The month of Ramadaan is about to end... marked by Eid al Fitr .. not meant to be an excuse for excess or indulgence but for sharing the wealth and the means with others for an equitable and humane community and world.... while the BBC continues to neglect the victims of the Pakistan quake and undermines attempted ties between India and Pakistan.....
I am fasting in the last week of Ramadaan in London
aware that across the world a hectic scramble is on
involving mostly those with cash to display and spend
not at all to do with fasting but more to do with its end
that is treated by those spenders as an excuse to indulge
forgetting that this Eid forbids fasters so greedily to indulge
encuraging in fact to share a minimum portion of their wealth
backing the creation of a humane society in ethical health
I am fasting in London in a week of preparatory miseducation
set off by profiteers pushing fireworks rather than education
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I am fasting in London today to also observe the manifesto
following which I do not expect to land in office a gusto
I am fasting in London today to solemnly renew the vow
to spend the next year as consciously as I am doing now
I am fasting in London where they remembered that Dyer
via the biased Tulley PR to deny the full truth and the dire
dastardly colonialist fabrication they are putting on air today
I am fasting amid such poverty of soul so rampant everyday
I am fasting as the media is held by the liars’ secret club
I am hungry for a truthful media to replace the liars’ club
I am fasting after suffering the lies of ‘upallnight’ on Radio five
amazed that the BBC is ‘funded by me’ ‘to lie on tape and as live’!
as they did with that remarkably evil interview with a ‘Dr’ so and so
who spewed out lies, failed to back the quake victims and had a go
at the reported negotiations between two neighbours in south Asia
as the “Dr” feigned proximity to the Pentagon agenda, not to Asia
while issuing his catalogue of hatred from a USA base in Georgia
I am fasting as the BBC carry on their assault on the world ‘Ummah’
0750 Hrs GMT
Sunday 30 October 2005
27 Ramadaan 1426 AH
Comments
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30.10.2005 22:51
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indymedia must stop the racist 'insiders'
31.10.2005 00:32
The political poetry of Mr Muhammad Haque is a unique movement .
Thousands of people have read his poetry. Or have heard his advocacy of human rights or been beneficiaries of the campaigns that he has run.
His poetry is an indication of his philosophy.
The poetry is brilliant. Incisive and timely. There is nothing on Indymedia or anywhere else on the Internet like the Muhammad Haque Political Poetry.
He is learned, knowledgeable, accurate and prescient.
netsurfer
Comment on the abusive 'comments' Indymedia publishes
31.10.2005 10:37
Re: the ‘comments’
First of all, why do the Indymedia lot publish ‘crap’ comments?
There is no justification for those.
Secondly, there is no other site anywhere that carries a political poetry or political comment from as informed and enlightening a writer as the Muhammad Haque Political Poetry.
Given the immediacy of the comments and their exceedingly high level priority in international news and relations, one would have thought that Indymedia should be congratulated for having this very important contributor.
None of the comments has any sense. Not the ones that you have published in the past week.
Yet the MUHAMMAD HAQWUE POLITICAL POETRY is the only column that has consistently introduced and outlined a wholly new and necessary way forward for a sharing, tolerant and a caring world uncontrolled by the global capital or colonialists.
What could the lunatics be objecting to then? Except perhaps top the name which is not a European name and therefore not ‘expected’ to be a leading intellectual and philosophical name?
Indymedia should discourage abusive comments that are not addressing the issues, let alone expressing any level of intelligent ability to recognize the serious purpose being fulfilled by this very very important contributor.
Best wishes
Underthebanyantree
Underthebanyantree
Free speech?
31.10.2005 15:24
Pat
(Good) Poetry Please
31.10.2005 21:18
FluffyMufti
Excellent stuff
31.10.2005 23:26
This needs to reach a wider audience.
Zorro
The Librarian
01.11.2005 20:41
To ‘Pat’, ‘Zorro’ and ‘Fluffy Mufti’
We support jokes if they are humorous, intelligent and do the point. Abuses are not jokes and you should know better if you have any self respect. You could only have thought of offending someone’s religion as you prejudicially perceived it deserved insults it to be if you lacked the basic ability to know what a joke was and what an insult was. Are you saying that you should have the right to insult someone because what they write exposes the lies of something you think should be protected? Grow up, read the items again and you can post any genuine jokes as you can think up. If that is possible !!!
