another day in terror town

How is another beheading just routine for these people?

It's just another day in terror town,
another journalist cruelly cut down.

How is this just another scene?
a new glossy photo spread in a magazine?

Don't give me your coward's cries of
righteous indignation
and stupid,
narrow-minded,
piggish
anti-American justification.
you didn't impact the leader,
or change a political nation.

You killed someone's
son,
husband,
brother,
friend,
in the name of religion
in the name of Allah,
in the name of something
even you don't understand.

It's another day in terror town,
press record and steal
an innocent life,
slashing your way to paradise
with a knife.
I think you are in for a surprise.
you won't meet the men you killed
when you die.

because they went up,
and you are going down.

Author's Note

For the families of Daniel Pearl, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff. Terrorism,
even if the "cause" has roots in American politics, is never justified.
And don't bother using this poem as a way to spew anti-American hate, it will be
deleted.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Islam forbids any form of violence and any acts of evil. Those mad extremists are Non Muslim and they are serving the devil instead of Almighty Allah. I have studied the Koran, hadith and I know the truth from those extremists' falsehoods. Most of their victims as you all know have been innocent Muslims from other sects of Islam for they consider them heretics(they are heretics themselves). It saddens me for the media shows that few idiots and rabid dogs following their cult leader( I call them an evil cult of Wahhabism and Salafism) and not showing the anger and disgust of 1.6 billion Muslims who are shown on TV condemning those heinous acts. Islam is the most misunderstood religion and the most taken out of context or used by dictators and cult leaders for their goals.
Koran says:" Those who kill one person as if they have killed the whole humanity, and those who save one person as if they have saved the whole humanity." Many more other verses where it forbids aggression and suicide and killing innocent people.
Islam forbids any form of war except in the extreme self defense, removing oppression against any people and or fighting for true justice. If people study Islam ( without bias and hate or propaganda) they will find it was(is) revolutionary in all its aspects of human rights( women, slavery, voting, property and many more) The Koran is the only book that when it speaks to mankind, it refers to women and men and not just men. ( read for yourselves) Not being preachy but just to highlight some facts away from the media propaganda or the acts of some ignorant countries like Saudi Arabia...
A long subject but I'm adding my voice to the peace loving people( Islam means peace and surrender) but those idiots don't understand that.
Excellent poem...:).................

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you very much Sami. This is what I am talking about. Muslims have a voice, but out of fear of the extremists, remain silent against atrocities committed in their religion's name. No one should ever be afraid to speak out against hate in the name of any religion. Fear protects extremists and allows hate to flow freely.

[Sami Khalil]

I totally agree. Thank you for spreading awareness. You are welcome...:)........

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much for contributing your knowledge Sami, thing is most people don't realize this, and the hate is just insurmountable and spreads like wild fire...

[Sami Khalil]

By the way, according to the Koran there is no marriage in heaven, no sex so to speak. We all go back to the Source and not the need. That misconception about 72 Virgins is a false Hadith, and mistranslation of the word:Hoor Al Ein in the Koran which means chaste women and not Virgins.
Another misconception is Jihad which means self struggle and not Holly war.

[Frieda P]

I wasn't aware of what Jihad meant, but you know it makes it so much easier to hate when the words are misconstrued.

[Lyn Anderson]

So what is it that keeps so many Muslims from speaking out? If it is fear, there are so many more Muslims than there are extremists, they should be able to overwhelm by sheer numbers -- no more terror, no more FATWAS against women and men who speak their minds, no more claiming Muslims who don't adhere to radicalism are heretics.

[Sami Khalil]

Many factors. Fear of dictators, those crazy groups or cults. Media does not give the good Muslims air time or radio time. Bad or negative media sells and there is that factor among others. Muslims want peace and freedom in their countries but can,t get it. They have suffered under colonialism for ages, then dictatorships, then rise of extremism. There are very progressive Muslim counteies like Indonesia, Malysia, Turkey that understand Islam correctly. A lot of ignorance also prevails in the Muslim coyntries. Another galvanizing issue is Israel and Palestine and the existence of Holy places in that place. We need a peace treaty to stop all this madness. Share God, Jerusalem and others. They are bkth cousins by race and blood...:)..........

[Bright Ocean Star]

Sami, thank you for sharing your peace-loving perspective. Islam is supposed to be about peace and love for mankind. Extremists will hijack anything and corrupt it. Bless you, dear friend.

[Lyn Anderson]

Here in Canada I listen to talk radio. The head of the Canadian Muslim Congress regularly gets air time. This organization gives voice to non-extremists. The radicals condemn the Congress and say they are not Muslim.

[Sami Khalil]

As you see there is that vast majority who will and want to speak up but the extremists or radicals want to shut them up. Another form of control and manipulation. To the other commentator, thank you too. You are welcome...:).................

[Jon Roggie]

Sami, well said.

[Sami Khalil]

Thank you dear poet...:)........

