Don't be surprised. This is a description of the beautiful women waiting for residents of Heaven. On the first day of Ramadhan, mbc1, the Saudi TV channel broadcasted a TV show with this title.
Every episode is introduced by a sentence reads "To the souls of the victims of terrorism, this series is dedicated." Then a sad and slow music Plays in the background with two singers.
"Light a candle,don't use fire. Wipe a tear, don't victimize an innocent person," they sing
Mbc1 advertised the show before the holy month, which made people eager to watch.
"They killed my children, no God but Allah," wailed a woman near a place ablaze in explosion fire. Sarcastically, the director showed an episode of one of the so-called Mujahideen [holy warriors] saying, "This is a victory for the Mujahideen."
The story of the show is about a group of Arab families-from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco- working in Saudi Arabia and all of them live in a housing complex in Riyadh. Part of the story talks about a Saudi young man who is working hard restlessly to find a job. This young man met with someone calling himself "a true believer". This wicked "believer" is trying to make the young man have a job. Huh, but what a job.
"The true believer" starts his wicked plans by talking about religion to the young man who attends the mosque to pray as other people, in that part of the world, do everyday in Ramadhan. He started by asking him where his brother is and what is he doing abroad. "He is among the infidels" he said of the young man's brother in the west. The "true believer" was trying to poison the young man's mind with things like these and trying to make him believe that when he becomes a Mujahid [a holy warrior], he will be among Alhoor Alain.
Eventually, the "true believer" makes the young man join a terrorist group, turning the housing compound into hell.
This is part of the story. The other part is that most of these families are torn apart. For example, the father of the Jordanian family uses his violence against his son who eventually escapes and probably joins the terrorist group.
This is the first kind of series TV shows to be broadcasted on an Arab channel. It shows the reality of how terrorism is destroying the lives of the innocent people.
Terrorism increased in the Arab countries to change the life of the people to worse. Terrorists are attacking resorts, hotels, governmental buildings and moved to killing the innocent people.
In Iraq, these terrorists, who unfortunately convinced themselves they will have Alhoor Alain in heaven, are turning Iraq into hell, a real hell. Explosions, killings, kidnappings, beheadings. They are the perpetrators.. The disaster is that they do that under the name of Islam. They even distorted the image of God.
Yesterday, I was discussing this with a friend of mine. "It could happen my mother and your mother," my friend, who blogs on 24 Steps to Liberty, said when the episode of the women wailing was on T.V. He was right.
Also, vice versa could happen. Last year a car bomb exploded in front of the school where my mother teaches. She was horrified. If she was near the main gate, she would have gone forever and that is what I don't want to imagine.
We'll meet with the updates on the show.
I would like to have seen a show like this one about families who have their fathers, mothers and grown up children working in the Weapon factory in the U.S, UK and other democratic countries. About the people who run these multimillion weapon factories in the democratic countries. About the people who in the army are ready to attack and kill people from a country that never attacked them. Why not debate that too on the Saudi Arabian TV?
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Is their bombing worse than ours?
Saree Makdisi, Electronic Iraq
“American and British media have devoted hours to wondering what would drive a seemingly normal young Muslim to destroy himself and others. No one asked what would cause a seemingly normal young Christian or Jew to strap himself into a warplane and drop bombs on a village, knowing full well his bombs will kill civilians”
http://electroniciraq.net/news/printer2087.shtml
The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism
Robert Pape: Over the past two years, I have collected the first complete database of every suicide-terrorist attack around the world from 1980 to early 2004.
This research is conducted not only in English but also in native-language sources—Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and Tamil, and others—so that we can gather information not only from newspapers but also from products from the terrorist community.
The terrorists are often quite proud of what they do in their local communities, and they produce albums and all kinds of other information that can be very helpful to understand suicide-terrorist attacks.
This wealth of information creates a new picture about what is motivating suicide terrorism. Islamic fundamentalism is not as closely associated with suicide terrorism as many people think. The world leader in suicide terrorism is a group that you may not be familiar with: the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
This is a Marxist group, a completely secular group that draws from the Hindu families of the Tamil regions of the country. They invented the famous suicide vest for their suicide assassination of Rajiv Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea of the suicide vest from the Tamil Tigers.
TAC: So if Islamic fundamentalism is not necessarily a key variable behind these groups, what is?
RP: The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland.
