Musings of a modern Musl1m

The Prisoners of the West

I am hooded and cloaked
Robed in orange and soaked
Beaten, imprisoned, unprovoked
My human rights, dignity revoked

This war on terrorism
An example of barbarism
A product of racism
Arrested for peaceful activism

I was rendered abroad
A victim of state fraud
Tortured, stabbed, clawed
Practices openly outlawed

The laws of democracy
The symbols of hypocrisy
The creators of atrocity
The rule of bureaucracy

Imprisoned without trial
A nation in denial
The world you beguile
As I rot in exile

Where is this justice you exhort
Which in my case you distort
And you refuse to support
In a civilian court

This is the complementary piece to ‘The Prisons of the East’ that I posted a couple of days ago. For the brothers and sisters imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and in the other hidden prisons of the west. Surely Allah is with the patient, may He end your suffering and use it to forgive your sins. Ameen.

The Prisons of the East

Death and darkness it chases
The dying nameless faces
The beating heart it races
And the angel of death, he graces

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The torture, blood and pain
The anger, hate, disdain
Starvation, solitude, the chain
Shrieks, screams, they remain

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The crazed tyrant he rules with force
His synthetic justice always so hoarse
The leaders of the west, they endorse
Liars, hypocrites, without remorse

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My innocence you impeach
Imprisoned for mere speech
Of justice you preach
Yet my human rights you breach

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Freedom stolen without trial
No chance for denial
That really is your style
A system completely vile

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Freedom and justice we demand
Though no army we command
We’re ready to make a stand
For this too is our land

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Musl1m

For all of the men and women imprisoned across the world for speaking out against tyranny and injustice, you will be victorious. God Willing.
“Checking Out Me History

Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me

Bandage up me eye with me own history
Blind me to me own identity

Dem tell me about 1066 and all dat
Dem tell me bout Dick Wittington and he cat
But Toussaint L’Ouverture
No dem never tell me bout dat

Toussaint
A slave
With vision
Lick back
Napoleon
Battalion
And first black
Republic born
Toussaint de thorn
To de French
Toussant de beacon
Of de Haitian Revolution

Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon
And de cow who jump over de moon
Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon
But dem never tell me but Nanny de maroon

Nanny
See-far woman
Of mountain dream
Fire-woman struggle
Hopeful stream
To freedom river

Dem tell me bout Lord Nelsom and Wateloo
But dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu
Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492
But what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too

Dem tell bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp
And how Robin Hood used to camp
Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soul
But dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole

From Jamaica
She travel dar
To the Crimean War
She volunteer to go
And even when de British said no
She still brave the Russian snow
A healing star
Among the wounded
A yellow sunrise
To the dying

Dem tell me
Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
But now I checking out me own history
I carving out me identity”
John Agard
The Gazan Massacre

As Arab leaders sat and watched

Israeli soldiers were dispatched

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As the Islamic world shook

Israel didn’t give a second look

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As Gaza burns in bright flames

We all know who America blames

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As the UN searches for a compromise

Israel continues to spread her twisted lies

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As Muslim leaders calls for retaliation

Israel continues its occupation

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As the President-elect makes no sound

Israeli jets continue to pound

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As world leaders promise to meet

Blood flows in every Gazan street

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As the number of dead continue to rise

Israel accepts no compromise

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As Hamas rockets continue to miss

Israel kills for its people’s bliss

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As Israeli politicians fight for election

Gazan people hide from Israeli detection

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As Israeli leaders reveal their discrimination

They continue a people’s annihilation

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As Hamas seeks retribution

Israel continues its extermination

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As the West Bank remains in the occupier’s hands

Israel neglects cease-fire demands

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As foreign charities call for peace

The Zionist massacre does not cease

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As the blood of an oppressed people stain the land

Israel’s illegal borders continue to expand

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As the world cries for a peaceful solution

Israel continues its rabid persecution

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As Palestinian borders rapidly shrink

Its time for peacemakers to swiftly rethink

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As the blood of thousands stains the Israeli leadership

Israel tightens its merciless iron grip

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As Israel fights for its security

It must learn some important maturity

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The suffering of Palestine is so great

Yet some would argue that it’s their fate

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We await such a time to see the fall of the oppressor

To see the destruction of the transgressor

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This transgressor, this oppressor, this occupier is named Zionism

And it alone can be blamed for the judeo-muslim schism

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We pray to God to unite the true people of Palestine regardless of faith and race

So that they can live in peace in this the land of prophets, a most holy place.

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Musl1m (2009)

Pain and the Ummah

From east to the west

Everyday is a test

Though we do our best

We are oppressed

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With the noose tightened

The security alert heightened

With the populations frightened

With a minority enlightened

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A fictional adversary did they create

As soviet power did deflate

As fascist Nazi do they hate

And in our lands they dictate

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Burning bullets strike from every direction

Foreign armies invade like an infection

Western hands pull strings behind election

And the Illuminati avoid detection

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A force uncontrolled by nation or race

Their legendary plan gathering pace

One global state without a face

The ‘all seeing eye’ ruling without Gods grace

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The Zionist in Palestine, holy land

The pagans in mighty Kashmir, a cause for terror

The faithless in forgotten Xinjiang, masjids banned?

The monster media turns a blind eye

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Remember the butchers of Bosnia

The criminals of Chechnya

The soviets in Afghanistan

The dictator in Iraq

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Remember how they were driven out

Remember how they were knocked about

Remember how they were defeated without a doubt

Remember how they were crushed with clout

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This is their fate that awaits

This time they shall be driven through fiery gates

And there be tested by all hates

For that is the fruit of earthly baits

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The burning of the Jew

The enslavement of a race

The colonization of a nation

Now comes our time be patient

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For we must remain at our station

As the best of all creation

Enjoining what is right

And forbidding what is evil

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Through the darkness of oppression

Through the terror of ejection

The bloodshed of aggression

Strengthens our confession

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Nationalism, a poison of the mind

Borders, a prison for our kind

Yet we continue as if we’re blind

And now we’re falling behind

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Muslim blood is sold cheap

And our wounds go deep

Our mangled bodies laid in a heap

Our children killed in their sleep.

