The Bland Leading the Bland

- the EU leadership

Written mid January 2011 - (55 lines)

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Roll out the red carpet, prepare the stand
With flags and flowers and microphones and
A guard of honour and a military band
For here come the rulers of Euro-Land:
Welcome the bland leading the bland!

Faceless men in shades of grey
Preparing for another day
Of speeches yet have nothing to say
And meetings deciding who must pay
Surely there must be a better way...

The professional mixture of blah and blah
Describing some future EUtopia
Between Russia and America
Makes some of the people go: "O-la-la!"
Wake up sheeple, say: "Bah-bah!"

Though obvious to anyone that the gap
Between rich and poor will grow and trap
Tens of millions, the well-groomed chap
Continues with his well-rehearsed crap
At the end the people in the audience clap

Toothless chatter without a scrap
Of relevance, so do take a nap
Regulations, restrictions and more stop-gap
Measures without any overall map
Something will have to give or snap

The promises dishonestly made
To get elected will all soon fade
One by one they are betrayed
As the old game is being played:
Hired lackeys on parade

In the future they might run
For higher office, so early on
In self-preservation learn to shun
Anything that might spoil their fun
What matters is the election is won

A counterfeit version is being planned
And soon the very special brand
Of EU democracy will be canned
Once labelled EU for U and scanned
Will the genuine article be banned?

While most of the population snores
The official story completely ignores
A fact any true democrat deplores
For bosses on many important floors
Were selected behind closed doors

The show is over and one by one
The performing overpaid clowns have gone
Nothing important said or done
Another crisis uselessly spun
We need solutions and we heard none

The project is impressively grand
Expensively maintained and manned
All guided by a sinister hand
Any inquiry runs into the sand...
Still anything you do not understand?

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Copyright © 2011 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Ireland Recolonised

- this time by international bankers

Written 1-2 January 2011 - (230 lines)

Dedicated to beautiful Ireland and its wonderful people

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NOTE:
The ECB mentioned is the European Central Bank, a part of the EU.
GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and is defined as the value
of all goods made in and services by a given country in a given year.

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Ireland was not only colonised
But brutalised and terrorised
By England for so many years
That from a distance it appears
Those times were nothing but misery
For the captive locals unable to flee
The sheer greed and mismanagement
Of the mainly absentee government

The cold cruel colonial hand
Had cleared the locals from their own land
Now desperate for work they had to enlist
And slave for their masters to barely subsist

In the eighteen-forties the potato blight
Swept across Europe, a desolate sight
But what is important to understand
Disaster struck only in Ireland
Surely not a coincidence
For everywhere else, using common sense
It was managed without causing major harm
But in Ireland nobody raised the alarm

And while the Irish starved and died
Colonial mansions and stomachs relied
On Irish cattle and corn being shipped
To England as the locals were gripped
By malnutrition and disease
Young Queen Victoria did nothing to ease
The terrible plight, though well aware
Of the situation but she did not care
Instead left it heartlessly to rot
Like the potatoes - England forgot
All its responsibilities
Probably hoping the Irish would cease
To exist, so creating more space
For the British Imperial master race

One million perished and more than one
Million emigrated, forever gone

The ones who could afford the trip
Left Ireland on the next coffin ship
And money was not all they had to pay
For one in three died on the way
Fleeing the unbearable misery
Seeking any life across the sea:
The United States and Canada
The incredible distance to Australia
Scotland and detested England too
Anywhere but Ireland would have to do...

Ethnic cleansing and slow genocide
A lethal combination that time cannot hide
And England, the UK, Britain cannot blame
Anybody else: you have earned your shame

(If you think all this stopped with the British decline
It is happening today in Palestine...)

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Many years later, at the end of twenty-ten
Disaster struck unsuspecting Ireland again:
The PM kept insisting, even as the squad
From the ECB boarded a plane abroad
For the flight to Dublin, that the nation did not need
Any help from anyone, not at all, indeed
Ireland was safe and sound in every way
Well funded and certainly able to pay
Well-managed with everything responsibly done -
Integrity and honesty anyone?

The money-men arrived and the rest is history:
Ireland is no longer sovereign territory

Mortgaged now for years to international banks
Done without machine guns, bombs and tanks
And probably without any apology -
Now we know the meaning of stealth technology...

It did not matter how much the PM squealed
For Ireland's fate was already signed and sealed
Having been debated and decided expertly
Of course behind closed doors top-secretly
And the stark truth is: all that did remain
Was to deliver the message - in the rain

Now some of the Irish banks are being sold
To foreign interests who improve their stranglehold
Others are nationalised and bailed out
Who will have to pay for this is not in any doubt
Calling all good Irish now: your country needs YOU!
Sorry, but there is a huge and urgent task to do
For you and your children, perhaps for ever more
And some still ask the question: what are citizens for?

Meanwhile, some faceless and nameless men
"More than two but fewer than ten"
Will go through the budget line by line
Approve or reject or maybe levy a fine

Unelected Euro-bureaucrats
Revoking what elected democrats
Had decided to implement on behalf
Of their own electorate - the golden calf
Lies shattered on the broken dance floor now
As the wild Irish reel turns into a row...

We do our best but cannot escape
The horrible suspicion taking shape:
Defeating free nations through the open back door -
Is that what the Euro was created for?

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All those who wanted to get in on the act
Listened to a lie paraded as fact
Preached like a prophecy throughout the land
The message was easy to understand
Seductively packaged and the marketing slick:

"What YOU need to do to get rich quick
And salvage your declining credit rate
You simply must invest in real estate!

So your ensla.. enjoyment can begin
No down payment needed, just move in
Of course you can borrow one hundred percent
Much better to own than pay somebody rent
For the first thing you must realise
Property prices will continue to rise
Appreciated vastly when you choose to sell
Just think of the profit and all shall be well!
The fools decided to emigrate
Convinced that Ireland would always be late
But YOU, the smart ones, stayed and survived
Now reap the rewards for good times have arrived
Ireland has finally come alive
You will all be millionaires at thirty-five!"

