"sharia" poems
The Kurds live
In parts of Syria, Iraq, and Iran
As well as Kurdistan
Kurdish groups such as the KCK and PJAK
Seek democratic autonomy for Kurds
And democracies in Turkey, Iran and Syria
Aposim is a grassroots socialist movement
That promotes gender equality
Apo is the political founder of the PKK and PJAK
The female fighters of PJAK
Don't have families
Because this will weaken their commitment
To the organization
Thomas Morton
Host of this Vice documentary
Stays in a farmhouse
He headed up to meet the fighters
The PJAK division he met with
Fights for women's rights
Around the Iranian border
They tell Thomas
Women are being killed in Iran
It is a mental persecution of women
The PJAK representative says
It is about the right to democracy
Freedom, Equality, and education
The woman explains that
The Iranians use Sharia and Islam
For their own purposes
It is not true Islam according
To the PJAK representative
In true Islam there is equality and equity
Thomas
That really was priceless
Watching you line dance with them
Really funny
I think the women of PJAK
Got a kick out of it too
God bless the women of PJAK
Such beautiful smiles
Full of life
Standing up for women's rights
Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 1:48 AM UTC
Morsi stands among
his people as an expression
of Egypt's democratic will
democratically elected
his feet are rooted in the
constitutional right to rule
Morsi has one foot on a
pillar of secular democracy
promising to uphold Egypt's
journey to an egalitarian future
this pillar advances the
republican ideal that
safeguards diversity
and a people's liberty
to express free will
this pillar brought him
to office and justifies his
right to rule
ironically it’s also a pillar
that Morsi's guiding philosphy
find impossible to suffer
Morsi's other foot is firmly
planted on a pillar of
Sharia sympathies
upholding the divine
foundation of his rule
over this earthly principality
Muslim Brotherhood’s
cardinal principles
undermine the pillar
of secular precepts
that equally enfranchise
all citizens
Sharia Laws allows no standing
to equal rights of women,
religious minorities,
LGBT civil liberties and
advocates suppression
of atheistic and
progressive political groups
this has riled the
democratic sympathies
of the Egyptian people
Morsi's actions
threaten to tip the pillar of
secular democracy back
into the Nile’s murky waters
Morsi's stance
is precarious and as his
feet slip he realizes
he is not the
Colossus of Rhodes
he believed himself to be
discovering it impossible
to bestride the pillars
supporting incompatible
structures
the generals have declared
a road map for stability that
rescinds the constitution,
dissolves the parliament
and places the military
as sole protectorate
of the nation
is the preservation of
a democratic republic more
important than the return
to the rule of a military junta?
is it more wise to place
principles before personalities?
Morsi’s next steps are
uncertain
The pathway of the
people’s democratic
journey remains unclear
the sound of the military’s
marching boots grow louder
Music Selection:
Sweet Honey on the Rock
Marching Off to Freedom Land
Oakland
070313
jbm
Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 11:08 AM UTC
AKHI, JIKA BENAR ENGKAU MENCINTAI
ISTRIMU...
Ijinkan dia berdakwah...
Berkumpul dengan akhwat seperjuangan....
Relakan kepergiannya ke berbagai majelis ilmu...
Sekalipun itu mengurangi waktunya, untukmu...
Banyak suami salah prioritas...
Istrinya boleh bekerja di luar rumah...
Bebas beraktivitas jika hasilnya menunjang
ekonomi keluarga...
Bahkan didukung untuk kuliah pascasarjana...
Tapi, minta ijin 2 jam saja dalam seminggu untuk
ngaji, TIDAK BOLEH?
Jangan egois, wahai saudaraku..
Suami memang punya "hak veto" dalam rumah
tangga...
Keputusannya adalah kewajiban istri
mentaatinya...
Larangannya adalah keharusan istri
meninggalkannya...
Maka, gunakanlah kewenangan itu dalam
PRIORITAS YANG BENAR...
Dakwah itu wajib, bagi pria juga wanita...
Doronglah istri ikut berjuang di jalan dakwah...
Sesekali ambil alih kerjaannya di rumah agar dia
bisa leluasa bergerak...
Sudah pasti ini mengurangi kebersamaanmu
dengannya...
