Protecting the criminals, isn't that a crime?

Yesterday in news one of the topics was that Israel is holding the names of the soldiers who battled in Gaza, just in case they committed war crimes. The country, who claims to have a high morality and who states all the time that they only want to defend them selves, is protecting possible criminals. They must know what crimes have been committed. In the way this just shows that they do recognize that some actions, which are not really permitted, were committed in Gaza. They also state they want to build the best possible defense for these soldiers who were involved. I think that the morality in this is completely up side down. Firstly, what army would be proud of soldiers who don't respect civilians, but kill them or injure them on purpose. Isn't that what war crimes is all about? Hurting people who have no means to defend them selves? How could you claim a victory over innocent blood?
Secondly, I personally find it very disturbing that one nation would be able to put them selves above the law. Unfortunately there are countries who are willing to support this kind of behaviour, even though they would be very tough in their own laws about killing and they claim that they serve the justice. So if they are so keen to serve the justice, then why is it not for every man? Is Palestinian blood worthless?
It seems to me that in this age of video games and new technology, even though we get more information of what really happens, we are more blind. It is ok to lock hundreds of men into the cages without a prosecution of what they were supposed to do, often without any evidence. But when people are starving, they have no electricity, no medical equipment and they have been told to just get on with it, then they would not be allowed to moan. After all, it seems to be only the needs of one country that are met in these situations. Who cares about an individual?

As a Muslim, I think that we need to start to look after our own brothers and sisters. We need to help to building Palestine. We need to, and I feel as brothers and sisters, we have the obligation of helping those who are sleeping under the sky, for those children who have lost their parents, for those who are in the hospital suffering from injuries caused by this senseless war. There are several ways of doing this. One could do what I do, trying to get my hands on Palestinian goods and sell them with no profits. Families could sponsor an orphan to go to school and to be looked after properly. If you go to meetings, you could help collect the money to buy olive trees, building materials for the houses, donate clothes to people who lost everything. There are ways, and now more than ever we need to get together as one ummah. This is the only way we can become one multi power, who really has the say of their own position in the world politics. If you think that you can not do anything, think what you are good at. You can sell cakes for Palestine. You could invite your friends for the afternoon tea or Coffey, but this time they would pay you a little bit towards the charity. You could do grafts for Palestine. You could take the message further, anything will help the cause. Little information packs you could easily collect from the Internet can be very effective. It is not a question what you can not do, it is a question, what you could do. It is true that one man can not do much, but our only hope is to get together and act as one. And remember, what ever money is very little for you, it might be a dinner for the family who is struggling, or ti could be a start of the long term family business which is supporting the whole community. It could be a part payment of a cow, or payment of a chicken, which are going to provide either milk or eggs for the family. When you have nothing, anything is welcome.

Little peace of haven would be nice

I am armed with information. This morning I received my first copy of Palestine news, which is a magazine packed with stories and not with adverts. I did glance it quickly when the kids were playing but quickly noticed that really I need to be able to concentrate on what I am reading. There was lots of information news leaflets too. My husband told me that yesterday I received a phone call from Save the Children and I remember faintly e-mailing them when the first disturbing news came from Palestine at the beginning of the war. My new magazine is a published by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and joining is not that expensive at all.

I noticed that I nearly fell into the same trap that we always do after something that horrible than the war in Palestine is over. You seem to be thinking:" oh thank God it's over!", and forget about it. I now still follow what happens in there and I am determined to help, no matter how little help I can give. I keep looking at the pictures that still are seeping out from the region despite of the fact that Israel tries to practise the sensorising policies, and I am deeply saddened of how we as human beings can still let this happen. Now these people don't only have nothing to eat, but nowhere to live either. And at the mean time the world leaders are shaking hands of the job well done. We almost seem to brush the problem under the carpet and try to forget about it. The most shocking to me is the attitude amongst some Zionists. They really don't mind of being racists. I see women of 10 years older to deny completely what has happened and blame other side, even though it was Israeli tanks who did not even have the respect for the dead they produced. As us in the western world have thought that these people are victims, it has left the window open to them to exploit the situation and they them selves are training their little children to use guns!!!! We are shocked about seeing images of child soldiers in Africa, but still are complete blind to little Zionist boys handling guns at the age of 4 in the name of self defense! This is hypocrisy at its worst!