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And though we cry in the night

We’ll fight in the light

And with all of our might

We may give u a fright

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About us they spread many lies

Ignoring our desperate cries

As their deadly bombs fall from the skies

Their hatred spills onto medias unwise

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Poet, sorcerer, terrorist, paedophile

Their corrupt claims of flith are vile

For honesty was his style

And kindness defined his profile

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In the face of death and the feeling of fear

And when there is no hope that is clear

And when dead is all that was dear

We place our trust in the one who placed us here

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For such is our holy creed

And that alone a mighty deed

Through faith alone we shall be freed

And that is the message we must heed

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Musl1m (2009)

Resistance

Radical rightwing racists raging relentlessly

Zionist zeal, fiery fascism hunting me

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In the kingdom of Egypt through seas and sands

were enslaved the children of Israel in foreign lands

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Lead by Moses, sent by the Lord

they defeated Pharaoh and his great horde

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In the shadow of Sinai, in the absence of the prophet

they committed treason and they bowed to the calf

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They killed the giant Goliath with the tiny stone

with the power of God young David took the throne

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Through countless years disbelief crept into Judea

then came the rampaging Romans who ruled through fear

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The Messiah was sent to lead them into freedom

yet they rejected him through a false wisdom

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The Islamic caliphate crashed and burned, 

the Jews of Al Andalusia were concerned

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Spanish crusaders stormed Granada

they began a massacre led by the Armada

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Crazy crusaders killed Jewish families

Christian clerics permitted such atrocities

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Philistine, Morocco and Turkey protected

the Jews who had been cruelly subjected

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Gas chambers to death camps, this was racial eradication

fuelled by a most evil motivation

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Six million dead and this was a Holocaust

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Holocaust, homeland, Hebron, Hamas, the occupier nation

an illegal creation

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‘A land bestowed upon us by God himself’ claims the tyrant

yet where was this God under Hitler the assailant?

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Al Quds, Gush Etzion, Kalia, Beit HaArva

outlawed settlements swell selfishly

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Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Gaza a people divided

by an apartheid unrivalled

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Cluster bombs against hand held stones

the military machine against the people’s resistance

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Merkava tanks mighty monstrosities marching mercilessly

F15 fighter jets firing furiously

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Guiltless children falling uncontrollably

mourning mothers weeping violently

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Criminal country, colonialist collaborator

causing carnage continuous corruption

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Children of Palestine heroes to a billion strong 

murdered and massacred for ever so long

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No war can go on without an end

no struggle can continue beyond its time

yet know that the world will not forget your crime

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Through blood and fire we shall rise

the people of Palestine Muslims Forever!

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Our Holocaust honoured?

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Musl1m (2009)

The Children of Democracy


The hypocrisy of democracy

A political atrocity

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Taliban tyrants rose through western wealth

Now western armies threaten Afghani health

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Saddam’s arm’s American ammunition

Iraq’s wealth American ambition

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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Corrupt Kharzai rules Kabul

Western bombers continue to cull

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Hamas freely elected

And the west they freely rejected

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Millions marched against the war of Iraq

Yet that didn’t hold the ‘crusaders’ back

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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The throne of Saud generously guarded

As was the General in Pakistan as America bombarded

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Yet remains the Egyptian collaborator

A most cruel and corrupt dictator

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The leaders of Fatah forever abused

As the oppressors in Israel sit amused

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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Capitalism the religion of gold

With a mind of morality oh so cold

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Corporate giants sponsor western leaders

Wealthy companies, financial feeders

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The slave of the dollar, blinded by greed

Yet in democracy that is no sinful deed

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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Nazi massacres forever condemned

Yet Israeli criminals continue to offend

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Soviet evils always in mind

Yet Afghan sacrifices, never remind

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Korean communists not forgotten

But Vietnam’s dead lay uncounted rotten

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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Democracy spread by the sword

Human rights abused and ignored

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Hundreds lay tortured and broken

Yet the laws of democracy have spoken

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Secret prisons spawned in hate

Allowed by leaders of an evil trait

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This is the west and you are free for we are the children of democracy

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Democracy alone is no answer

For one idea cannot cure every cancer

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An idea alone cannot end the evil and corrupt

It takes more than a word for secrecy to erupt

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Though this freedom allows the beginning to form

It will take more for this world to reform

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This is the west and are you free?

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Musl1m (2009)

I haven’t had the chance to upload much of my writing (mostly poetry) on to tumblr because most of it was done before I started using tumblr but I’ve decided to upload as much of it as I can today. Enjoy and feel free to leave feedback in what ever manner you feel most comfortable with. w’Salaam ~ Peace.

Monsters in the skies

Dark monsters in the skies

Death and fire that flies

Youth and innocence it cries

The smiling martyr that dies

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Planes and choppers that swoosh

Bombs and bullets that crush

Tanks and soliders that rush

The IDF budget so lush

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Through generations of pain

An entire nation thats slain

Yet its so few that gain

To the watching world a stain

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Our death comes from above

There’s nothing left but love

And they push and shove

No olive branch, no dove

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The children in the street

The grandmother without feet

The family with no heat

A war crime complete

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Oh Palestine we recall

Your unjust fall

That illegal wall

And the ‘peace crawl’

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Musl1m

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