Tapi, percayalah ini hanya sementara...
Kelak ada masa bebas bercengkerama dengan
yang tercinta...
Di dalam surga, dan kalian berdua akan terus
bergembira...
ﺍﺩْﺧُﻠُﻮﺍ ﺍﻟْﺠَﻨَّﺔَ ﺃَﻧﺘُﻢْ ﻭَﺃَﺯْﻭَﺍﺟُﻜُﻢْ ﺗُﺤْﺒَﺮُﻭﻥَ
"Masuklah kamu ke dalam surga, kamu dan
isteri-isteri kamu digembirakan".
(QS. Az-Zukhruf, 43: 70)
#women and sharia
Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 4:48 AM UTC
The Sun in Sudan is unkind.
There beauty withers into dust.
The people there are primitive,
Their ways are alien to us.
A Christian woman, eight months pregnant,
Has been condemned to lash and rope.
convicted by Sharia law.
Our outrage is her earthly hope.
For Meriam refused to yield,
In Jesus she maintains her trust.
She would not convert by force
To a cult that seeks control of us.
A modern day Antigone,
condemned to death because of faith.
A prisoner of Conscience, she,
Like the Lamb, endures their hate.
She is not clothed as with the Sun.
The child she bears, no Savior King.
She’s labelled an adulteress
though she wears her husband’s ring.
Her faith provides no easy path,
that often is the way of things.
Like all those Martyrs who came before her,
She puts her trust in Christ the King.
May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 7:27 AM UTC
He is ancient steadfast
I am sure he was here when the world was created
I am sure he will be here when it ends
His gentle face carved with hard lines
He poured forth knowledge in his native Persian tongue
He called me Shohre
I learned it was his sister's name
He looked at me like a granddaughter and treated me just as sweet
“Ghabl az enghalab...”
Before the revolution...
After which would follow painful reminiscing of
The days before the current regime
When wine bubbled out from Shiraz
Men and women danced late into the night
And soft voices wove love songs in street cafes
“Ghabl az enghalab moalem dar daneshgah boodam.”
Before the revolution I was a university professor.
“Yeki az daneshjooyanam Ahmedinejad bood.”
One of my students was Ahmedinejad.
And in English, clear as hate,
“He was a *******
One night I stayed back for extra lessons
We ate cherries from Costco and
Read excerpts from his autobiography
Pages crafted from right to left, vignettes of
His military service in Mashhad
And consequent teaching career
“Ba'ad az enghalab...”
After the revolution...
Was always followed with war stories
Political dissidents lost to Evin prison
Sharia law imposed on moderate minds
Escaping Iran by night with a phony visa
“Ba'ad az enghalab dar ketabkhane bayad kar konam”
After the revolution I had to work in the library.
“Khoastam yad bedahm, pas man o zanam be Amrika raftim.”
I wanted to teach, so my wife and I came to America.
He has not been home since 1981.
On December third of 2009 he walked smugly into the classroom
Setting a tape player happily on a desk.
He opened a folder from right to left
Produced a well-worn cassette
And played Happy Birthday, in Persian, for me.
He smiled at me with hands folded throughout the song
As I’d imagine he had smiled at
All the other special women in his life named Shohre.
He never played Happy Birthday for any of the other students.
Or gave them cherries,
Or went to their weddings,
Or held them while they cried when their grandfather died.
I do not know what he saw in me
But in each other we found family years and miles away from home.
Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 5:37 PM UTC
Sara L. Russell, 30th November 2015, 17:00pm
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Let the man and the woman be free to choose one another in marriage;
For therein lieth domestic accord.
Let the woman be free to obey the man solely out of love,
only because he deserveth her love through his loving kindness,
therefore she loveth him above all others (with the exception of God).
The man must, in turn, deserve her love; and if he does not, by reason of cruetly,
the woman may flee, with God's blessing, never to return.
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Let the man and the woman live and work together in equality;
For woman is the greatest ally of man.
Let them pray together at the holy temples of the Lord our God,
kneeling side by side in devotional acts of love and worship.
There is no room for oppression in the House of the Lord;
no flowers can bloom in a garden of burning thorns.
