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This  has been chosen the TIME Magazine's famous photo essay, and if you please take time to read it...and why this essay has made Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama...



Nisha Khan, Kareem's step mother over his grave

Colin Powell said on Meet the Press:


       I'm also troubled by - not what Senator McCain says - but what members of the Party say, and it is permitted to be said: such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim. He's a Christian; has always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, "What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?" The answer's "No, that's not America." Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be President? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own Party drop the suggestion he's Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

       I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery. And she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards - Purple Heart, Bronze Star; showed that he died in Iraq; gave his date of birth, date of death. He was twenty years old. And then at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross. It didn't have a Star of David. It had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Karim Rashad Sultan Kahn. And he was an American. He was born in New Jersey, he was fourteen years old at the time of 9/11 and he waited until he could go serve his country and he gave his life.

       Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourself in this way. And John McCain is as non-discriminatory as anyone I know. But I'm troubled about the fact that within the Party we have these kinds of expressions



Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Muslim, Born in America and American Citizen


       The most moving part of the statement Colin Powell gave on Meet The Press endorsing Barack Obama for president centered on the story of one grave in Arlington. It is the grave of Kareem Khan, a young man from New Jersey who was so moved by the tragedy and shock of Sept. 11, 2001, when he was just a boy, that he enlisted in the Army as soon as he could.

       Khan liked video games, the Dallas Cowboys and Starbust candies. He was also a Muslim. Powell talked about the whispering campaign among some McCain supporters who say that Obama is Muslim.

       First, Powell said, it is not true. Obama is a Christian, and always has been.

       Second, Powell emphasized, what if he is Muslim? Isn't that the American way -- that a Muslim, or an Episopalian, or a Jew, or a Hindu or anyone else can grow up in this country with the same dream -- the dream that anything is possible, even the presidency.

       The Gannett News Service profiled Khan after his death in 2007 from a bomb:

       Khan's faith in Islam is important now to his father and stepmother, Nisha Khan, because they want to make sure people in America know that Muslims like Kareem were willing to fight for their country. "His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him," said Feroze Khan. "He looked at it that he's American and he has a job to do."

        The last package Nisha Khan, 40, sent her stepson included a necklace that had Kareem's name in Arabic, next to the word "Bismillah," which means praise to Allah.

       In the Islamic tradition, last rites must be within a few days of death. Khan's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is scheduled Thursday. The family will perform traditional Islamic rites at home and have a full military burial.

      "Hopefully Allah will understand," said Nisha Khan.

       The Arlington Cemetery website features the full article and many photos (including one shown here) that keep Khan's memory glowing. Click for the full Kareem Khan story, a story that influenced Colin Powell, and, perhaps, the course of the election.
-- Carl Lavin

clap! clap! clap!

Exactly!

Barack isn't a Muslim but what if he was?

The trouble with us people is that we want to be respected as what we are - gay, straight, Catholics, Mormons, white, black, Asian, man, woman,  etc. but we don't want to compromise to the existence of other people who may have different religious beliefs, race or lifestyle choices as we  have.

Quote from: grazie7y on November 12, 2008, 05:10:01 PM
Exactly!

Barack isn't a Muslim but what if he was?

The trouble with us people is that we want to be respected as what we are - gay, straight, Catholics, Mormons, white, black, Asian, man, woman,  etc. but we don't want to compromise to the existence of other people who may have different religious beliefs, race or lifestyle choices as we  have.

KOREK! I hope makabasa si RN ani! hahaha

purya damgo pero mura lagi hiwion ni sija?

Mind your manners Calle!
Presidente raba ka sa dajung!

Thanks for the posting Inday Grace.  Can you imagine a muslim Phil Marine in command to subdue the MNLF in Mindanao? We are so biased with  our muslim brothers and sisters which comprises 15 % of the nation´s population, that I could say  this conflict will never be settled.

Quote from: calle on November 14, 2008, 04:09:08 PM
purya damgo pero mura lagi hiwion ni sija?

kinsay hiwion, calle?