I have placed an order to my first box of soap from Palestine, which will be processed on Monday. I have nearly sold the box already. I am also planning to do some Palestinian soap parties, so insh-Allah, this idea will take on. Instead of giving free gifts, I would like to make information packs, invite ladies that I know of are interested of what is happening in the area. Try to sell as much Palestinian goods as possible and make the boycott even more effective this way. I would like to think that I am doing the responsible selling this way. Who knows, maybe I can even find a skin care system made from olive oil!!!!

Life beyond the rubble

Fighting is stopped for the moment and all the participants can breath a little. People who have lost their homes, have gone to see the rubble, try to find the loved ones and see where to start over again. Irony on this is, that the tunnels which Israelis so much wanted to destroy, are working again, they have managed to kill less than 50 Hamas fighters according to Hamas and they have killed couple of thousand civilians. On the last day of fighting I was browsing Youtube, as I heard that even in Torah they say that Jews are not allowed to own land as God gave them the whole world. So by their own definitions Israel is illegal country.
And then I found this video from Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjnvQHWyLE

I was amazed. Surely this is not propaganda, this is a Jew against Zionist. How can a world ignore this?

To purchase an Olive tree to Palestine

http://www.zaytoun.org

Trees for life, £20.00/ 5 trees

Also information of harvesting tours.

1 100 people killed and one Hamas leader

So, for their reports of the first killed Hamas leader they had to go through 1 100 people. Not only they killed the leader, they also killed his family, his brother, his kids, his wives and about 300 others. But they had their target. UN is calling for war crimes and Israeli ambassador is upset, because on his opinion this is a racist attack to Jewish people.
I regularly read and comment Your views in Al Jazera web site and I find it really unbelievable what some people say. There was a comment from someone few days ago saying: " We are the people God chose, so no matter what we do we are always right. " This seems to be an attitude amongst lots of young Jewish people. I can not see how this war is going to bring justice to anyone, no Jewish or Muslim. This adds into the hatred which is already there towards both sides, and as wise as we are, it makes it really hard for some people to separate the difference between a Jew and Zionist. I my self think the Jews has the respect towards Arabs and Islam. We are cousins, from the same family. The problem rises when some greedy people have been give too much power. In any structure this is just going to cause problems.

I will soon order my first box of olive soap and even market this in the school for other mums. I also have been planning, how and where to use the possible profits, and I have now ended with two possibilities: Islamic Relief and further the orphan program, and olive trees. I can sponsor olive trees. Can you believe, it only costs £5.00 to plant an olive tree to Palestine but this one tree can be a gift of life. I will add the details to the end of this post. The picture above is just one example what they can do out out of it too.

Whilst I am writing this I can not get a comment made by Israeli foreign minister saying that they will stop when they assess it has been enough. Enough of what???? Killing? Are you not satisfied yet? Listening to their comments, it now starts to be obvious that this was planned a long time ago, and they have no hesitation to wipe out the entitled Gaza population if needed. I see nasty smiles on their faces and I can not understand, what is there to smile about in the whole situation? some journalists have been killed, doctors have been killed. UN food storage have been burned down, and three hospitals have been bombed. It looks as if the people chose by God decided to give hell to the earth.

Fair trade alert!!!!

