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A Time We Yearned For: The End of the Pandemic

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Three covid-19 masks hanging on a stand

As it appears, we may be finally reaching the end of the pandemic. But this is only what appears; and of course, the pandemic has taught us that what “appears to be” is not always what will occur. 

Two years ago, at the onset of this global pandemic, many of us thought it was an event that would last a few weeks, or perhaps a couple of months. But as time went on and we followed both global and local news updates, we found ourselves on a rollercoaster of a ride. When the numbers escalated, we grew nervous and worried. When they began to dwindle, we saw the cup half full. Only to find the scenario repeating itself multiple times. 

Also Read: Despite Omicron Will 2022 be the End of the Pandemic?

Through this ride, we had to adjust. We had to adjust individually, as families, as colleagues and as companies. We had to adjust emotionally, socially, spiritually and economically. 

While the pandemic has not yet officially ended, the WHO has started discussing when the pandemic could possibly be declared as ended.

While we wait for an official declaration regarding the conclusion of the pandemic, it would be naive to proceed with our lives without reflecting on a few of the many valuable lessons learned from this pandemic.

Our Limited Scope and Knowledge as Humans

Regardless of how quickly science and technology continues to evolve, it would be foolish to say that our knowledge as humans is limitless. We simply have no idea what the future holds. At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, many of us had plans. Maybe some had their calendars filled with events. But life, almost suddenly, came to a halt. The days passed and filled agendas and calendars suddenly were useless.   

Also Read: Uncertain Future: What Would the Pandemic Look Like in 2022?

An evident display of our human weakness was vividly portrayed before our very eyes. If we truthfully acknowledged the fact that no matter how carefully we plan, we still do not know what tomorrow holds, we would lead more peaceful lives. We would practice the concept of complete trust in God in a more genuine manner. Only He holds knowledge of the future and only His Plan is good for us; we just have to wholeheartedly believe that. 

Life is Not Constant

Life is continuously changing. Good times do not last forever and difficult times also do not last forever. Adapting to those times is one of the keys to getting through them. But adapting with strong faith takes adaptation to a whole new level. A person who tries to adapt with faith, patience, gratitude and hope in God is more likely to be able to come out of the pandemic either a better person, or with better ideas on how to lead the rest of their life. 

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Don’t Wait to do Good

During the pandemic lockdowns and closed borders, a thought always came to mind. There are  virtuous deeds that may require movement or travel. Like volunteering to help the less fortunate or physically helping weaker people. One of the main virtuous Islamic obligations that requires travel is the Hajj pilgrimage. I increasingly thought of the remorse that must have been felt by any Muslim who had the physical and financial means to embark on this journey in 2019, but were overcome by procrastination. The following two years, the doors of Hajj were internationally closed only opening for a few locals. It is definitely a heart wrenching feeling to have the means to go, but suddenly be blocked from doing so. The pandemic taught is that in doing good, hastiness should be our motto, simply because it is not always up to us to decide when we will be able to do it. 

Also Read: Top Virtues Muslims Preferred to Do in the First 10 Days of Dhul-Hijjah

Appreciate Family

The Pandemic taught us to get closer to our family. This may seem ironic, given that we were locked up with our families until we were tap dancing on one another’s nerves. But surprisingly, many busy parents and kids realized that they did not know one another very well on a deeper level.

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Being forced to remain under one roof for months allowed families to spend more time together and understand one another more. Through online schooling for example, parents got to see their children as students. Their strengths were evident, as well as their vulnerabilities. As life continues, we should especially pay attention to those living with us and make an effort to give them the support they need. 

Give Kids Some Credit

The younger generations around us were among the most affected by the pandemic. When schools were suddenly shut down, they were glued to screens (and chairs) for the most part of their day. Their holidays and religious celebrations became virtual and they almost forgot what it means to have friends. But children do deserve recognition for how smoothly they adjusted during the pandemic. Of course every family experienced bumps along the way, but both parents and educators alike expressed awe for how quickly children were able to adjust their lives according to the new pandemic lifestyle.

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They sported masks through long school days and learned not to get too close to others. They went from being told to stay home, go to school and stay home again. Based on this, it is safe to conclude that sometimes the role of children in society is underestimated. They have amazing abilities to adjust to the environment and even bring about the best in every situation. Going forward beyond the pandemic, they should be permitted to engage in decision making, even on a minimal level and given more responsibilities. 

