Comments on: Making the Case for the Hunger Strike

By: Sparky

Sparky — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:35:14 +0000

S asked “What about 75 Saudis detained in Guantánamo Bay? They don’t deserve to be supported?”

Go support them. WHo is stopping you. Go for it!

If you want to start an online campaign for them, by all means God for it!

The Saudi government is working hard for them already…Trust Me!!!

By: ubergirl87

ubergirl87 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:38:01 +0000

wafa8ak Allah

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Hungerstrike « Clouddragon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:26:01 +0000

[...] Arabia does not tolerate public gatherings, protests, or political parties. I hope not because Saudi Jeans is amongst the hunger [...]

By: saudiwoman

saudiwoman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:35:28 +0000

Even though I chose not to join you in the hunger strike, I’m very impressed by the way you put it in that posting.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:53:01 +0000

pah..as you could tell, I was listening to my kids with one ear and reading with ‘one eye’.. I did not read it properly and thought you were fasting for the saudi detainees at Gitmo..at the popular saying goes, “my bad!”
That’s pretty courageous nevertheless Ahmed..I will still post about this..

hugs

Ingrid

By: Global Voices Online » Saudi Arabia: Hunger Strike Draws Attention to Jailed Reformers Plight

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:29:41 +0000

[...] another post, Saudi Jeans writes about the reactions he received when he announced the strike: When I posted about the [...]

By: S..

S.. — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:47:43 +0000

“What about 75 Saudis detained in Guantánamo Bay? They don’t deserve to be supported?”

why don’t your king abdullah do something about it, oh i forgot hes best pals with Dubya

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:21:53 +0000

Ahmed, all the best of luck with your efforts! Trust me, all the Obama supporters have this on their list; to close down guantanamo, it’s a disgrace (and of course, upon closing not just practice extraordinary rendition either!)

I will post on this today..
check out Enigma’s site http://watergatesummer.blogspot.com/ as she receives a lot of traffic and go ahead and promote your cause..

Ingrid

By: Silje

Silje — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:21:58 +0000

I think you are doing a good thing, Ahmed.

People tend to forget to easily, and sometimes drastic measures, such as a brief hunger strike, are necessary. Change does not come easily.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:16:24 +0000

Poem: Cry of the Oppressed

Oppressed

Forced or is there a choice

The food I forego is not a sacrifice
It is not but as the earth is to the Universe
Only minuteness in a vast sea of space and time

Shall I be made to suffer forever?
A question I would secretly ask myself over and over again.

Instead scoffed at for wanting more

Should I not be content with my lot?
Should I not be content with the simplest of restrictions that a caged bird could never flee?
Should I not be content with all the pain and misery?

Oppressors

Nay, have we not told you repeatedly
You desires are nothing but a barren tree.
You shall not receive the rays of the warm sun to penetrate thee;
You shall not feel the drops of rain as they gracefully fall from the heavens on thee;

You see we have thought this up well a long time ago…you are my servant and nothing to me.
Your desires “hah” how dare you want?

Are you not thankful for what Allah has given to thee from above? Such ingrates have no other fate but burn in hell…But my servant if you pray real hard I promise thee…

Surely Allah forgives your outright blasphemy. Wants and desires are sinful…you we brought here for nothing else but serve thy master unquestionably.

SO please remember we will bind thee into silence and ultimately lock you up and throw away the key

We deceive the best of deceptors because you see..We truly believe that We are Almighty In DEED !!!

Destruction is on the way and so the whole world will come to see…

Oppressed

And all of this for nothing more than your Selfish Creed and Selfish Greed?

God will provide a way out of this hell you have made…I only pray that it won’t bring about more misery…