Listen to this everybody: it transpired
That for example one county required
Six hundred new houses in order to keep pace
With the numbers of people moving to that place
So the prudent would build perhaps a few more
Say maybe an extra ten percent, or
Possibly up to twenty, to be on the safe side
So nobody who came to buy would be denied
But NO, they built three thousand instead
And do not comprehend why the market is dead...

Over-capacity is far too polite
Staggering short-sighted greed gets it right

In a EUphoric shopping spree
Many people bought two or three
Thinking the market could only expand
Incredibly failing to understand
Completely obsessed with their selfish task
One obvious question they forgot to ask:
Where would all the occupants be coming from?
Clearly the locals could fill only some
Of the many new dwellings being busily built
Yet most mortgaged themselves to the hilt

Whilst true that we all need somewhere to stay
Small wonder most are still empty today
As row upon row of new houses wait and wait
Welcome to another ghost estate...

For anyone needing additional proof
Real estate prices, once going through the roof
Are crashing and tumbling, going down-down-down
Throughout the country in city and town
In many places already reduced by half -
Maybe we should cry but we try not to laugh

The party is over, there are headaches all around
But no time to reflect if a solution can be found
For the bad news is: there is a massive bill
Many worry nervously if they ever will
Be able to get out of the terrible mess
Their greed got them into, will anyone address
Their problems at all, and if so: when and how?
My Jesus! Holy Mary! What do we do now?

Some wonder aloud if there is any cure
Or does God really want the Irish to stay poor?
And if He does was this a lesson from Him
To teach Irish Christians that their progress has been slim?
Must do better, the message seems to be
But how to recover? Rather you than me...

The game has come full circle and in cruel irony
Young men with degrees from university
Accepting that prospects at home are bleak
Now work in England during the week
On building sites in London, like their grandfathers before
To keep the financial wolves from the door
Not really knowing which way to turn
Enslaved once more - when will you ever learn?

Now, like Palestinians building for Israel
The enemy has succeeded and must be well
Pleased with himself so rubs his hands in glee:
You tried but failed miserably in your quest to be free!

In truth all for the benefit of Rothschild and his friends
In the City of London - is where it starts and ends

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Severely disturbing the apparent peace
The first of the dominoes to drop was Greece
Next was Ireland, the Emerald Isle
Where sun-filled raindrops make leprechauns smile
And who do YOU think is next in the queue?
Well, even without a scientific review
And getting overly mathematical
The most likely candidate is Portugal
And if anything here can be called good news
Portugal may still just have time to choose
Between bondage and the devil it knows
Before the red alert alarm bell goes

Though it may not be crystal clear
We do see a pattern emerging here
For what is common to the above three
Is that they are all relatively
Small and with low populations, so are
Easier to rescue and bail out by far
Than any larger economy would be
A simple function of GDP

In the present cycle of busts and booms
A much bigger problem already looms
For balanced precariously between loss and gain
Please will you welcome sunny Spain

Ninth in the world, fifth in the EU
The Spanish economy is ready to do
Serious damage because of its size
Any major rescue plan would jeopardise
European integration as a whole
And Spain would probably not relish the role
Of starting a new and unpopular trend:
Forcing financial cohesion to end
Maybe bring down the Euro too
Conceivably even the entire EU...

EUphemistically speaking, it does not look good
If nothing else, that is generally understood

May this be a warning to all freedom loving souls
Revise, read: reduce, your material goals
Do not trust anything your politicians say
For when they are gone you will still have to pay
For all their easy promises and clever lies -
Deceiving the voter is an art that never dies

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Ireland recolonised through monetary might
Hard-won independence abandoned without a fight
A nation taken over without a single shot
Is it all part of The New World Order plot?

Not exactly in clover but if we disregard
All the problems for a moment, if you look hard
Who knows you might just suddenly pluck
A four-leaf clover with a bit of luck
Should the leaves be tiny and fragile, call
On the luck of the Irish - you may well need it all...

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Copyright © 2010 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Eurabia

- a EuroMuslim speaks out

Written mid July 2009 - (295 lines)

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NOTE:
Eurabia is a term invented by Islamophobes to scare Europeans
into believing that a) soon their continent will be swamped by Islam
and Muslims, and b) there is a conspiracy between the EU and Arab
nations to form a bloc as a counterweight to America-Israel.
As much as I would personally welcome both of these developments,
they are most unlikely to happen - however, we EuroMuslims are
already many, becoming more and we will not go away!

Newton's Third Law of Motion (1687, still valid) states bluntly:
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The line "Look on our works you mighty and despair!" is taken
from PB Shelley's well-known sonnet Ozymandias (1818), replacing
his "my" with "our". This is the first time, in approx 12,000 lines,
that I have borrowed anything directly from another writer.

A dhimmi (plural: dhimmah) is Arabic for a non-Muslim subject of an
Islamic state, whose basic rights (life, property, freedom of religion/
worship) are protected by the state in return for loyalty to the state
and payment of the jizya tax.
A goy (plural: goyim) is Hebrew for "nation" or "people" but is
generally used to describe any non-Jew, whether individual or nation.
The Torah itself and rabbinic literature make it clear that goyim exist
only to be exploited or enslaved or eradicated as Judaism sees fit.

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It seems that whatever we Muslims do
We are misunderstood throughout the EU
And of course quite deliberately so -
So what to do and which way to go?