“A pandemic is caused by a pathogen but is experienced as a social, cultural, political and psychological event. As such it can intensify or wane somewhat independently of what the virus is doing.”Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post

A Pandemic without the Internet?

A concluding thought that never ceases to make one think is how people who went through other pandemics did so without the internet. The value of the world wide web was one of the greatest lessons gained from this pandemic. Due to this blessing, education and a great deal of jobs were able to proceed. We were able to keep in touch with loved ones who were distanced by land or glass barriers. At times when we were locked indoors for consecutive days and nights, the presence of the internet became our window  in the world. As we realize it’s value through this pandemic, let us learn to use it in a manner that is effective, truthful, honest and beneficial to ourselves and our communities. Abusive usage of the internet through dishonesty and trolling has psychologically and financially hurt many lives. 

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The pandemic taught us that we as humans need one another to thrive and live on this earth. And while the WHO determines if we have reached the end or not, we acknowledge that only God knows exactly when the end is. He also has hidden countless blessings and lessons in the  past couple of years; we just have to make an effort to extract them, brush ourselves off and continue living with stronger faith in Him.

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To the peoples of the world: Israel is Carrying out a holocaust against Palestinian families

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Israel is carrying out a holocaust against Palestinian families.

Yes, Israel is not sending Palestinians to gas chambers. But Israel is bringing Auschwitz and Mauthhausen to Palestinian homes, neighborhood, hospitals and mosques.

The title of this brief article is not a hyperbole or a dramatic overstatement meant to attract attention or gain sympathy. It is rather a reflection of reality.

Indeed, if a holocaust is about annihilating people, especially civilians and Palestinian families, the Israeli army, the Wehrmacht of our time, has been exterminating entire Palestinian families-the father, the mother and all the children.

We are not speaking about one isolated incident or a few incidents where one stray missile hit a home inadvertently or children killed as a result of collateral damage.

We are rather talking about carrying out a real holocaust against Palestinian families, an official policy endorsed and pursued by the government of Israel to wipe out numerous Palestinian households for the purpose of bringing the Palestinians to their knees.

This is Israel’s way of wreaking shock and awe on the defenseless and helpless Palestinians.

So far, more than 25 thousand entire Gaza households have been targeted by Israeli bombing. More than 12 thousands have been killed half of them are children and women.

Just imagine your own family being annihilated by a missile launched from high altitude. This nightmare has effectively become a routine experience in Gaza.

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Israel today is emulating the Nazis and other criminal offenders throughout history. Don’t invoke the mantra of anti-Semitism. In the final analysis, when Jews think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, they (the Jews) become Nazis themselves, pure and simple.

Yes, I do recognize there are many kind-hearted Jews who reject this Nazi-like savagery. None the less, we must call the spade a spade. These atrocities are being enthusiastically supported by the vast majority of Israelis, including ordinary people, intellectuals and rabbis. Israel-2023 does have much in common with Nazi-Germany. Claiming otherwise would be both dishonest and malicious.

Real holocaust

Israel, a notorious professional liar whose agents control western media outlets from Sydney to California, is misleading the international community as to what is really happening in the Gaza Strip.

A regional military superpower thanks to unrestricted American backing and support, Israel is simply waging a war of extermination against a thoroughly persecuted people whose only “crime” is its enduring vigor and longing for freedom from the shackles of Talmudic Jewish Nazism, a Satanic ideology which views all humanity-save Jews-as animals whose lives have absolutely no sanctity.

There is no doubt that the ongoing Israeli rampage of murder and terror is an expression of that genocidal Talmudic mentality. It is a mindset that is even more nefarious than the Nazi ideology.

We Palestinians have been at the receiving end of Jewish criminality and murderousness for several decades. We know it too well and need no one to give us lectures on “Israel’s civility and humanity”

In the final analysis, a country that murders thousands of children and other innocent civilians rather knowingly and deliberately in order to create deterrence is neither civilized nor humane. It is tantamount to fornicating with truth to call Israel humane and civilized.

The truth of the matter is that Israel is a diabolical Judeo-Nazi entity that has much in common with the Third Rich.

Yes, Israel is not sending Palestinians to gas chambers. But Israel is bringing Auschwitz to Palestinian homes, neighborhoods and streets. Israel is carrying out a real holocaust against innocent Palestinian families.

This is not really a war. War is fought between armies. The Palestinians don’t have an army, or navy or air force. The Palestinians simply can not protect their own children from overwhelming barbarianism, played out in full view of the entire world.

