Afghan youth ask for love in the 30-shot anger of the Gaza flotilla ; humanity is breaking down
June 6, 2010 by
Filed under Journey Updates
‘Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7OWATVkYO4
What is humanity’s ‘coalition’ about? What is Mankind about?
Giving some or grabbing all?
Kindness or killing?
Dignity or deceit?
In this unsustainable madness, we ask for love.
A love that’s quiet, sensible and strong.
When the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, who are privileged to have the friendship of Rachel Corrie’s parents Cindy and Craig Corrie, decided to fly kites for Gaza Freedom March on the eve of 2010, we were doing so with a living understanding of death.
We know that the self-destructive, violent ways of our world today do not offer hope of healing from the ‘30-shots-flying-into-9 peace activists’ sort of anger and fear, nor from any ‘collateral damage’.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper quoted Yalcin Buyuk, the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, as saying that the 9 men were shot a total of 30 times.
So, we offer our grief and call for LOVE.
Few belief in such LOVE,whether foreigners or fellow Afghans.
An international in Afghanistan had told us that “Afghans do not use the word love nor understand it.”
So, we recently painted our words of love at the Bamiyan Peace Park in Afghanistan ( in the video above ) and found out a week later that vandals had sprayed red paint over our struggle.
Trying to snuff out love.
But we can’t stop.
Because even a little of such love, however meager, is stronger than the wars of the world.
Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world
Text of video
These Afghan youth painted Love at Bamiyan Peace Park
We are deeply saddened that people were killed on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
We share all of humanity’s pain
We mustn’t wage war in response. We wish for a global response that’s full with love because as these words say ‘Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world.’
The world should sit down to converse & through love, to bring reconciliation
Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world. These words at Bamiyan Peace Park have just been erased by vandals
….but with Abdulai, we will inscribe our love again!
we will inscribe our words of love again…
