There is say in my native language hindi... "Suraj ke upar thooko ge to thook tumhare upar girega" In english translation... "if you spit on Sun, it will come back to you".. almost.. some convicted fellow or moron says something about someone who is ultimate God for you.. your God won't become what the convicted fellow says.. God will remain God.. it is up to you to define your God.. not on some one else..
This is totally relevant for Muslim world.. all the recent events only show their insecurity.. their ignorance.. any tom-dick-harry says anything about Islam or Prophet Muhammad.. doesn't mean Islam or Prophet Muhammad will become what this tom-dick-harry says.. Prophet Muhammad is Prophet Muhammad and will always remain so.. if you think he is supreme God for you he will remain.. He won't become something else.. just because some convicted fellow says something else about him..
Come on guys... wake up.. stop dreaming and come out of your cocoon.. there are seven or eight billion people in this planet earth.. in this era of internet.. you have to face it... you can start picking up fight for every tom-dick-harry's every statement.. and spend life just doing this.. or you can simply ignore it work towards better life for yourself and your fellow citizens.. We can say tens or thousands of things about this situation and blame each other for millions or zillions reasons.. there is no end to it.. just.. just.. Chill.. there is some thing called ignorance.. ignore.. morons.. and move on.. It is such a short life.. such a beautiful earth.. so fortunate to have this life.. enjoy life.. don't destroy life..
I personally, being an atheist.. hate all this violence in the name of god.. Whatever I understand religion.. God is suppose to bring peace to this world.. not the hatred and violence.. if et all he or she exists.. in which ever form..
Sorry about this touchy topic.. but that is the reason for this blog... to express my feelings.. I am against all kind of violence in any form.. I somehow feel that with the progress all around.. we are getting more and more greedy and fearful.. which is driving all this fanatism towards religion..
GAZA CITY: Palestinian Hamas supporters burn a U.S. flag to protest a video ridiculing the Islamic religion.
DHAKA: Islamic activists pray during a protest. Anger spread beyond the Middle East to nearly 20 countries.
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE: The bodies of four Americans came home.
CAIRO: A protester braves tear gas, preparing to throw stones.
AFGHANISTAN: Protesters shout anti-American slogans.
The State Department confirmed that protesters had penetrated the perimeters of the U.S. embassies in the Tunisian and Sudanese capitals, and said that 65 embassies or consulates had issued emergency messages about threats of violence, and that those facilities in Islamic countries were curtailing diplomatic activity. The Pentagon said it dispatched Marines to protect embassies in Yemen and Sudan.
The wave of unrest not only increased concern in the West but also raised new questions about political instability in Egypt, Tunisia and other Middle East countries where newfound freedoms, once suppressed by autocratic leaders, have given way to an absence of authority. The protests also seemed to highlight the unintended consequences of U.S. support of movements to overthrow those autocrats, which have empowered Islamist groups that remain implacably hostile to the West.
“We have, throughout the Arab world, a young, unemployed, alienated and radicalized group of people, mainly men, who have found a vehicle to express themselves,” Rob Malley, the Middle East-North African program director for the International Crisis Group, a consulting firm, said in a telephone interview from Tripoli, Libya.
In a number of these countries, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, he said, “the state has lost a lot of its capacity to govern effectively. Paradoxically, that has made it more likely that events like the video will make people take to the streets and act in the way they did.”
Some of the most serious violence targeted the compound housing the German and British embassies in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, causing minor damage to the British property but major fire damage to the German one. The foreign ministers of both countries strongly protested the assault, which The Associated Press said had been instigated by a prominent sheik exhorting protesters to storm the German Embassy to avenge what he called anti-Muslim graffiti on Berlin mosques.
The police fired tear gas to drive off the attacks in Khartoum, where about 5,000 demonstrators had massed, news reports said, before they moved on to the U.S. Embassy on the outskirts of the capital.
In Tunis, the U.S. Embassy was assaulted at midday by protesters who smashed windows and set fires before security forces routed them in violent clashes that left at least three dead and 28 injured. Witnesses and officials said no Americans were injured, and most had left earlier.