From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign—over 95 percent of all the incidents—has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html
I wish they had an English version, not to be imperialistic but because I want to see it! Days of our Terroristic Lives. Around the Terrorist World Turns. Hours in the Sandglass....
ReplyDeleteTo Nadia and Saree Makdisi
ReplyDeleteI do understand your point of view.
I think that you yourself would have removed Sadam Hussain, you just did not get the chance.
I also understand that if your brothers want to kill your compatriots, that is OK, I mean this is really the fault of americans and the west.
I am a little bit suprised that mujahadins do kill as many Iraqis as they do soldiers of occuping forces and your police but police is a fair game isn't it, they are collaborating with americans. But then, why so many of you complain about criminals? If you do kill police then you do not have security, or perhaps I am wrong?
I do understand that targetting western NGO's is also OK, after all they are the worst the West can offer. Oh, and I did forgot tourists in Egypt, they are westerners in muslim country, they should not be there.
ramadan karim to all of you.
The Middle East Media Research Institute has some interesting stuff on ME media. Worth a dekko.
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“American and British media have devoted hours to wondering what would drive a seemingly normal young Muslim to destroy himself and others. No one asked what would cause a seemingly normal young Christian or Jew to strap himself into a warplane and drop bombs on a village, knowing full well his bombs will kill civilians”
ReplyDeleteI guess the two sides feed on each other these days. The Xian and jew afraid of muslim lads strapped with bombs. The Muslim lad fidhting the bombs and planes the only way he can :(
Uh, ja Nadia. Dat soundz brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI am studying the Qur'an, but it is very slow going..I tend to read again the same Sura, So I have read about 20 of the oldest ones. I would like to know where in the Qur'an it talks about the promice of virgins in the next world for martyrs.
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Hey EdoRiver,
ReplyDeleteu can find it here:
http://quran.al-islam.com/Targama/DispTargam.asp?nType=1&nSora=56&nAya=22&nSeg=1&l=arb&t=eng
Waqia Chapter, line 22
The Last War
ReplyDeleteFreedom, Peace and Security will NEVER be won nor secured by the sword, another war will always need to be fought to end the fear of the sharp blade against the vital thoughts of change.
The last war will be waged without soldiers or freedom fighters, without blood shed or death, no rockets red glare, no bombs bursting anywhere.
The last war will not cause suffering, broken hearts, splintered spirits, or shattered bodies and souls, the creation of nature and man will not be crushed under the rolling thunder of armored machines, chemicals will not rain down from above, maniacal viruses will not attack from within, suicide terror raids, genocide, and nuclear holocaust will have no place in the last war, the casualties will be the end of competition, industry, government and religion which plan for and carry out the destruction, addiction and control of others.
The last war will be waged BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE, a war where all things will be TREATED as equal, a war employing weapons of MASS COOPERATION, battles fought and won with tolerance for all, understanding of difference, awareness of responsibility, a war in which compassion and love conquer and destroy the final evil enemy of humankind, the last war, the mother of all wars, the war to end all wars, must be waged upon fear.
We the People, declare a global war on fear.
How do we the people start this war, how do we wage this war, how do we the people win the last war ?
We start by turning away from those who support fear, by denying our services, our employment, our political, financial, moral and spiritual support to those who build and profit from the economy of competition, addiction and war.
We wage the last war by demanding that our energy and environment be clean and renewable, by demanding that the thousands of billions of dollars spent yearly on making the weapons and means of war be shifted and added to the nearly meaningless hundreds of billions which is reluctantly parted out for social, health, education and domestic infrastructure.
We win the last war by simply entrusting our votes, our support, our children's and grandchildren's lives to those of US whose words and actions - DELIVER - compassion, love and truth.
We the people can, will and must defeat fear.
©Bruce Larson*Moore
Of Poetic*Service
Global*Luvolution
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www.timeless-ink-press.com
Last War Bruce.
ReplyDeleteNice idea. And not impossible. Here in India, Mahatma Gandhi managed to sell peace to an illiterate, violent, divided country and managed to chase the British, who now police Basra, away.
No comments about what happened to us after that though ;)
Silencing society
ReplyDeleteNoah Peters, Cavalier Daily Opinion Columnist THE ENTIRE premise of "freedom of speech" is that there is no absolute truth, no absolute orthodoxy.