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There is a frightening and growing groundswell
Of pure Islamophobia, all is not well
In fact something is rotten to the core
And not just in Denmark, as Hamlet said before

As the stream of daily news relates
Politicians in several EU states
Have chosen confrontation as the way ahead
On the road to nowhere, claiming dialogue is dead
And that may indeed well be the case
But not our fault so do not base
Any false premises on that cornerstone
For we Muslims cannot do all this alone
And if meeting mainly with suspicion and hate
How can we and why should we integrate?

Some seriously propose an outright ban
On our holy book, the noble Quran
And should they come to power it might well be done
Meanwhile, their xenophobic wish-list goes on:
Stop immigration, close Islamic schools
Rewrite old-fashioned democratic rules
To keep Muslims out at any cost
Or the secular way of life will be lost
As for those already here, if possible they will
Send them home and be happy to pay the bill
For they will do absolutely anything at all
To make sure that EuroMuslims never will call
For sharia law to be implemented here
It will never happen, they say that is clear

Most of us are pretty sure that some
Immigrants would still be very welcome:
Any from beloved America
Would be received with: "Hallelujah!"
And Jews all the way from Israel
Would not be told to go to hell

So long as they all were non-Muslim and white
They would surely be considered quite all right
To make their homes in the European house
Their presence here would in no way rouse
Suspicions that they could be up to no good -
The unspoken message is well understood!

Now, if these were just personal rantings of a few
It would not really matter but there is a new
Willingness to vote for such hateful trash
With extreme right wing parties enjoying a rash
Of election successes in recent polls
The leaders make no secret of their simple-minded goals
And surely the overriding point not to miss:
How can intelligent people vote for this?
Has extensive and expensive education been in vain?
Wake up everybody or the demagogues will gain
Not just more seats in parliament
Where only reasonable persons should be sent
But little by little, the notoriety
Will infect mainstream society
And so appear almost respectable
And then be even more electable

It is all part of a huge conspiracy
And there is no room for complacency:

Never forget this, everyone of you
Hitler and his Nazis were elected, too!
The cheap and nasty slogans are the same
Scapegoats invented and mentioned by name
Usually without any proof or shame
Fanning religiously the dangerous flame
Of mindless hatred and intolerance
Hoping to tip the delicate balance
Over the edge, hallelujah, here we go -
The general population is far too slow
To see the signs and translate the text
Of the sinister performance - what next?

Their easy "solutions" to some very difficult
Problems consist of no more than insult
And ridicule, peddled as party politics
Main ingredients: lies and dirty tricks

Sentiments like theirs predictably lead
To a natural adverse reaction, indeed
The accused is not only bound to feel
Unwanted and threatened in a very real
Way, but is likely to seek and find
Support and reinforcement of the best kind
From the closest and most obvious source:
Their own cultural background of course

And as we have already seen more than once
Such talk forces the expected response
Which is no doubt hoped for by those who know
And are carefully orchestrating the entire show
So they can boast and stridently crow:
"Look, Muslims are different, and we told you so!
Vote for us and we will stem the flow!
And those already here, we will make them go!"

YES WE ARE DIFFERENT and thank God for that!
And though we do not like it we may join the tit-for-tat
For it seems we are left with little or no choice
By the hate-filled scare-mongering shrill and stupid voice
Of the neo-nazi-zionist-extremist-radicals
So eagerly ringing the alarmist bells

They must be opposed and it is being done
Look around your neighbourhood and you may know one
Or two or maybe many who are doing that today
Come on out everybody, join the fray!

Let them understand that it does not matter much
That some of us are Danes and some French and Dutch
And German and English and Spanish and so on
For the Muslim Ummah [community], like Allah, is one
And first and foremost that is where we belong
Regardless of other ties, however strong
And deeply rooted those may be
Family or clan or nationality -
Always Muslims first and last
Hopeful for our future and proud of our past

Instead of making such a racket and fuss
They would do well to become more like us!
Which in time they will, like it or not
For we might as well tell them now that we have got
Extensive plans for them, perhaps re-engineer
Their mental make-up to remove the sneer
Forever from their features, bring a smile to the face
So they might be a credit to the human race
And greet their fellow men and women properly:
Now say: "Salaamalaikum!" repeatedly -
Was that really difficult? If so, repeat, repeat
For those are the words we Muslims use to greet
Absolutely anyone we happen to meet
"Peace be upon you" - is it not sweet?

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And have they forgotten that we taught them before?
Must we remind them until voices are sore?

Have they maybe heard of the Renaissance?
The word itself is borrowed from France
And translated it simply means "born again"
Now, professors of history, distinguished men
Of learning, all agree at least on this:
The irresistible impetus
For Europe's rebirth came from Muslim Spain -
Islamophobes, read that again and again!
Fundamentally improving Europe's state
Thanks directly to The Caliphate!

And soon the future was looking bright
From the Dark Ages into the light:
The sciences advanced in leaps and bounds
Across the spectrum, all that surrounds
The human condition in its totality
Body, mind and spirit holistically -
Now will they admit that we showed the way
To a better life for everyone today!

With no need to trek all around the globe
We challenge every Islamophobe:
Travel to al-Andalus, visit Cordoba
Continue to al-Hambra at Granada
Then journey to Istanbul and see the big mosques there -
Look on our works you mighty and despair!

