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Never Going Back To America
-- also nicked - - from marilyn_monroe village.. thanks to ishtar_r! --
(those with attention spans of gnats.. look away.. )
Why I Am Never Going Back To America
May 10, 2003
By Zeba Khan, US Citizen
A Thoughtful Article By A Sister For The Parents In
America.
I may be an American citizen, but thats not my fault.
I ask the reader to please forgive me that much and
continue with the rest of the article. As a
consequence of having been born, raised, and college
educated in the States, I have gora-saab Urdu, a
severe allergy to mosquito bites and a blue passport,
but again, thats not my fault.
Often at parties, mostly at weddings, people (with
sons my age who eat, drink, and dream in red, white
and blue) will slyly ask whether or not I have plans
of returning.
I say no, not at all, not unless pigs
fly, hell freezes over, and the Cubs win the World
Series, all on the same day. Then they ask me why, and
I can never answer them. I ?m ashamed to, and the
reason why is because the true nature of American
society is obscene, and Islamic Taboos are often rites
of Passage back in God Bless America. The sins that
Americans proudly broadcast are so fahosh (obscene!)
that I cannot mention them in mixed company in more
than a whisper. But luckily I can type though, and
here, dear readers, dear sly aunties, dear people who
think I ?m insane, is why I ?m never going back to the
US.
America is famous for turning out highly qualified
doctors and engineers, and I will not insult their
universities and colleges. The Ivy League universities
offer the best education that money can buy...in an
environment where 90% of all on-campus rape cases are
linked to alcohol and approximately 240,000 to 360,000
of the nations 12 million current undergraduates will
ultimately die from alcohol-related causes. (Stats
from SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration website)
But like I said, I ?m not going to slander
institutions where illicit affairs betweens professors
and students are common enough to be part of campus
life. It's a lovely collegiate society where emergency
phones with blue light beacons are installed every 100
or so feet on college grounds to curb crime and sexual
assault. I said I wouldnt slander the colleges, and I
?m not. To slander something is to lie, to demean it
with incorrect information, and I'm doing neither.
Everything Ive mentioned it true blue (and white, and
red) and 100% certifiable by anyone who has been to
college in any major city like Chicago.
Enough about college, let's go further back to public
high school. I'll tell you no lies here, either. The
state of Illinois has mandated a health and safety
class for all students, and the class is taught to
grade 9. The safety part of the class curriculum
includes drivers education. The health part of the
class involves skin care, fitness, how to use a
condom, how to recognize transmitted diseases in your
sexual partner and why, if you decide you ?re a
homosexual; it's ok to feel that way.
I was blessed, truly blessed by Allah that I was
absent the day that my teacher showed a live video of
a woman giving birth, the natural way, in the nude, in
stirrups. This all-natural, all-nude video was shown
in front of my mixed 9th grade class, it was shown to
both the boys and the girls at the same time. I heard
horror stories the next day from my fellow miserable
Muslimahs.
I, and hundreds of thousands of other young Muslims
who were unfortunate enough to be educated in the US,
was taught that being gay (Hijra!) is quite normal.
Never mind the two girls sitting outside the class
window kissing each other with open mouths - they ?re
exercising their right of choice. Homosexuality is not
a deviation, its a lifestyle, and a rather trendy one
at that.
Hooray for gay-rights and the yearly gay-pride parades
held in most major cities of the US. If youre
fortunate enough not to know what a gay-pride parade
is, allow me to ruin your day. It's a procession of
cars, decorated floats, dancers, near-naked hijras and
brainwashed heterosexuals who are proud to be part of
a sin so severe that it caused the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
Back to school, if your son or daughter needs a condom
so that they can have a little fun on their lunch
break, they don't need to be ashamed. They can just go
to the school counselors office and get one from her,
for free. If any of the students want to exercise the
freedom that the American forefathers fought and died
for, and engage in some pre-marital relations without
any of the consequences, then there are hundreds of
NGOs to help them with birth control, adoption, or
abortion, without ever letting the parents know whats
going on.
I ?m being quite bay-sharam, I know, but how else can
I explain these things? How else can I tell you that
high-school in Chicago, a very average place, is a
beer-drinking, pot-smoking, hormonally charged orgy
where young girls and boys play merry-go-round with
their sexual partners. Oh, and theres very
high-quality biology, chemistry and physics in there
somewhere too.
