Handful of Hate
Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you
Hello Everybody
Day after day, the situation in Iraq became worse and worse. The BBC had reported today that about 100 people have been killed in the aftermath of bombing the Shia Shrine yesterday. This is insane.
Only evil souls think about this kind of bombing to make riot between the two major sectarians of Iraq. I’m sure that any moderate Sunni will never think to bomb such a place for the Shias. Therefore, It’s very important that the Iraqi people unite their power to overcome this crisis, and don’t let the situation to reach a civil war.
It’s the responsibility now for the leaders and Muslim scholars - both Shiites and Sunnis - to make their effort to stop riot, because none of the Iraqi people will gain from such situation; rather they will be losers if this fury didn’t stop. That’s about the people.
As for the shrine, Look at the picture - to the left - and see how the shrine became after bombing! This shrine returns back to the 9-10th century and was rebuild 3 times later in the 11th, 12th and the 19th centuries respectively. The golden Dome was one of it’s characteristic, which gave it more beauty. It’s listed under Iraqi World Heritage list.
I hope that this beautiful shrine will be restored as soon as possible. I also hope that the AKDN raise a fund for this restoration in the near future if they can. This is a wish from a simple Muslim Sunni Man to his his highness, the Aga Khan, to raise such fund if he can in the near future to restore this building.
On the other hand, those evil souls had killed Atwar Bahjat, the 26 years old Iraqi reporter and two of her crew.
Atwar - the Sunni Muslim woman - was a famous reporter in al-Jazeera channel, and I consider here one of the few women who’d something to present to world via her work, even if I don’t know her personally.
She went to Samarra with her crew to cover the situation after bombing the shrine, where some gunmen kidnapped her + 2 other colleagues from her crew: Adnan Khairallah, the cameraman and Khaled Mohsen, the soundman.
Ahmed al-Saleh, another reporter for al-Arabiya, had seen this kidnapping. According to him, the gunmen started firing their machine-guns to make people panic then one of them started shouting “We want the anchorwoman” - mean Atwar. She was in the news van and shouted to the crowd to help her, however no one could help. The gunmen took her and the other 2 colleagues to unknown place, where they were assassinated.
Atwar had worked for local Iraqi channel, then moved to al-Jazeera TV where she worked there and were reporting since the invasion of Iraq. Later, sine 3 weeks ago, she had left to al-Arabiya TV. Beside being a reporter, she was a poet also. Finally, she was preparing for her wedding in the next few months. [*no comment*]
My GOD! What evil souls we have in this world?! I’m pretty sure of that this assassination was some kind of revenge towards this young reporter because of her active work as a reporter in al-Jazeerah then in al-Arabiya. Whomever the group who’d done this, it’s clear for me that this is a revenge.
Notice
[add 24-02-2006 @ 6:00 AM]
I saw al-Arabiya channel on the TV yesterday in the night. What they wrote about Atwar’s life was 1976-2006, which means she was 30 not 26, however most websites said she’s 26. Anyway 26 or 30, she’s killed by evil people. She was the 7th woman journalist to be killed since the invasion of Iraq, and the toll of journalists whom had been killed in Iraq reaches 82, according to Reporters without Borders.
I know she is martyr - incha’allah, however this doesn’t conflict with the fact that felt very sad for her. May be she’s not my direct sister, however she’s my sister as Human Being, as Muslim, as Arab. Same as for her two colleagues. May ALLAH (swt) bless their souls, and help their families to overcome those hard times. Amen!
Anyway, as I always believe:
Terrorists are people with black heart and black soul
whatever they religion is, and whatever their race isMay ALLAH (swt) bless her soul, her colleagues’ souls
May ALLAH (swt) bless souls of all those innocents
whom are killed for no particular reason except insanityPoor Humanity!
Quotes
“The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.” [Henry Fosdick]
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. [Albert Einstein]
Related Links
- Scores die amid Iraqi shrine fury [BBC - EN]
- Shock over reporter’s death [BBC - EN]
- Shock over reporter’s death [BBC - EN]
- Reporters without Border [Reporters sans fronti�res - EN]
- Shrine of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Askari [ArcNet Digital Library]
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Salam,
Hicham
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February 23rd, 2006 20:42
Dear Iraqi People - My deep condolence for Atwar’s family, her fiance, the soundman’s family , the cameraman’s family and finally for the families of all those inocent people who’d died without no particular reason.
February 23rd, 2006 22:33
Salams,
I love you blog - I know I never comment.. but I do visit it
February 24th, 2006 04:06
themoonsplit - Salaam sister, and thanks for stopping. Well, no problem at all for not placing any comment, however you’ve already placed one now.
