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THE MURDER OF QUSAY HUSSAIN's 14 YEAR OLD SON
Isn't it sick the way the
media
mentions in a
"dismissing" manner the murder
of Qusay's "14-year-old" son? The way the
media
writes about the murders as
some sort of glorious victory? Unashamed that it
took 200 men, missiles,
helicopters, etc. to murder 4 human beings? Do
you think that they even
realized that the men they murdered did not
attack the 200 men but were only
defending themselves against horrific odds after
being attacked? Are those
involved in the murder of Qusay and his brother,
his son and bodyguard the
people mentioned in the Holy Qur'an as being
those who will "always hate?" I
have no knowledge of what Saddam's sons did -
Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
will judge them, but those who attacked them in
such a manner, did so
without courage or honor.
Fi Sabilillah,
Hamdiyah Fatimah
[South Carolina]
SIRAJ WAHHAJ
[A defender of Imam Siraj Wahhaj wrote:
"Brother Kaukab Siddique,
you should have spoken
to our Imam Siraj Wahhaj
before sending out this mass e-mail, you attacked
his motive and his charter
without even speaking to him. I stand to correct
you, we're not holding our
program in Disney or in Universal studios. We
(organizers) cannot help that Disney
and Universal studios is located in Orlando,
Florida."
Imam Badi Ali's
response [From North Carolina]
Brother Kaukab Siddique, you should expose Siraj
Wahhaj and his motives and
his character. This is a responsibility. Not
every one can be brave enough to
point out the truth nowadays.
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From a writer in Puerto Rico
Qusay & Uday lived like a growing number of
wealthy and powerful Americans
do.
Hypocrisy of the
American
Dream? Or Lies, Damn
Lies and more Lies?
[Courtesy: realwideminds@yahoogroups.com]
[By special permission of the author.]
You know I felt nationally embarrassed as I
watched the exploitation by the
National Press of Saddam's two son's luxury life
styles. I mean it could have
just as easily been portrayed as an all too
common episode of "Lifestyles of
the Rich and Famous" only you don't hear the
President telling the American
people we need to gun down all who live in such a
luxury and fashion here in
America itself.
So why did they exploit their lifestyles which
would shock very few Wealthy
AMERICANS (if any)?
It could not be for the benefit of the average
American of normal
intelligence since Qusay & Uday lifestyles are
the corrupt goal for the majority of the
growing rich in America's newest upper class.
Perhaps many would have envied
those two if it were not for the fact America's 3
percent of the super rich far
exceed Qusay & Uday's life style and prey on
America's poor as a slave class
to make them richer and feed their lusty hungers
for more material wealth.
Think of this argument once told in
Africa
that
compared slaves to having a
wife 24 hours a day or just paying a prostitute:
To have a wife the slave owner
argument goes; its economically very expensive
when you have to pay to feed,
clothe, shelter and many other none essential
marital expenses for having a
wife. However with a prostitute, you pay for
nothing but the service needed at
the time so your overall economic benefit for the
same service is obvious. The
same can be said for a slave, it is far cheaper
to pay a wage then it is to
maintain a slave 24 hours a day as a wife.
Well today America's super rich have applied this
same principle as minimum
wage and immigrant labor (Mexican) which is even
less rewarding in pay. There
is no doubt the poverty class of a growing number
of Americans (many are a
Hispanic minority) can never truly succeed on
such a low wages, encouraged
borrowing and debt by banks, mortgaged homes
rampant inflation (our money becoming
worthless under the federal reserve's unchecked
corruption) as the growing
number of Super Rich Americans still need all
classes of service to upkeep their
unrelenting hungers at an intrinsically lower
cost. $20- 25 dollars a day in
Puerto Rico for example for an agricultural
worker is still being paid today as
it was 15-20 years ago. Only that same federal
reserve note can not buy as many
loafs of bread to feed his family. The rich land
owner grows richer as his
over labor cost drop each year with the value of
the American dollar's
purchasing power he actually is paying his
workers less and less for the same work
being done by the descendants of slaves!!!
All this is accomplished by their modern
equivalent of slavery, America's
minimum wage earners and forgotten nations like
Puerto Rico under American
unrelenting dictatorship of over 100 years. No
for those of you who may confuse this
with bringing back slavery. NO! All I am saying is
this obvious growing
disparity between the rich and the poor should be
exposed to the World so America's
Qusay & Uday (supper rich Americans), will
finally have to relinquish their
own strangle hold on America's work poor and
start to do their own dirty work or
begin to share their exploited growing wealth
with the America's growing
poverty class. How? Look around. hunger, medical
cost, children being exploited
for sex, rampant government corruption, unjust
wars for profit you name it
perhaps you may personally know even more good
that could come from a more balanced
society than where America is headed today in to
a two class system of
repression by veiled slavery and exploitation.
In there is also growing and unstoppably
spreading poverty class of American
Citizens who only seem wealthy as long as their
credit holds out. However all
good things will come to an end and when it does
their will only be two
classes of Americans. one super rich the other
extremely poor.
Here in Puerto Rico we already know how this
feels but back in California
where the state is nearly bankrupt folks are just
starting to realize this bleak
future of being homeless (and its not just in
California anymore).
Qusay & Uday would have been just normal super
rich Americans in direct
contrast to how they were portrayed by the
National Press. I mean who is more evil?
Corrupt American profiteers who prey on America's
poor? Or those two highly
privileged and spoiled boys whop are now very
dead? I see no difference that
can be legitimately argued, as a little evil or a
lot evil makes no difference
in the end to God for greedy, corrupt and
selfish men.
I wonder if Michael Jackson (and many other
Americans' just like him) could
have identified with Qusay & Uday's luxury life
style? Now Michael Jackson is a
rich white(?) guy(?) who can publicly admit
sleeping with little boys and no
US President seems to give a damn (I think he has
private Zoo too, shame,
shame Mr. Jackson). Should we not use our self
righteous laws, politically
incorrect World power and dominance over weaker
nations to clean up our own immoral
acts first, committed on this continent by the
superrich and corrupt before we
go preaching Christian values and attacking other
nations, their religions and
it's leaders for following our own immoral
American Dream as an example for
anyone who dreams of absolute uncontrolled
material greed in this mortal life?
Hypocrisy of the American Dream? Or Lies, Damn
Lies and more Lies?
You decide.
Randy L. Dixon Rivera
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