On everybody’s tongue
\nFrom every media organ
\nThese words common<\/p>\n
Listen we like sermon
\nAs from a holy priest
\nTerrorist, terrorist, terrorist<\/p>\n
Every leader’s slogan
\nEast, West or the UN
\nThe “war on terror”
\nThe “war on terror”
\nEvery nation’s mission
\nCombat how to terrorism
\nBut… Without knowing the gist
\nWithout differentiating charity or interest
\nWithout knowing supremacy and thirst
\nWithout knowing who is the real terrorist
\n[One who invades, ruins others nation, makes colonies?
\nOr one who defends his land, fights injustices, tyrannies
\nOne fighting with mere guns, stones
\nOr one with missiles, tanks, planes
\nOne who already has nuclear bomb
\nOr one who tries to make to defend?
\nOne, who oppresses, keeps others mum by its might?
\nOr one who fights for self-rule as basic human right?
\nOne whose every right is treated wrong
\nOr one whose every wrong considered right
\nOne, from whom whole world scares,
\nOr one who is forced, a terrorist
\nAnd so on, so forth … Keep saying if we truth … ]<\/p>\n
Look how this world is engaged
\nIn unnecessary conflicts, ravaged
\nImposed how “war of terror”
\nIn the shield of “war on terror”<\/p>\n
See if we other side of the coin
\nThis play of goat and the loin
\nGo if we behind suicide attack
\nAnd try to know the fact
\n[Kill we others and life we expect
\nUse we force and others not to react]
\nFind we will every answer
\nOf all violence, all cancer
\nAlas! No body but goes
\nTries to know or dares
\nThe root cause of terrorism
\nAnd supports blindly heroism
\nSo called “War on Terrorism”
\nWhich utterly is revenge, egoism<\/p>\n
Launching instead of terror campaigns
\nUS, UN listen if Muslims’ complaints
\nWith respect, tolerance, and affinity
\nWithout hatred, business and enmity
\nAnd solve them from the root
\nNo body would be a terrorist?
\nNo one will blow his body?
\nAnd end his dear life in dismay
\nNo matter our world will be heaven
\nThere would be no September 11<\/p>\n
Otherwise we will continue to suffer
\nBy jets, missiles or suicide bombers
\nAnd keep on producing terrorists
\nOut of greedy, selfish, tyrant acts<\/p>\n
___________________________<\/p>\n
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza:<\/em> Former Director of Research at Eritrean Institute of Technology (EIT), State of Eritrea, currently an academician in Department of Higher Education, Govt of Jammu and Kashmir (India). Founder \u201cAttitude Change International\u201d, a non-Profit Peace NGO engaged in sustainable peace and development. An all time volunteer for greater good, and associated with various national and international development organizations especially Red Cross, Rotary International, Amnesty International and UN.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On everybody’s tongue, From every media organ, These words common
\nListen we like sermon, As from a holy priest, Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}