Everybody - I’d updated the post by adding a Notice at the end of it under Notice
May ALLAH (swt) bless all those innocent souls, and help the Iraqi people to overcome this riot. Amen
February 24th, 2006 12:14
MAY PEACE BE UPON YOUR SOUL, HEART, MIND, AND BODY…AMEN.
Well, whatever age doesn’t really matter. Death is written and all is decided before being born… The most important thing is our final abode… Our final destination…
May Allah brighten her grave and the rest… Amen.
May Allah grant us His mercy and let us enter heaven with no judging….AMEN.
MEN DOOOOOOOON HISAB…AMEN.
I WAS SOOOOO MAD AT PPL WHO SAID, OOOOOOOOHHH, SHE’S YOUNG!
ALLAHUMA AHSEN KHATEMATANA GAMEE’AN…AMEN.
February 25th, 2006 05:23
Sara - I totally agree with you.
I wonder how some people think about the situation of death, I mean when somebody young die, they say Oh, she was pretty, she was nice, he was cute …etc
Deah has no time, theirfor people should do their best in their life, as this will be incha’allah the good deeds for everyone at the Day of Judgement.
In fact, it’s our choice to do Right or Wrong as I’d mentioned before in the post titiled The Closer You get
May ALLAH (swt) bless Atwar’s soul, and souls of all innocent people worldwide.
May ALLAH (swt) reward all of you.
February 25th, 2006 09:11
OR THEY SAY, “OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH SHE HAD A BEAUTIFUL LONG LIFE AHEAD OF HER”…
WHO SAID SO? HOW DO YOU KNOW? WHAT DO YOU KNOW IN THE FIRST PLACE?
SUBHANALLAH, THIS ISSUE REALLY GETS ON MY NERVES!!!
Amen to your du’a, and may Allah Almighty grant us His mercy…amen.
February 26th, 2006 16:21
Sara - In fact, no one knows if his/her work is accepted from ALLAH (swt) or not. It all depends on our intention, and this is something between the person and ALLAH (swt).
Example: A man may do something which seems to people excellent, however it’s not accepted from ALLAH (swt). Why? because his intention was not pure. He didn’t mean to do this for god sake; rather for people to say Look for what “someone” had done and therefor it is not from his good deeds.
That’s why I believe that we must stop judging each other - from the faith point of view - and target our efforts to perform our role, each according to the job he can do. This applies to judging Muslims and Non.
I hope that ALLAH (swt) will accept from all of us.
Finally, May ALLAH (swt) bless Atwar’s soul, and souls of her 2 colleages, and accept their work, Amen.
February 26th, 2006 19:11
somemuslimman, I love the way you express your self, so pricise and clear. My condolence’s also go out to Atwar’s family and to all the innocent families along with the soundman’s family and the cameraman’s family. May God Bless them all.
March 2nd, 2006 16:45
Chet - Your words are very sweet. I don’t know what to say really.
Anyway all what I can say that I pray to God - ALLAH (swt) - to bless the souls of all innocent people worldwide. Amen!
March 4th, 2006 21:27
Salams,
I finally got the chance to post on here.
After reading the post, I seriously ended up crying. I knew about what happened but just assumed that Awtar died in crossfire. Knowing that she was kidnapped and then killed, that just hurts too much. I mean why? What is the point? What did they achieve?
I send my condolences to Awtar’s family and Insha’Allah they’ll be with her in Fardous.
March 5th, 2006 18:20
Stellar - Thanks for stopping by.
Regarding what you said, look, the answer is very simple. As I said in the original post, what had happend to Atwar was a direct revenge from her before any other thing.
They had killed Atwar: the human being, the Muslim, Arab & Iraqi women, the poet, and finally the active reoprter in al-Jazeera before she moved to al-Arabiya. That’s what I see from this work. It’s all about Atwar.
Atwar by the way was 30 not 26 as I told in the post, even if I’d mentioned this before.
BTW: for my bad luck, or whatever it may told, I saw the pictures of her after being killed. I can’t tell you all how upset I felt because it’s something horrible. I saw them few days ago, and after posting this post.
In fact, I post those words about Atwar and here 2 colleags - even if I don’t know them personaly - to be as few simple words to everyone to know what terrorists really do, and to know that those people with black souls and hearts don’t want anything in this life except killing people for their own sake + the sake of others who hide behinde them.
May ALLAH (swt) bless Atwar’s soul, souls of her 2 colleags, and souls of all innocent people who are killed for no particular reason worldwide.
March 8th, 2006 11:42
great post Some Muslim man ,great one
March 10th, 2006 03:36
Zeinobia - You are welcome. May ALLAH (swt) bless Atwar’s soul, souls of her 2 colleages and souls of all innocent people who died worldwide .. Amen!