Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Oct 31, 2010

Is Yemeni Girl Student Victim of Terrorist Bomb Plot?

Article first published as Is Yemeni Girl Student Victim of Terrorist Bomb Plot? on Blogcritics.

Arrest of Yemeni girl student aged in her early twenties sparked outrage among Yemeni student community. They believe the girl student was made a scapegoat in the plot. They protested against the arrest of the student and her mother in Sanaa University campus where the student, identified as Hanan Al-Samawi, is pursuing her 5-year engineering degree.

Sanaa University students' protest The accusation of Hanan’s colleagues that the she was made scapegoat seems credible for the following reasons.

  1. Yemeni authorities said the student was a medical student, whereas the student is actually an engineering student in Sanaa University in Yemeni capital Sana’a.
  2. Yemen police arrested the student after tracing through her telephone number left with Cargo Company. It is highly impossible that any bomb plotter would leave his/ her telephone number and ID cart when he/she sending bombs abroad with a view to blow up the aircraft in the air. It is quite illogical.
  3. The neighbors of the students house in a poor area stated that the family is pious but never appeared that they could be a part of a terror plot.
  4. Colleagues of the student say Hanan is not known to be a participant of any religious or political activities.
  5. Though the cargo planes originated from Yemen, they stopped at more than one stops before reaching U.K. and Dubai where the bombs were uncovered.
  6. Investigators are still attempting to retrace the routes of the cargo planes, which mean the originating points of the bomb plot are not credibly established.

Sep 8, 2010

People are Moving Forward, but Priests, Pastors and Mullahs are going back to Stone Age


My goodness! Who is this priest of the 21st Century? Burning Quran is a step in the right direction somebody said on ‘Blogcritics.org’ while accepting that it incites burning bibles? Then what is it you want to advocate by burning? Is it hatred or peace?
I can never imagine that a priest -in the name of holy god, in the name of 9/11 destruction caused by a section of people of a religion- would preach to burn a book that is equally holy to another religion. This happened in medieval ages between and within various religions throughout the civilizations. The US has no particular civilization. People from various civilizations came, that too lately, to settle in the US. It is a conglomeration of several religious, racial and national people. Hence it is supposed to be more tolerant and accommodating. But this priest, seems to be felt the lack of medieval history of bloodbath for his country, wants to make such a history in the modern times of love and tolerance.
I don't remember any mullah was among those who drove planes into the lives of thousands.
When a priest ceases to be a priest, maybe things like this happen. But still, no, I can never imagine such things happen by any means. The people who drove planes into skyscrapers may believe in Quran. Does it mean everybody who believes in Quran on this planet tends to drive planes or cars into buildings?
A mother who loves her children also love other children, at least doesn't hate. A mother is always a mother throughout her life. A priest is supposed to be so. The people who resort to terrorist