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Yes, there have been projectiles fired on Jewish colonies from the Gaza Strip, but these projectiles are essentially innocuous from the military view point as evident from the nearly zero casualties incurred by Israelis.

Indeed, when there is one dead on one side and 300 on the other side, including 50 children and babies, in addition thousands of maimed civilians and swathes of pornographic destruction of property, we are not really talking about war, even an asymmetrical war. We are actually talking about a real massacre, a massacre that is reminiscent of the time when the Nazis ganged up on European Jewry 70 years ago.

This very real massacre, holocaust, wouldn’t have been carried out had it not been for the flaccidity and leniency and silence displayed in Israel’s face by the bulk of the international community.

This is not to mention the connivance, collusion and conspiratorial roles played by several criminal states and governments, including the United States, a majority of European governments and especially the whore-like Sissi regime in Cairo which is shamelessly and brazenly siding with Israel against the Palestinian people.

But never mind, another massacre, another blitzkrieg, another conspiracy won’t finish our people off. It is our kismet that we must die in order to survive.

But those in Washington and London and Cairo who are watching rather passively, probably gleefully, as our children are being incinerated and murdered at the hands of the children, grand children and great-grand children of the holocaust, will one day pay the price for their murderous complicity and ignominy.

We will not forgive or forget.

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Israel: A criminal state par excellance

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Israel: a criminal state par excellance

In its exaggerated self-infatuation and excessive narcissism, Israel, a criminal state par excellence, often claims it is light upon mankind.

Zionist Jews, who falsely claim allegiance to the prophetic traditions of ancient Israel, are actually mostly atheists.

In fact, Zionism has more in common with the most infamous paragons of evil throughout history than with such Hebrew luminaries as the Prophet Moses, Aaron, Jacob, Joseph, David, and Solomon.

Indeed, ever since its misbegotten birth in 1948, a birth fraught with crimes against humanity, Israel’s modus operandi has been an uninterrupted series of atrocities, oppression, persecution, inequity, and racism.

Thus, Israel, A criminal state par excellence, is also a great falsifier of truth, history by claiming a higher moral ground vis-à-vis the Palestinians, its largely-unwept victims who are still crying to the seventh heaven for justice.

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Israel is already starving and tormenting 1.6 million Gazans, denying them food, clean water, and other necessities of life. The 17-year draconian siege is apparently meant to punish Gazans for electing Hamas which simply refuses to recognize Israel for religious and moral reasons. The international community  sought to overlook Israel’s  real crimes against humanity inflicted repeatedly  on  some two million helpless Palestinians languishing under a N-a-z-i-like siege imposed and maintained by Israel.

Israel portrays herself as a beacon of light in a sea of dictatorship, tyranny, and oppression,

What Israel, a criminal state par Excellance, refuses to tell the world, however, is the fact that the Jewish state through its ubiquitous tentacles in America, Europe and elsewhere to enable, shield, sustain, and support tyrannical regimes in the region such as the Sissi police state in Egypt, the feudal regimes in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain.

Israel, a notorious professional liar whose agents control western media outlets from Sydney to California, is misleading the international community as to what is really happening in Jerusalem and in the Gaza Strip.

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Israel, ruled by supremacist and megalomaniac Jews who think that no country or entity under the sun has a right to criticize Israel’s appalling maltreatment of the Palestinians, believes it has an unending free season on its victims.

Those are the Nazi-minded ideologues who are indoctrinated in Talmudic Jewish supremacy and who believe that the non-Jews lives have no sanctity , those are the Talmudic thugs who believe that the Palestinians must either be expelled or massacred .

As to its victims, Israel seeks always to demonize and dehumanize them so that the world will react indifferently if not callously when Israel murders them, expels them from their homes, steals their land and property as well as demolish their homes, a nearly daily callous practice the state of the Jews carries out in the West Bank.

Israel was born in sin. It will always be a sinful state, no matter what we read in the New York Times and the Washington Post or what we see on CNN and Fox News.

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World passively watching as Israel perpetrates open-ended massacre in Gaza

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The Israeli army, which can be called the Jewish Wehrmacht given its Nazi-like behavior, continues to pound the Gaza Strip from ground, sea and air. According to sources in Gaza, virtually all targets hit so far are civilians.

As many as 3500 Palestinians, virtually all of them civilians, have been reported killed so far. Thousands others were injured, many sustaining life-threatening wounds.

