A Moment of Silence

#5 Posted by kulsumbeig on July 1, 2005 4:01:05 am

Ozer

You are normally the ``voice of moderation`` but here you have gone down the slippery slope of conservatism. You are talking about the plight of people around the world and cozily pointing the finger at the ``West``. That is too easy a route to tread, and you, like many others before you have this irritating habit of blaming the West and Uncle Sam for everything.

Be more rational and pragmatic in your reasoning, stop resorting to melodrama, one-sidedness and crocodile tear-jerking. Eastern regimes are no more benevolent. Rulers, wherever they may be are guilty of similar attrocities. Your geographical anachronisms are stale and dated. Your political short-sightedness is vapid.

#4 Posted by CD_Lion on July 1, 2005 3:11:26 am

(Enter the Lion)

Lion (L): Sniff, sniff…

L: (Ears perked up) [….tigers from Oslo]

L: (Disappointed) Oh, only paper tigers!

L: (Ears perked up) [….hundreds bite…]

L: (Disappointed) Oh, only dust!

L: (Ears perked up) […. hunters with hungry intent.]

L: (Disappointed) Oh, only diplomats!

L: (Ears perked up) […Bones buried in it.]

L: (Disappointed) Oh, only devastation!

L: (Ears perked up) […Keep on slaying]

L: (Animated) Bravo! ROAR!!! ROAR!!! (Bounds off)

(Exit the lion)

#3 Posted by patwari on July 1, 2005 1:05:30 am

I am not against the sentiment of the poem feeling but after so many years go by after 9/11 this seem so outdated.

#30 Posted by OzerKhalid on July 1, 2005 10:33:55 pm

Re: # 3

Patwari

The subect-matter might seem ``stale`` to you but everyday Muslim civilians bear the brunt of 9/11. At the workplace. In social gatherings. At school. In airport terminals. And the shopping list is ceaseless....

So I would challenge your assumption Patwari by stating that 9/11 is very topical and will remain so as the wheels of time turn.

#2 Posted by BeeJay on July 1, 2005 12:46:48 am

Dear Ozer,

Let me wipe (or perhaps mop) those tears! But wait – let me go get my buckets first! This one is so highly “inspiring”! If you don’t believe me, just read below!

BeeJay
(Benign Janitor)
- - - -

Ozer, Ozer, we love you so!
O how we wish, you’d NEVER go!
(And if you go, we cry boo-hoo!)
((Psst!) Doctor Lok Raj especially so)
(Who likes not count, but loves mango!)
So sweet thy tongue – behold and lo
If only were it forked not so!
Ozer, Ozer, we love you so!

[Why not also have 10 years of silence for the decade long embargo on Babylon. A once Blessed Baghdad now pregnant with torture and killing….]
And where were you, O great, great knight
When Saddam’s thumb crushed rank and file
For sure, O sir, yes you Ozer
Now THAT was just internal stuff
You see we judge situations so!

[Why not mourn for the dead victims of Kashmir?
The wail of a valley. A valley where too many tears turn to blood….]
O how you break my heart, so sweet
Now ask Abdul to hold acid
Acid on face of sweet, sweet lass
Hark, Ozer only saves HIS ass!

[If you want a moment of silence
Then take it from the echo of my voice….]
And how that voice is never done
A thousand words, when much is one!

[A million and a half years of silence for the million and-a-half Iraqi people….]
Silence, silence golden indeed
Sweet Ozer, prove your word in DEED!

#31 Posted by OzerKhalid on July 1, 2005 10:42:05 pm

Re: # 2

Beejay wisecracks `` And where were you, O great, great knight
When Saddam’s thumb crushed rank and file``

Beejay by making the above comment are you legitimising the attrocities that are ravaging Iraqi civilians under US soldiers post-Saddam ? Seems so to me....and are you saying that what happened in Abu Ghraib is any better than Saddam`s regime ?

Why paint blood a sickly shade of pink ?

#1 Posted by cayenne on June 30, 2005 11:38:45 pm

Cut the crap, Ozer.I was `there`, i have scars to remind me for the rest of my life.Part of the reason i`m `here` is my search to find what makes people like the terrorists who struck that day `tick`, so to speak.Those people were terrorists and whoever is associated even accidentally will bear the burden of suffering by retaliatory forces.What we give out we get.What comes around goes around.I have no sympathy for the Afghans, Iraqis and all those in the middle east/pakistan part of the muslim world who are allowed,either by apathy or hatred by the general population, to forment terrorism on others.If the middle east muslims believe in their causes there are other means to pursue them.Not by formenting terrorism.Screw them all.

#34 Posted by OzerKhalid on July 2, 2005 3:34:40 am

Re: # 1

Cayenne wrote ``If the middle east muslims believe in their causes there are other means to pursue them.Not by formenting terrorism.Screw them all.``

Do you mean all the Muslims Cayenne ?

#41 Posted by cayenne on July 2, 2005 5:08:57 am

Re: # 34

OzerK....

Y`know man, ye are like a munchkin, stirring up trouble everywhere ye goeth.Don`t draw me into this sordid stuff on a saturday.This day is reserved for my sacred pursuits of boozing and getting laid, which i single handedly pursue through to the end.Other days i would debate endlessly with you.I MEANT middle-eastern muslims ONLY.

Indian muslims form the second largest grouping of muslims in the islamic world , yet they have not stooped low to conquer.They have class.IM`s may have other peeves, but not one has been involved with terrorism either outside or in Jammu and Kashmir.Our mullah`s traipse through the world without let or hindrance.I know many innocent muslims died too on 9/11.These terrorist bastards will sacrifice anybody for their nefarious ends.

I gotta go, and i hope your weekend is all good.Cheers.