As the days go by, the war gets more intense all the time. Today The journalist in Al Jazera gave some names and information of circumstances of some children and how they died. They are talking about the information war, of which I am part of, and they are talking about the value of the Palestinian people. Israel still fails to recognise the fact that this war has gone too far. They are stating that Israel has suffered years of terror from Palestinian site, which is probably true, but they fail to tell how they have cut the electricity, gas and clean water from Palestinians. us here UK, most of the mothers do not have an opinion on this, or then they don't want to offend me. I tell them what I have seen on the television, they don't like it, and most of them say; "You see, this is why I don't watch the news.... "
I am trying to put my feet between the fair trade door, as we are boycotting Israeli goods. I try to implicate the boycott to the full power and look for the fair trade products, which are made by Palestinians. My e-mail contact from Israel, who is working with Palestinians to promote Palestinian fair trade sent me this message: " Right now there are no physical impacts on the daily life in Israel, so we do not expect any delays in lead times etc. However, the whole atmosphere is not in favor of fair trade ideas. Sindyanna now a days spent a lot of efforts in activities to stop the war. "

I have managed to gather some goods from UK and also have found me a supplier who makes it possible for me to sell the goods with no profit basis. I have had lots of interest as these products are not only fair trade, but also they are organic. This must be a winning combination for all of those Palestinians suffering at the moment. People are saying that this is not a war against Hamas, it is now clear that this is a war against Palestinians. Even the journalists in Palestine have had enough, they have joined forces and are sitting in the media tower in Palestine as a protest against the number of journalists Israelis have killed.

Earlier today I saw a explosion from Palestine, this was something that looked in the middle of block of flats. It was a big bang, black cloud of smoke rose up in to the sky and I thought all of those people who have hurt them selves either by the direct hit of the explosion or the rubbish that the pressure wave will through to the air. More death, more injuries. Alhamdulillah, some people now have managed to go to Egypt for the hospital treatment.

I can not believe that this is happening in the modern time. A human is an evil to another, I think this is a living proof of it.

Smoke on the water

The situation is bad, nearly 1000 dead civilians, people who, even if they have not injured, but they have not slept because of the fear of getting hit. Imagine running week after week without a sleep, only few hours here and there. There are over 4000 injured in hospitals, and nobody knows how many there are in the rubble to be pulled out.
My Lina said to me in the car this morning: "Mum, there are lots of Jews killing lots of Muslims".
I told her: " No Lina, it is not that simple. It is true that there is a war, but we can not say that the Jews are killing Muslims, because there are lots of Jews who don't support this war." How do you explain to a 7 year old what is happening to our brothers and sisters? I am speechless. This war does not have an implication only in Palestine, but also here. This little peace of land has always been close to peoples heart, in one way or another. UN is looking into sending an independent body to investigate the claims of the war crimes, which of the evidence can be seen in our televisions every day. I think this may be the make or brake of the credibility test to UN, the only problem being of that Israel is not part of the CCI. I find this weird, especially considering that international community allowed them to hunt down the Nazi criminals and bring them into a justice. Disappontedly, it seems now a days the law is not the same to all. Shame. The most intense fighting yet, and it just gets more intensified. Looks like for the Gaza strip, there are more chapters to be written.

Too little too late

Now when the dead toll in Gaza is closing to its first thousand, UN has decided to issue a statement which will put Israel into a very bad situation. They are now calling for war crimes. We have seen this happening now 17 days. I have not seen Hamas soldiers carried to hospitals, but I have seen plenty of children, old men, women. I have seen young girls their legs amputated, I have seen children shot by a sniper, I have seen burnings on the skin caused by white phosphorous and I have seen and heard the desperation of the doctors, international doctors calling for ceasefire to end the casualties flowing in and to give people the fair chance to recover them selves and bury their families. None of this has been given to them, humanitarian help has been denied from them and there are areas where the press can not go due to a Israel denying the access. The whole crisis keeps escalating and one wonders what we will find out once no gun fire can be heard in the air any more. The truth is, the ones who reach the hospital are the ones who can go one way or another. There are lots of people who are not able to reach the hospital, who have been left to die. They may still be alive, but suffering from the injuries which are severely infected, and they are facing a slow painful death. These can be anyone, they are lying under the rubble, probably calling out and they can hear people on the top of them. There could be whole families under there, slowly fading away until their corpses are found. How many there will be only Allah knows, but we wish that who ever is there, will have an easy passing. Insha-Allah!