The worst damage was inflicted on the American Cooperative School of Tunis, a highly regarded institution that, despite its name, catered mostly to the children of non-American expatriates, nearly half of whom work for the African Development Bank. School officials, who had sent the 650 pupils home early, said a few protesters scaled the fence and dismantled monitoring cameras, followed by 300 to 400 others, who set the building on fire.
“It’s ransacked,” the director, Allan Bredy, said in a telephone interview. “We were thinking it was something the Tunisia government would keep under control. We had no idea they would allow things to go as wildly as they did.”
Witnesses in Cairo said protests that first flared Tuesday grew in scope Friday, with protesters throwing rocks and gasoline bombs near the U.S. Embassy and the police firing tear gas. The Egyptian media said more than 220 people had been injured in clashes so far.
In the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador, and three other Americans were killed Tuesday, militias fired rockets at what they thought were U.S. drones overhead, prompting the government to temporarily close the airport. The bodies of Stevens and the others killed were returned to the United States on Friday.
In Lebanon, where Pope Benedict XVI was visiting, one person was killed and 25 injured as protesters attacked restaurants. There was also turmoil in Yemen, Bangladesh, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, India, Pakistan and Iraq, and demonstrations in Malaysia. In Egypt, in particular, leaders scrambled to repair deep strains with Washington provoked by their initial response to attacks on the U.S. Embassy, tacitly acknowledging that they erred by focusing far more on anti-American domestic opinion than on condemning the violence.
This is totally relevant for Muslim world.. all the recent events only show their insecurity.. their ignorance.. any tom-dick-harry says anything about Islam or Prophet Muhammad.. doesn't mean Islam or Prophet Muhammad will become what this tom-dick-harry says.. Prophet Muhammad is Prophet Muhammad and will always remain so.. if you think he is supreme God for you he will remain.. He won't become something else.. just because some convicted fellow says something else about him..
Come on guys... wake up.. stop dreaming and come out of your cocoon.. there are seven or eight billion people in this planet earth.. in this era of internet.. you have to face it... you can start picking up fight for every tom-dick-harry's every statement.. and spend life just doing this.. or you can simply ignore it work towards better life for yourself and your fellow citizens.. We can say tens or thousands of things about this situation and blame each other for millions or zillions reasons.. there is no end to it.. just.. just.. Chill.. there is some thing called ignorance.. ignore.. morons.. and move on.. It is such a short life.. such a beautiful earth.. so fortunate to have this life.. enjoy life.. don't destroy life..
I personally, being an atheist.. hate all this violence in the name of god.. Whatever I understand religion.. God is suppose to bring peace to this world.. not the hatred and violence.. if et all he or she exists.. in which ever form..
Sorry about this touchy topic.. but that is the reason for this blog... to express my feelings.. I am against all kind of violence in any form.. I somehow feel that with the progress all around.. we are getting more and more greedy and fearful.. which is driving all this fanatism towards religion..
VIDEO-FUELED ANGER SPREADS
ANTI-U.S. PROTESTS GO BEYOND MIDEAST
By Rick Gladstone
New York Times
Anti-American rage that began this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the Middle East and beyond Friday, with violent and sometimes deadly protests that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, breached two more U.S. embassies and targeted diplomatic properties of Germany and Britain.
The broadening of the protests appeared to reflect a pent-up resentment of Western powers in general and defied pleas for restraint from world leaders, including the new Islamist president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, whose country was the instigator of the demonstrations that erupted three days earlier on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The anger stretched from North Africa to South Asia and Indonesia and in some cases was surprisingly destructive. In Tunis, a U.S.-run school that was untouched during the revolution nearly two years ago was completely ransacked. In eastern Afghanistan, protesters burned an effigy of President Barack Obama, who had made an outreach to Muslims a thematic pillar of his first year in office.
ANTI-U.S. PROTESTS GO BEYOND MIDEAST
By Rick Gladstone
New York Times
Anti-American rage that began this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the Middle East and beyond Friday, with violent and sometimes deadly protests that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, breached two more U.S. embassies and targeted diplomatic properties of Germany and Britain.
