The Scarf of Death

The Scarf of Death, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

I had written a poem , and I needed a picture and I did not want a typical jehadi terrorist picture, so I asked this young lad to model for my poems subject, ..
The poem was a comment on Akbar Simonese's picture of ladies wearing scarves on a street in Amsterdam.


Scarves are worn by quite a few communities in India, the checkered scarf is a product of the Arab states and worn as a head gear, in the early 70's the Texan Americans who worked in Daharan called this a rag head..

Than it became a kind of fashion statement as Arafat wore it, and finally , the jehaddis who kidnapped and terrorized wore it like women to hide their face , not their shame, so the scarf became a sartorial symbol of death and destruction in the name of Allah and misplaced Martyrdom..

This is the story of the male Musim scarf.. ladies wear scarves too along with the burkha or hijab, a symbol of their faith and a dress code of their ancestry as a woman in Islam.

Hindus also wear scarves called ghamchas , in tiny checks and part of a poor mans attire in Uttar Pradesh..

now my poem

head scarves always in the news
muslim women wear them
as they have been culturally
taught to do
some muslim terrorists wear it
to shame a religion
that stands for peace brotherhood
its true
a scarf into a symbol of terror
devastation and death as it grew
misplaced martyrdom
allah ho akbar
gods praise
into a war cry of hate
innocent people slew
eunuch silence
from our community
since the time of Karbala
a poisonous brew
fatwas against women
fatwas for everything under the sun
but a final fatwa against jihad
has yet to be issued
muslims killing muslims
sectarian hate
the common house of god blew
from the pulpit
the modern yazid
some more hate
against the shias spew
puritanism clawing
into the soul of humanity
giving the devil his due
why cant we live as Muslims
without arrogance
without false pride
without intolerance
they have no clue
distorting the message
of our Holy Book
bombarding
the soul of spirituality
peace and brotherhood
the cry of the unborn child
a message of hate
they pursue
we liberal sane Muslims
lovers of humanity
take the rap
for what they do

ps
Sarkozy has been cooing
into Carlas ears
once in her life time
she must wear one too
though personally
the scarf for him
a religious symbol
and taboo
his failing health
just a canard
by the media
his libido as fit
as baby kangaroo

dedicated to the greatest street photographer ever Akbar Simonese