Quote from: hofelina on November 15, 2008, 01:51:02 AM
Thanks for the posting Inday Grace.  Can you imagine a muslim Phil Marine in command to subdue the MNLF in Mindanao? We are so biased with  our muslim brothers and sisters which comprises 15 % of the nation´s population, that I could say  this conflict will never be settled.

You are welcome, Manay Tess.

Quote from: hofelina on November 15, 2008, 01:51:02 AM
Thanks for the posting Inday Grace.  Can you imagine a muslim Phil Marine in command to subdue the MNLF in Mindanao? We are so biased with  our muslim brothers and sisters which comprises 15 % of the nation´s population, that I could say  this conflict will never be settled.

Biased is very well said. My grandmother was biased and I did not like that part of her. She had gone through the civil war era and been through the "great Depression" and she had her reasons for how she felt. (To each his own).

I have been friends with many persons who are colored and I find them often to be more educated then some white people.
I am not raised with a biased or prejudiced bone in my body (knock on wood).
My parents raised me level headed and especailly my father he told me that anyone from anywhere will teach you somethin as he from a different place.

Quote from: ms da binsi on November 12, 2008, 11:22:47 PM


KOREK! I hope makabasa si RN ani! hahaha

bitaw korek jud ni..labi na ang mga pinoy nga datu sa ato di noon tanan.

wa koy problema ana og muslim siya o dili, importante matinud-anon siya sa iyang pangalagad...kay og magbinuang, sayon ra na pitkan...LOL

The problem with us people is that we cannot face our problems especially when that particular problem is our face!!!

aguuuy tua na lagi! gihimo na sad problema ija nawong!!!

Wa koy problema sa atong mga Muslim brothers bisan asa sa tibook kalibutan. They are friendly like me. Lalo na nga ko'y problem sa atong mga Muslim sisters, they are beautiful and sexy!

Quote from: preciousNpolite link=topic=16245.msg192733#msg192733 <br />my father he told me that anyone from anywhere will teach you somethin as he from a different place./quote]
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this is a nice.

ok lng mustlim basta di lang extremist! hehehehehe!

and basta lang dili literal ang ka-interpret sa Quran

Sakto ka Inday!

Sa Koran ang pangulo sa balay ang lalaki, ang babaye mosunod siya sa pangulo sa panimalay.  Unsa man kon ang babaye intelehente kay sa lalaki?

So you could imagine the big discrepancy. Sexism in Koran?

bahalag Muslim basta mokaon og baboy...

Muslims are non pork eaters  but some are pork tasters. Dili mokapon pero
motilaw lang.

allowed man mokaon ug baboy ang muslim kun walay laing pagkaon. naa na sa quran

basta open minded siya sa lhat ng bagay and both understand each otherrrr...

Aira, ang cute ng avatar mo! Malikot lang ang mga daliri. Ulo niya parang Muslim. Basta, maski Muslim, cute pa gihapon.

thnk you Layman! eto pr syo...funny pic.
hve a nice day!

Aira pwerte jud nakong katawa diri! hahahahhahaha

Sus ako ana magsuka na jud ko ug hijak!!!!

grbe kdisperado hahahahha...thnks

Ay sus...nagkunwari pang malaki ang breast niya. Yon pala tiyan pala niya ang ningbukad...Bwahaha!!! Thanks Aira, funny is it?

hala kamong mga dagkog tiyan diha, pagamyi na.....

hahahahahaha!

Pwede ba mag pa lypo ang mga lalaking Laki-chan?

pwede lay kang jacki tyan.

nanga unsa na mo diri??

hahahaha

Quote from: ms da binsi on December 19, 2008, 11:58:34 PM
nanga unsa na mo diri??

hahahaha

muslim ba kono sI, jackie tyan? hAHAHAHAHHAHA

aabi nimo gabii pa jud ko ang agik-ik ani nilang duha!

hahahahahha

kung magpalaypo, di ba kaha maepektohan ang ATin jan? hahahaha

"ok ka ba tyan?" 

tiancha ko ok kayo jan!

anak ng tiannak.......

Si Barrak.....whahahahaha...