i MUST address something ....

You wake up and the first headlines you see is more bombings in Baghdad, Iraq - not exactly an appropriate start to the month of Ramdhan. As i am writing this its nearly 7am in Baghdad - fasts have gone underway and now its the preparation of burying their dead. Its heart wrenching and its so sad seeing that the lastests deaths (as of this mornings headlines) are that of WOMEN & CHILDREN killed by their own - their own country men people who practice the same faith as them . . Sure.. dont believe the media but seeing headlines like just gets you so upset - gets you thinking wishing that it would all stop ..

I have chosen not to address an issue that has bothered me all week but this morning i feel like i should and need too. Obviously suicide bombing is inevitable for some ignorants but i wish that would stop (for good) and think if they so claim themselves Muslims that killing innocents - your own or other is wrong in Islam . Killing is just wrong what more having it done in this blessed month.

They think its Ramadhan and they have reason for further uprisings and this i am sure has gotten the military worried (again news source) - that these people would use this month as means of carrying out more attacks - what are they thinking? Because you die in the holy month you are guaranteed heaven? I say think again ....... Ramadhan is a month of worship, a month of mercy , forgiveness not an excuse for an uprising. Why potray negativity to the world about Islam when they can potray peace and the true essence of what Islam is - the brotherhood in strengthening relationships, in congregational prayers, in helping each other go about their daily day in a peaceful manner.

I will never understand being in a country at war and i hope i will never ever have to find out but i understand what it is to be Muslim but i dont understand why KILL your own??? Whats the justification in that? Couldnt that just as well be a relative? A friend? your own children? wife? mother?

It is truly upsetting that when you turn the television set on what you is death destruction and they use Islam as a reason. There bigger more and important jihads - a jihad within yourself , a jihad in working towards the here after and in this case i dont mean blowing themselves and thinking they would go to heaven with hope of a hundred virgins waiting. Condemm me if anyone have to but i write on day that i hold so much respect for and seeing other Muslims not taking it the way that it suppose to be taken just infuriates me. I love my faith , what it stands for and what i know it is - and what it DOESNT STAND FOR IS FUNDAMENTALIST OR EXTREMISM OR THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE regardless of what its being potrayed by the people and the media of course how can we forget the cult of bin laden whose ideologies have poisioned the minds of many whose knowledge on Islam is limited.

Writing this seems like deja vu to me and the events that have shrouded Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Muslim world seems all too familiar. The attack on the mosque on during Friday prayers was another incident that isnt new at all - imagine fellow Muslims attacking their own during a time of worship in the house of Allah.. A sacred place - funny how you protect the mosque from others yet its being tarnised by its own followers.its so disrecpectful . One calls themselves a Muslim yet they attack a house of worship - real smart. Again where is the justification in that? Their point in doing so being?....... Where is the respect for your faith for the house of God?

The actions of one shouldnt be the justification for taking anothers life. The Pope made some misintreped remarks with regard to Islam and violence and apologized for his actions - i do believe to err is human to forgive devine? So why is it that in retaliation for his actions an innocent Catholic nun got shot in Somilia? Why other Catholics are being attacked? The world should really stop living in a world where one member of a certain faith or race does something bad and they assume that the whole group is bad .... a little shallow i would think .. This whole act of taking the life of another without reason is embarrasing to me as Muslim and i condone the actions of the man who shot the nun. What did she ever do to him? You dont fight fire with fire unless your'e in an uncivilzied world then again the world we live in todays seems to be headed that way ..

So after all this ranting i wonder if there will ever be an end and maybe i should lay off the news for a little while because i am tired of hearing about the killings and deaths of people from all sides and i am tired of people hiding behind the veil of religion - to cover up their actions - using it as a means of justifying their actions when in fact their actions only potray a group of ignorants who have no respect for their faith, places of worships, their holy days and months and for their own.

Again we all feel the same pain ...... be it physically or emotionally we are afterall human.

i can only hope and pray that all this will end and we will all live in peace and when we switch on the television one day we see good news of living and not bad news of dying .... wishful thinking but hopeful .. maybe not in this lifetime hopefully the next..

So i end this ranting session with prayers for those involved in these crisis - the innocent victims, the soldiers who are far away from home,pray for their hurt and pain and the live that they are living admist the war ... i hope some sort or miracle would happen for these people ..

I think i am done ranting ... I got most of what i wanted out of my system out. ..

Well time to go tend to my plants.... much better thought .. :)