U.S. Muslim Children Speak in Poetry: We are one with the People of Gaza
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Safar 5, 1429/ February 12, 2008
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U.S. Muslim Children Speak in Poetry: We are one with the People of Gaza
{From imam Badi Ali, Greensboro, North Carolina}
February 9, 2008; The youth committee of the Islamic Center of the
Triad [ICT] met at Borders Books in Greensboro for a poetry reading session
titled
"To Gaza with Love." Fifteen children read poems during this one hour
program. Some of the poems were very brief but evocative. Here are two of them:
How Our People Live
I look up!
The beautiful sky is smeared with a Jet fighter's trail!
I look at the Horizon!
An ugly monster of steel is rumbling towards us!
Father! Mother! Where are you!
I am scared!
Ya Allah! Make me strong!
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Gaza's Flowers
Little boys and girls
Withering like flower petals
Parents look at them with tearless eyes
Slow creeping hunger and thirst crawls like a snake
Then came the news
The wall is down
thousands crossed into Rafah, the other Rafah
I see my mother opening a bag of flour
Perhaps our flowers will smile again
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We congratulate the children of North Carolina! Other Islamic communities in
USA should use similar creative ways to connect with the global community of
Islam. Remember that intense efforts are underway by agents with Muslim names
to cut off the Muslims of America from the Muslims of the world. How shameful
it is that a CAIR-ISNA-MAS related group took Muslim children to the Pentagon.
One of our brothers will provide details on this sickening episode soon.
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