Oh! Jenin my heart cries for you

Showkat —

Oh! Jenin my heart cries for you

By Showkat Ali


The years have passed

Memories have faded

And the rain has washed

Away

The evidence of those slain

Men women and children

Buried under the rubble

Who Israel accused them of causing trouble


Their lies believed by the gullible

International agencies and media

Carried the story

Of the brave Israelis

Our story ignored

Because it’s gory


The brave mujahideen fought

But they knew it was to no avail

The Muslim leaders would not come to their aid

So they fought valiantly

Like we pray our last salah


They took inspiration

From Dawud AS

And fought the Goliath

Alone

Trusting in their lord

Better to die with dignity

Then live in humiliation


The ummah praised them

The rulers were shamed

Questions were asked

What’s the point of huge armies and

Nuclear weapons if your ummah is humiliated?


Israel was scared

Memories of khaybar

Came flooding back

23 Israeli dead

13 in one day

100s wounded

And millions of Zionists psychologically scarred


Bulldozers used

And bombs dropped from planes

Upon houses

Muslims treated like louses


The victims of the holocaust

Practiced their own genocide


But who’s going to put them on trial?


Five years have passed

No one remembers Jenin

But the world remembers and commemorates

The Jews who were gassed

Over 50 years ago


Remember

April 2002

What did we do for our brothers and sisters?

What are we doing now for our ummah?


Prepare your answers

Oh! Muslimeen


Allah will ask you

On the day when wealth, qualifications and status

Will mean absolutely nothing


Forum

You — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 - 12:37

Eastenders? :twisted:


No, I think he is talking about th refugee camp where Israel tried "to remove terrorists" from a couple of years ago.


Why he has posted this now, I do not know.


Showkat — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 - 15:48

It was 4 years ago this month when israel committed the massacre inside Jenin. We should think and make dua for our ummah wherever they are.


Dave — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 - 17:27

Apparently our new neighbors in South Carolina are Palestinian, or at least the guy is. I'm looking forward to meeting them when we get back


Mr Honey's Day Out — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 - 22:24

Four years ago 20 odd Israeli soldiers, 30 odd Palestinian militants and 20 odd Palestinian civilians died in fierce battle when the Israelis entered Jenin, apparently in an attempt to clamp down on the perpetrators of the Netanya bombing and a number of suicide bombings that originated in Jenin. Initially Palestinian reports, picked up by media around the world, told of indiscriminate killing and mass graves, and even the IDF went so far as to accept there had been hundreds killed or wounded. Israeli operations were ongoing and no investigation was conclusive until the Israelis granted UN access several weeks later. The UN, Human Rights Watch and Fatah all settled on fatality figures in the region I gave above. HRW and the UNHCR, which focus primarily on Israel and tend not to address human rights violations anywhere else, proposed that Israelis had committed war crimes, but that there was no massacre. HRW additionally condemned the Palestinian fighters for taking up positions alongside civilians. Israel maintained that the ground incursion was necessary and preferable in terms of human rights to any other warfare.


This morning one car bomb killed over 65 innocent people and wounded over 80 near a mosque in Kerbala, Iraq, at the same time as another bomb killed 10 and wounded 15 in Baghdad, [url=http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/][color=black]the second attack on a vital Tigris river bridge this week[/color][/url]. Throughout the week similar bombs in Iraq, not to mention Algiers, have taken hundreds of lives. Every week this is happening on an ever-growing scale. I tend to avoid political poems but perhaps you will also consider these subjects worthy of your attention, Showkat. Or perhaps you find it harder to condemn the perpetrators of these killings, and have no reason.


*DUST* — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 - 12:38

[quote="Seraphim"]Whose Jenin and why is Showkat singing to her?


[size=7]Please note i did not bother reading the original post[/size][/quote][quote="Admin"]Eastenders? :twisted:[/quote]

that's not even funny guys. :roll: how can u make a joke out of something like this... :?


Seraphim — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 - 13:23

[quote="*DUST*"][quote="Seraphim"]Whose Jenin and why is Showkat singing to her?


[size=7]Please note i did not bother reading the original post[/size][/quote][quote="Admin"]Eastenders? :twisted:[/quote]

that's not even funny guys. :roll: how can u make a joke out of something like this... :?[/quote]


Did you not read the small print?


Showkat — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 - 15:57

[quote="*DUST*"][quote="Seraphim"]Whose Jenin and why is Showkat singing to her?


[size=7]Please note i did not bother reading the original post[/size][/quote][quote="Admin"]Eastenders? :twisted:[/quote]

that's not even funny guys. :roll: how can u make a joke out of something like this... :?[/quote]


I agree sister, humour has its place in Islam and to laugh at the memory of the Muslims who died in Jenin is not Islamic.


Seraphim — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 - 18:39

[quote="Seraphim"][quote="*DUST*"][quote="Seraphim"]Whose Jenin and why is Showkat singing to her?


[size=7]Please note i did not bother reading the original post[/size][/quote][quote="Admin"]Eastenders? :twisted:[/quote]

that's not even funny guys. :roll: how can u make a joke out of something like this... :?[/quote]


Did you not read the small print?[/quote]


yeah... once again read what i write ppl.