What is currently happening in Gaza right now is madness….just sheer madness. The amount of damage inflicted on the Palestinians by the enemy is totally disproportionate to the military capabilities of the Palestinians in Gaza themselves — a large majority of whom are civilians. The mujahideen have tried to strike back, but the death ratio is like 1 Israeli for every 360 Palestinian civilians killed. I certainly don’t buy the excuse that Israelis are “hunting down militants”. That is just an excuse to exterminate everyone living in that tiny strip of land called the Gaza Strip. They have been itching to do this for months and this was the perfect excuse for them to get away with it.
Rather than trying to describe the utter destruction that has been inflicted on Gaza for the last few days, I will let these images of Gazacaust do the talking.
On the occasion of 1st Muharram 1430H which falls today, I would like to take the opportunity to wish a joyous and happy 1430H Awwal Muharram (or Maal Hijrah, the Muslim New Year) to all Muslims who are reading my blog as well as to the whole Muslim ummah around the world.
Some background information in order to understand its significance.
Maal Hijrah, which is also called Awwal Muharam, is an important day for Muslim. It falls on the first day of Muharam on every Muslim calendar year, which is the first day on Muslim calendar.
The meaning of Maal Hijrah in English is “migration”. On this day, Muslims remember the migration of the Prophet Muhammad (P) from Makkah to Medina on the year 622 A.D. Maal Hijrah also symbolically signifies a change from bad to good side and can be said as a starting point to evaluate inner-self on self-achievement.
Awwal means “beginning” in English and Muharram is the first month of Muslim calendar. In other words, this is the first day in Muslim calendar. Therefore, this is also the new year for all Muslims. To signify this occasion, Muslims attend to various religious activities, spiritual singing, and religious meeting throughout the country. This day has become an important religious day for all Muslims.
The year also saw automated teller machine (ATM) heists, armed robberies at homes, murders and drug trafficking.
Robbers used tractors, firecrackers and even gas tanks to cart away or break open ATMs. These were among the challenges faced by the police to deal with the current trend of violent crimes.
Statistics from January to October this year showed the crime index continued to increase, namely 177,141 cases as compared to 171,454 cases last year. Armed gang robberies were higher at 17,834 cases, as compared to 5,687 last year.
Suddenly this country doesn’t feel so safe anymore. That is the outcome of rejecting God’s laws and relying on archaic “civil laws”.
I watched Jim Carrey’s “Yes Man” two days ago. Like everything else he does, he does things to a really wacky extreme. In a nutshell, the story is about a motivational programme that the main character attended and he puts what he learnt from the programme into practice to the most extreme end possible…with surprisingly good results.
It was actually real fun to watch and I loved every second of it.