Islamic architecture is simply wonderful
Rationally proportioned and serenely beautiful

With local variations, it is international
And we also designed and built the Taj Mahal

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Honestly now, hands upon all hearts
When such supremacist nonsense restarts
We are living in very dangerous times
So prepare yourselves for waves of crimes:
False flag operations is the favourite tool
Of The New World Order terrorism school
And has already been used to such effect
That any Muslim now is a prime suspect
After each new disaster, even more
Disturbing, in truth we are suspects before

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The future Europe will not just be
A white Christian-Zionist club, you see
Regardless what they all do and say
We are far too many and will not go away
Now that is a most comforting thought
And if we refuse to be bribed and bought
This will surely come to pass:
When numbers have reached critical mass
Then we can no longer be ignored
And our dignity will be restored

Enough is enough and I herewith suggest
The following course of action as the best:

Let us take it over, not violently
But little by little and silently
Revolutions are no longer the way
In the Europe of the present day
(And those in France and Russia, did you know
Were the efforts of The Elders of Zion road show)

So, influence the economy
Infiltrate every university

From local groups in every library
To a vocal public affairs committee

It is your right to participate
So elect your own magistrate

Run for local government
Right through to national parliament

And to young men still outside the EU
With no chance of ever being let through:
Smuggle yourself in any way you can
There is room for many more here in Eurostan
Once here and working, please do send some
Money home so the rest can also come
For why should the family be kept apart
Think of your mother's loving heart
Your father's pride in his pioneering son -
And like Allah and the Ummah, the family is one

And to their sisters let me say this:
Your eyes are so beautiful, it would be bliss
To have you all here in Euroland
To brighten up what is boringly bland
Maybe you wear a colourful hijab [headscarf]?
Or do you prefer the full niqab [face veil]?
With flowing fashions for your female form
Modesty will again become the norm -
So join dating websites, get on Facebook
I am confident that the way you look
It will not be long before someone
Proposes and a match is done
If not in heaven then Europe will do
Securing an entry for you too
Should he not be a Muslim yet, so what
After conversion reveal the plot
Seal the deal with a private kiss
Then teach your husband what Islam is
And do not forget, for each convert scored
You will have earned a big reward!

Play their game by their own rules
And we shall see who are the fools
Change the system from inside
So thoroughly they cannot hide
Move here, marry and multiply
Massively, so when you die
Your children will be earning praise
For their own efforts as they raise
Population figures, potentially
Increasing exponentially

Your genes and more important still
Your culture and religion will
Expand and spread and visibly grow
But this is not a cancer, no
It is not a dreadful disease that kills
But a wonderful cure for many ills

Biological warfare from within
Slowly changes the colour of their skin
Until the day they realise
Who was stupid and who was wise -
Islam has always been colour blind
For there is only one humankind
And Islam reflects a universal set
Of vaues which all will be met

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The choice will turn out to be clear and stark:
On one side the sinister and cruel and dark
Western corporate totalitarian
New World Order, the enemy of man
International Zionism has many names
And The Elders of Zion many deadly games

The world is sleepwalking determinedly
Into the orchestrated World War Three
Which was avoided but only just
When Communism collapsed to dust
After splitting the world into east and west
For so many years, well you know the rest
But the script was written and the stage was set
And The New World Order now wants to get
The death and destruction denied it then
The only question seems to be when

All forces for good must wake up NOW
To prevent the forces of evil somehow
From blowing up our planet once more
As you know they have done it twice before
Both times relatively recently
They are scheming again, intently...

On the other side is Islam, where you will find
Almost twentyfive percent of mankind
And as the true Axis of Evil yearns
For total disaster and deviously turns
The camps against each other with a horrible hiss -
You are either with us or against us on this!

This will be very bad news for some:
Roll on Eurabia, your time has come!
And when we are in charge we shall prove
Reasonable, though we may move
To close MTV and take your favourite toy
But you are always better off a dhimmi than a goy

Listen Islamophobes, can you take more of this?
Is there anything I said you can easily dismiss?
Feel free to rant and rave and rail
But whatever happens - WE SHALL PREVAIL!

Honest to Allah, we wish you no harm
But accept that The Future Belongs to Islam

Soon we may see Islamophobia
Dying out or turning to EUphoria
As our new Caliphate Eurabia
Becomes established and leads the way
Meanwhile we loudly and proudly say:
All EuroMuslims herewith invite
Muslims of the World UNITE!

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Copyright © 2009 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Freedom of Expression

- a very late response to the cartoons

Written 1 May 2008 - (120 lines)

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We still remember only too well
When that Danish newspaper decided to sell
Its principles like some prostitute
And drove like a tank down the route
Of blatant disregard for all that we know
To be good and decent, when it put on show
Those dreadful cartoons of the prophet of Islam
Muhammad (peace be upon him), and the harm
And the hurt and the uproar they caused in Muslim lands
While the Danish prime minister was sitting on his hands

Would they still have accepted and printed them
Had they been of Jesus? NO! They would condemn
Not only the artists but the very thought
Of such an irresponsible onslaught
On values so dear to so many in the West
But it was not Jesus - and we all know the rest

In several countries in Europe today
It is quite simply illegal to say
In public that the Holocaust never took place
(The Nazi persecution of the Jewish race)
It may land you in prison for up to three years -
It is hard to believe your eyes and ears
But that is the law as it stands, and of late
An option to use for any EU member state

Would they print a collection of drawings which brought
To your attention the abuse and havoc wrought
The trampling on conventions and basic human rights
The state terrorism with which Israel fights
The defenceless Palestinians? The answer is NO!
I herewith challenge them at once to do so!

And if they do not it would simply show
And confirm what most of us already know:
That the whole affair was not an accident
But carefully planned and obviously meant
As a direct provocation against Islam
And THAT if nothing else should raise the alarm
In all civilised minds, for it has no place
In decent interactions in the public space

But it was only Islam and Muhammad, so who cares?
Should you ask that question - well, the answer stares
You right in the face for of all mankind
Twenty percent are Muslims, and you find
They are understandably hypersensitive
To any expression that might be suggestive
Of contempt or disrespect or ridicule
Of their faith and their prophet, and only a fool
Would allow himself to be used as the tool
Of those dark and evil powers that rule

Keep playing with the fire, keep fanning the flames
Of discord and mistrust, and anyone who blames
Islam and Muslims for the resulting mess
Is a hypocrite and liar, and unless
THEY take urgent steps to end this curse
The bad situation will undoubtedly get worse

Like naughty little children, they want it all
And squeal with indignation when we call
On them to explain their unacceptable acts
Of course they claim innocence but the facts
Speak for themselves, also when each
Individual hides behind freedom of speech

For those truly obnoxious
Here let me state the obvious:

Any right to do anything
Must be balanced by a matching
Obligation to exercise that right
Responsibly and in the light
Of a civilised society, if it wishes to remain
Civilised - we should therefore refrain
From abusing that right, indeed we must
See it as a gift placed in our trust
To be valued highly, treated with care
And used with some civility to spare!

