Posted on 07/17/2005 12:44:23 PM PDT by SmithL
Peshawar, Pakistan -- During three years in Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost says that poetry kept him from losing his sanity. By the time of his release this spring, he had written more than 25,000 lines in his Cuban prison cell.
During the first year of his imprisonment, the 44-year-old Afghan prisoner didn't even have paper or a pen. Instead, he scratched lines of verse with his fingernail into Styrofoam cups.
One poem reads: "Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life. Those who have no courage or honor consider themselves free, but they are slaves. I am flying on the wings of thought, and so, even in this cage, I know a greater freedom."
"Poetry was our support and psychological uplift," said his brother and fellow Guantanamo inmate, Badruzamman Badr, in an interview at the family home in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, where they have lived as expatriates since 1975. "Many people have lost their minds there. I know 40 or 50 prisoners who are mad. But we took refuge in our minds."
Dost was already a respected religious scholar, poet, journalist and author of 19 published books before his arrest about a month after the Sept. 11 attacks. His prison writings would significantly increase that number, he said.
Along with thousands of poems in his native Pashto, he completed a book intended for future poets with an alphabetical list of all the rhymes in the Pashto language. He also wrote a book of Islamic jurisprudence in verse form and translated Arabic poetry into Pashto.
Both brothers deny that they ever supported al Qaeda. They admit they felt initial enthusiasm for the Taliban
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Jihadi Haiku:
Easy-opening head
Rolls merrily 'cross the floor.
Allahu akbar!
As life ends in flame,
I stride boldly to heaven.
...What? Those ain't virgins!...
UA niner-three,
Clearance back to Dulles, please...
...Hey, who's at the door?
Good news, habibi:
I have seen the face of God.
Bad news: He's Jewish.
Poetry's my balm
As I sit under the palms
Of Cuba
At least I'm not missing
In Aruba.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Put panties on head
I KEEL YOU!
Are the jugheads at the San Fernasco Chronically Ill suggesting we should be dropping books of poetry instead of bombs on their "insurgent" buddies in Iraq and Afghanistan?
I AM THE VERY MODERN MODEL OF AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST
I HATE INFIDELS AND WESTERN WAYS AND FILTHY DOGS OF ZIONISTS. AND FILTHY DOGS OF ZIONISTS.
I STUDY ENGINEERING MECHINICAL AND CHEMICAL THE BETTER FOR MAKING BOMBS WORN BY HOMICIDAL MANIACS. THE BETTER FOR MAKING BOMBS WORN BY HOMICIDA MANIACS.
I LOVE THE TALIBAN, AL QUAEDA, BIN LADEN AND I SING MY PRAISE OF TERRORISTS. AND I SING MY PRAISE OF TERRORISTS.
I AM THE VERY MODERN MODEL OF AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST
I RELISH THE SITE OF SMOKING RUBBLE AND BROKEN, BLOODY BODY PARTS. I MIGHT FEEL DIFFERENT IF I HAD A HUMAN HEART. I MIGHT FEEL DIFFERENT IF I HAD A HUMAN HEART
I STUDY ENGINEERING MECHINICAL AND CHEMICAL THE BETTER FOR MAKING BOMBS WORN BY HOMICIDAL MANIACS. THE BETTER FOR MAKING BOMBS WORN BY HOMICIDAL MANIACS.
I AM A VERY MODERN MODEL OF AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST
OF THOSE I HATE AND MURDER, I NEVER DO DISCRIMINATE.
I NEVER DO DISCRIMINATE.
Oh frettled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my
blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
HAHAHA! Excellent!
Came a vision softly calling
Houris loudly caterwauling
Telling me of Allah's claim to my undying jihad love.
Suddenly there came a tapping
Outside of the cave...a rapping
We did not know what this sound meant to our frightened band of men.
Entered then a US soldier
Gun was pulled from out his holster
We were doomed to go to Gitmo, home we'd never see again.
Now we live here at Club Gitmo
Dreaming we could get some ammo
So we could break out and kill Infidels. Amen!
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