Archive for July, 2009

The Shaheeda

July 26, 2009 at 5:14 am · Filed under politics

Marwa al-Sherbini.

I hope you guys ever heard about her story.
It’s a tragedy.

July 1st, 2009.
She was prepared to give evidence to the court in Dresden, Germany.
Her testimony used to convict and fine a German of Russian descent man, who try to remove her hijab/jilbab and called her terrorist.
She was come to the court along with his husband, yet the tragedy begin.

The convicted man run across the court and stabbed her 18 times. Terrible.
“Oh? wait a sec, she was coming with her husband, where is the husband? why he’s not try to protect her from this barbaric man.”
This tragic not over yet.
The husband wad been shoot by the court officer because the officer thought he was the attacker.
Marwa al-Sherbini is dead, her husband is hospitalized unconsciousness.

To be sad, there is lack formal reaction from the official, and also no media coverage to bring this tragic in their headlines. Many people believed that the media coverage will be opposite it the tragic happen vice versa. :(

Indeed, her heroic and brave determination to defend her hijab/jilbab, and her status as Shaheeda / Martyr gain an immense support to proposed as World Hijab Day in her memory.

references:
http://muslimmatters.org/2009/07/10/marwa-sherbini-the-hijab-martyr/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910030,00.html

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uneducated Jakarta bombers

July 19, 2009 at 8:46 am · Filed under Indonesia

My deeply sympathy for the victims of Jakarta bomb blast on 2009-07-17.

Indonesia got a shock with this tragedy.
Let’s Indonesian Police take care of this, we must believe they can solve this case, they did it pretty well with the previous bombers case.

The profiles.
It was believed, since Bali bomb case, there is 2 intellectual actor behind this, Dr. Azhari and Noordin M Top, both of them is citizen of Malaysia, stated in National wanted list with bounty with it. Police had kill Dr. Azhari during an assault because he refuse to surrender, followed with a bomb blast in his hideout -of course, he’s a bomber-.
Left Noordin M Top as main suspect of this terror.
Some media stated from a police officer, that the bomb which used using the same mark as the previous case.

The momentum.
It was unease for Indonesian dealing with the fact, left us with frustration.
Our economy still march forward during global economic crisis.
Democration held properly, we’re dealing it with coolheaded.
We gain trust from other country as well from a world class organization.
Yet, it just all stopped for a while with this bombs. But, we keep on marching.

The feeling.
I notice on the reaction of peoples around me during the previous bomb tragedy with the current.
It was all said, about condolences for the victim, and just thinking “oh God, It’s another bomb”.
Now, we had more out loud comment, “reveal the main actor, who dare to do this in our country”. “Indonesia Unite”.
See the difference, now people getting smarter to read this, this isn’t related with that jihadist mambo jambo. Jihadist was just package from the media for us to believe.
We know something bigger is involved behind this.

This tragedy just stop our steps for a minutes, we keep on marching forward. :)

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