MT. Akbar

La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah. Filthy settler’s sought to defame and desecrate the Prophet pbuh, “The Mercy to Mankind” and the graves of Muslims in Hebron Palestine.  Do they even know who the Prophet is? They are extremists, deluded by the devil and their own desires and in the end are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

The symbolism couldn’t be anymore stark. The same place that a manufactured toppling of Saddam’s statue took place the people of Iraq burned down an effigy of Bush.

The truth is the people of Iraq can not stand occupation as it has wrecked their country and their lives. It is also a revolt against the status of forces agreement which the US and some Iraqi leaders are trying to push through, the people of Iraq will never stand for such an agreement. Such agreements under occupation are always coercive and never in the interests of the occupied.

It’s provisions also remind me of one of the catalysts for the Iranian Revolution and that was the topic of immunity from prosecution for foreign (Western) workers and in this case soldiers. Essentially saying that the country has no jurisdiction to prosecute those who commit crimes on their land. This is ironic since the whole Iraq war has been criminal.

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All I got to say is LOL. Humor sometimes is a necessary break from the craziness of the world.

I’ve been having a discussion on Islam, democracy, and some other subjects on sister Gess‘s website, at the same time I picked up a book by Professor Cornel West, “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism” that I borrowed from a good friend. 

Professor Cornel West is one of the very visible liberal popular public intellectuals who appears on many forums discussing various subjects mostly in regards to race, theology, philosophy and history.  I have watched a few of his lectures and I find much that is compelling and engaging but also some ideas that give me pause and seem to contradict his own methodologies and principles.  So I viewed this opportunity to read his book as a way to get a better knowledge of where he is coming from, what he has to say and what solutions he is advocating.

The book is about the importance of Democracy “matters” (used as both a noun and a verb), threats to Democracy matters both in America and around the world, the need to reinvigorate Democratic forces interlaced with historical background and shared experiences.  West declares that there are three nihilisms at work in American Democracy that need to be overcome: Evangelical nihilism, paternalistic nihilism, and sentimental nihilism. (more…)