Little break and good sauna

What a misery, no positive news from Palestine, yet another little boy was blinded and orphaned by a shell. It is now obvious that they are using white phosphorous, as tv shows how children are playing with it on streets. They say:" This is a new weapon, we have never seen anything like this before! " Israeli soldiers are asking people to evacuate, but where can they go. There is no safe place in Gaza, and Egypt do not let people to come over the border. How can a Muslim treat another Muslim like this? Kids have moved upstairs to their room because of the daily dose of the boring Al Jazera. I am glued to a television, so much so that the appetite to dear husbands football is seriously getting disturbed. Too much news he says..... me I don't care, this is the first time the situation have done a complete home run into my mind.

I went to Finnish Seamens Mission Church today. It is supported by Finnish protestant church, but there are people from all the walks of life gathering, the mutual thing is that we are all Finnish or we have connections to Finland. The most important thing is that they have a real sauna there, no rubbish dodgy back alley thing, but the real Finn pride. I went there with my friend to relax and talk. She is Muslim like me and supports the Palestine like me. To get out and to have some fresh air, oh how do you appreciate it when you know that this is the privilege some people don't have. Simple things in life become valuable. And of coarse, I spent more than I really should have on Finnish food, and now as I am sitting and writing this, I am munching the tastes that I have not had for ages. This has given me a much needed break, which again, my sisters and brothers can not have. My heart goes out to them and insha-Allah, I will be able to do something more.

My Jihad

This Palestinian flag was drawn by Iman Mohammed, 12 years old, at UN school.

In the picture, a hand representing a tree comes up from the earth with a key. Many Palestinians kept the keys to homes they left or were driven out of in 1948.

In the background is a Palestinian flag and, inside the arm, a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories in a keffiyeh pattern.

More and more in the last few days I have been sitting my eyes glued on my laptop screen. I have got involved with several ways with the war on Palestine. I have cried, I have joined to different virtual groups, I have bought Palestinian goods ( of which the first ones came through my mailbox today), and I have spent time to explain people who don't quite know what is going on and why it is going on, the reasons why people of Palestine are angry.
Now, mostly I have been thinking of how to help Palestinians when all of this is over. I have ideas in my head, but I am not quite sure where to take them, how to get involved or who to approach. My idea of praying 24 hours never took off, no imam replied to my mails saying we will do it. So as they are condemning Israelis actions, they still very much stay in the back ground. Today people have gathered to London for the demonstration, like every where else in the world. I wonder if this still is going to lead anywhere. I am glad to hear voices from the Jewish community saying that all of us are not thinking this is right, but so disappointed to the US senate decision of supporting Israel on this blood path. Shame on the land of freedom!

So what about my ideas of the after math. I have been thinking how to get counselling to those children who have been seeing things that no child should be seeing. So this requires Arabic speaking councillors to get together and see if they can go to the war zone and help these little souls, not to forget, but to live with it. I am crocheting peaces to make some baby blankets, so if someone is going there, they could take them with them. And I told to husband that I do not want to have a holiday, but I am thinking to send my husband to Palestine to help with re-building Palestine. So I have noticed, this has become my jihad. I am not taking my battles with guns, but with shouting my opinion in the Internet by doing lots of different things. I have also put myself on the list of distributing Palestinian products with no profits. My husband has told me that there is too much news on the tele as Al Jazera is on all the time and believe me, he is the last person that you would expect to hear this from. So I am proud to have this newly found Jihad, which I know I share with lots of people. So I carry on to do what I have been doing all the way and hope that there are more and more people joining me and the others who find this war as a disgusting peace of showing off western "democracy" and justice.

