this without getting ridiculed or kicked in the ass lol
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

::::DrewGallantPhotography:::: says:

well the taliban started a war with america, did they expect us not to attack them back. U people are so ignorant. The kurds sure are thankful.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Bobby Alcott says:

The Taliban started a war with America??

Turn off the Fox News, and slowly back away.

I would suppose that we found WMD in Iraq, and that Al Queda was in league with Saddam, too, right?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Scene my Shoes? [deleted] says:

silly bush haters :P
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Scene my Shoes? [deleted] says:

THANK YOU DREW btw
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Nontlatocátzin says:

True
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

_NJT_ says:

it's true....
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Juavenita ♥ says:

So true and nice capture and sharing it with us
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Bobby Alcott says:

redhead89: why such a simple retort? WHY can we not have intelligent discussions about the issues?? It seems all we ever get from the Right are simple one-liners like "silly bush haters" and "u people are so ignorant", and frequent false statements like "the taliban started a war with america"... c'mon. Someone from the right has to have **some** kind of rational answers to these issues, right?

Right?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Scene my Shoes? [deleted] says:

sorry... I'm too busy with my life right now to post so much right now. graduation coming up...stuff....
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

mz23 says:

"Drew Gallant Photography "
First of all You do not expect people to sit and watch other countries coming in to your country as invaders..... It never happend before. As for the Kurds, they never suffered like the iraqis in the south... Maybe a little with that Halabcha city.

Second of all we're not ignorant and IF we are then You guys are surely STUPID!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

YAHQQLIGAN says:

Time for a joke.
Arguing on the Internet is like masturbation.
At the time it may feel good, but in the end you're just fu@king yourself!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Aaron Hyatali [deleted] says:

so true
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

sunshine_traveller says:

Great Shot..

Sad that this is where we are now....I am still thinkin..."why can't we all just get along?"...no matter how much we progress in technology etc...we never seem to grow up (as nations)

I've been around the world...and people are people...It is such a shame that this whole mess has targeted a people...
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

++ Nadirah ++ says:

Look with the opened eyes
See with the opened mind
And the truth will shine.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

shaffaf [deleted] says:

Becaouse we are Waek.

Not Following Islam as the old Muslims did.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

rickyrab79 says:

Zionists are not commodities, either; Jews are not commodities, Christians are not commodities, Falun Dafa is no commodity, Communism is not a commodity, Zoroastrians are not commodities, idolators are not commodities, polytheists and shirkers are not commodities, Baha'is are not commodities... nobody is a commodity. Everyone is a human. Even people who aren't Muslim.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

rickyrab79 says:

The proper way to say it is "Because we are weak", not "Becaouse we are Waek". Just pointing that out.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

titizozio says:

Absolutely Brillant !
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

buildscharacter says:

Brainwash your children into strapping bombs to their chest & call it
"punishing infidels"

Fly two planes into the skyscrapers in NYC & call it
"Doing God's Will"

You can play either side of it. Just like all Muslims aren't bad, all Americans aren't evil....just those in the White House. :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

angela_tropical_lagoon says:

Where was this picture taken?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

JonniUniteus says:

"What do you call it when people are slaughtered? - A massacre.
What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi's are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)? - The Gulf War....

and an excellent job by the US Military. This post is not from the "Edge of Space" but from outer space, way outer space, where nothing can exist in the vacuum, especially intellectual honesty. Not one of you milquetoast weenies who agrees with the photo is ever outraged that Muslims are slaughtering Muslims or that they are deliberately blowing up civilians. Only the US can do anything wrong...everyone else is just a victim.

Get with the program, people: reality, the 21st century, religious tolerance, women's rights, sanitation, production of worthwhile things other than hatred.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

JonniUniteus says:

great comment buildscharacter!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

m0tiii says:

the sad thing that happen to us right now is neither muslim or US fault.....
its bush and osama fault....
violence is not islam
bush is not the US
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Let Ideas Compete says:

Partial truths and gross oversimplifications. I don't understand the "rob our resources" since it was the west that helped developed the oil fields and paid certain governments much money (which they neglected to distributed fairly). Plus, the west is paying market value for the resources - hard for me to comprehend how that is robbing.

