Iqbal Latif

The world wants to know who speaks for Islam??

The world wants to know who speaks for Islam. When will the silent majority unambiguously condemn this carnage without moral equivalence? These are the blazing questions that faithful have to address; no one else is our adversary the enemy is within.

Where is the 1.4 billion Muslims condemnatory??

This is exactly what I had thanked President Clinton for. As Kosovons were being butchered he stood for them when Saddam's, Assad's were all helping Milosevic.

Where is the Muslim condemnatory voice a Assad goes no rampage? Three vetoes at UN Security Council effectively kill Annan’s Syria peace plan. Russia and China’s third veto of a Security Council resolution on Syria on Thursday was the death knell for joint UN-Arab League envoy Annan’s six-point peace plan, according to many diplomats and experts. But 1.4 billion faithful look at the other way as once again it is UK, USA and EU leading the charge to save Muslims lives! Today it is lone voice of William Hague who condemned the Russian, Chinese veto not any of the 1.4 billion faithful.

French President said the veto would encourage further crackdowns by the Syrian regime. “The Syrian tragedy must stop,”

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Russia and China had let the Syrian people down.

They had, he said, “sided with the Syrian regime and its brutal suppression of the Syrian people in support of their own national interests. Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi termed the double veto “very bad news” while U.S. ambassador Susan Rice described it as “shameful”.

European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton also expressed regret at the vetoes.

“The time has come to speak with one voice and demand an end to the bloodshed and speak out for a democratic future for Syria,” she said in a statement.

“We condemn the ongoing bloodshed and stand by the Syrian people against the repressive regime.

“We call on President Assad to end immediately the killing of civilians, withdraw the Syrian army from besieged towns and cities and step aside in order to make room for a peaceful transition for the sake of his country.”

The European parliament expressed dismay and its president, Martin Schulz, urged Moscow and Beijing to “take their international responsibilities seriously”.

London-based rights group Amnesty International called the veto a “shockingly callous betrayal” of the Syrian people.

Moscow and Beijing have acted in a “completely irresponsible” way, the London-based human rights group added.

Thirteen countries voted for the resolution with only Russia and China voting against. Both countries, as permanent members of the Security Council, have a veto power.

The draft resolution, put forward by Morocco, had called for an immediate end to all violence. It did not impose any sanctions, nor did it authorize military action. Mohammed Loulichki, the U.N. ambassador of Morocco, the sole Arab member of the 15-nation council, voiced his “great regret and disappointment” at the veto and said the Arabs had no intention of abandoning their plan.

When free expression is denied humanity is denied. Human dignity is not a 'God bestowed right' it is an innate right to respect and receive ethical treatment. It is an offshoot of Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights. The developments in Damascus and New York now make it clear that the outcome of the Syrian civil war will be decided on the battlefield rather than at the Security Council; the rebel fighters in Syria remain relatively poorly armed, they are increasingly battle-hardened and their morale is being boosted by a growing number of defections from Assad’s regime, diplomats say. Western and Arab powers Saturday reacted angrily to Russia and China’s veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted the text needed more work.

Russia, a long-time Syrian ally, and China had earlier vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown despite reports by Syrian activists that troops overnight had killed 230 civilians in the city of Homs.

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When a Muslim is butchered by a Muslim!

On Assad- When a Muslim is butchered by a Muslim they all 1.4 billion of them go on a Rip van Winkle of a sleep! Only Hague has the honour and courage to denounce 'Chinese and Russian' veto! Where is Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Turks and Saudis the self styled champions of Islamic causes here?? This resident hypocrisy within the mores of thinking is the cause of ultimate eventual intellectual implosion that corrodes the elegance and grace of human dignity and any thinking process. Please stand up and speak, stand for something in life.

Pro-Iranian regime terrorists killed Balquis his love in 1981:

"your body is my map"

jismuki khaaritati 

In 1995 the Qabbani caused another uproar by declaring the death of the Arabs as a nation. A horrifying chain of degenerations, Swiftly soaked us into the age of senility, eroticism, love, lament, political satire, a heavy sense of history, anger, violence and death could all be found in one verse of his works of the period. His eldest son, from his first wife Zahra, died in an accident in Beirut in 1973. Balquis his love was killed in 1981 when pro-Iranian terrorists blew up the Iraqi embassy in Beirut where she worked.