If you think that my merely mentioning this is
outrageous, then what do you think of the unfortunate
Pakistanis and Muslims who study this as part of
school curriculum and are taught to practice these
things in their daily life? It's not their fault they
?re subjected to such an immoral brainwashing, and
thats why I call them (and myself) unfortunate instead
of guilty. These poor 9th graders (aged 14-15 on
average) did not chose to be born in a society where
talk is cheap, love is free, and God is banned from
public schools.
Yes, God is officially banned in public schools.
Prayer in school is quite a controversial issue back
over there in God Bless America. Religion is a private
affair, and much like STDs, you ?re supposed to keep
them to yourself.
The American educational assault goes farther than
immorality; it extends into the illogical and absurd.
Did you know that our ancestors were monkeys? What?
You say that you knew your ancestors, and though one
of your uncles had a low forehead, he was hardly
simian? You may also say that the first man was
Prophet Adam, peace and blessings be upon him, and he
was no monkey. You know this because God said so, not
just in Islam but in all three major religions of the
world, and plus evolution has been deemed impossible
by a huge but muffled community of scientists. (Read
Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of
Darwinism... by Harun Yahya) If you make the mistake
of expressing your religious beliefs in class, you
will be laughed out of class and scolded when you come
eventually come back.
Teacherlaughing with cocky attitude further
bolstered by authority and his/her own brainwashing)
Silly, backwards, fundamentalist student, how
foolish can you be to believe in God? What, have you
ever seen God? Look around, I don't see anything
remotely worship-able in the universe, do you?
Studentmuttering under breath to avoid being failed
for bad behavior) Well teacher, come to think of it,
when I look around I can't see radio waves, microbes,
heat, radiation, wind, or even your brain for that
matter...
The secular American scientific community boasts of
its superior knowledge, but if you went by the same
empirical logic that they use to ignore God (seeing is
believing) then they don't have any brains, either.
Both belief in God and belief in your teacher,s brain
can only be confirmed by sight apparently, and since
both cases involve death to do so, (dying to see God,
killing your teacher and extracting his brain...) then
the issue stays mostly unresolved in circles who
refuse to use higher reasoning.
I must stop here and give credit to a few very
intelligent, very religious college professors that I
had. For example, Dr. P. Lancki, a religious Christian
and a professor of Microbiology. During a long
conversation about religion, science and society at
large, Dr.Lancki told me with wonder in her eyes how
it was impossible for a single cell, miraculous in
function and complex in design, to have been created
by accident or random events. Not one single cell
could be produced through the methods that educators
teach to students in the US; evolution, but Dr.Lancki
is forbidden to teach that in her class. God,
one of her coworkers told her, ...died with the
dinosaurs. Man doesn't need religion anymore.?
Times change. Where God was once called on sincerely
to bless America, He is now used only for purposes of
pro-war propaganda and occasionally brought up to take
accountability off the shoulders of criminals. I'm a
sociopath murderer, and God made me this way! I ?m
gay! And God made me this way! I ?m a pedophile, and
God made me this way!
Religion in American is approached in a way thats
comical if it wasn't so idiotic. In accordance with
typical non-judgmental morality, one religion is no
better than the next, and all religions take a
back-seat to freedom. You may not believe that
homosexuality is good, but in America you believe that
people should be free to practice homosexuality if
they like. Never mind that you believe it is wrong, if
you say so in public then you are labeled as
intolerant, homophobic, a closet-queer, and of course,
a bigot. Bigots get fired by their employers for being
closed-minded, but gays get free health-insurance from
their employers for the same-sex partner they happen
to be living with at the moment.
To move back to America would be to subject my future
children to a thorough brainwashing, regardless of how
well I tried to prevent it. When filth is broadcast on
TV, sung about on the radio, advertised on the
internet, and taught in school, how can you even
remotely hope to fight it? Whatever you teach you
children between breakfast and school, school and
soccer practice, soccer practice and dinner is
untaught a thousand times over once the child leaves
home.
True, there are some Muslims who come out of America
with basically sound minds and characters, but for
every sound mind there are 100 corrupt ones who live
with their Christian boy-friends, blame God for
homosexuality, use the Masjid as a meat-market for
dating and flirting, and join organizations like the
Al-Fateha group. Al-Fateha sounds holy enough from
where you ?re sitting, I ?m sure, but it's actually an
organization of homosexual Muslims in the US and
Canada.