To “FluffyMufti”
You have missed the title that the Political Poet has been posting. It is POLITICAL Poetry, not lines written in the style of any WB Yates or anybody of that description or tradition. It is a unique and independent tradition being contributed by the Political Poet. It is MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY. If it had been intended to be after the fashion of WB YATES, the title would have said so. Get your reading and understanding right at the basic levels before impatiently and irrationally attacking the Political Poetry.
To ‘Zorro’
You will not understand English ‘translation’ even if it were published on Indymedia !!! You show just how brazen your ignorance is and just how far Indymedia needs to go b before it recognises the world of the
little islands based in the imperialists’
centres on either sides of the Atlantic...
Publishing imperialistic and racist garbage under guises of ‘anti’-globalisation and ‘anti-’ capitalism and in fact repeating the assumptions from murderous legacies of Empires is not debate or politics or progress... It is backward, pathetic and subservient to real dark ages where ignorance and prejudice reigned...
Literature for Freedom Centre
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02.11.2005 11:19
Jews desire the enslavement of humanity. Jews are white. For the most part.
Christians desire the enslavement of humanity. Powerful Christians are white. For the most part.
Muslims desire the liberation of humanity. Muslims are brown. For the most part.
I'm gay. I wonder what Mr Haque makes of myself, my lifestyle choice and my desire to live openly with my samesex partner?
I'm an eight year old thief, a native of Iran. The courts have sentenced me to have my hand amputated. I wonder what Mr Haque makes of me?
Alone among my family, I survived the Holocaust and opted to settle in Israel. I wonder what Mr Haque makes of me?
I'm a Coptic Christian. The police have abducted my daughter and forcibly converted her to Islam. I wonder what Mr Haque makes of me?
I'm a victim of one among the 3179 terror attacks committed by Muslims between September 11 and today. I wonder Mr Haque makes of me?
I'm an atheist. The Quran states that I am fated to burn in the depths of Hell for all eternity. I wonder what Mr Haque makes of me?
Freedom, my arse.
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Half-times follow...
02.11.2005 19:34
Ezra Pound, Yeats, Philip Larkin.
Left wing poets:
Mohammad Haque, Rick from The Young Ones.
milk
Dissection of the 'arse-all'
07.11.2005 21:32
Be it on the record: so sad, vile and very bizarre!
No thoughts, rationality no sign education
venomous hatred spite and barren distortion
A contemptuous composite hate so old
they are multi-headed hydra, vicious cold
They are not human nor allow humanity
to be backed in political lines. ‘Arse’ vanity
is what they chucked at the indymedia site
They lack truth irked by truth. Utter rot trite
“Arse”-vision is what they are needing
“Arse”-capital is their all not any reading
what the Political Poet wrote and published
‘Arse’-glorification is why they falsely rubbished
something that was not in the Published Poetry
‘Arse’-based questions are venomous bigotry....
“Arse”-centric beings cannot know what the Nazis did
“Arses” won’t be tolerated ayhwere if the ‘arses” did
exist together with a thinking believing human
who was the target of the Nazis’ pogrom every occasion
that the genocidal evil murdering thugs were exposed
“Arse”-haughty haters would be among those disposed
of by the Nazis in their routine marches through town
not for any content- because ‘an arse’ is empty so barren
and a coward failing to face upto the truth of persecution
far less defy the persecutors! be those Nazis or ‘a new nation’
Whenever there is violation of rights or of all humanity
The ‘arses’ jump first and fall into lines of conformity
and it is the ‘arses’ that betray all of innocent humanity
with the ‘arses’ age-old ability to bow to all immorality
the ‘arses’ shop the innocent and praise the evil in power
the ‘arses’ are soulless souldeads, existing only to devour
all that is sacred courageous and true ! ‘The Arses’ crave
what belongs to dignity but what arses need to save
their pathetic excuses for being, at the expense of truth
the ‘arses’ worship falsehood smearing truth in untruth!
in all times violation which they underestimate
and cast twisted hatred and move to nakedly berate
all callers to solidarity and battles world-wide for freedom
the ‘arses’ post only ‘arses’, never backing truth or freedom...”
Bythebanyantree