I am a Muslim not a Commodity

135 Responses to I am a Muslim not a Commodity

1. Emy Mae

   January 13, 2011 at 8:14 am

   Could everyone please look at something from more than one point of view. There are multiple perspectives in every situation. My point is that you don’t have to agree with everyone in order to understand where they are coming from.
2. sauriani

   January 13, 2011 at 8:42 am

   beauty,
   same words different meaning…
   like it very much
3. our soldier

   January 13, 2011 at 9:14 am

   well i can tell you this. i am currently serving over in iraq and have been for quite some time. when i walk the streets the people of iraq thank me for driving out terrorists. not only threatening us, but also targeting their own. the majority of our casualties were from bombs and bullets ment for the iraqi people. they thank us for building them new schools. for making it safe for their children to walk down the street and play a game of soccer. for making sure that they have clean water to drink and power to light their houses with. in all of my years in the army more people thank me overseas in combat zones than they do in my own country. it makes me sick to know that we, america, refuse to see the good we do. the fonts on the sign should be reversed.
4. women_and_children_first

   January 13, 2011 at 10:12 am

   America doesn’t owe muslims anything. If you dohn’t like it here thats fine; leave.
5. Emy Mae

   January 13, 2011 at 10:49 am

   What do you mean America doesn’t owe Muslims anything? It is estimated that we have 2.5 million Americans that are Muslim. I am proud to be an American, but I am embarrassed about how some people discriminate against Muslims. I am embarrassed that some people don’t realize that Islamic extremists don’t represent all of Islam.
   In response to the sign. I don’t agree with it completely, but the United States doesn’t calculated the deaths of Iraqis in the war (The Police we are training etc.)
6. Emy Mae

   January 13, 2011 at 11:21 am

   I almost forgot, Our Soldier, We can’t thank you enough for your service to our country. Thank you.
7. NVS_Inc

   January 13, 2011 at 12:08 pm

   Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Fight Club – Politics & Society (project mayhem), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
8. ROCK990

   January 13, 2011 at 12:54 pm

   asma,

   pobody is nerfect.

   we all bleed the same colored blood.

   we all have misgiving, countries, people, thoughts and actions but there are a couple thing you stated that i think we need to clear up. do you actually know the modern day histories of lebanon, afghanistan and iraq (modern meaning in the last 100-150 yrs). if so could you blame the ‘destruction’ of these countries squarely on the USA and other western countries. the western countries are not always innocent but there is a in-house, in-country component that you need to address as well. for instance do you truly believe karzai can hold together a country that is stitched canvas of dozens of tribes. tribes that dont necessariliy want to get along. how about the drugs coming out of that country? how about the police in that country? the cooruption and prostitution of daily life. what is the root cause of that.

   i guess what i am trying to say is in order for you to gain a fuller voice, you should really stop being such a victim and make victim statements.

   ultimate empowerments starts from within

   thanks for posting these pictures and tolerating all the comments. have a nice day.
9. mark_rutley

   January 13, 2011 at 1:17 pm

   Posting pictures like this do not help either cause…whichever side of the fence you sit on!
10. Dr. Shahid-Burewala Trekkerz (Happy New Year)

    January 13, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called My Pakistan, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
11. shradoni

    January 13, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    This is so true! :(
12. Kombizz

    January 13, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    GREAT message
13. @mine

    January 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    tout est dit
    big up
14. Jette_marie

    January 13, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    Very powerful. Thank you for standing up and making a statement. I think too many people either don’t care enough to be well informed or they just grumble about everything that is wrong without really trying to use a positive outlet that will be heard by a more massive audience.
15. CaitMariePeaches

    January 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    I love this
16. sufined

    January 13, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    this is so true, the only problem with US Muslim is we have forgotten our top priority, our top priority must be Allah
17. Ik Onkar

    January 13, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    I’m a sikh but this sign is so true. God bless the muslims.
18. rosebudnewyear2011

    January 13, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called soulful group, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
19. lampy29

    January 13, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called worldchangeforum,org, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

    Peace,
    -Matt
20. CaMiLa2000

    January 13, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    brilliant
21. thekimshi

    January 13, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    Then you take care of your radicals So we don’t have too! And if you don’t ,then I Will continue to Kill them! My life and my family is just as important as muslim families!
22. coldarif