The American society is a system of thinly veiled
chaos, and ever so often the veil is lifted. In New
York, currently the world's most famous city, the
Puerto Rican National Day Parade was one such example.
In broad daylight, buzzed on alcohol and under the
cover of mob-action, two years ago a group of over 50
young men traveled downtown New York assaulting women.
Police stood idly by as women were stripped naked,
sexually assaulted, sprayed with liquor and raped in
the streets on New York. Did darkness hides the mob
from the police? No, it was mid-afternoon. Were the
men stopped right away? No, they rampaged for over
three hours.
This is American society, this is what happens to a
people who do not believe in God, whose conduct
depends on whether or not anyone will catch them if
they do anything wrong. There is no humility or fear
of Divine Retribution to keep men acting as men, there
is only fear of the police. And when the police
invisible or ineffectual, the men become rapists,
murderers, barbarians and savages.
A funny comparison exists between Karachi and New
York, two major cities. In Karachi, when the
electricity goes out, children play chupan-chupai or
cricket in the streets. In New York, when the lights
go out, women are assaulted, people are robbed, and
stores are looted. This is not because the electric
gates of the prisons have opened, releasing all of the
criminals. No, this is because the electric lights and
eyes of the police have gone blind, and in the cover
of darkness, the common New Yorker becomes a common
criminal.
I'm not nuts you know, I ?m just honest. You can't get
me to go back to America, not for money, not for fame,
not even under the flimsy pretense of doing Dawah in
America. I ?m not going to lie to myself and say that
living in America is Dawah, because I can't hide that
my tax dollars pay Israeli settlers $10,000 a year,
per family member, to occupy Palestine and to kill the
Ummah I profess to be a part of. A white-picket fence
and a two car garage in the suburbs is not Dawah, its
greed. Sending your children to the best schools is
not Dawah, its opportunism, its taking advantage of a
system built on the backs of third-world countries and
dead Muslims.
Thousands of Afghanis have died to put cheaper gas in
your sports utility vehicle, thousands of Iraqis died
to keep your car running for less money, your heating
bills down, and your salary higher. Thousands of
Palestinians have been shot with bullets that your
tax-dollars bought and thousand more will if you stay
and become the ideal immigrant. To be the tax-paying,
flag-waving, English speaking Desi who is repulsed by
a backwards notions of religion, and sends your
children to get a good education at a Catholic school,
is to be the perfectly assimilated, perfectly absorbed
hypocrite.
How convenient it is for a Muslim to condemn America
for its tyranny, but take no action against it at all.
It's like a shepherd that shares a cave with wolves
who kill his own sheep, but stays because the cave is
warm and the mutton is free. The shepherd stays with
the wolves under the pretense of doing Dawah to the
wolves.
He hopes that by living with the wolves, the wolves
will feel sympathy for the shepherd, they will better
understand him, and maybe not kill his sheep anymore.
How very convenient, very illogical, and very
beneficial for the shepherd! Never mind that it's
wrong, just remember that the cave is warm and the
mutton is free, the streets are clean, the skyscrapers
are shiny, and your children are being given quality
wolf-education and eating quality mutton from your
murdered sheep.
Dear aunties, I would recommend that you set your
sights on some other Amreekan Palat, I may move a
hundred times in my life, but never back to the
country whose ruler has reinstated the crusades. Never
to the land where a 67 year old Afghani Imam is in
camp x-ray for giving Mujahideen dry bread crusts.
Never to a land where my own Muslim brothers are
collateral damage. I swear by Allah, I will never make
that mistake again.
Never.
--------
For the non-urdu speakers:
gora-saab urdu: broken urdu OR urdu with an american accent.
bay-sharam: not having haya
HijRa (no, it is not pronounced exactly as the word hijra as in migration): homo....
Desi: of Indo/Pak origin
chupan-chupaie: Hide-and-seek
(those with attention spans of gnats.. look away.. )
Why I Am Never Going Back To America
May 10, 2003
By Zeba Khan, US Citizen
A Thoughtful Article By A Sister For The Parents In
America.
I may be an American citizen, but thats not my fault.
I ask the reader to please forgive me that much and
continue with the rest of the article. As a
consequence of having been born, raised, and college
educated in the States, I have gora-saab Urdu, a
severe allergy to mosquito bites and a blue passport,
but again, thats not my fault.
Often at parties, mostly at weddings, people (with
sons my age who eat, drink, and dream in red, white
and blue) will slyly ask whether or not I have plans
of returning.