Be gentle with one another; or else incur the maelstrom of God's holy wrath.
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Mark this well, brethren; cut not the fragile Flower of Life.
A woman's body is sacrosanct unto herself and unto God;
therefore mutilate her at your peril, for the Flower of Life
is also the Flower of Love. Herein is a font of ultimate power and purity.
No man can exist without the prior existence of woman,
for out of the body of woman cometh the infancy of man.
Whosoever causeth harm to this bloom shall be punished by God.
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Let the men and women of the world be free to express true love and desire,
For out of desire cometh the sweetest songs and most joyous of dreams.
Bring forth thy children in the blessed spirit of love and gentleness.
Be not warlike in your dealings with outsiders; negotiate the ways of
free trading through cooperation and sharing.
There is enough land, grain and livestock for everyone.
Be tolerant and fair; let tolerance guide the destiny of mankind.
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Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:48 PM UTC
As militant Mullahs mutter and pray
And plan their Mosque near ground Zero
Protesters march and people say:
“This isn't right! They'll have to go.”
But let's demur and make no noise
No tears, no threats, no signs approve.
It would profane our civic faith
To tell the Mullah he must move.
The Towers’ fall brought harm and fear
Men reckon what that did and meant;
But building a “cultural Center” near
Though demonized, is innocent.
Dull couch potatoes of the Right
Those ditto heads who can't admit
Tolerance, cause it doth reprove
Those thoughts that have them in a snit.
But we, my love, are so refined
that we ourselves don't care one whit.
Let them build it, come what may
But build a brothel next to it.
Two buildings place there, cheek to cheek:
the Mosque and “Annie’s House of Pain”.
One dealing with things spiritual,
The other deals with things profane.
In both, salvation is for sale
It seems to me a perfect fit.
For do not both invoke God's name?
-and both, I fear, use whips a bit.
students at the Madrasah may
hear the cries of Joy next door
on her mattress, hard at play
While they use prayer mats on the floor.
.
Will they too prove as tolerant?
Live and let live, for now- they say
When they enforce Sharia law,
The folks next door will learn to pray.
Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:54 PM UTC
O Tree of art!
let me give you
ample sunshine.
Let me give you
plenteous water,
I pray you grow
tall and wide,
I pray your branches
grow day and night,
I pray you bear
fruits bright, but
be cautious, make
sure your branches
don't cross boundaries
of sharia, For beyond
its boundaries thier
is blazing hell fire.
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM UTC
Rights are inconvenient things,
I’m sure you must agree.
Why guns remain in private hands
is quite the mystery.
Felons will turn in their guns
I’m sure, without a peep.
(Tyrants always take the guns
Before they slaughter sheep)
Once you cannot defend your rights
Who cares what you think or say?
Harry Bellefonte thinks
You should be locked away.
Wouldn’t trials be quicker,
Would not be justice served,
If truth serum was administered
Instead of oaths with words?
Your guns and your religion
are quaint relics of the past.
Sharia law is coming,
Beheadings ought to be a blast.
You clamor to give up your rights.
The leftists are amused.
The ****** of the innocents
For their purpose will be used.
Quite soon you will be powerless
before the Almighty State.
When you fall ill some bureaucrat
will sign off on your fate.
A land without the Bill of Rights-
It ought to give you chills!
Your birthright gone, your children slaves
of the Marxists on the Hill.
