'Idea of the day' trading in and out for profit

[Ike Latif]

<<Are you Muslim?>>
No, I have a lost identity in search of my misplaced pedigree.

I am Muslim, but they hate me when I talk about their insatiable hunger to eliminate any one but those who can raise the slogan of Allah is great. When I point them their inbuilt injustice and predator like tendencies to hate progress and co-existence they consider me heretic. I am an infidel subject of ultimate punishment.

I am Hindu, my great grand fathers I am sure were one, but Hindus too hate me if I want to talk about right of self-determination of masses who have been denied that right.

I am Jew but Jews but they hate me too if I talk about right of Palestinians kids being eliminated with bullets aimed at them.

I am an Arab, but they hate me when I talk about why do you kill a Jewish child and innocent Jew in Israel in name of ‘Intifida’.

I am no one.

I am no one really no one, an insignificant wanderer that is what I am, liked by no one, hated by everyone, this is my life but what a beautiful life I have, I love to live every moment of it. These are careless whispers as George Michael puts it.

In the end I am just a humanist, I love mankind beyond color, creed, race and religion, I just feel we are a part of greater society that is part of one humanity, we have to progress together otherwise petty fragmentations and schisms will lead us to road of self destruction.

We got to love each other beyond religious divides and develop a greater universal cause of ‘ universal oneness’. It is out of fashion and absolutely worthless thought, but I know no nation has absolute virtues, neither any religious thought has absolute truth, the only way to co-exist is to understand our weaknesses and develop a broad consensus, that is the most difficult part of our human struggle.

I am one that is caught in that web; I just try my little best make people understand the only way out of this whole dilemma is understanding of ‘our greater problems’ and addressing them with best of our efforts.

My glass house is too brittle and to protect it I need to accord some respect to poverty stricken areas of the world, this I have lately realized, I got to share my progress, but that is very politically unacceptable position as world and markets are all about ‘winner takes it all.’



Iqbal Latif