I say no, not at all, not unless pigs
fly, hell freezes over, and the Cubs win the World
Series, all on the same day. Then they ask me why, and
I can never answer them. I ?m ashamed to, and the
reason why is because the true nature of American
society is obscene, and Islamic Taboos are often rites
of Passage back in God Bless America. The sins that
Americans proudly broadcast are so fahosh (obscene!)
that I cannot mention them in mixed company in more
than a whisper. But luckily I can type though, and
here, dear readers, dear sly aunties, dear people who
think I ?m insane, is why I ?m never going back to the
US.
America is famous for turning out highly qualified
doctors and engineers, and I will not insult their
universities and colleges. The Ivy League universities
offer the best education that money can buy...in an
environment where 90% of all on-campus rape cases are
linked to alcohol and approximately 240,000 to 360,000
of the nations 12 million current undergraduates will
ultimately die from alcohol-related causes. (Stats
from SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration website)
But like I said, I ?m not going to slander
institutions where illicit affairs betweens professors
and students are common enough to be part of campus
life. It's a lovely collegiate society where emergency
phones with blue light beacons are installed every 100
or so feet on college grounds to curb crime and sexual
assault. I said I wouldnt slander the colleges, and I
?m not. To slander something is to lie, to demean it
with incorrect information, and I'm doing neither.
Everything Ive mentioned it true blue (and white, and
red) and 100% certifiable by anyone who has been to
college in any major city like Chicago.
Enough about college, let's go further back to public
high school. I'll tell you no lies here, either. The
state of Illinois has mandated a health and safety
class for all students, and the class is taught to
grade 9. The safety part of the class curriculum
includes drivers education. The health part of the
class involves skin care, fitness, how to use a
condom, how to recognize transmitted diseases in your
sexual partner and why, if you decide you ?re a
homosexual; it's ok to feel that way.
I was blessed, truly blessed by Allah that I was
absent the day that my teacher showed a live video of
a woman giving birth, the natural way, in the nude, in
stirrups. This all-natural, all-nude video was shown
in front of my mixed 9th grade class, it was shown to
both the boys and the girls at the same time. I heard
horror stories the next day from my fellow miserable
Muslimahs.
I, and hundreds of thousands of other young Muslims
who were unfortunate enough to be educated in the US,
was taught that being gay (Hijra!) is quite normal.
Never mind the two girls sitting outside the class
window kissing each other with open mouths - they ?re
exercising their right of choice. Homosexuality is not
a deviation, its a lifestyle, and a rather trendy one
at that.
Hooray for gay-rights and the yearly gay-pride parades
held in most major cities of the US. If youre
fortunate enough not to know what a gay-pride parade
is, allow me to ruin your day. It's a procession of
cars, decorated floats, dancers, near-naked hijras and
brainwashed heterosexuals who are proud to be part of
a sin so severe that it caused the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
Back to school, if your son or daughter needs a condom
so that they can have a little fun on their lunch
break, they don't need to be ashamed. They can just go
to the school counselors office and get one from her,
for free. If any of the students want to exercise the
freedom that the American forefathers fought and died
for, and engage in some pre-marital relations without
any of the consequences, then there are hundreds of
NGOs to help them with birth control, adoption, or
abortion, without ever letting the parents know whats
going on.
I ?m being quite bay-sharam, I know, but how else can
I explain these things? How else can I tell you that
high-school in Chicago, a very average place, is a
beer-drinking, pot-smoking, hormonally charged orgy
where young girls and boys play merry-go-round with
their sexual partners. Oh, and theres very
high-quality biology, chemistry and physics in there
somewhere too.
If you think that my merely mentioning this is
outrageous, then what do you think of the unfortunate
Pakistanis and Muslims who study this as part of
school curriculum and are taught to practice these
things in their daily life? It's not their fault they
?re subjected to such an immoral brainwashing, and
thats why I call them (and myself) unfortunate instead
of guilty. These poor 9th graders (aged 14-15 on
average) did not chose to be born in a society where
talk is cheap, love is free, and God is banned from
public schools.
Yes, God is officially banned in public schools.
Prayer in school is quite a controversial issue back
over there in God Bless America. Religion is a private
affair, and much like STDs, you ?re supposed to keep
them to yourself.
The American educational assault goes farther than
immorality; it extends into the illogical and absurd.
Did you know that our ancestors were monkeys? What?