Dec 18, 2012
Dec 18, 2012 at 6:02 AM UTC
I-I-I want to put her head
on a robot's body;
I want to be w/ u @ midnight
maybe, the sentences white men
get is too slight; prisons should
be filled w/ them---
Bandy in negligee
quite a wide-eyed wonder---
Her eyeballs full of goldfish,
the neighbors who walks the hall
w/ no clothes on---
in the Pyongyang condo
she reads the NYT
delivered by the tall,
bearded boy who doesn't
want to draw attention
to his naturally
silver hair he wears in a pompadour
beneath an American baseball cap;
She sits in the stairwell
& smokes cigars &
he joins her when the lights go out
which is often---
Trump's self-sabotage
is rooted in his perceived sense of failure;
never enough, never good no matter how high,
enough---he's made of gold
& it's only a black hole---
He's a kook, crazy & mentally unfit 4 office;
when cross-dressing her bra can't be ****
but u never know---
She's calling outside my window
& complains my room is freezing
(364 - 58)
All the Jews want to move to Israel;
from my window
I can see the fortress-settlements
in the red hills---garrisons of Palestinian girls,
A loaded Palestinian girl
knocks on the door holding a bottle of gin;
I let her in, violating Sharia law
she lies down & pets the cat---
Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 6:57 PM UTC
Gettysburg and Viet Nam
Hiroshima dropped a bomb
To Iraq and Iran
And don't forget Afghanistan
Libya and Syria
How about Granada
Bay of pigs, what a mess
Waterboard to confess
War on terror
Constant errors
War on drugs
Tupac promotes life of thugs
Walls across Mexico
Obama let's terrorists go
Hillary Clinton, Benghazi
Email server travesty
Affordable care
Payments a scare
Social security robbed
When will we march and mob
Governments broken beyond repair
Sheeple distracted by trump's hair
Cannot tell right and wrong
This has gone on too long
Marshall or sharia law
Has us up against a wall
Women silenced or hidden with sheets
Bite your tongue when you speak
Vocal minorities win again
Religious folks think it's a sin
I just think we have been forsake
Into our hearts the final stake
Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM UTC
The Congressman said fluoride in the tap water would effectuate Sharia law.
The Congressman said immigrants would hire water sommeliers.
The Congressman said immigrants open froyo shops on every corner.
The Congressman said immigrants suckled like a dewy, famished baby.
The Congressman said terrorists suckled on the **** of welfare and secretly ran things.
The Congressman said Season 2 of The Wire was the best one, beyond question.
The Congressman said net neutrality would stifle board game night, blot out the imagination.
The Congressman said that true patriots were never neutral.
The Congressman said that drag queens were using the library, checking out books.
The Congressman said Taco Tuesday was fake news, a grand globalist conspiracy.
The Congressman said big government was coming for your houseplants and moist towelettes.
The Congressman said big government was the enemy.
The Congressman said terrorists were the enemy.
The Congressman said immigrants were the enemy.
The Congressman said the other was the enemy.
The Congressman said anyone who would order $7 avocado toast was the enemy.
The Congressman said anyone who read newspapers was the enemy.
The Congressman said that anyone who fact-checked a politician’s statements was the enemy.
The Congressman said enemies would burn the Constitution in a pile of seized towelettes.
The Congressman’s challenger said she got death threats and promptly dropped out.
The Congressman said she was lying, there were no threats.
The Congressman said she was really a liar all along.
The Congressman said he had tried to warn everyone.
Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 3:28 AM UTC
Harmonious chapters of blank page nights,
Halloween soon around the bend, all beauty comes to and end in here, it suits you for social daunt freight!!!!
Bald currupters stareth down your colleagues path of discourse,
Mellow breaks to cellos own silence,
Malice comes in remorse!!!!
Taint mercury water,
Dew is pasteurized ,
All gets criticized when it's your self led to hence slaughter!!!
Sharia law drastically overtakes these black widowed spidered bunks,
Politics are in the roles.....
Pipes to glass, as thy glass flows to bowls!
This indefinitely is not thy warm wanted heaven!!!!
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 5:04 PM UTC
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That it is so
( the you yourself are the messiah now )
That ALL are the messiah
that EACH is the messiah
)(
A tiny second of reflection tells us this quite clearly
And that all religions are ********
••
The owl
Atop the tree
The little boy understands
Because he is a little boy
::::
The barn is on fire
Everything we had is gone
We are free
••
All mothers and fathers that you see
A very short time ago
Weren't even born yet !
//:
You look so lovely in your gown
Better than in your rags of death
Though I like you fine
In your hot tight jeans
)(
( just as an aside --
If the people in these Arab lands want sharia law
Why does ISIS need armed murderers to force
them to obey it ? )
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the little naked girl bathes in the stream
She does this to cleanse her body
She doesn't do this to entice the little boys
:::
1 million messiahs
1 million sad souls left to save
)(
I love you all out there !
Even the poets of hello poetry
.
Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 9:29 PM UTC