No right to act before you think!
No right to use those words that stink!

Prove yourself unworthy of that precious gift
And the reaction should be clear and swift
If you still cannot moderate what you say
Maybe that right should be taken away!

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Eight hundred years later and a new Crusade
Has been fully staged and is now being played
Out in front of your very eyes
But it should come as no surprise
For fascist ideas are on the rise
A right-wing and Zionist enterprise

The fear of foreigners is a pitiful sign
A sad manifestation of the sinister and malign

What happened to compassion and empathy
And international solidarity
With asylum seekers and refugees?
Will everyone answer that question now, please!

More and more applications turned down
Simply because they are Muslim and brown

"Kick them out and keep the jobs for us
Show them the white Christian is the boss"

Such hateful slogans are increasingly heard
Throughout the EU and every word
Reeks of intolerance and xenophobia
And a longing for some childish Utopia
Which never yet existed and never will
But they play on fears with considerable skill -
Fortress Europe proudly proclaimed
Any problem, Muslims are blamed

So much for the quality of that free speech!
And still the West believes it can teach
The wider world how it should live
When in truth it has little or nothing to give
That would make this world a better place -
Most of its attempts have ended in disgrace
And in order to atone for every crime
It should wear sack and ashes for a very long time!

Put differently, let me say it again:
Before you speak, let it pass your brain!

Better for everyone to heed that call
Better for some if they did not speak at all!

Before decent behaviour suffers another blow
Here once more for those who need to know:

No right to offend my sensibility!
No freedom without responsibility!
No culture without civility!
No humanity without humility!

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Copyright © 2008 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

The AXIS of EVIL

- major work about Islam and the West

Written 2005 - (514 lines)

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DEDICATION:
To Palestinians everywhere but in particular those
who live in the territories illegally and brutally
occupied by Israel since the Six Day War in 1967.
May your struggle for justice soon be over!

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INTRODUCTION:
This wide-ranging poem, at over 500 lines, is neither
a romantic nor a philosophical poem but a political one,
dealing with Islam and the West. It was completed in late
2005, shortly before Israeli PM Ariel Sharon suffered the
incapacitating stroke and Hamas won the Palestinian elections.

The following is a synopsis of the poem:
It starts in Iraq with a series of "sound-bite-as-if-embedded"
journalistic verses, quickly moves on to survey current
American political ideology, nuclear proliferation, the
attacks on America on 11 September 2001, then the main
theme -PALESTINE- is introduced and examined at length
and in a number of ways, after which the poem looks back
to the Nazi persecution of the Jews, then addresses
America and its subservience to the Zionist lobby in
complete contradiction of US national interests, a brief
look at the demise of the Soviet Union and corresponding
rise of America, questions why the rest of the world and
particularly the European Union accepts American
behaviour, suggests that oil could be used to tame
America, explains why the term anti-Semitic is used
incorrectly, suggests that Israel has forfeited its right to
exist, examines the current and possible future status of
Jerusalem, describes briefly a possible solution to end the
occupation, returns to America and Israel to show that
democracy in itself is no guarantee of civilised behaviour,
names the true AXIS of EVIL, guesses the results if Israel
continues its unilateralism, there is a quick but relevant
flashback to the Nuremberg Trials, then rounds off with
comparing rock-throwing Palestinian youths with the
September 11 hijackers, and the poem comes full circle
by ending where it started, in Iraq...

PS: As it is now increasingly obvious that the attacks on
America on 11 Sept 2001 were indeed an inside job, as hinted
at here, the sections of the poem giving Islamic militants
the credit for that should now be read with this in mind.

*

The news coming in from the Middle East
Is remarkable, to say the least:

The main US export being liberty
The Americans invade to set all Iraqis free
With a fireworks display the lesson starts
From wedding party to body parts…

Neo-Crusaders destroy Fallujah
To chants of: "Gloria Hallelujah!"
All together now for the final chorus
Silhouetted against burning phosphorous

Yanks and tanks and bubble-gum
Desecrate ancient Babylon
You can look back on a few hundred years
But recorded history started here
Has roughly a six thousand year span
And Mesopotamia is where it began

It sounds like a joke but is apparently true
And should soon be coming to a TV near you:
Saddam and Rumsfeld sipping tea!
Oh yes, watch the trial and you will see

Truth will out and did escape
The amusement arcades of Abu Ghraib
Weblogs and photos, truly perverse
Shock and awe, in reverse

Pick your choice: Iyad Allawi?
Abu Muzab Al-Zarkawi?
Maybe Jalal Talabani?
Ayatollah Al-Sistani!

Instead of dancing in the streets
Greeting the heroes with flowers and sweets
It is car bombs, beheadings and insurgency
Instead of normality, emergency

If you think about it and truth be told
It is heads in Washington which should roll!

Now you argue what could have been done
Better (stay home!) but, having begun
You insist you will stay to see the job through
Inshallah, this job will finish YOU!

From holy Najaf to Hindu Kush
The Coalition of the Killing, led by Bush
Yesterday Afghanistan
Tomorrow Syria? Iran?

*

We get brainwashed about militant Islam
What? I see no reason for alarm
Not a word about militant Christianity
Although it is there for all to see:

With a born-again Christian in the White House
Whose fiery sermons from the pulpit rouse
The folks of many nations to join his War on Terror
What a tragic, maybe fatal, fundamental(ist) error…
The way you fight it, that "war" cannot be won
Will you ever understand that in Washington?

