Things that keep flashing across my mind....

“La li laa li laa lo…” croons Rahman. That’s just what I need to listen to when I’m trying hard to keep awake and think of strategies to suggest to Bush telling him when to intervene to stop mass killings. And tell Osama bin Laden how wrongly he has interpreted the Koran.

“Dear Osama,”
I begin the letter, like how I think it’s going to be in the exam.
I’m trying to get my answers organised in Microsoft Word. And immediately the wizard assistant says ‘It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?’ Yeah, like he could write out the letter for me to Osama. I hide the wizened old Office Assistant.

Dark clouds loom over the once bright sky and threaten to bring in rain. God, the last thing I need right now, as I stretch myself wearily to complete the readings of Osama’s interviews to various media. God, that guy is one huge fanatic I’ve ever read about. His interpretations of the holy Koran, and how he has cleverly managed to find justifications for everything he has done and plans to do – how every other country in the world is infidel, and how US is ‘disgusting’. Wow, he gets me stunned.

And talking of Islamic laws, I really wonder if they are that strict as ObL portrays them to be. ‘Strike the disbeliever in the neck’, I read in shock, wondering if it is some metaphorical order, or literal, as ObL chooses to interpret it. No religion can promote or glorify violence, I believe, and it’s difficult for me to believe my eyes as I read of ObL reeling out phrases after phrases of Koran and telling the world how he is just protecting the world and upholding his religion. Apparently (according to ObL) the holy book says that the whole world should come under the Islamic law and he goes about asking the US to follow Islamic law. I don’t know if that is true, but I am just spellbound by ObL’s demands and how he can coolly ask a country to follow something just like that! And he hates the UN because it follows man-made laws instead of the already-present holy law from the holy book. Whoa!!

And I read about how China, Russia and Pakistan are deliberately slowing down UN intervention in Darfur, Sudan where hundreds of thousands are getting killed (with the aid of the Govt of Sudan) and more millions displaced. Apparently, China has good stakes in Sudan’s oil, and Russia is afraid to endorse a particular move just because it is afraid it’ll be setting a precedent because of the way it dealt with the Chechnya issue. And the US, God only knows why it takes so much time to take any action, it being the only country to have called the Sudanese killings genocide. I am surprised at how countries can be this selfish when thousands are getting killed. Of course, politics is no simple issue, I’m just frustrated.

Effects of exam time. : ) I should be fine by Friday. And I hope the UN decides to do something concrete in Darfur soon!