Smoke in the air

Today, as the war will carry on the third week, I thought that Israelis can not stun me any more. Well I was wrong. Not only are they ignoring yet another resolution of UN of immediate truce, but now they have brought White Phosphor into the war and heavily lived area. So they are doing now, what was done to them in the concentration camps.

I quote Wikipedia what the gas does and the impact on humans:-

Effects on humans

White phosphorus can cause injuries and death in three ways: by burning deep into tissue, by being inhaled as a smoke, and by being ingested. Extensive exposure in any way is fatal.

If this is not a massacre, I do not know what do we have to see in order to classify something as a genocide. The land is valuable for Israel and if they can not get the land with talking then comes the action. And what kind of action!!!!

They are willing to gas babies, women, elderly, anyone or anything living in the area. You can not control gas. It goes where the wind takes it. Babies breath it in and die. It lands on the skin and causes third agree burns, which then will get infected, not to mention how pain full they are and you can die. This is a hell on earth.

Today I will start to crochet baby blankets, because one day insha-Allah this war is finished and there are lots of people who need all those things they lost when Israelis bombarded their houses. I am also now wearing my 20 year old, the real thing, Palestinian kuffiyar to show my position on this debate. I ordered another new one from online from http://www.olivecoop.com. They do Palestinian goods to support Palestine and these are also Fairtrade certified. I have bought olive soap from another online shop who do fairtrade goods for Palestine, which is called hadeel.org.

I feel so frustrated. I am on hands person and I like doing. I would like to be there and do. Earlier today I was chatting with 12 year old Iraqi girls on line who lives in Finland. She was sad about the situation too. She said she would like to help. I told her if she wants to help, she could collect pencils and writing books for Palestinian children. One day insha-Allah they will go back to school and they need them. Even just a paper and crayons, one day these children will need some counselling on what they have seen and then material to draw would be useful, so they could with qualified help, process and understand what has happened to them. Right now I can watch television and pass the message on. But I know once this killing is over, they will need everything. They will need pots and pans, they will need water, they will need seeds to grow vegetables, they will need everything that you expect to need to run the home. the thing is, they have to start from the scratch again.

I will pray for all of these innocent people who are dieing. May Allah reward the place in Jannah for them.

Post dramatic distress

I have been watching Al Jazera nearly all day. Today I have seen a Jewish man complaining that their women will have a post dramatic distress because of the rockets. Does this man have any idea what is happening on the other side of the border. People on the other side are loosing their babies by sniper shots, the whole families are killed because of collapsing building. What is he thinking his army is doing in Gaza? Having a picnic with locals?????
They have been killing the UN driver who just wanted to help those who have nothing. They have targeted to those people on purpose. I believe this because their weapons are accurate, and the coordinates of the convoy was given to them. This was not accident. This was a malicious attack on people who still have a heart. Shame on them.
I wish to see these people in Hague. I do not know how they could escape that any more, we have enough evidence on tape. So, please, bring justice to Palestine.

Ground zero and two fronts

219. Remember this number, as there are 10 dead Israelis in this conflict.
Up to date Palestine is estimating that there are 219 children dead out of 700 dead people. Their snipers shoot medics, this has been witnessed on the video. They say that they are not targetting civilians, but they are destroying their homes, killing them, asking them to move from away of bombs, shelling UN schools, and yet, no help from surraunding Arab countries. Only this morning, there were few rockets launched from Lebanon, which is the first attempt of solidarity amongst the Islamic world. What is wrong with the great Muslim world? Why would we not help our brothers and sisters? Don't we have a voice in the international political athmosphiere, even though arabic as a language covers one fifth of the world population. Are we really so weak as an Ummah that we can not make things happen, or is this just a myth that has been given to us?
I believe that if we would unite, we would be able to push the world to bring justice to Palestine. One voice is weak, but a choir reaches a huge audience.
We have enought evidence on tape to proove that Gaza has been suffering war crimes, and I think that the time has come to make the people responsible accountable. For too long has Israeli authoroty been over looked for their war crimes. Once this war finishes, I think it is time to turn our heads towards Arab leaders and demand justice for Palestine and to UN to demand the justice for the people who were killed and murdered on ground.
Palestine is the biggest ground zero in the world. How many homes have been destroyed. When the Israeli troops leave Palestine, who is leaving to gather the ruins back to homes for the broken families? There is no bigger trauma in the world than this. Somehow these people need to find the power and willing to build their houses again, maybe just for another attack from Israel. Once we share a tier to those who have been killed in terrorist attacks all over the world, then please share a tier to those 219, babies who have been killed in Gaza. I think these two fronts are not Israeli fronts, as they will get the help and money to fix their displaced roof tiles> Palestine is the one facing the fronts; they have to count their dead and they have to build their homes from nothing, since they lost everything in to the rubble. These are the fronts in this war.