You say that you knew your ancestors, and though one
of your uncles had a low forehead, he was hardly
simian? You may also say that the first man was
Prophet Adam, peace and blessings be upon him, and he
was no monkey. You know this because God said so, not
just in Islam but in all three major religions of the
world, and plus evolution has been deemed impossible
by a huge but muffled community of scientists. (Read
Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of
Darwinism... by Harun Yahya) If you make the mistake
of expressing your religious beliefs in class, you
will be laughed out of class and scolded when you come
eventually come back.
Teacherlaughing with cocky attitude further
bolstered by authority and his/her own brainwashing)
Silly, backwards, fundamentalist student, how
foolish can you be to believe in God? What, have you
ever seen God? Look around, I don't see anything
remotely worship-able in the universe, do you?
Studentmuttering under breath to avoid being failed
for bad behavior) Well teacher, come to think of it,
when I look around I can't see radio waves, microbes,
heat, radiation, wind, or even your brain for that
matter...
The secular American scientific community boasts of
its superior knowledge, but if you went by the same
empirical logic that they use to ignore God (seeing is
believing) then they don't have any brains, either.
Both belief in God and belief in your teacher,s brain
can only be confirmed by sight apparently, and since
both cases involve death to do so, (dying to see God,
killing your teacher and extracting his brain...) then
the issue stays mostly unresolved in circles who
refuse to use higher reasoning.
I must stop here and give credit to a few very
intelligent, very religious college professors that I
had. For example, Dr. P. Lancki, a religious Christian
and a professor of Microbiology. During a long
conversation about religion, science and society at
large, Dr.Lancki told me with wonder in her eyes how
it was impossible for a single cell, miraculous in
function and complex in design, to have been created
by accident or random events. Not one single cell
could be produced through the methods that educators
teach to students in the US; evolution, but Dr.Lancki
is forbidden to teach that in her class. God,
one of her coworkers told her, ...died with the
dinosaurs. Man doesn't need religion anymore.?
Times change. Where God was once called on sincerely
to bless America, He is now used only for purposes of
pro-war propaganda and occasionally brought up to take
accountability off the shoulders of criminals. I'm a
sociopath murderer, and God made me this way! I ?m
gay! And God made me this way! I ?m a pedophile, and
God made me this way!
Religion in American is approached in a way thats
comical if it wasn't so idiotic. In accordance with
typical non-judgmental morality, one religion is no
better than the next, and all religions take a
back-seat to freedom. You may not believe that
homosexuality is good, but in America you believe that
people should be free to practice homosexuality if
they like. Never mind that you believe it is wrong, if
you say so in public then you are labeled as
intolerant, homophobic, a closet-queer, and of course,
a bigot. Bigots get fired by their employers for being
closed-minded, but gays get free health-insurance from
their employers for the same-sex partner they happen
to be living with at the moment.
To move back to America would be to subject my future
children to a thorough brainwashing, regardless of how
well I tried to prevent it. When filth is broadcast on
TV, sung about on the radio, advertised on the
internet, and taught in school, how can you even
remotely hope to fight it? Whatever you teach you
children between breakfast and school, school and
soccer practice, soccer practice and dinner is
untaught a thousand times over once the child leaves
home.
True, there are some Muslims who come out of America
with basically sound minds and characters, but for
every sound mind there are 100 corrupt ones who live
with their Christian boy-friends, blame God for
homosexuality, use the Masjid as a meat-market for
dating and flirting, and join organizations like the
Al-Fateha group. Al-Fateha sounds holy enough from
where you ?re sitting, I ?m sure, but it's actually an
organization of homosexual Muslims in the US and
Canada.
The American society is a system of thinly veiled
chaos, and ever so often the veil is lifted. In New
York, currently the world's most famous city, the
Puerto Rican National Day Parade was one such example.
In broad daylight, buzzed on alcohol and under the
cover of mob-action, two years ago a group of over 50
young men traveled downtown New York assaulting women.
Police stood idly by as women were stripped naked,
sexually assaulted, sprayed with liquor and raped in
the streets on New York. Did darkness hides the mob
from the police? No, it was mid-afternoon. Were the
men stopped right away? No, they rampaged for over
three hours.
This is American society, this is what happens to a
people who do not believe in God, whose conduct
depends on whether or not anyone will catch them if
they do anything wrong. There is no humility or fear
of Divine Retribution to keep men acting as men, there
is only fear of the police. And when the police
invisible or ineffectual, the men become rapists,
murderers, barbarians and savages.