The neo-Con credo, made in the USA
Is: "Don't do as we do, just do as we say
Or we label you a terrorist and blow you away!"
My God, the founding fathers would be horrified
That is not the ideals for which they lived and died

All you say about democracy may sound serene
But look at the reality and the same words turn obscene
America, no-one believes you anymore
The lies you tell to justify war
The massive deception on a scale unlike any
Since the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany
"The broad mass of a nation is more likely to fall
Victim to big lies than to small"
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, nineteen-twentyfive)
You see? That spirit is still alive!
And so the greatest show on earth plays on, oh yes:
The whole world must agree with you, no more, no less!

*

The Islamic bomb is nothing new
Matching those of Christian, Hindu and Jew
Muslim Pakistan led the way
Why are you surprised that today
Iran appears to want them too?
They need some as a defence against you!
One look at the map will tell you why:
Iran cannot be moved, so continues to lie
Between Iraq and Afghanistan
Both now swallowed up by the Great Satan

*

The Islamic world detests the West
And not without reason, you have done your best
To make sure this would happen, year after year
Pushing your luck to bring us all here
Where we are today and it is not a pretty sight
Blind to the fact that might is not right
You showed them how evil deeds are done
And on September eleven two thousand and one
The time had come to even the score
What happened that day had been done before
But now it was your turn to suffer and die
So the boomerang flew across the sky
Returned to sender and with two mighty blows
The towering arrogance was laid low
Burnt to cinders, reduced to dust -
One exception to the rule that this world is unjust

May I ask why so many stayed away
From work on that particular day?
Exceedingly interesting, do you not think?
Had all those really had a bit too much to drink
The night before? Or had they been warned?
And therefore "overslept" when doomsday dawned?

Surveying the scenes of devastation and loss:
"Why? Why here? Why now? Why us?
Could anyone really hate us that much?"
You fools! Are you totally out of touch
With reality? Why the surprise
And indignation? Open your eyes!
And rudely awoken, your American dream
Turned to nightmare as the silent scream
Of rage that rose from the Muslim world
In a flash the banner of Islam unfurled

A small price to pay for your reckless past
And unless YOU change it will not be the last…

In my opinion and I will not repent
As an act of defiance, it was magnificent!

*

The heart of the problem we can define
By one single word - PALESTINE
That says it all, does it not?
What happened to justice, you hypocritical lot?
The West caused that problem and it will not go away
So must be resolved without delay
But after decades of inaction it is still right there
A beacon for Muslims everywhere

Some of their methods may not be in good taste
Like strapping explosives round your waist
And blowing yourself up on a crowded bus
But appalling as that may seem to most of us
"Taste" is a luxury and I ask you:
They have nothing so what else can they do?

Now this may disappoint you but I will not condemn
The suicide bombers until Jerusalem
And the rest of the occupied territories are
Liberated from the tyranny of the Star
Of David. Would that mean peace on Earth?
Of course not but, not only well worth
The effort, it simply has to be done
And standing in the way? Tel Aviv and Washington...

The Road Map? Is a load of crap!
Just one more Zionist booby trap
For buying time and wasting time
And every day another crime
Prepared and primed to detonate
At some specific time and date
When we are not expecting it
Decided by Sharon to fit
Into his secret master plan
For grabbing more Palestinian land
Four hundred thousand now settled there
Illegally and if we dare
To speak out loud they label us
Anti-Semitic and make a fuss

Now the butcher of Sabra and Shatila
Did indeed recently abandon Gaza
But do not believe his latest prank
He is laughing all the way to the West Bank
To create still more facts on the ground
I did try but sadly never found
Anything nice to say about him -
Is he really a descendant of Ibrahim?

Yasser Arafat is dead and what a travesty
Of justice that he was not allowed to see
His life's work completed. Did you watch his funeral?
Tragedy, glory, love - so moving and beautiful!
Chaos, anger, pride and hope - it really had it all!
Most memorable television since the fall of the Berlin Wall

For all his faults it is clear the obstacle
To peace was never Arafat but Israel
And the West in general but we all know that -
Rest in peace and God bless you Arafat

Here one vital point should not be missed:
My freedom fighter may be your terrorist

*

The West must explain to the world of Islam
Exactly why it was that Iraq under Saddam
Had to comply to the letter with the law
When Israel is allowed forever to ignore
Trample underfoot, ridicule and spit
On all resolutions and judgments against it

Israel gets away with murder every day
But instead of condemnation the world dares only say
In a cautious little voice, meek and faint
That both sides really ought to exercise restraint
That all forms of violence against Israel must stop
Or the promise of statehood for Palestine might drop
Off the agenda, and that sick old preference:
Israel has the right to self-defence

With methods that can only be described as vile
If you give them an inch they will grab a square mile
In law the world should long ago have thrown
Them out but the Devil looks after his own
And instead of heavy fines you give them massive aid
Instead of tough sanctions you continue to trade
Weapons and other imports-exports of all sorts
Diplomatic relations, culture and sports
And wait for this, the worst is yet to come:
Folly of all follies, you helped them to the bomb…

The West has linked its values, policies and views
Inextricably to those of a few million Jews
The West is Israel, Israel is the West
That is the reality observed by the rest
Of this world in which all of us live
And clearly something somewhere has to give
That is unlikely to be the arrogant West
Which will no doubt continue its incessant quest
For making all men and women join in their song
Which goes: "WE are right so THEY must be wrong"
Really? How can you be sure? Do you know what I say?
The West must give: THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!