He entitled an anthology "To Beirut, the female." Many verses in that book illustrated how he mastered his craftsmanship of preserving the image of the woman tenderly loved with the herbs of lament, political--often sad--awareness and history. Nizar Qabbani wrote the most beautiful Poem of Balqis -

Jismuki Khaaritati.

"your body is my map"

jismuki khaaritati

raise me more love raise 

mezideeni oushkan zideeni

my prettiest fits of madness

ya ahla nawbaati junooni 

O' dagger's journey in my flesh

ya safar-al-khanjari fi ansijati 

and knife's plunge

ya ghalghalatah-sikkeeni

sink me further my lady 

zideeni gharaqan ya sayyidati

the sea calls

meinna-al-bahra younadeeni 

add to me more death

zideeni mawtan

perhaps as death slays me I'm revived

aalla-al-mawta, itha yaqtouloni, youhyeeni

your body is my map

jismuki khaaritati

the world's map no longer concerns me

ma aadat khaaritato-al-aalami ta'aneeni

I am the oldest capital of sadness

ana aqdamu aasimatin lil-hozni

and my wound a Pharaonic engraving 

wa-jorhi naqshonn farrouni



my pain extends like an oil patch 

waja-i yamtaddu kaboqa'ati zaytin



from Beirut to China

min Bayroota il-a-Seeni 



my pain a caravan dispatched

waja-i qafilaton arsalaha 



by the Caliphs of "A'Chaam" to China.

kholafaa'ou a'chaami il-a-Seeni



in the seventh century of the "Birth"

fil-qarni a-ssabi'i lil-miladi

and lost in a dragon's mouth

wa daa'at fi fami tinneeni

bird of my heart

"naysani" aasfoorata qalbi naysani 

O' sand of the sea, and forests of olives

ya raml-al-bahri, wa ya ghaabaati a-zayatooni

O' taste of snow, and taste of fire

ya ta'ama a-thalji, wa ta'ama a-nnarr 

my heathen flavor, and insight

wa nak'hata kufri wa yaqeeni

I feel scared of the unknown, shelter me 

ash'ur bil khawfi min al-majhool fa-aaweeni

I feel scared of the darkness, embrace me

ash'ur bil khawfi min a-athalmaa'i fadummeeni

I feel cold, cover me up

ash'ur bil bardi faghatteeni 

tell me children stories

ehkee li qisasan lil atfaali

rest beside me

idtaji'i qurbi

Chant to me

ghanneeni



since from the start of creation

fa ana min bid'i a-takween

I've been searching for a homeland to my forehead

abhathu aan watanin li jabeeni

for a woman's hair

aan sha'ari emra'atin

that writes me on the walls, then erases me

yaktoboni fawka a-judrani wa yamhooni



for a woman's love to take me

aan hobbi emra'atin ya'a-khuthuni

to the borders of the sun and throws me 

li hodoodi a-shamsi wa yarmeeni

from a woman's lip, as she makes me

aan shafati emraatin taj-a'a loni

like dust of powdered gold

ka-ghobari a-thahabi al-mat'hoon

shine of my life, my fan

Nawwarata oumri marwahati 

my lantern, declaration of my orchards

qindeeli Bawha basaateeni

stretch me a bridge with the scent of oranges

muddi li jisran min raa'ihati al-laymoon

and place me like an ivory comb

wa da'eeni moshtan aajiyyan

in the darkness of your hair, then forget me

fi aatmati sha'araki, wa enseeni

I am a drop of water, ambivalent 

ana noqtato maa'in, haa'iraton

remaining in the notebook of October

baqiyat fi daftari Tichreeni

your love crushes me

yadhasoni hobboki

like a mad horse from the Caucasus throwing me under its hoofs

mithla hisaanin quqaaziyyin majnooni yarmeeni tahta hawaafirihi

and gargles with the water of my eyes

yataghargharu fi maa'i ouyooni

add to me more fury, add to me

zideeni ounfan zideeni

O' prettiest fits of my madness

ya ahla nawbaati junooni

for your sake I set free my women

min ajliki a'ataqtu nisaa'i

and effaced my birth certificate 

wa shatabtu shahadata meeladi

and cut all my arteries,

wa qata'atu jamee'a sharaayeeni.

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