Notes and observations

I was watching Al Jazera last night. All the news are related to the Palestinian conflict, which is going on. There are programs, where well educated people from both sides are debating the cause of this present situation.
I find it surprising, that Jewish side of the debate is only referring to the fact that there are rockets being launched to Israel. They do not see that the roots of this conflict go way beyond this. Just in case there is one reading this, please let me try to explain.

Thousands of years, ever since Jewish people have shared the land of Palestine with Palestinians, for some reason they thought that it is ok to treat people like second class citizens. Never mind the fact that they came to Palestinian land. The justification to all this is that this is the land God promised to them. Well even if this would be the case, do you think that God was only kidding when he gave the ten commandments, or maybe there was a small print saying: "This does not apply, if you are a Zionist living in the future Israel and want to have some action into your life.... " Obviously I am referring to the ones that says do not steel and do not kill. Now, to me, taking something that was not yours in force and not giving it back to the rightful owner is steeling. In the western world it is called a robbery. So in this way, Palestinians were robbed by Jewish people. I think even if the land was promised to them, God did not mean go and steel it. He most likely meant share it. Sharing the land was taken away from Palestinians, when UN Resolution 194 was never applied. Under UN Resolution 194, the Palestinians have the right to return to their homes, but Israel has always refused to implement the Resolution, and it was never held responsible of this. During the last 40 years, Israel has built over 200 illegal settlements to Palestinian soil, which are housing over 500 000 settlers. The recent wall has been built on Palestinian soil to shrink the living space of the native people even more. Israel is pushing people out from their land and acts as a big bully, which unfortunately gets lots of support from western governments.
We are running all over the world to defend the justice, but for some reason, Palestine has been less than a small priority on our list. Most people are not aware of what is happening in there as they see only one side of the story and often the story is a result of the well blogged Israeli propaganda one. To make people to see what really is happening, we need to give them a truthful image of the situation. This does not happen with anger and shouting. We do this, we are only enforcing an image of the people who have slightly lost it. We need to explain calmly what is happening in there. We need to show them pictures, give out facts about the Palestine. We need to show them the map of Palestine, show them how farmers have been thrown out from the homes they and their families have been farming for generations. All this needs to happen calmly. It does not matter how angry we get, we have to keep this on the side for the sake of our brothers and sisters who are suffering. This is the only way we can win people to join our cause.
I urge you sisters, 60 years of injustice makes everyone angry and frustrated, but please try to keep your cool. This matter deserves it.

Dead Angels

I am crying when I am writing this. So many dead which has no meaning. So many little ones. If you are an Israeli soldier, how can you live with this? If you are a Muslim parent, I hope after this you appreciate your offspring and tell them how much you love them.
I have got 4 children, my eldest one living in Finland, and 3 little ones living in UK. I tell them that I love them every day, but after seeing this picture, I will do so more often.....