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You need to recognize the difference between the principles and the Iraqi people the Americans are fighting to help.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans will stay and fight with the Iraqi people long enough to ensure they have the means to defend themselves and no longer.
Those who equate these brave fighters with the terrorists are worse than naive - they are irresponsible and they support the continuation of terror rather than its ending. They did nothing to stop Saddam and now they do nothing to defend the beginning of a democratic Iraq.
Flatlander,
ReplyDeleteMost of your post is utterly incomprehensible.
Those who equate these brave fighters with the terrorists are worse than naive...
On the contrary, it is you who refuses to enlighten yourself. The occupation's brutality is fueling the insurgency.
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ReplyDeleteyankee go home,
ReplyDeleteat what point does the brutality of the insurgency begin to fuel the counterinsurgency? When that happens, will the brutality of the counter-insurgency fuel the insurgency?
And what of saddam's trial? If the insurgency says that saddam was justified in his actions, then are they not also saying that the government would be justified to act similarly against them?
It is one thing to fight the americans. It is quite another to slaughter twenty Iraqi for every american. You can only hide an elephant behind a fencepost for so long. I think almost everyone can now see the elephant.
It is time for the violence to end. The solution is simple. The moderate sunni need to join forces with the moderate shia and work within the halls of governance.
It would be illuminating to have a show like this broadcast in 'Coalition' nations, but of course this doesn't happen. There is this trend in the media that more or less causes daily divisions where I am and it can be alarming but I see it as a form of operant conditioning that acts to numb people or fill them with a hatred of dubious origin.I think one of the most vile ideas that have been proposed in my country, by two female politicians is the banning of the Hijab for girls in Islamic Colleges here. This proposition was rejected by our Prime Minister and in light of all the so called feminism of our era, it was an example of little progress.
ReplyDeleteThere are days where I don't know what to make of everything that is happening. One thing I do know is that underneath the veil of religion, the motivations are primal and speak of a discontent that is astronomical. These people who decide to end their lives and kill others in the process, do begin life as ordinary people and this is what the media tends to forget and this is the part that governments don't even desire to acknowledge because that would mean searching for the reasons behind such actions and if they examined these reasons, then it would all more or less make some type of sense.
The most alarming interview I read this week was in Time Magazine, and even so, I still don't know what is 'true' and what isn't, because journalists tend to color stories and they always obscure their source. The story is titled 'Professor of Death' and details the work of 'Abu Qaqa al-Tamimi' (pseudonym for whomever) who is said to have helped organised 30 suicide attacks in the past year.
I'm not sure what these articles mean to me, what they mean to everyone else in the world. They detail events as they occur but they don't really give any light into the duration of such events and there is no real logic.
How I see Iraq in 2005?
I see it as another Israel, the one that existed during the Crusades, the same one that was occupied by Crusaders (how much wealth did they gain? Plenty). The Arab world doesn't need religious 'infighting' as such fighting is endless, what they need is another Salah ad-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub.
People in my 'town' laugh at me when I mention the word 'Crusade', 'oh it's not a crusade' they'll say. How could it be a crusade?
But when various media networks show one side in an unpleasant light, whilst uplifting the other side or inflating that side's supposed benevolence, what can it be called. In the US, there is debate on whether 'intelligent' design should be taught, just because Bush proposed it, there have even been discussions in Australia on whether or not 'Intelligent Design' be taught as opposed to evolution in schools. Our scientists here have disagreed, claiming Intelligent Design to be fallacious and unscientific.
We often hear of Fundamentalism as associated with Islam, but there is also another side to it, it's not exclusive to Islam and I wish people in Coalition nations would understand this. There is another type of Fundamentalism, be it Christian or whatever, and that's what we see currently in the United States where certain people oppose Stem Cell research 'because it contravenes natural 'law' or whatever excuse they use - but it's always a Christian excuse.
and yet, when a missile is launched and it hits the wrong target, that target being civilian. 'It's a mistake'.
There are people who get fired at their normal ordinary jobs for making a mistake and yet these people, who make mistakes with lives at the press of one button, still proclaim their faith and devotion to a 'cause'. It's hypocritical, definitely, whereas it's not hypocritical to say 'yes I am going to kill you', which is what many suicide bombers 'say'.
But even so, it doesn't justify the elimination of innocent life, whatever the religion.
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