The broadening of the protests appeared to reflect a pent-up resentment of Western powers in general and defied pleas for restraint from world leaders, including the new Islamist president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, whose country was the instigator of the demonstrations that erupted three days earlier on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The anger stretched from North Africa to South Asia and Indonesia and in some cases was surprisingly destructive. In Tunis, a U.S.-run school that was untouched during the revolution nearly two years ago was completely ransacked. In eastern Afghanistan, protesters burned an effigy of President Barack Obama, who had made an outreach to Muslims a thematic pillar of his first year in office.
GAZA CITY: Palestinian Hamas supporters burn a U.S. flag to protest a video ridiculing the Islamic religion.
DHAKA: Islamic activists pray during a protest. Anger spread beyond the Middle East to nearly 20 countries.
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE: The bodies of four Americans came home.
CAIRO: A protester braves tear gas, preparing to throw stones.
AFGHANISTAN: Protesters shout anti-American slogans.
The State Department confirmed that protesters had penetrated the perimeters of the U.S. embassies in the Tunisian and Sudanese capitals, and said that 65 embassies or consulates had issued emergency messages about threats of violence, and that those facilities in Islamic countries were curtailing diplomatic activity. The Pentagon said it dispatched Marines to protect embassies in Yemen and Sudan.
The wave of unrest not only increased concern in the West but also raised new questions about political instability in Egypt, Tunisia and other Middle East countries where newfound freedoms, once suppressed by autocratic leaders, have given way to an absence of authority. The protests also seemed to highlight the unintended consequences of U.S. support of movements to overthrow those autocrats, which have empowered Islamist groups that remain implacably hostile to the West.
“We have, throughout the Arab world, a young, unemployed, alienated and radicalized group of people, mainly men, who have found a vehicle to express themselves,” Rob Malley, the Middle East-North African program director for the International Crisis Group, a consulting firm, said in a telephone interview from Tripoli, Libya.
In a number of these countries, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, he said, “the state has lost a lot of its capacity to govern effectively. Paradoxically, that has made it more likely that events like the video will make people take to the streets and act in the way they did.”
Some of the most serious violence targeted the compound housing the German and British embassies in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, causing minor damage to the British property but major fire damage to the German one. The foreign ministers of both countries strongly protested the assault, which The Associated Press said had been instigated by a prominent sheik exhorting protesters to storm the German Embassy to avenge what he called anti-Muslim graffiti on Berlin mosques.
The police fired tear gas to drive off the attacks in Khartoum, where about 5,000 demonstrators had massed, news reports said, before they moved on to the U.S. Embassy on the outskirts of the capital.
In Tunis, the U.S. Embassy was assaulted at midday by protesters who smashed windows and set fires before security forces routed them in violent clashes that left at least three dead and 28 injured. Witnesses and officials said no Americans were injured, and most had left earlier.
The worst damage was inflicted on the American Cooperative School of Tunis, a highly regarded institution that, despite its name, catered mostly to the children of non-American expatriates, nearly half of whom work for the African Development Bank. School officials, who had sent the 650 pupils home early, said a few protesters scaled the fence and dismantled monitoring cameras, followed by 300 to 400 others, who set the building on fire.
“It’s ransacked,” the director, Allan Bredy, said in a telephone interview. “We were thinking it was something the Tunisia government would keep under control. We had no idea they would allow things to go as wildly as they did.”
Witnesses in Cairo said protests that first flared Tuesday grew in scope Friday, with protesters throwing rocks and gasoline bombs near the U.S. Embassy and the police firing tear gas. The Egyptian media said more than 220 people had been injured in clashes so far.
In the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador, and three other Americans were killed Tuesday, militias fired rockets at what they thought were U.S. drones overhead, prompting the government to temporarily close the airport. The bodies of Stevens and the others killed were returned to the United States on Friday.
In Lebanon, where Pope Benedict XVI was visiting, one person was killed and 25 injured as protesters attacked restaurants. There was also turmoil in Yemen, Bangladesh, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, India, Pakistan and Iraq, and demonstrations in Malaysia. In Egypt, in particular, leaders scrambled to repair deep strains with Washington provoked by their initial response to attacks on the U.S. Embassy, tacitly acknowledging that they erred by focusing far more on anti-American domestic opinion than on condemning the violence.
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