Imagine how these fathers feel? They are burying their children, the job that is usually thought to be the most horrific thing to do, but yet they face it every day, sometimes the whole families are wiped off by Israeli weapons. There are news about the ambulances targeted, one shell in front of the hospital, and look at the dead toll calculator on the side of this blog, how can you still claim that this is self defence?
Is one Israeli life worth more than Palestinian life? And what did these babies do to deserve this?
You are asking why does a Muslim world is angry? Well, on this time the picture tells you more than just a thousand words, this time there are no words, you don't need them. Imagine this being your father in the picture, your brother or uncle, or even your fellow citizen. Would you not be angry?
How can you kill all these angels and not cry? Where is your humanity?
I pray, please join me.

Facts of Palestine

I have awaken. I might been a bit naive when it comes to Palestine, but now, I am just shocked, that this injustice that has taken place the last 60 years, is reaching the limits of ignorance like nothing else before.

As a state, Palestine has been occupied by first Turkish ottomans and then 1918 - 1948 by Brittish. Israel was created 1948, of which Palestinians opposed, but they were never heard. This resulted in the ethnic cleansing of two thirds of the Palestinian population and the Israeli occupation of 78 per cent of the land.

To the present, Israeli government is harassing and steeling the land that is not rightfully theirs. According to the United Nations resolution 194, the Palestinians should be able to return to their homes, but Israelis have always opposed this and today there are over 6 million Palestinians who are living as refugees in their own country.
Palestinians are continually under attack from the Israeli occupying forces and are increasingly harassed by settlers, who attack farmers and steal their land. Collective punishments, such as prolonged curfews and house demolitions are frequently imposed.

I think that the reason why it is possible that people are treated this way, even though almost everyone has an opinion on this, we just sit in our comfortable living rooms and watch from the tele the suffering of Palestinian people.
What would happen if all of us would do something, even the small thing for those people. If we all write to our local mp or governor, if we all spend 15 minutes of our lives to actually doing something. Now I want to do something and I have already by joining to an organisation, which promotes justice for Palestinians. As my previous post, I would like to go and pray with lots of other people, not only Muslims and see if our voices are heard. Please, I urge you to do something, even just a dua will help the cause.

Would YOU pray for Palestine?

Palestine and its people are facing a horror beyond the means. Innocent people are dying as we speak and all we can do is to watch how the leaders of the world are just letting this to happen.
Israeli government is claiming that the situation is like this because of Hamas, but they don't tell that people of Palestine have been living without a medication, without electricity, without water, without lots of things for the last few months. They are watching their occupants to have all the luxury at the same time than they have been deprived the chance to farm their land, to harvest their olives. The basic human rights have been taken away from them, even though countries which are doing so are participants on the United Nations Human Rights Act.
We need to support our Muslim sisters and brothers, not with violence, but with kindness and silent determination.
So I am calling you sisters, I am trying to arrange something different, something more Islamic than anger and shouting.
I am asking you, would you pray for Palestine? Would you join to the group of praying people in the park, if you would know they were there 24 hours praying for Palestine?
Only thing you would have to take with you, would be your prayers mat and the water bottle to make wudu. Would you do this? And if you are an Imam who reads this, would you lead the prayers 24 hours for Palestine? And if you are not able to pray, would you be able to help those who can by offering them hot drinks if it is cold or offering them warming blankets?
Could we do something like this as a one big Muslim ummah?
I would, so would you come to pray with me?

More of loosing the hair

As promised I will now continue to write about this subject of which we as women are a bit scared of.

Sometimes we can loose hair, because we keep pulling our hairs too much. I would think that this may be the cause of some hair loss with muslim women.
When we tie our hair back because of the head scarf all the time every day, the hair shaft will give in because of the stress and we start loosing hair. This happens ecspecially if we tie the hair too tight. This is recognised condition and it is called traction alopecia. Again if this is the case, there is no other remedy to improve this than a patiency and loose the pony tail.

