‘Why not Love’ Afghan and American Vigil
August 1, 2010 by
Filed under Journey Updates
Please join us in our Afghan and American ‘Why not love?’ Vigil. We may hinder peace but we cannot hinder love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeFDev5M-ZQ
We are keeping vigil at Bamiyan Peace Park for this week through to Thursday and this is our 2nd day.
We wish to ask the world, “ Why not love?’
Details of ‘Why not love?’ Vigil from 31st of July 2010 to 5th of August 2010
This is our response to the ‘live’ tragedy in our country Afghanistan, partly revealed by the 92210 Wilileaks Afghan War Logs.
On the 27th of May this year, we had placed a dove at Bamiyan Peace Park and below it, we wrote the words ‘Why not love? Why not bring peace?’. Vandals destroyed these writings about a week later.
We are re-writing these words for this vigil and will keep asking ‘Why not love?’ till others hear us.
We’ll call for the urgent establishment of an international, non-political body of peacemaker representatives to establish wide scale human relations and end wars, running up to International Peace Day on the 21st of September.
Our ‘Why not love Vigil’ at the Bamiyan Peace Park will be held from the 31st of July 2010 to the 5th of August 2010. We will gather there from 8 am to 5pm Afghanistan time on the first day of the vigil ( Saturday the 31st of July ), and for the subsequent 5 days, hold an hourly vigil from 7am to 8am every morning ( the Afghan youth have much farm and other work in their fields! )
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers ask that you would join them for a daily one-hour vigil over 6-days ( from Saturday the 31st of July 2010 to Thursday the 5th of August 2010 ), to ask the leaders of the world, “Why not love?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkzRgT05P8
The state of Afghanistan is fatally un-sustainable.
Morality, intellectualism and capitalistic democracy are dying in Afghanistan. Humanity is dying.
Everything needs to change but since we can only change ourselves, doing small things like keeping this vigil is what we the ‘nobodies’ of the world must do.
15 year old Abdulai says, “We usually feel alone. I think that my country is on fire and that we are all withering on the inside. We wish for your friendship in this vigil to put out the fire, for only a resolute love can give us some hope. I pray you would believe that we need that hope right now.”
Please join us. You may call us at +93799371354 / +93785949274 when we are at our vigil if you wish to.
Love,
Abdulai and the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
‘Why Not Love?’ Afghan and American Vigil
Text of video
We were advised : “Afghans don’t use the word love.”
We still wrote “Why not love?” at Bamiyan Peace Park
Later, vandals ‘dripped’ blood-red paint over our work…
We mustn’t be paralyzed by the desperate war narratives…
War begetting war…
Faiz, what is the seed of peace?
The seed of peace is love, is friendship
Blood begetting blood…
We all have eyes, so we know whose hands has blood. We have an Afghan saying, “Blood cannot wash away blood!”
Thanks to those friends who are keeping vigil with us. Though there are only a few of us,
we will work for friendship & love.
We will continue and not give up.
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Why not love?
When we fall, we will get up again.
Get up to listen & love again !
Why not love?
Best wishes to you out there. And I’m sorry what our country is doing to you.
Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world!
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Why not love?
