Let those who agree with Whisper rise up,

Dayem wrote: The heck with u!I dont need english or milk-tea(Anyway i dont like tea) give me my treasure back!U know what?Had India been rich like in Mughal dynasty, U people would be lining to learn Urdu and Hindi.And this forum would have been in Urdu m'dear.

What specifically are you talking about?  'give me my treasure back?' At the very least, as is clear in history, it would have been a give and a take, back and forth, markets would have been developed and market forces would eventually (in peacetime) prevail.  You would still have had to work hard (most of us anyhow) for what treasure you could dig up from the earth...so how would this have been different if the Brits had stayed put on their island?

Bismillah,

I guess the change I'm referring to is changing the status quo, which is comfortable for some, but causes there to be no water in Gaza, and no healthcare for many of us in America.  It's the rich and powerful who are benefitting from the status quo the way it is now, and powerful is separate from rich.  I don't agree with your statements that the West is causing the problems.  Greed from everyone involved is the source of the evil.  And many Westerners like me hate the poverty, murder, and wars all over the globe caused by greed from all of the ones who are benefitting from the status quo.

I don't like the status quo between men and women either, thus the reference to powerful, domineering.

Change is good and needed, but it's still frightening to many of us.

Herjihad, contrary to what the media (and, also often the State Department) has been feeding, the Muslims have been dreaming of once again being able to lead their lives by their own code - for a change since the colonials left.

Their independence celebrations were shortlived. They were soon to realise that London and Paris had sold them lock, stock and barell to Washington. It was just the brand or, perhaps, the style of colonialisation that had changed.

We have been searching for change for almost a century now.

But change is motivated. It's instigated. History tells us that change never takes root when dropped from 52,000 feet in the air with daisy cutters. Or, thrown at people by M1 Tanks (each shell with 10 LBs of DU -238). 

These methods have serious side effects, occupations culture suicide bombers. Right now, people treat this MacDemocracy goddess as a Trojan horse the US is trying to slip in the Muslim lands.

We do want democracy, but why can't we have our own brand??

Bismillah,

Community, I am against the status quo, are you?

I am neither Democrat nor Republican, but I am a Muslimah with a vote in America, and I use it.  People tell me that I vote foolishly and throw my vote away, but one day, others who believe similarly to me will vote with their conscience and not be intimidated by others into compromising and voting for someone they don't really want as a leader, but who is better than the other guy.

Whisper, a lot of what you posted here makes sense about the political goings on in this world.  But I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water!  (Which means that I'm not looking forward to a more anarchy-based world.  Change is good and needed, but it's still frightening to many of us.)