Part of the problem is that country's with *as V. S. Naipal said) have such large ammounts of unearned wealth (they just sit back and let the oil bring in the money while paying other's to do the actual work of getting the oil), causes people to think in perverted ways.

When it come to avoiding collateral damage, the west is trying to minimize and certainly is doing a better job that the sunni vs shia conflicts.

Not sure what people have been exiles "en masse." Must be referring to the Palestinians. If so, that's a very complex issue. Seems odd that the non-Muslims have beed exiled from Muslim countries (well there are extremely small percentages of non-Muslims there)

Funny how all the slogans on the bill board seem to be exactly what Muslims advocate for the rest of the world. Sounds hypocritical to me. Let's rephase it to the sign a non-Muslim might carry in a Muslim country (assuming the country had freedom of speech):
I am a non-Muslim - Kill me because you think I'm an infidel and am therefore not human. Call it jihad.
Imprison me and call it purifying society.
Exile us from your country and call it what Mohamed would want.
Destroy all that is non-Muslim, terrorize governments into Sharia law and dictatorships run by religious fanatics and call it the will of god.

I think we need to review the history books and you'll find neither side is innocent.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

shaffaf [deleted] says:

me Muslim..
what I think is that we did not have the right to force one to be a Muslim..
insted by understandin what is Islam by reading or hearing or seeing muslims real ethics, One can decide to be a Muslim or not..

and thank you..
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

globulo_blanco1347 says:

Just one more example of how little we know about muslim world ; the words written on the banner show us a lot of prejudices we (the western )have against muslim world (that is bigger than we think).
I hope the usefull tool of internet (youtube, wikipedia, flickr etc etc) would be usefull for a better understanding between the people worldwide.
Youtube is particularly interesting for the gulf war, in fact ,governments are now unnable to control the free flow of information; as the dozens of us soldiers that have posted a self maked video with their personal fighting experience.
There are also a few iraqi videos (cos its expensive)mede by bagdad citizens as example"hometown baghdad" where a groups of english speaking iraqi teens speak about their daily life in a city covered in blood.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

nice_northwest says:

"I'm an American-
Blow me up in the name of Alah-
Fly a plane into my office tower and call it Justice-
Tie me up, blind fold me, cut my head off with a knife in the name of Alah to get 70 Virgins.
Attack my country and kill innocent men, women and child because you don't like our values and views.

Yep....good old Muslims.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

JoshuaDavisPhotography.COM says:

wow, very well put.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

nicole_schulman says:

This is brilliant.

And by the way, responding to certain comments above, taking one's rights for granted guarentees you will loose them.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

sarzlalian says:

afther this truth there is nothing to say
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Karraar [deleted] says:

hahahahahahah this goes right up there with classics like come to democracy or democracy will come to you n welcome to iraq XD

anywho gonna upload them on my thingy :)
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Sajjad Ali Qureshi says:

Powerfull Image, A picture is worth of 1000 words.thats surely true !
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

thisBEphotography says:

POWERFUL. This is amazing, great work.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

shinytapshoes says:

howie silvers: Couldn't have said it better. I strongly agree.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

shinytapshoes says:

nice northwest, nicole_schulman, caffieneandpixels: you guys are completely right on.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

af polon says:

grate and true.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

aTia. says:

Thank you for sharing this picture.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

electrosmack1 [deleted] says:

"I am Muslim," yes.

"Kill me call it collateral damage," no; when car bombings blow you up, its called terrorism.

"Imprison me call it Security Measure," When people are imprisoned, whether they be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, white, black, brown, American, or someone from the Middle East, there is a reason for it. It doesnt matter what religion you are, if you are doing something intended to hurt other, say terrorism, they should be dealt with. This goes for ANYONE.

"Rob my resources, invade my land, alter my leadership Call it Democracy." I agree, the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq, that's a given. But the leadership? Yes, Saddam kept Iraq in line, but this was through horrible killings, murders, and torture. I dont see any liberal condeming him. What's wrong here? First off, let me say torture is bad. For the most part, it does not even work. The U.S. supposedly does waterboarding as a form of getting information. In comparison, Saddam, and many, many others like him have done, and continue to do things like having henchmen torture families, and smashing their babies against walls. Human shredders, decapitations, rape, genocide, and even more disgusting things. Their freedom fighters alright. Sounds sort of like Hitler.

