Muslims in the West

But I'm not Bush head, I will not give Bush nor any politician carte blanche and I think that

Bruce, even if you were I would have taken it as your absolute Right of self determination. Bush would have remained a sole US citizens� concern if he had not been caught in the acts of creating such a global scale mess.

His actions now concern everyone in the world because these are multiplying terrorism. The other day I watched an Indian sketch on the TV:

OBL and GWB meet at a secret location, both with beards, in similar garbs. After deep embraces, ahlan w�sehlan and all that, OBL hands him the highest award for promoting his cause!!

None of us can ever be perfect.

I have become so accustomed to my imperfections that I have now started to log them. We are now faced with perhaps the most interesting times of our lives. We need to become able to end this spiral of violence.

We won�t be able to do that unless and until we generate a situation in which we could discuss everything in a clear, open, honest manner � without any national or regional considerations and whatever.

But the US is willing to act and many nations and peoples are not right now. 

I know where you are coming from, but action without wisdom always ends up in a far worse situation. Let�s face it action has created Iraq and, the whole region is sitting up to explode.

If we could solve matters by just killing the killers, all killings would have ended by now.

This problem is very deep rooted. It�s not just someone's desire to kill or anything like that. It stems from decades of active and passive oppression. It won�t go away unless and until we study its actual causes and do something to address those causes.

We can�t just shoot it away.

We must start by discussing facts and realities...perhaps, this is not what you think I've been doing, but that is truly my desire.

My mission is exactly the same. I am becoming more active just because I have had the advantage of knowing both the sides of this great divide. The reality for a man in Paghman or Basra is not the same as it may be, say, for a New Yorker or for someone in Bradford.

We have as yet not been able to find a Universal Template.

I well know what my Muslim friends would say. Our Community will flash at least 19 ayaats form the Qur�an and tell us that there is no other way than the one he is penning down.

Perhaps even I may have reached that conclusion, but if we won�t allow the US to force a system on the world why would we allow our Muslim friends to force their favourite system on the same world?

We have to chart the middle path.

And, I promise, far sooner than we may think.

Do you really think these things horrid and just want to focus on the 'powder keg' news? 

I don't think these things to be horrid at all. But you have to bear in mind that the world outside the US holds much less, if at all any, reason to believe your admin. I will consider Iraq free on the day it's free of foreign troops on its soil.

We will consider Afghanistan again our home the day the ferengi depart from there. Right now (whatever reports you get or don't get) the situation on the ground has become very volatile.

I am not discussing how it should be in ideal conditions or under one law  or the other. Unless activists like you begin to understand and take peoples' perceptions into account, US will be left wondering why the rest world can't see what we see. Any miles of arguments in your own favour won't make an iota of a difference.

Just a simple advice from a man who faces angry public each day of his life.