On This Year...

On this year, we remember the 121,237 Iraqi babies who have been killed (World Health Organization statistics) as a direct result of American-imposed sanctions on Iraq, preventing child-medicines from reaching Iraqi hospitals. On this year, we remember the 31,202 Afghan Muslim civilians who have been brutally murdered by American warplanes bombing their villages, houses, mosques, hospitals and wedding parties. On this year, we remember the 6,084 Indian Muslims killed and burnt in cold-blooded killing organised by the Indian Government in Gujarat during the last twelve months. On this year, we remember the 5,078 Chechen Muslim civilians who have been killed by Russian aerial bombing. On this year, we remember the 3,039 Palestinian Muslims who have been murdered by Israeli soldiers. On this year, we remember 2,170 Uzbek Muslims who have been taken away from their homes by the American-backed Karimov Government in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. On this year, we remember the 1,473 Chinese Muslims who have been executed in public after having been forced to consume alcohol and the flesh of swine in the East Turkestan (Muslim) region of China. On this year, we remember the 1,399 Kashmiri Muslims murdered and the 852 gang-rapes carried out by Hindu and Sikh soldiers in Occupied Kashmir. On this year, we remember the 1,261 Indonesian Muslims massacred by Christians in the Maluku region of Indonesia, having supplied with M-16 assault rifles, rockets launchers and funds by the Netherlands. On this year, we remember 598 Muslim Mujahid prisoners being kept in small cages in Guantanamo Bay, after their beards were forcibly shaved, their ands and feet were bound and their eyes and ears were covered, in conditions where they are subject to malaria, heatstroke and other tropical diseases. On this year, we remember the deaths of the hearts of 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide who are blind to the above but awake to a few people killed on 11 September 2001.