Let me just say again, we should not have invaded Iraq. We do, however, need to remember what really happened.

"Why cant we all just get along," someone said earlier. That is a good question. I wish it were that simple. If only it were.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

megapics (ccs) says:

Would that it were that simple, electrosmack1.

The placard speaks worlds of truth - even if not the whole truth.

"Freedom and democracy" is a euphemism for all sorts of nasty things imposed on weaker nations. It really means Plunder.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

MuTe S>wan says:

So upsetting and so ture

as for those who said that we call fllying a plane into the world trade center justice..well I'm personally against whoever attacks civilians.. and based on alquran alkareem and the prophet sunnah, it's haram to kill children, women, and old people, or even cut a tree in war cases, so how would it be if there wasn't a war. just like americans opposed Bush's attacks to Iraq, we are against the 11\9 attacks and the suicidal bombing done by muslims in Palistine or any other country, since in Islam Muslims aren't allowed to kill themselves.

Americans, we don't blame you. we blame the authrity and Bush's rules and strategies. and in my point of view, you have been brainwashed as long as you see the Israeli and american murders to the Iraqi and Palestinian civilians as justice and ok.

just like the attackers in 11-9 are terrorists because they attacked civilians, you should use your reasoning to include the attackers of civilians in any country in the world. whoever kills women, children, senior citizens, or a peaceful man without a weapon is terrorist regardless of their religion. I mean come one ,Palistinians , Iraqies, and Afghanistanians are humans at the end, aren't they?
I believe, we can all live togather in peace, Muslims, Christians, Jews...etc if we thought deeply about the overall picture, interpreted it without the government wordings or direction, and react strongly towards ending these damaging wars.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

hobsonator says:

This guy is a jackass! He needs to go back to his own country with all his Islamic pals and then when he doesn't like something HIS government does and gets his tongue chopped out of his head for speaking his mind, remind him not to come back to the U.S. because (remember?) he doesn't like the "horrible" democratic government of the United States of America. Oh, and what the hell? Rob my resources? America is paying out of our ass for your oil. Invade my land? What the fuck do you call the attacks on the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001? Alter my leadership? Oh, yeh, sorry for messing up your great "leadership" (Saddam/mass murderer/rapist/torturer). Wow, he sounded like a great guy. NOT! Whoever this guy with the sign is, he needs to pull his head out of his ass and look at what's really going on and who the real bad guys in the world are, because it is not America! The Middle East breeds terrorists who attack not only American soil but the world. America is the most powerful nation in the world and we are trying to stop all this shit, and if we don't who will? All you liberal ass-kissers piss people like me off. September 11, 2001. Let's all remember who really started the war.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

LifeSunDeath says:

:( I'm sorry to live in a world with such intolerance. But we can all see here the root of all these problems is greed mixed with stupidity. I don't think religious bias one way of the other will change the underling nature of humanity, rather it gives people an excuse for doing evil things to one another. Bottom line: fuck the world, you are all a bunch of twats anyway.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

NENENIRVANA says:

flickr.com/photos/jaumedurgell/358704871/

The anti-Muslim: Bush (Death Of Face) "War President"
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Joe Mac Stevens says:

hopefully soon we will be rid of Bush and end this war based on lies.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Mark Gelatt says:

BUSH IS NOT FROM TEXAS!
He is a spoiled rich boy from Maine who wishes he was a cowboy!

I live in San Antonio, Texas. Born and raised a real Texan. We have 4 military bases and several other military related areas in SA. (Hospitals, training grounds, etc.) The talk of war is all around. I am blessed that it is just talk.

Much has been said here on this page. I wish I could speak with many of you. The immigration issue here in the US and more specifically Texas, has given me some insight into one issue that is at the heart of the conflict in the middle-east. This issue is buried in one of your “jokes,” Muslim Veganista. You said . . .

