Poetry and Short Stories
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While the rank and file of defiant Hamas
Locked down the city for imminent attack
While the suffering mothers of the Gaza strip
Gathered up their brood for a perilous trip
While the tanks and the trucks of the IDF
Charged along the highway like a crazed express
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“Make hay while the sun shines.”
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Come make the hay!
While high the sun is shining! (*2)
As when it rains, yes, when it rains and when it rains and rains
Your fears disintegrate in
The Sea without a shore.
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My dear beloved friends and colleagues,
We are gathered here once again to confront evil, like the time when we united to confront and triumph over the spectre of Hitler’s Germany. We are gathered here again to stand up for the cause of freedom, for the hope of freedom, for our god-given ability to determine our lives for ourselves and for our children. We are gathered here again, ladies and gentlemen, we are united here, we are one and will remain one, the same way as we did when we fought off those nefarious Nazis and blew them out of their panzers and their headquarters, kicking their mission for a Nazi hell-on-earth into the depths of oblivion! We are gathered here once again dear friends!
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Before, I thought it all a hopeless mess
Imagined all a helpless cry of distress
Considered all a hapless guess
Rejected all a heartless process
Abandoned all, a homeless essence
Until I found it All a hidden blessing
Discovered All a hopeful beginning
Accepted All a history of genesis
Unveiled to All a heavenly gnosis
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The prince of truth and martyrdom,
Al Hussain Ibn Ali!
The prince of youth and cherubim,
Al Hussain Ibn Ali!
The denouncer of ignorance,
Al Hussain Ibn Ali!
The splendour of the Prophet’s glance,
Al Hussain Ibn Ali!
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Recently several journalists have sought to interview me about Samantha Lewthwaite because I contributed to a BBC Radio 4 programme about her a few years ago. I chose not to speak this time because I had nothing more to add about her on a personal level.
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Trojan Horse? More Like Scapegoat Cast Onto the Azazel of Assimilation
04 Jun 2014 at 22:38
Novid Shaid
Articles, Commentary
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The popular media coverage and the whistle-blowing in the “trojan horse” saga ring of such misunderstandings and misconceptions, that they are guilty of, unwittingly or otherwise, misguiding the public. To the public, the westro-centric press are misrepresenting a dogged, determined goat, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a religion of peace that hides within its shell hordes of misogynists, creationists and puritans, itching to infiltrate, to break out and invade our empire of freedom. But in reality, what the media and officials have really done is to grab hold of the goat by its goatee and lead it to oblivion as an offering, in the hope that some positivist epiphany and blessing will rain down upon Birmingham and Britain, bringing down an epoch of multi-cultural love of Britishness and secular democracy. The gods of progress yearn for their sacrifices.
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