"United Nations" - Bersatulah - Islam - Ukhuwah

from Yahoo World News
Iran leader sparks walkout at UN over Israel

AP – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, delivers his speech in front of United Nations Secretary-General …
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writer Frank Jordans, Associated Press Writer – 34 mins ago

GENEVA – Dozens of Western diplomats walked out of a U.N. conference and a pair of rainbow-wigged protesters threw clown noses at Iran's president Monday when the hard-line leader called Israel the "most cruel and repressive racist regime."
"They resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering," he said.
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The meeting turned chaotic almost from the start when the two wigged protesters tossed the red clown noses at Ahmadinejad as he began his speech with a Muslim prayer. A Jewish student group from France said it had been trying to convey "the masquerade that this conference represents."
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At the first mention of Israel, about 40 diplomats from Britain and France and other European Union countries exited the room.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Ahmadinejad before his speech and said he had counseled the Iranian leader to avoid dividing the conference. Ban later said he was disappointed the speech was used "to accuse, divide and even incite," directly opposing the aim of the meeting.
"It was a very troubling experience for me as a secretary-general," he said. "It was a totally unacceptable situation."
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Most Muslim delegations in Geneva declined to comment, but Pakistan said the protesters were wrong to interrupt Ahmadinejad.
"If we actually believe in freedom of expression, then he has the right to say what he wants to say," Ambassador Zamir Akram told The Associated Press. "There were things in there that a lot of people in the Muslim world would be in agreement with, for example the situation in Palestine, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, even if they don't agree with the way he said it."
While the speech was interrupted several times by cheers from the large Iranian delegation, it may not be well-received among many others in Iran, which is suffering from high inflation and unemployment partly as a result of its global isolation. Many have criticized Ahmadinejad, who is up for re-election in June, for spending too much time on anti-Israel and anti-Western rhetoric and not enough on the country's economy.

I wish that Muslims will unite. I wish Palestinians and Israelis live in peace. Is it a utopia?

the bird and the boss

Our school is visited a lot. By animals, especially. This bird looked for a way out and caught on the door, then hopped to our block manager's shoulder :D

Stairway to Heaven

Some say, Heaven is up there. One afternoon, on the way to town i caught this view with my cell-phone camera. such a truly Heavenly view, indeed. It may've also been the Heaven maidens flying down to play around in a river ... and they take off their clothings ... and along came Jaka Tingkir taking one of the clothings and fell in love with one of the Heaven maidens ... :P
Doesn't matter where Heaven is. Subhanallah...Masya Allah, everything is as God's will (quoted from Yusuf Islam's song :))
[Bambi, Pidie, NAD]

Trash Campaign

We were on our way back from Parapat to Aceh, and we met these people. We didnt know who they are, but i suppose they are on a trash campaign. Maybe asking people to think more about how to take care of the trashes, by their action. We only saw two of the campaign, maybe they have more on their convoy team, but maybe not either. Cool. If only we had a time to kinda 'interview' them a little...heheh...but, we're not journalists :) keep up the good work, guys! :)
[Langkat, July 2008]

Out of Greed? Heheh...

"Kameng pungo" Acehnese might say. Means: crazy goat. But goats actually are amazing climbers! And they also are persistent pursuers, especially when it's about food heheh...well, are they greedy we may also say? Anyways, we can take their persistence as a good model, i suppose :)
[taken in Sigli, Pidie, NAD]

I LAKE MTV

Here is one of those writings made by people based on what they hear and understand quite a bit. Found in a warung, on the wall near the toilet, at the back small yard of the warung :)
[Ulee gle, Pidie, NAD]

Cats (again)

There are lots of cats in our school.
Cats in the canteen, cats joining classes, cats playing around.
Here are the cats in the school canteen heheh

Now this is the cat i found in a traditional massage house somewhere in Glumpang Minyeuk, Pidie, NAD. Lovely isnt it? It's sooo relaxed as if it's just had a relaxing massage from the massage master. The massage house actually is taking care of patients who have misplaced tendons or bones. I went there to visit a friend's relative: the owner of the house, and the massage master herself.
That's how we do it traditionally here, the broken bones or tendons, ... and they're cured! :)

This is the late Chocky. Our Director's beloved cat. At the time the picture was taken, he's been ill for some time, but he's well enough to join us in our evaluation session.