The scenes of mutilated and maimed children, some of whose bodies are seen protruding through the rubble of their homes, destroyed by missiles fired by American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, seem to verify the view that Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in Gaza knowingly and deliberately.

Israeli leaders and military officials are openly gloating over the high death toll among Palestinian civilians. They blame Hamas for the orgy of killing. However, virtually all Palestinians don’t buy the Israeli logice.

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As we all know, this is not the first time Israel indulges in such war crimes.

Israel has always been a regular perpetrator of war crimes . Indeed, one would exaggerate very little by arguing that Israel itself is a war crime or a crime against humanity.

I am not going to spend time refuting Israeli hasbara lies, blaming Hamas for the latest conflagration. Having been a vigilant observer of Israeli behavior for several decade , I can honestly argue that honesty and Israel can not really be used in the same sentence. Israel and honesty are an eternal oxymoron.

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As always, Israel violated the uneasy truce reached through Egyptian mediation in 2002. Israeli leaders, proceeding from the Talmudic ideology which views all non-Jews as lesser human beings or virtual animals, don’t feel bound by agreements or treaties reached with “Goyem.

People in the west, long duped and brainwashed by Zionist propaganda, may raise they eyebrows when reading these words. But we who live with these Judeo-Nazis and have been at the receiving end of their murderousness and evilness know better.

We don’t need and won’t accept lectures about the “humanity and civility” of the N-a-z-i-s of our time.

Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza don’t constitute an existential threat to Israel, which has one of the strongest military machines in the world.

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In fact, the claim that Gaza is threatening Israel is infinitely ridiculous. The thoroughly-starved and hermetically blockaded Gazans have a hard time feeding their children, let alone pose any meaningful threat to the N-a-z-i Germany of our time, a pugnacious state that more or less tightly controls the most powerful country under the sun, the United States.

It is sad and lamentable that a country of 320 million has allowed itself to be enslaved by Zionist pressure groups, hell-bent on prostituting America and eviscerating it of any semblance of morality for Israel’s sake.

Palestinians have resist Jewish terror

But the Palestinians can not take their very survival for granted. They can’t rely on the so-called international community to shield them against Jewish N-a-z-i-s-m.

Indeed, if the Palestinians don’t defend themselves, who is going to defend them? Obama? Merkel? Or Puten?

Hence, the valiant Palestinian determination to put up a semblance of resistance to the Jewish Wehrmacht. The Israeli assault on Gaza is not an assault on Hamas; It is rather a nefarious aggression against the entire Palestinian people. It is intended to break our people’s will to resist Israeli Nazism. Pure and simple.

To put the matter in a nutshell, the Palestinians in Gaza are simply defending themselves against an overwhelming evil force that is hell bent on ethnically cleansing them and stealing their motherland. Our fighters don’t fire their home-made missiles on Israel because they want to spill Jewish blood. They do it because this is the only means they possess to deter a cannibalistic enemy that can only feel good if and when it spills Palestinian blood.

Besides, the problem with Israel didn’t begin last week or last year.

Just remember that many of the people being now bombarded and murdered by the Jewish Wehrmacht are actually children, grand children and great grand children of the original Palestinian refugees that Israel massacred or brutally expelled out of their homes when the evil state was created in Palestine in 1948.

Hence, the Palestinians in Gaza can not really be terrorists if only because they were never the initiator of violence and terror. The Palestinians were living peaceably in their towns and villages, mostly leading a simple pastoral life until waves of Khazari Jews, who had no real connection with the ancient Israelites, invaded Palestine with the aid of Western countries, especially the evil empire, the United Kingdome.

Yes, it was Britain that put the venomous Jewish snake in the bed of the Palestinian child. Britain, as Noam Chomsky wisely said, can not claim innocence or argue that it didn’t know the snake was so poisonous.

Gaza Massacre: Surviving by dying

Today, Palestinians are sacrificing their lives for their freedom, dignity and survival. This is what they have always been doing from time immemorial. We are very much children of martyrs who were themselves children of martyrs. We survived despite a harsh history of plots and conspiracies that aimed to eradicate us as a people from the face of earth.

We in Gaza will survive the latest Israeli blitz as well

However, the world community ought to feel ashamed for watching the Nazi Germany of our time gang up on a defenseless people in Gaza whose only crime is that it is not part of “the holy tribe,”

This conspicuously immoral world , which doesn’t respect any modicum of respect, will surely have a precarious future. It will face ultimate demise.

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