Hair is a sensor of what is happening in our bodies. Some illnesses can cause a hair loss, or hair could loose a "bounce" because of the treatment of the illness. Generally if a person has a long term illness, it can show as a weakness of the nails and hair. Nails can become britle and hair would just fall out. Obviously this is out of our control, and as we get better, then so does the condition of the hair and nails. Sometimes they could need a bit special attention, however, as the time goes by, a lot of moisturising and pampering does wonders. What ever the cause of the hair loss, I urge you not to get these expensive oils that are on the market to promote hair growing. They do not make the hair grow. Sometimes the oils could improve the condition of the scalp, but they would not make the hair grow. Only the time and patiency will make th hair grow.

There are some infections, which could make the hair fall. If you have an itchy scalp and the hair is falling off in patches, see the doctor to rule out any infections. They normally spread easily, so make sure that no-one uses the same comb as you do. On these conditions, you would have a course of medicine and they would be treated, but again you would have to let the hair grow on its own pace.

If these do not answer to your questions, then I would think that it may be the time to look for business listings in your yellow pages and look for the trichologist. They are specialised people for scalp and hair problems.
I hope I have been a little bit of a help and feel free to ask questions. I will answer to them as much as I can.

Help for thinning hair

A sister with concerns of her hair thinning inspired me to write this, and hopefully I can offer advise or help to anyone who is suffering from hair loss. If you can not solve the problem or work out the cause of your hair loss, then I would suggest that you could pay a visit to a professional trichologist, who would be able to give you an accurate advise on hair problems of all sorts.

It is perfectly normal to loose some hair daily. Normally we do loose approx 100 strands a day. The hair starts thinning, when this number grows considerably and there is not enough new hair growing to cover the lost hair.
The most common reason for loosing hair would be hormonal changes. When we are pregnant, it is vary common to loose hair, or when we reach the menopause, the hair could thin out. If you are loosing hair and have been pregnant recently or breast feeding a baby, then it is normal to loose hair. The only cure is to be patient and trust that it will grow back.
You could also have a hereditary hair loss, and again there is nothing much you can do about it. There would be the obvious cosmetic solution to add some fake hair, but as muslims, we are not allowed to do this and also, this could promote further loss due to an extra weight and stress this would put on remaining hair.

Some chemical services can be a cause for hair loss. Excessive chemical straightening or coloring would ultimately cause a hair loss. The only cure for this would be to stop the use of the chemicals and a good cut. When the hair is thinning, a good hair cut would be essential, as this would lift hte hair, give an illusion of good volume and healthy hair. After a new hair is formed, the volume should build up again, unless there is a damage on the scalp. I have seen one case during my time in hairdressing, where the propable cause of thin hair would have been an over processed permanent waving, in this case, the scalp was slightly burned by the chemicals and the hair did not grow back. This is why it is very imnportant to have any chemical service done in the good reputation hairdressing salon or with the freelance, who is able to proof the qualifications they have had and that the insurance is valid.

I will continue this on a later post, but hope this will help anyone who is suffering and if not, feel free to post or leave a message to me and I will try to help you as much as I can.

New year and old me....

It is now over again.... To be honest, I don't pay any attention to the whole thing any more, it is the same thing every year. Last night 12 o'clock I was making my needle work and watching tele. Earlier in the evening I made new curtains for the girls, finished off a cushion and folded some laundry. I don't even want to make any promises to my self. I have let them down too many times, like I suppose everyone, and it is just a game.
Today I have got kids biking helmets, second hand, but in a very good condition, I collected some bikes from a fellow free cycler ( they are brilliant and already have a new proud owner ) and got a inflatable bed for the little one for the trips on a holiday. Not bad considering all that was for free and would have been worth of quite a lot of money if bought new. Generally I expect a quiet time for business now when everyone have had their hairs done for the christmas or new year, but never mind, that time I can use for organising my self propally. I need to pay a visit to my allotment during this week end and turn some ground around. this is going to be nice and messy job, and the perfect time to rest the brain.
Happy new year to everyone and despite the fact I don't really take notice of this change of the numbers, I still hope happiness and joy for everyone!