And if you will not change but continue to split
Up everybody else's world as you alone see fit
By imposing your perverse contemporary norms
Replacing one corrupt and bankrupt form
Of government with another, through illegal wars
(And YOU always preach the rule of law!)
You should neither be surprised nor should you complain
If in due course the revenge for the inflicted pain
Visits your cities, one by one
And not only New York, Madrid, London
Watch out Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rome:
With Israel a friend abroad, you breed enemies at home!

*

One question to the world please: who will compensate
Palestinian victims of the Jewish state?
For simply by accepting the state of Israel
In its fortyeight borders they have said farewell
To more than three quarters of their sacred land
And no-one should expect, even less demand
That they surrender more for they have nothing left to give
Like all other peoples they need space to breathe and live

But there they are, more than fifty years on
And still nothing useful has been done
Some still clutching keys to homes they fled
In fortyeight, hoping to return soon, but instead
In refugee camps they are waiting in vain
For the day they will be able to go home again
Their minds growing feeble, their hands now growing cold
Allah is counting the lies they were told

Without justice for Palestine there simply WILL NOT
Be peace in that region, if you have not got
That message by now you must be deaf and dumb!
Ignore it and regret it for a long time to come
For no peace there will mean no peace anywhere
NOR SHOULD THERE BE! Still you just stare
At the biggest political problem of them all
Kicking it around like an unwanted ball
Hoping it will just disappear some day
But it will not, however long you pray
And failure to solve it will bring lasting shame
On mankind, for no-one else will be to blame

*

The world still suffers from a strange collective guilt
And shudders when reminded of the Jewish blood spilt
By the Nazis, therefore the strategy:
Remind the world of it frequently
And it might result in some new memorial
Or new legislation outlawing denial
Or further reinforce that ridiculous myth
That the Jews are a threatened species with
No friends anywhere, and when all seems lost
Just whisper those two magic words: "The Holocaust!"
And the world shuts up, pays up and bows down
Like some stupidly smiling mechanical clown
In the circus of business, law and politics
The world is their stage, and for their next tricks…?
Cynically manipulating their puppets on strings
They seem, at different times, to have both horns and wings!

Heads they always win, tails they never lose
And all because of what Hitler did to the Jews!
Small wonder they believe they can now do what they want
But that was never part of the Covenant!

I fear I shall be crucified for my views
But the world must learn to say NO to the Jews
What is so special about them anyway?
Nothing as far as I can see, no matter what they say
The Chosen People? By whom? And for what?
The Almighty would surely disown that lot!
On two occasions already He has done
Just that, is it futile to speculate on
What might happen now if it really came to blows?
Third time lucky? God only knows…

To most this may well sound like heresy
But remember there is an ancient prophecy
Known as: The Exile Under Ishmael
When will it happen, if at all? Time will tell…

*

Now listen Great Satan America -
We have all heard your idiotic mantra:
"Like any other nation we will defend
Our strategic interests worldwide, until the end"
And your strategic interest in Israel?
There is not any, non-existent, zero, nil!
Agreed? Thank you, glad we got that straight!
So why your unconditional support for that state?

Tiny Israel has nothing worth having but behold
The huge deserts next to it are seas of black gold
Shimmering in the harsh light under a sky blue dome
For the land of opportunists, your spiritual home!
THIS is where your self-interest begins and ends
And the Arab nations could yet become your friends
But that is up to you and not to them:
Reverse the construction of the new Jerusalem
Now in progress illegally on land occupied
Illegally for decades. If you tried
To change places with those people for a moment you would know
What it feels like but instead you let the cancer grow
With your money and your weapons, always turning a blind eye
When with your connivance and your blessing more refugees die
Stateless and homeless in their own land
Impossible for them, and for me, to understand
But they are only Arab Muslims, so who cares?
I tell you: anybody with a heart and soul despairs…

By all means be friendly towards Israel
But you always defend the indefensible
The world is waiting to hear the true voice
Of America but you do not have the choice
For a tiny minority twists and distorts
Not all but most of your actions and thoughts
And that is not democracy. Ha! We got you now!
The gospel that you preach never did ring true somehow
New World Order prophets, go back the way you came
You were never wise enough to spread freedom's flame
If you must play with fire you are likely to get burnt
That is one lesson America still has not learnt
The world should stand well back now and watch this space:
May that which you ignited blow up in your own face!
America the beautiful, disfigured by so few
Corrective surgery is long overdue…

Do your citizens really know the true cost
Of Israel to them? They should and they must!
A profit and loss account deep in the red
Written with the blood of the maimed and dead
Of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan
And also, small justice, a few Americans

More little steps for megalo-man
Can do, we will fix it, no job too big or small
For the self-ordained trigger-happy sheriff of us all
His brand of freedom gets the real hard sell
Making giant leaps on the sure road to hell
Or is he on the road to Damascus now
Uttering some unrepeatable vow
To his Zionist masters who must give the nod
Before he can take any orders from God…

*

Nowhere to be seen, from the West to the East
The international community, that mythical beast
Should rear its fearsome head now but it has gone to ground
May already be extinct or toothless, if ever found

Our world has been unbalanced since the recent demise
Of the Soviet empire and, now on the rise
In the absence of a counterweight, America redefines
The art of making hay while the sun shines

Savages in pinstripes and combat boots
Are re-engineering the world to suit
Themselves and to carry off the loot
Please will someone stop those pathological brutes!

American culture. Excuse me - is there one?
Scientists at work but the masses chasing fun-fun-fun
Hollywood sex and violence, moronic rock-and-roll:
Brilliant technology but what a crippled soul…

How on earth can three hundred million people do
So much damage to our planet? Where is the voice of the EU?
Stop babbling amongst yourselves, sing all from one sheet
Four-hundred-and-fifty million are well able to meet
Any challenge anywhere but ONLY IF YOU WANT
And how will history judge you if you don't?

