From the desk of the Amazing ‘Ainur…

Assalamualaikum w.b.t and kia ora…

I know I should do this last week…I meant to do this last week, but alas, I forgot…I let myself get

distracted…last week marked the 40^th anniversary of Israel’s ILLEGAL occupation of Palestinian lands (i.e.the West Bank, Arab East Jerusalem)…Israel began their military occupation of these lands in 1967…40 years have passed…still no sign that the Israeli government is ready to relinquish their (ILLEGAL) hold over Palestinian lands…for 40 years the Palestinians are forced to live as refugees inside their own land…for 40 years they are subjected to all sorts of indignities and are forced to endure endless oppression and humiliation…think Israel’s checkpoints, curfews, closures, raids, “security fence” a.k.a separation wall/ apartheid wall, collective punishments…so, this is me saying “No!” to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands…and “No!” to Israel’s apartheid…enough’s enough…this has been going on for far too long…when the Palestinians suffer, they make the Israelis suffer…the IDF then step up their offensive on the Palestinians…and the Palestinians retaliate by stepping up their offensive on the Israelis…and we all know what will happen next…violence begets more violence…nothing good is going to come out of this…this has got to stop…so I’m saying “NO!” to Israel’s ILLEGAL occupation of Palestinian lands…it’s time to end the occupation…

while I’m at it, I might as well say “NO!” to other things…I’m also saying “NO!” to the following things:

-fighting between Palestinian rival factions (come on, guys…this is counterproductive…do you seriously think that this fighting is going to bolster your cause?)

-fighting between Shias and Sunnis in Iraq (there are other ways to have fun, you know)

-fighting in the name of religion and God (you people ought to be ashamed of yourselves…you give religion and God a bad rep…I’ve got two words for you: DIVINE RETRIBUTION…be afraid…be very, very afraid…)

-ethnic cleansing and genocide (think Darfur…if we let this continue, we are going to have another “Rwanda” weighing on our conscience)

-anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of racism…and discrimination on the basis of religion, race, nationality, sex, etc…and incitement…(nothing can justify these things…it doesn’t matter if we think we are right and other people are wrong or mistaken or abnormal…there’s no excuse for treating people like worthless trash…)

-nuclear warfare and arms races (sometimes the more is not the merrier) and wars (we cannot do these things and call ourselves civilized people)

-ALL forms of terrorism…that includes state-sponsored terrorism…no more bombings, hijackings of plane, abductions, grisly beheadings, etc…the US government pledge to stop terrorism but they themselves participate in terrorism (I consider going into other people’s countries and bombing their towns and villages as terrorism…that, and supporting other state(s) to perpetrate acts of terror)…how’s that for irony?

-women looking like stick insects…this whole ‘size-zero’ thing is sickening…thin I can accept…but I draw the line at stick-thin…I don’t get why any woman would want to subject herself to regimented and torturous diet…I don’t see anything good about starving yourself to death…life’s too short for diets…and remember, moderation is the key…

-all Lindsay Lohans, Britney Spears, Paris Hiltons, Nicole Richies of the world…what’s so cute about acting dumb?…dumbness is not an attractive quality in any woman…or man, for that matter…dumb is not hot…there’s no cure for idiocy…the thing that I find very, very disturbing is the fact that there are girls out there who look up to and aspire to be like these IT girls…they drive on the wrong side of the highway, do drugs, drink like there’s no tomorrow, get photographed panty-less, go in and out of hospitals all the time, go in and out of rehab all the time…wow, I get it…they are real model citizens…

-activities that destroy our environment…I’ve jumped on the bandwagon…I’m going green too…like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio, I couldn’t think of anyone else…seriously, we’ve got to start paying more attention to our environment…you hear? no more open burning, excessive consumption of energy, excessive emission of CFC and carbon dioxide, couldn’t think of anything else…the Earth, which is currently the only planet in which we could live in, can no longer tolerate us and our destructive ways…let’s all go green…

That’s about all I could think of…my brain’s shutting down from lack of sleep…or too much sleep, I forgot which…feel free to add to my list, though…if you guys are on your break, enjoy your break…be safe…take good care of yourself…if you don’t do it, no one will…and go out and be happy…happiness is key…gotta go…

‘ainur rahmah ellias

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