{"id":291,"date":"2012-09-23T01:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:43:46","slug":"kamal-hakim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/spokenword\/kamal-hakim\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Hakim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Spring<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You see, to me, there&#8217;s just something slightly sick about celebrating a death<br \/>\nAnd honestly, I ain&#8217;t saving my breath,<br \/>\nI think this whole &#8220;Bin Laden&#8221; thing is bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t trust the news,<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t watch a full clip<br \/>\nAnd since then,<br \/>\nThe war that begun with the chase of this man<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t seem to slow down,<br \/>\neven when the world&#8217;s erased of this man.<br \/>\nSeems like they&#8217;ve been targeting the race of this man<br \/>\nto the point they want to spit on the face of Islam<br \/>\nHow could America even complain?<br \/>\nMore than just a name, do you know what &#8220;Al-Qaeda&#8221; means?<\/p>\n<p>The database.<br \/>\nOriginally the computer files of thousands of Mujaahideens.<br \/>\n1) Jihad means struggle. 2) A Mujaahid is one engaged in this hustle<br \/>\nso even with the baggy jeans, we can get through it the same.<br \/>\nThese men were recruited and trained with help from the CIA<br \/>\nthey were getting through to the brains of these regular guys &#8211;<br \/>\nstudents &#8211;<br \/>\nnever proven insane but<br \/>\nruthlessly aimed to fight America&#8217;s enemy at the time.<br \/>\nAnd when the Soviets withdrew,<br \/>\nWestern powers did too.<br \/>\nLeaving behind 40,000 militants from several countries<br \/>\nto fight an Anti-Soviet jihad for heaven&#8217;s bounties.<\/p>\n<p>All the world&#8217;s a stage.<br \/>\nThis is where puppeteers have us hanging by the thread of their words<br \/>\nbut I can see the threat of their words.<br \/>\nMedia fabricating stories<br \/>\ncut from the same material their words have sewn together like<br \/>\n&#8220;Get a couple bearded guys of here shown together.<br \/>\nNow the cue the clip of the American soldiers getting blown together.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;ll never show you the Palestinian child looking for his sister<br \/>\nso they could go home together.<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t show you the clip of the mutilated carcass of a husband<br \/>\nwho just turned his wife into a widow and wouldn&#8217;t grow old together.<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t show you the 2 African boys scraping meat with their teeth<br \/>\noff of one left over bone together.<br \/>\nWhile millions have been displaced or scattered<br \/>\nleft to wander alone or roam together.<\/p>\n<p>December 18th of 2010<br \/>\nSee what started with a boy and grew into a few thousand men,<br \/>\nThey had a common goal in mind<br \/>\nand their aim was high:<br \/>\nTo replicate what Sudan did twice, in &#8217;64 and &#8217;85<br \/>\nand so revolutions sparked in Tunisia!<br \/>\nAnd in Egypt, civil war in Lybia, uprisings in Syria<br \/>\nthen in Yemen<br \/>\nto gain independence<br \/>\nno longer depending<br \/>\non corrupt leaders who insisted on pretending<br \/>\nthat the public interest was what they were protecting,<br \/>\nreally just neglecting.<br \/>\nI find it ironic how freedom only comes at the greatest of expenses.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the purpose of this Arab Spring was to bring about some change.<br \/>\nObama can speak about it but my brothers want to BE about it.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t see the truth on TV or even if you read about it.<br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t find it on facebook and I don&#8217;t follow if you tweet about it.<br \/>\nThey took hold of your mind&#8217;s eye and challenged you to see without it.<br \/>\nBut you cannot be fully free without it<\/p>\n<p>So take back your senses!<br \/>\nEspecially your common ones.<br \/>\nAnd know that you always see the light in the honest ones!<br \/>\nAnd those who fight are the promised ones!<br \/>\nThe acknowledged ones&#8230;<br \/>\nEnlightened enough to blind you.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve come here to find yourself and for that,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m right behind you.<br \/>\n(Malcolm) X said &#8220;The truth is on the side of the oppressed.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;re all naturally inclined to the truth, it&#8217;s that feeling inside you.<br \/>\nSo I can&#8217;t judge, I&#8217;ll leave that one up to the one who designed you.<br \/>\nJust let me remind you that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Judging someone doesn&#8217;t define them,<br \/>\nit defines you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCwqiSGoUSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring &nbsp; You see, to me, there&#8217;s just something slightly sick about celebrating a death And honestly, I ain&#8217;t saving my breath, I think this whole &#8220;Bin Laden&#8221; thing is bullshit. 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