    January 13, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    Superrrrrrrrr…..
23. Åskådaren

    January 13, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    Gives me the feelings about what Swedish men are going through in Sweden now…on our own soil!
24. Edge of Space

    January 13, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    @Askadaren, can you kindly elaborate on your comment? I dont think I understand the context behind it
25. mujaflickr

    January 13, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    iT IS VERY TRUE AND U I APPRECIATE U TAT U HAVE THE GUTS TO PROTEST WIT TAT BANNER …
    FUCK AMERICA..FUCK BUSH
26. maximas.prime

    January 13, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/1213992@N24/ for unusual signs and wonders, we’d love to have this added to the group!
    thanks
27. lee_hoyle

    January 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Thank God that I’m not religious, as religion is EVIL, but I’m a Christian who believes there’s only one God whose son is Jesus Christ; the God of freedom!!!
28. imontok_77

    January 13, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Ganteng
29. sukhi87

    January 13, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    I love this picture, and I love the sign, but most of all I love the courage that is portrayed, sad how now it takes courage to speak the truth. Amazug photography bravo
30. writtersrightword

    January 13, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    Christmas Wish: PEACE for ALL.
31. Mustapha Mrabte ????? ????????

    January 14, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Great shot
32. _-domi-_

    January 14, 2011 at 1:25 am

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    very true and frustrating!!

    i don’t nknow why but when i saw this pic i must remeber two quotes!

    as sir peter ustinov said: "terror is the war of the poor and war is the TERROR of the rich!"

    and my beloved oscar wilde: "patriotism is a virtue of the VICIOUS!"
33. N (Enne)

    January 14, 2011 at 2:15 am

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Society’s skin, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
34. eyesnaps

    January 14, 2011 at 2:47 am

    Caffieneandpixels – bravo for the rhetoric.
    i’ll go to an arab country and freely express myself as soon as you go and express yourself outside your local watering hole on a friday night. When disageeing with clerics they often part words of wisdom unlike other institutions who just rape the boys on a global scale, A womans body is beautiful, well unless you live in some parts of the World where the obesity rate is so high that the women are like bears – however we await your pictures of your naked mom, granny, sisters aunts and grown up daughters. start at home and set the trend. if you think walking about legless and slurring your speech is your idea of fun then it may be the only way you can bring yourself to have some degree of intimacy with your womenfolk. Play rock music loudly in your own car and explain it to the cops when your neighbours call them out. Lastly i dont think you have ever met an American in your life. Your skin colour indicates your are the prodigy of european colonists – the ones that wiped Americans (yes those radiantly beautiful, cuturally rich, peace loving people) to near extinction, after the theft of their land. I dont recognise you as an American – give yourself whatever label you want. And your intelect or lack of it speaks volumes. As a Scotsman who’s country folk did invent the television, amongst other major technologies i find it abhorent that you make a feeble attempt to credit this to America. Having said that… the national statistics for literacy and numeracy in America dictate that you probably wouldnt have the skills to differentiate fact from fiction. Oh, and have a guess which country has one of the highest incidence of rape on the planet? every 90 seconds! and its reported that only 16% are reported with 54% being children under 18! America. Suiciude rate has rocketed, murder is rife. when Islam of the middle ages gave equal rights to women in every sense including, earnings, inheritance, education, etc etc, my ancestors and your ancestors in Europe refused to recognise women as humans. To this very day europeans either in europe or colonists elsewhere in the world force their women to take on the husbands name upon marriage. why not just brand their foreheads that you own them? but that would mean that in the name of equality the only way they could ensure they owned you too would be to castrate you! stop raping your women, your children, get off the anti depressants, go to university (oops you cant cos the MOZLUMS invented them), pay your taxes (oops the MOZLUMS created that too), collect your state benefit and pension (oops – guess what?). i bet thats given you a headache – tell you what have a few beers, listen to some rock n roll, and you’ll feel better running away from the real world only to wake up in the morning with another headache. dont fret tho – since you’ll probably be dead of liver cirrhosis before you get old enough for your kids to dump you in a home – if they can track down who ‘daddy’ is.
35. razak6

    January 14, 2011 at 3:18 am

    true