“What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land? - A terrorist attack.
What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?- Self-defense”

You said, “Illegally occupied” and more importantly, “his land?”
The Israelites are wrong to claim that land!
And, Palestinians are wrong to claim that land!
Now, let me tell you all a story.
A couple generations from now, when the world’s oil is all gone and those caverns become polluted aquifers beneath destroyed ecosystems, the children will ask, “What happened here?”
Well, there once were these people, who took all that the land had to offer. They sucked the Earth’s resources dry and left only waste before they died. Then the children will ask, “But, why?” They were given a chance to live in abundance, in the wonders of this world, but they called it theirs and THEY THOUGHT THEY OWNED THE LAND. So, they consumed it all in their ignorant greed, leaving nothing for you or for your children. Fret not for these children, for they died before they could cry.

Land ownership is a frivolous concept. When settlers bought land from the Native Americans they paid nearly nothing for it, because these tribes understood that the land was not theirs. Native Americans knew the Earth was merely placed in their trust. The things of this Earth are not our right, but rather our privilege. There will never be peace till we stop thinking of our father’s father, and start thinking of our children’s children.

The Taliban did not attack the US. Most of the "highjackers" are still alive!

Yes, Saddam did need to be removed from power. We are all citizens of the world. Technology had made us all close neighbors, and this forum is further evidence thereof. It is the international community's right and responsibility to immediately remove from power, anyone who commits genocide on any scale. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and Bush CREATED circumstances that he thought gave him cause to TRY and act like a cowboy. (He failed.)
Asma and Edge of Space, thank you for the pic, your love, and a place to vent.

The world needs less people saying "you" and more people saying "we."

We are all ignorant. We are only human. We need to teach each other.
We need to love each other.

Right or wrong, no man can judge. I love you all, for caring enough to comment.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

^Berd says:

It is sad to see humans do so much harm to each other. We ought to hold each other up. We ought to cooperate and learn to love each other.

Instead it seems that there are those amongst us who are willing to kill for reasons of global domination - presumably to satisfy some inner need for superiority (a symptom of low self-esteem perhaps? - perhaps it is simply "evil.").

Change is required. I want future generations to experience a better world, a peaceful world. A world where respect, equity, equality, equitableness, truth and honesty are expressed in relationships between people.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

l.traube says:

Ciao, sono amministratore di un gruppo chiamato Write me!. Ci farebbe piacere aggiungere le tuo foto al gruppo.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

dol2519 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Muslim-Portrait, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

qararander says:

Do you need testimnies? visit the link, and see pictures of Mr.Bush's crime committed just yesterday in khost province of Afghanistan. US led operations kill many innocent every day.

www.tolafghan.com/home/detail/9588
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

orhangazi71 says:

muslim veganista ,I like your poetry, well said
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Semper_Fi_Marine says:

Stupid muzzies.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

bejrawi says:

so true
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

sanchezdot says:

100/100 ;D
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Indian Muslim says:

Great picture and great message! That all the way must appeal to international conscience!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

mikeguo63 says:

I feel a great deal of anguish about the war in Iraq which was started based on false intelligence.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

@KolahStudio.com says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called * Middle Eastern Graffiti, Street Art, and Public Activism, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ȺšóɱɎ says:

he is right
i bet on it
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

magiclook says:

www.flickr.com/photos/magiclook/2590182575/
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Kombizz says:

www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/2657008339/in/s et-721576052...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Tiggee says:

I wish more people would, not only see this, but understand all that it means.

The biggest shame of all is so much of the world is oppressed by their governments and their own ignorance that this couldn't be seen much less understood.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Librarian of history says:

The post is very true and people shouldn't be discriminate if they want to leave their live differently from the people in USA or EU.

But when it comes to the money and resources everything called "democracy" fade away, and there is nothing right, nothing true and everything is unfair, like the oil wars:
- first there was struggle between Iraq and Iran, (west and east);
-then Iraq invaded Kuvajt,
-the West retailed and the first gulf war started and finished, and Iraq was obligated to sell it's oil just for medicine and food;
- the Oil is starting to deplete and Iraq has it's reserves almost in full capacity, so USA as the largest user decide that it should be his, so it attacks it( with "believe" that it has high risk chemical weapons of mass destruction );
-USA conquers Iraq and American Oil companies take over the oil wells for sum of their modernization for the period of the next 10 (110) years. That is the till this moment history of the Iraq situation.

