Just watched The Pianist...
Holy moly! Quite a movie...shook me shook me shook me...and here's why!
We all know abt Herr Hitler. Janab Izzat Maab Sahib Hitler killed around 6 million jews {at least according to American Stats) between 1938 and 1944 under his clean-the-world-from-jews fund drive...and ain't that funny! That was the last straw that broke the world' back...and had everyone clamouring for one place for the Jews to live...and surprise surprise! They ended up in Palestine...funny, huh?
Lemme clear up something right at the beginning. I am not racist...or if I am to be brutally honest, not very. I still think no matter what plan God had made for the Jews and no matter how much they've been driven out from wherever they've ever lived, one can't simply kill an entire community just because their beliefs are different. I remember a time when I used to hate them because of what I knew was happening to Muslims in Palestine (it still is! I hate the Israelites because of that, and no other reason, yes!) and because Hazrat David Duke, that Great American Racist Asshole, had made a point to take selected verses out of the Old Testament concerning Gentiles (by the by, I'm still not clear on that. hmm...I should check that out soon) and done the right thing for the wrong reasons by painting a graphic picture of the massacre of the Palestinian especially that Great American Martyr (may God rest her soul in Jannah! I don't care, fundas, if she was a non-Muslim. I really don't!), Rachel Carrie, who died while protecting a Palestinian home from Israeli bulldozers. O Rachel! I swear upon Allah's name you are at the top of the list of martyrs in my heart. I hope I can do something for my people someday what you did for them just because you thought they were in the right...
...I will begin to cry now, so lemme go on before I'm too weary of heart to...
David Duke is a pro-white man. Like an American Muslim friend of mine pointed out, he's telling the Americans the right things for the wrong reasons...and that sucks. Americans are stupid white men, as Michael Moore so eloquently put it. On average, an illiterate cabbie in Pakistan knows more about what's going on in the world than an educated American. Every one knows that...and like the guy whose wife is cheating on him, the Americans are the last to find out about those events in the normal course of time. It's their press, it's their culture, it's the web of their daily life. I was in the US for sometime (in Boston to be specific!) and I saw what their problems were...and they were a multitude.
Anyways, Duke has a site where he tells everyone who cares to have a lookie what's going on behind the scenes. Here you go: http://www.duke.org/...but my point is make sure you understand that he's after everyone whose not a white man. If the Jews were not such big fish, he'd be after us, Muslims...in a way he is too...I for one would never want myself to be associated with a Racist Pig...but unfortunately I am not aware of very many educated Americans who've online expositories. So bear with my remotest association with Duke, and read what he writes, wary too of his beliefs. In other words, read the facts, shrug off the wrapping they came in!
Jews are a dilemma. I don't know very much about them (I intend to know soon enuff, though!), but I do realise they're being complete assholes. Mayhap that's because they were suppressed for so long that they are willing to kill everyone who tries to root out their supremacy in world finances and politics. After all, there is no denying that right now they hold the Key to the power bank of the World's Greastest Power currently, America. I do know, also, that the younger Israelites are becoming restless. Just like the young generation of Muslims, who boo and pah at their elders' suggestion that 'All Jews are our enemies", I'm sure that there's right now a Jew boy sitting somewhere a thousand miles off, clattering away on his typewriter about the horrific sights that he has to see everyday...how he's heard his parents talk about how the Israelites have their plans to make the next raid on the banks of Gaza. I sympathise with him. Perhaps, I cry for him. I understand what he feels...and how badly I want to tell him that he's my brother...that this world and its affairs are so sordid and confusing that every effort becomes in vain in its entirety. Like Ghalib said, no hope comes to pass; no entity is seen to help.
The funny thing is (according to Karen Armstrong) jews and Muslims have lived in immense peace for the past 1000 years (apart from when they were asked to leave Arab when their tribes were determined to wipe out the then few Muslims and cause problems in Mohammad's mission). It was the Christians who kept kicking their ass for more than many hundred years.
But the world is changing. Iqbal said, he couldn't show us what his eyes saw. I wish I saw what he did see. That's my only hope for my world. Everytime something happens somewhere, my heart aches. I'm tired of my heart aching, of finding myself in tears (like an old woman!) everytime I read a line on how many people died in Iraq or Palestine or in Wana, Pakistan. Didn't those who die once start life like you and I did? Didn't they also play with their brothers and sisters and try to beat each other in mini-races and high jump contests? Didn't they have some one who loved them, a woman who sat on her chair and look towards the horizon, hoping for any sign or letter or sight of her beloved? Where are they? Is love so cheap? Is beauty so worthless?
Anyway, I have tears in my eyes now. I must stop soon, so lemme go on while I can...
The Pianist is beauty itself. It happened to a Polish musician sometime somewhere (check the credits! The movie is based on Spilman's autobiography)...and God how he suffered! How humans suffer!
But he held on...plus he was lucky. He survived. He saw the death of his entire family and his friends...I can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like. Damn Hitler for doing what he did!
(I still haven't read Mein Kamp. Till I do, no use telling me what Hitler thought he was doing!) But what about now, dear jews? What now? You're doing the exact same thing to other people, perhaps worse! You call them suicide-bombings. Have you ever thought what would drive someone to tie a bomb on their chest and climb calmly into a bus and pull the pin? Have you ever thought of doing it? How about taking a gun and pointing to your temple and playing Russian Roulette? Can you do that?
The point is there's a reason for most actions of people. Forget accidents. I can understand accidents happen all the time. But deliberate acts of self-terrorism take courage and a certain hopelessness I hope God never makes me feel (although I'm already half-way there!). Even so, like a poet friend of mine pointed out, most 'accidents' like these don't just happen. They take years to nurture themselves.
How about digging amongst yourselves, my dear American friends? How about reading up on world history instead of simply watching American History X and crying? How about pausing in the middle of the Subway Station and for one damn second, trying to really see how deliberately ignorant the people around you really are...
I love you all, my fellow humans. So does God...but make sure we keep striving to fight for justice. Just the other day, I pointed out a verse of the Quran that says Muslims are supposed to go help any women and children who are oppressed...and there's absolutely no condition of Islam on the said women and children.
We would all do well to remember that...
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