A funny comparison exists between Karachi and New
York, two major cities. In Karachi, when the
electricity goes out, children play chupan-chupai or
cricket in the streets. In New York, when the lights
go out, women are assaulted, people are robbed, and
stores are looted. This is not because the electric
gates of the prisons have opened, releasing all of the
criminals. No, this is because the electric lights and
eyes of the police have gone blind, and in the cover
of darkness, the common New Yorker becomes a common
criminal.
I'm not nuts you know, I ?m just honest. You can't get
me to go back to America, not for money, not for fame,
not even under the flimsy pretense of doing Dawah in
America. I ?m not going to lie to myself and say that
living in America is Dawah, because I can't hide that
my tax dollars pay Israeli settlers $10,000 a year,
per family member, to occupy Palestine and to kill the
Ummah I profess to be a part of. A white-picket fence
and a two car garage in the suburbs is not Dawah, its
greed. Sending your children to the best schools is
not Dawah, its opportunism, its taking advantage of a
system built on the backs of third-world countries and
dead Muslims.
Thousands of Afghanis have died to put cheaper gas in
your sports utility vehicle, thousands of Iraqis died
to keep your car running for less money, your heating
bills down, and your salary higher. Thousands of
Palestinians have been shot with bullets that your
tax-dollars bought and thousand more will if you stay
and become the ideal immigrant. To be the tax-paying,
flag-waving, English speaking Desi who is repulsed by
a backwards notions of religion, and sends your
children to get a good education at a Catholic school,
is to be the perfectly assimilated, perfectly absorbed
hypocrite.
How convenient it is for a Muslim to condemn America
for its tyranny, but take no action against it at all.
It's like a shepherd that shares a cave with wolves
who kill his own sheep, but stays because the cave is
warm and the mutton is free. The shepherd stays with
the wolves under the pretense of doing Dawah to the
wolves.
He hopes that by living with the wolves, the wolves
will feel sympathy for the shepherd, they will better
understand him, and maybe not kill his sheep anymore.
How very convenient, very illogical, and very
beneficial for the shepherd! Never mind that it's
wrong, just remember that the cave is warm and the
mutton is free, the streets are clean, the skyscrapers
are shiny, and your children are being given quality
wolf-education and eating quality mutton from your
murdered sheep.
Dear aunties, I would recommend that you set your
sights on some other Amreekan Palat, I may move a
hundred times in my life, but never back to the
country whose ruler has reinstated the crusades. Never
to the land where a 67 year old Afghani Imam is in
camp x-ray for giving Mujahideen dry bread crusts.
Never to a land where my own Muslim brothers are
collateral damage. I swear by Allah, I will never make
that mistake again.
Never.
--------
For the non-urdu speakers:
gora-saab urdu: broken urdu OR urdu with an american accent.
bay-sharam: not having haya
HijRa (no, it is not pronounced exactly as the word hijra as in migration): homo....
Desi: of Indo/Pak origin
chupan-chupaie: Hide-and-seek
Comments on this journal
That said, Im sure its authored by some punk kid taking a stab at the US basing their views on Oprah and Jerry Springer without even having touched foot in the land. Suspicion can be such a toy.
But when talking about foods from Europe, I do miss fish and chips and steak and kidney pie:)
Italy is a pretty cool country .. despite being small and shaped like a ladies shoe, its home to a world class fashion, food and car industry, and is a bustling biotech region (ranked 2nd in europe), hot women, and great architecture (Roman Empire). And hey, the Vatican and the Mafia too ! :P
italy has great shoes.. and food..
ua120.. i like 'our actions have consequences for other people including those of the next generation.. I guess my goal would be to make sure that I make the best choice that helps to bring out the best in everyone'.
I also believe that we are given the power (subhanallah) to create our life/surroundings that we live in, to an extent, by the choices that we make. Its unfortunate that many people lack that awareness and in doing so "refuse" to exercise that will.
As people have already said, by working on our selves we are directly influencing our surroundings for the better. So we may not be living in a "perfect" world/country, but that doesn't mean that we should stop and give up hope of one that may be quite close to that "ideal".
somebody once told me that we live through others, that is our actions have consequences for other people including those of the next generation. I geuss my goal would be to make sure that I make the best chioce that helps to bring out the best in everyone.
The prophet (SAW) once said "Pray like you are going to die tomorrow, Live as if you are going to live forever"