So lets gets somethings clear terrorism has nothing to do with the Muslims as people or religion, more terror is done by the Vatican church than bu the Muslim. But it has only to do as people perception.
Differences of perception :
1. a boy wakes up in a half demolished house from the sounds of bombing: for the people in the boy's country is the worst possible terror somebody is attacking you at night with bombs from above and you can't do anything about it. That for them is terrorism; for the country that bombs innocent children is war action.
2. A bus of military personal is blown away for the nation of the soldier s that a act of terrorism, for the people that put the bomb it's war action.

That is one of the things that I don't like at the "Great war against terrorism" you fight the people that you have terrorized before with acts of new terror; the results are clear, a new wave terror will be born again, and again.

The peace doesn't lie in the globalism process, that is a process that changes the people to act in similar way, but instead in accepting the different cultures as they are without trying to change them.

Accept the people as they are with all of their flaws and improvements over your and they won't thread you as threat, but as friend
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

CK'sPhoto says:

even if the West weren't there you'd be killing each other.. the Middle East knows nothing but conflict
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Ahmad PK says:

100% true
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Perturbed $oul says:

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Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

LONGBOW MAN [deleted] says:

But you don't mind living in our country dispite all this.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

minttea20 says:

Quite sad to read a lot of the bigotry on here, "go back to where you came from" really puts a smile on my face! Freedom is such an overused word, that it has completely lost it's meaning. The placard is a cry for help from someone who has lost hope, and that's a terrible thing to lose.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

aman.ashraff says:

I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said that 'Patriotism Is A Virtue Of The Vicious.'

G.W.B has proven that sentiment to be true to the last letter, using the Islamic world and its people as the victims of his views.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Emy Mae says:

What people don't understand about the Islamic faith is that they are strict in their rejection of Idolatry. They are very strict in rejecting that anything could be as great as God. They worship god and only god. This is not true in the United States. Our government has become a religion. We have such patriotism that, viewed from the outside looking in, we worship it as we worship God. That is where the misunderstanding lies. People can get their panties in a bunch about all the horrible things that America is doing... we should be ashamed... bla bla bla... We have heard it all before. What would actually be a productive use of our energy is to recognize the middle ground in all of this. We have to utilize moderate, liberal muslim groups to take the wind from the extremist groups' sails. How about a little respect too? That would always be nice. America is doing it's best. We are not going to change what is happening right now, but we can shape it. That is how we should approach out government and the middle easts. Don't make radical claims. That's what you do in high school to try and pass your english exam. We are past that. It is time to be real. Let's stop pointing fingers, then maybe everyone can start taking responsibility for their actions.
<3
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

mikesalazarnyc says:

enter the flag desecration contest, its legally protected free speech
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Emy Mae says:

I never said I don't love America. I said we have a stark misunderstanding of each other.

Oh, I forgot, being respectful of Islam makes me unpatriotic. Intolerance, the american way.

I am American. I love my Country. I am not blind. I can love my country and see ways to make it better.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

CK'sPhoto says:

why should anyone be forced to respect Islam when Muslims won't respect other religions?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Emy Mae says:

Prove to me that the majority of muslims don't respect other religions and then I will entertain that comment. I don't know if you could have made a less educated comment.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Vermont Snowflake [deleted] says:

If it wasn't for the West then they wouldn't be holding those signs.. they would be killed. How about that "democracy!"
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Emy Mae says:

wow. sheer brilliance. awesome logic hun. So because we have given them what we like to call "unalienable" rights they should worship us. They should all be indebted to us forever... but they never asked us to do anything for them. That is like giving someone a dollar and then demanding a week later that they pay you back. It doesn't work that way. We do not walk on water. They want to maintain their culture. They have rich traditions that we are threatening. It is perfectly reasonable, and the United States should take this into account.
...oh i forgot... God Blessed America and only America... Who cares what other people think.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

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