We need to evolve through times. U know we are no longer the military might we once were. Let's do jihad with our intellect and with our minds instead of with swords. Once again, we need rational leaders. Look at the leaders that we had. MUBARAK in Egypt. Assad in Syria. Gadafi in Libya. SADDAM in Iraq. All iron fist dictators. Our leaders betrayed us. Nobody else.
I'm not Palestinian. Libyan. Iraqi or Egyptian. As a matter of fact, I grew up in the United States and as you know from a previous discussion that I had with you on the message board I used to be a journalist and report the news. Once I got my foot in the door at the major news networks and I saw just how clueless the journalists were about the situation at hand I began to question a lot of things. You know something is wrong when there are articles being put online that say one thing when you send them in by deadline but paint an entirely different picture by the time they are printed for the public to see. I'm not saying that every news article that comes out about this conflict is wrong but many of them that I read do in fact have an agenda.
But I suppose you won't listen to anything that I say either because I am a woman and you don't value my opinion or simply because I had a change of heart while actually working with some of the major news networks in the U.S. I never shared my revert story on this message board but I used to hate Islam and I used to hate Muslims. I thought that the U.S. could do no wrong and that Palestinians had no right to that land and they were all terrorists. Much of this I learned from watching news networks and being indoctrinated to believe this in public schools that all "Islamists" are bad and oppressive and I felt sorry for anyone who was a Muslim--especially the women.
Now, it's actually been a little over 1 year since I became a Muslim, alhamdulillah, and I do have a background in international politics with an emphasis especially on areas of intelligence within the agencies. My dear brother you have to be very blind if you think that it was simply those "leaders" who failed the people. Do you realize that in order to protect the U.S. interests, this country has the power to put people in office who will comply to what they want? It is no secret and the U.S. takes pride in it. I used to marvel at how much power the U.S. has on the global political landscape and I actually wanted to work for one of the agencies to help rid the world of Islam and other religions or countries that try to get in the way. Astagfirullah.
But after I learned about the Israeli-Palestianian conflict I realized that something was very wrong with my views and that there was an entire side of the story that I really had no idea about. It set in and burned into my brain even more after I visited the holocaust museum in D.C. because I saw some similarities between the stories of the people who lived to tell it there and what was happening in Palestine. It simply wasn't right.
I guess the problem that I have with what you're saying as a Muslim is that it's a lot of what I said in my days of ignorance. I understand that intelligence and not the sword should be used to fight against the occupation of Palestine but I don't think you have any right to post on this message board and say they're not smart for even using the sword because you're not in that position. Do you really think you would not jump to take up arms if your family was killed by some arrogant soldier? Even though I consider myself a calm person I can't even say that I would fight with my intellect from the start. I feel for them now more than I ever had in the past now that I became a Muslim and I cry for them knowing what is happening and knowing that I am in no position to help at this point and time. It is something about this Ummah that I am now apart of to make me feel such strong emotions for people that I don't know...
Yeah, you're right about the intellect. But it makes no sense to me why you would bash them when there is an entire country that should KNOW BETTER than to even think of oppressing an entire group of people like this! Especially after what happened to them. There is no excuse. Even the UN knows it.
I guess I just don't feel comfortable with you is all, Cashew. If some federal agency came to pick me up from a picnic in the park with sisters from the masjid alleging I was involved in some type of terror activity earlier that day even though you saw me earlier that day at the exact time and place they said that it happened because the masjid took everyone out for a hike that morning, I feel like you'd point them right over to arrest me simply because
they said I did it despite that fact that you saw me and you knew that I didn't do it. I feel like you would believe them over me and even what your own eyes see.
But they've made it clear that they won't target civilians, all these false flag operations are done by western-backed militias or blackwater. Divide and conquer you get me?