America, all powerful! Or just a house of cards?
What should the world do when one nation disregards
All standards of behaviour, holds itself above the law
And believes it is the greatest that mankind ever saw?
A trial of strength we can ill afford
But remember the old saying: "If you live by the sword…"

Oil as a power tool? Now that is interesting!
It could probably be utilised intelligently to bring
The monster to its senses or if need be to its knees
To plead for its life-blood: "I beg you please!
Do not leave me like this! I might thirst to death!
I promise to be really good until my last breath!"
And if you do not behave we will turn off the taps
And watch with Arab patience until you collapse
How long would it take before you slowed to a crawl?
That's difficult to say but when you had exhausted all
Your emergency stockpiles and hoarded energy stores
Joy to the world for that would stop you starting wars!

*

As for anti-Semitic, it is a misleading term
As any decent dictionary will confirm
All Arabs are Semitic peoples too, now you know!
If we mean anti-Jewish, then we should say so

But I do not hate the Jews, honestly I don't
They made me dislike them and if they won't
Behave in a way that approaches civilised
They must expect to get more than criticised

The world chose in its wisdom (?) in nineteen-fortyeight
To partition Palestine in order to create
A homeland for the Jews who had more than fifty years
To prove to us all that it was a good idea
As far as I can see, and you may disagree
On balance they have failed and done so miserably
For reasons that would make a long unpleasant list
Israel has forfeited its right to exist

Look around and listen and it is clear that some
Of us have had enough, maybe the time has come
To dissolve the state of Israel, resurrect Palestine
And give one person one vote? That would be fine
By me and if the Jews say: "Not now - but soon!"
They can all go to America, or to the dark side of the Moon

*

There is a romantic emotional bond
In the Christian world and far beyond
With Jerusalem, the Holy, Al-Quds
For most of us easily understood

But an irrational notion still pervades
So many centuries after the Crusades
That somehow Jerusalem is under threat
From the Muslims who would like to get
It back, so is therefore now best left
In the custody of those who obtained it by theft
Not so! Outrageous the way they behave!
They have no right to encircle and enslave
Jerusalem to keep forever as their own
All illegal barriers must come down
Right now, for behind those, and paid for by the West
Any prospects for peace are being laid to rest
In Maale Adumim as the Zionists implement
Their final solution for Palestine, intent
On completing it before the world wakes up
To demand and if necessary force them to stop

Jerusalem belongs to all of mankind
And it must be possible for us to find
A solution acceptable to all
For the Masjid Al-Aqsa and the Wailing Wall
And that glorious beautiful Dome of the Rock
With nobody having the right to lock
Others out as they see fit -
Well, world, are we up to it?

As everybody knows: East Jerusalem
Is Arab and MUST be given back to them
So future pilgrims will see the Dome shine
Above the capital of Palestine

*

The parties are urged to sit down once more
To somehow agree on what divided them before
But in truth there is nothing to negotiate
Except by how much to compensate
Israel's long-suffering captives. The rest
Is clear and will become the ultimate test
Of the world's resolve to uphold its own laws
By insisting and enforcing that Israel withdraws
Every soldier and settler and returns ALL the land
Seized in sixtyseven, to the last grain of sand…
Then, and only then, might the Arabs believe
That the world is even-handed after having it deceive
Them time and time again in the recent past
And remember: ONLY A JUST PEACE WOULD LAST!

*

America stands for freedom and democracy
Ha! What nauseating hypocrisy!
Forever masquerading as that which you are not
Assuming you once had one, you have lost the plot

If you truly believed in democracy
You would NOT abuse your veto in the UN SC

And if it were about freedom you would set your sights
On enormous China where human rights
Were crushed under tanks in Tianaman Square
(Admit it you liars, you do not care)
Now that would be a proper virility test
For the macho cowboys of the wild West

And yet, in itself democracy
Is not a guarantee of decency
You want proof? Look (again!) at Israel
Most of its actions are illegal
Barbaric, deceitful, the list goes on
This world would be a better place without Sharon!
International law is there to flout
State terrorism without doubt
Examine the facts and, like me, you will call
Israel the roguest state of all

America follows close behind
Brothers in arms, two of a kind
An unholy alliance in the Holy Land
Always in step, hand in hand
Inseparable like grotesque twins
For your diverse and deadly sins
May your leaders, the war criminals
Burn for ever in the fire of hell!

That AXIS of EVIL does exist and runs
Between Tel Aviv and Washington
All civilised nations must act as one
To save us all from Bush and Sharon

*

And… if Israel succeeds? What a terrible mess!
Where would it lead? This is my guess:
The Zionists would celebrate and the world would wring
Its hands, insisting it had done its best to bring
Peace to that persistent trouble spot
And the Arabs? They would be left to rot
Blamed for our failures and expected to sit
There quietly just accepting it
For another generation, hopefully two
Well, if you believe that, here is news for you:
For they would NOT roll over and they would NOT lie down
And if violence were the only game you left them in town
Then that is what it would be, they would not hide
Their heads in the sand, religion, culture, pride
Would not allow that, the bottom line:
Do we want this world, which is also mine
Blown up because we did not resurrect Palestine?

*

Have you heard about that important birthday?
The Nuremberg Trials are sixty - Hooray!
We can learn from the past but not re-set the clock
So a perfect time to reflect and take stock
And ask: when will Israel be in the dock?

*

Boys hurling rocks at an Israeli tank
In Gaza or somewhere in the West Bank -
Men grabbing planes and hurling them like rocks
With fuel, passengers and themselves at tall tower blocks -
Look at it briefly and you surely cannot fail
To see the only difference is that of scale

*

Are there foreign fighters in Iraq? Oh - surprise!
They are there because of you and their numbers will rise
Jihad is not an option but a Muslim's duty-call
And it works just like NATO: all for one and one for all
So get out while you can, bloody American killers!
Allahu Akbar! Al-Hamdu-Lillah!

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