Hate – كــمــشــة حـــبــــر

Execution, exclusion, killing, hatred, crime, burning, committing suicide, and many other harsh action verbs have never proved their ability to end a problem or a dispute.

What is it that human being can’t understand! Life can be a great one if hatred didn’t exist or wasn’t functioned to destroy others lives.

Ever since I was born, the Arab-Israeli conflict existed, I was raised to hate all Jews and Zionists who raped the land of Palestine. Even in the school’s curriculum, they used to make sure that we are always on agression mode, not only with Zionists but also with Jews, they were always pushing us to hate them and think of ways to get rid of them.

I used to refuse considering Jews and Israeli Zionists under one pre-judgmental category, so many fights used to take place between me and my friends, teachers and family just because I believe deep inside that being a Jew is to be a human who believes in a religion which I’m blindly sure it calls for what every other religion on this universe call for; Love, peace, coexistence and being good. However, being a Zionist is being politicized and racist toward all the others from different race, religion, belief, identity and etc..

My all time statement was “It’s true that I’m proud to be Muslim because I think it’s the best for me, however, it doesn’t mean that I’m the best and everyone else is bad. I don’t see that I’m going to heaven because I’m Muslim and everyone else is going to hell because they’re not.”

Jews are not necessarily Zionists, exactly how Muslims are not necessarily Daeshis (ISIS supporters).

I seriously have been looking for an answer to those who want to throw Jews in the sea, or who want to exterminate Muslims, or who want to erase the existence of the Atheists and so on.. People should now understand that this will never ever happen, and if they keep doing what they’re doing, they’ll keep making their lives and everyone else’s life as miserable as all the meanings that this word holds.

There’s no justification to the hatre-crime that Craig Stephen Hicks committed against three young Muslims in North Carolina. The effect of Media campaigns against Muslims and Islam in general played a huge roll in leading Hicks to violence and rose the hatred-emotions towards them. This is definitely one of the reasons.

This is what one of these young Muslims (Deah Barakat) tweeted a while ago,

It's so freaking sad to hear people saying we should "kill Jews" or "Kill Palestinians". As if that's going to solve anything SMH

— Deah Barakat (@arabprodigy30) January 28, 2015

and now he’s a dead body!

I blame the media that is clearly and ridiculously politicized, I blame parents for sowing grudges into their children’s minds and souls against the others, I blame extremists all over the world whether they were religious extremists or Atheist extremists.

Muslims are not terrorists, just like how Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Atheists are not terrorists.

Terrorists hold no values, terrorists belong to no religion and belong to no nationality.

I know sometimes when people lose their beloved ones by the hands of someone who holds certain religion or nationality, they sometimes react crazily, but this will not solve the issue. Solving the problem is to call people for wisdom and love, for tolerance and coexistence instead of fighting fire with fire.

May peace be upon those who were shot dead in Chapel Hill and let it also be upon every hater to humanity. Yes. May peace be upon their hearts maybe this hate will vanish when we pray for them as well.

We are humans, we all think that what we believe in, is the best, we all make mistakes, we all lose it at some point, but don’t let your evil thoughts overcome your good ones. It’s not our right to end others lives the way and the time we want.

With my sincere condolences to the entire humanity and to the family and friends of Deah Barakat and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

Peace be upon us all.

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Sarah

12 February 2015

Abu Bakr AlBaghdadi might be dead and might not be! The real question is whether the Islamic State can survive without its Caliph or not!

The main reason why I think ISIS will survive and will continue to be strong with or without AlBaghdadi, is that the organization is focusing on “ideology” and addressing the Muslim communities around the world using this particular tool. It is true that they have pledged allegiance to the caliph and considered him as “Amir Al-Mo’meneen” however, the focus of this group is not on the caliph himself but on the establishment of the Islamic State and its growth, because:
1. AlBaghdadi appeared only once ever since he was appointed as a Caliph.
2. Jihadists are coming from all over the world to join ISIS for the sake of the cause itself and not for the sake of the caliph.
3. Al-Baghdadi has a cabinet of advisors and two top deputies Abu Ali al-Anbari who is responsible on the operations in Syria and Abu Muslim al-Turkmani who is in charge on the operations in Iraq and a chief spokesperson for ISIS Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, so this shows the importance of the distribution of tasks and powers in this group.

IS addressed people in the past couple of months using ideology as a tool to attract the Muslim communities around the world to join their cause, and fight the “Kuffar”! However, IS is now addressing people using the aggression on Sunnis led by the international coalition claiming that the world is fighting IS to defeat the Sunnis not IS itself.

Though ISIS lacks the infrastructure form of the state however, with the help of many Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian experts as well as relying on so many stories from the Quran, the biography of the prophet and the Hadith they will still be able to keep functioning and growing because the ideology is what keeps these people alive.

ISIS is a whole new level of terrorism, and in order to defeat it, the international community should come up in parallel with a whole new level of defense mechanisms and strategies. I personally think that the international community didn’t find a new way to deal with this new threat, and this is giving IS the ability to grow, improve, expand and to remain existing.
Just like the rise of Ebola! Cancer treatment and medicines cannot be used to defeat Ebola.

This explains why President Obama’s strategy is not working well and is not meeting the required level of action to reach the coalition goal in defeating IS.
We should not underestimate the Islamic State’s capabilities.

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Sarah

04 September 2014