[Tom]

Well spoken Sami your input on KL's excellent powerful poem is very pertinent indeed, throughout the centuries the minority extremists and fanatics of world religions and cultures have blindly and cruelly sullied the righteousness, morality and good faith of the majority and really when you analyse it, just because they are not getting their own way ! Cowardly bullies indeed !!!

[Sami Khalil]

"throughout the centuries the minority extremists and fanatics of world religions and cultures have blindly and cruelly sullied the righteousness, morality and good faith of the majority and really when you analyse it, just because they are not getting their own way ! Cowardly bullies indeed !!!"

Wow. I totally agree Tom. Amazing truth and wisdom in your words....:)..................

[Rosalie Briggs]

This is extremely well thought and well written. Kudos to you for speaking your mind out when it is considered hate speech to do so.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. It is a tough climate in which to speak one's mind

[Rita L. Sev]

Perfectly stated, KL... It is so hard for me to even read about these acts; how can they actually perform them? This is not how we are meant to treat each other...

[Lyn Anderson]

I know, thank you. I also hate the whole blase' attitude of the media, and the cold hearted nature with which they treat the victims and stir the pot.

[Alfred Kukitz]

I imagined these fanatics having the kind of power that Nazi's possessed. My feeling is vaporize them but I'm letting emotion control reason. Thank you for your concern about these innocent souls. I wonder if a 45 pistol on the journalist's person would help them?

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks for your review. I can't stand fanaticism of any kind, unless it is a passion for writing or running or pets ...

[Baby Ricochet]

The Sunni's have a thing for beheadings, just cutting body parts off in general. It's old school desert justice to them. Beheadings fit into an Islamic state Ideal which is why Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and a host of other Middle Eastern Nations still behead criminals who've been condemned to death. ISIS clearly want to look like the bad a*s defenders of Islam to attract recruits which they're going to need because it's looking like NATO is lining up to slaughter the lot of them. They didn't behead their American prisoners to scare us. They did it to impress young men who have nothing better to do with their lives than to join in the glorious Jihad and end up as bomber fodder for NATO a few months down the road. In war the person you see committing acts of barbarism on Monday is all to often blown into a thousand pieces along with half of his comrades by a retaliatory airstrike on Friday. Once the target's put on them,. they don't get away.

[Lyn Anderson]

It's all so pitiful and frustrating, with the journalists feeding the machine, and the whole lot of them running around killing for fun and killing for retaliation ... I know you know all this. Hard to know what the solution might be, but what we are doing now sure as hell isn't working.

[Rene Salinas]

Fanatisicm is blind it doesn't really matter which fraction you show they all have a common thread. They have lost of sense of individuality and sacrifice any sense of morality for what it is described as the cause. Killing beggets killing it is a simple as that. The dangerous thing is that this fraction is not concern for example like white supremasist with economical wealth or a way to channel anger. They have some serious methods to entice all who feels a little lost and convinced them that there is merit. Over here people leave to go over there becuase they are so lost in life might as well go and play war.
The people that have just been killed are a reflection of how dangerous those crafted ideologies can become. As Sami put it way more clearly they are not a reflection of devotion and love and respect no doubt about that.

Thankyou

[ANM]

Your words are passionate and heartfelt the people you speak of are cowards and murderers nothing more and nothing less! Thank you for sharing this ?

[Lyn Anderson]

I couldn't help it. I feel compelled. I still seethe with rage about it.

[ANM]

As do all right minded people whatever their colour or religion!

[willweb]

This entire thing just causes me to be sick. I can not even imagine. I am without words KLGoode except to say your poem is sad, real and terrifying.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes it is. And as one of the people who reviewed my poem said, people were more concerned yesterday with Kate Upton's and Jennifer Lawrence's nudes getting hacked from the cloud. Boo hoo.

[Matching Socks]

Gosh, this is so hard, I don't have any explanation KL.
Every religion has extremists.
Good and evil has no prejudice.
Good people come in all sizes, shapes, colours, religions, occupations...
But so do evil people.
It's just a horrible thing all around.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, it is. I went off and wrote three in a row because of this -- I am so bloody tired of the hate and the lies and the perpetual cycle.

[Matching Socks]

I couldn't agree more!!

[Vidya Bacchus]

This is so horrendous what evil some people do while quoting scripture to justify their actions.I firmly believe that no god would encourage us to kill.It is people who do these acts and claim god told them to do it so they can say they are doing right bit how can these evil deeds be right.A very profound piece cat.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much. It is something I just cannot understand, and people who think that the U.S.'s bad policies are an excuse for terror, are just wrong.

[Vidya Bacchus]

There is no justification for terrorizing others.You are welcome Kit Kat :)

[Bill O. Writes]

It infuriated me yesterday to see that headlines were more focused on Jennifer Lawrence's nudes than this tragedy. Great job on this, these guys are scum and ugly scabs on the Earth.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much. It hit me hard, this news. As for the other, well, money and fame are no substitute for brains. Backing up nudes to the cloud isn't the smartest move, if you insist on doing such things.