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Mystic Ink Plus Mar 2018
Between
Patriotic and Extremist

Just,
A single word of understanding
On faith

Sighted Vs. Blind.
Theme: define difference
If one question the science of faith, it is rational. If faith is innately adopted, without reason, it may be blind. No offence.
Mane Omsy Oct 2017
Million miles away I watched the glowing stars
They shone bright as I stared all night long
If I had to wish for a shooting star to wish for
Some thing beautiful to happen in this world

When I woke, first tears fell on the newspaper
The headlines hurt more than the hot boiling tea
Ached more than the venom from a cobra
Merciless shooting stars on innocent lands

Whenever they decide to land, they land
Bombs threatening people around, killing
Soldiers striking at children and women
Labeling them terrorists, forging ahead
Adelaide London Jun 2017
jihad
jihadis

what was it?
who are they?

Not a bunch of crazy
war-fuelled
black-clothed
extremists.


Definitely not
a man
a hater
ploughing a van through
innocents
leaving them with an early encounter of
death.


Absolutely not
Bombers
Killers
Murderers
ISIS


Struggle.
That is the meaning of Jihad

Jihadi
Someone who struggles.

Muslims,
People Who Struggle

Who need to wake up for dawn prayers
Who struggle with school work
Who want to increase their faith
Who are terrified of being on another hater'***** list
Who walk around bearing the slurs about their religion
Who need to feed kids
Who want to go to school
Who have armslegskneesheartsfaces ------are human

**do they sound like killers?
I'm muslim, do you think I'm a killer?

In news nowadays, you hear the term 'jihadi' quite a lot. I just thought that I would clear it up by explain 'Jihad' to you people who may be confused.

Jihad essentially means 'struggle' and the term jihadi essentially means 'struggler'. There are two main types of jihad: major and minor.

Major Jihad is struggle within oneself. Examples are, getting up early to fast, or praying that one extra prayer. In fact, even non-muslims commit jihad. A good example is 'struggling' to wake up for school/work. A lot of us do it even though its hard.

Minor jihad basically means the circumstances used to protect Islam against others if Islam is threatened. This jihad can only be done is there is no other peaceful alternatives. If military jihad is required to protect the faith against others, it can be performed using anything from legal, diplomatic and economic to political means. However, even to this there are rules.

During this Jihad, no minors, women, children, the elderly or innocents are allowed to be harmed. It is also forbidden to commit this jihad and hurt the environment and trees. This includes buildings as well. In addition to that, if there is a peace treaty, they must accept.

That's the rules.
Do you guys still think I'm a killer?
Arlene Corwin Oct 2016
The Tendency In All Of Us

There is a tendency in all of us
To be extreme: inherent and in situ;
Likely to appear when time is ripe.
The husband had a kidney stone.
He cut out spinach.
Not one leaf, one atom – that, despite its iron
Reached his lips, his tongue, his throat.
Because of its remote connection to a stone.

One can imagine what becomes of one
Whose tendency is greater than
The kidney man
Who soon or later,
Prone to act on notions
Which have conquered reason
Does.

The Tendency In All Of Us 10.25.2016
Nature Of & In Reality; Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin
Phoolmatee Dubay Sep 2014
My ancestors were victims of brutal changes
the British Empire imposed upon them
I understand other ethnic groups have suffered at the hands of the British
Be it the people one ancestry or another
We all have suffered
But today there is still suffering
Men are being beheaded
because they offer help
In Iraq it still seems like they continue to carry out teachings of Sadam Hussein
Why?
I don't know!

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