Asma Al-Assad: Call for peace in Syria

Asma Al-Assad, Where are you?

It's been more than a year and the non-violent protest morphed in civil war is yet to end, although a ceasefire is in full effect. Bahar Al-Assad has continuously lied to the world and his own people about the future of Syria, but there is another Al-Assad we need to look at and question why she is not doing anything to save here people. Syria's first lady Asma Al-Assad has yet to voice her opinions on the violence taking her county by storm. The British born, trophy wife of Bashar Al- Assad is doing nothing to protect her people and we are all wondering:  Where are you, Asma? your people need you and if you don't step up, more and more women and children will lose their lives.

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{Photos} Syria: A year long Civil War

More than a year ago, the Arab Spring commenced and since then the Syrian people have been fighting for change, but after a year long of fighting--that change has not come and will most likely not ever come for the Syrian people. Today, after failing to meet the UN Peace deadline of April 10th, 2012, Bashir Al-Assad has agreed to to comply with Kofi Annan's ceasefire, that formally came into effect at 06:00 (03:00 GMT) on Thursday morning.

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Syria Open to Cease Fire?

Bashar Al-Assad and wife Asmaa Al-Assad

It’s been a year since protest in Syria started and as time moved on, that once nonviolent protest turned into Genocide, as President Al-Assad did not want to be defy. It’s been said, that Bashar Al-Assad may have cheated on his wife, but he has been raping Syria for the better of part of 10 years.  Now with the United Arab league and other international organizations heavily involved and demanding this mass murder at the hands of the Syrian government --stop, it seems that Al-Assad just may be ready to meet them half way, but don’t get too excited, there is a catch to his sudden compromise.

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Syria's Hamza Ali al-Khateeb--Child Martyr

Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, 13

It is exceptionally hard for me to wrap my head around Syria’s sad revolutionary symbol, as it was back in 2009 in Iran. I live in a country where I am afforded the right to vote, make my voice heard and just maybe I’ll see some sort of change. I exercise that right every couple of years since I was 18 and it troubles me that there are some folks who can careless about who runs this county, state, city or town, what gets cut or what doesn’t. I can say with no reservations, that a lot of Americans born or naturalized take that right for granted.

I talk about this “right” because in parts of the world, there is no such right, as we can see with the Arab Spring. Those people are fighting tooth and nail for the right to be able to vote in a fair election, get their voices heard and make the country better for the next generation to come, but with that good fight, there comes a price—one that is beyond my imagination for any human being.

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Children of the Revolution

All photos courtesy foreignpolicy.com

They are the littlest revolutionist you’ll see in the wake of the uprisings in the Mideast and Africa, but don’t underestimate these little people, because they too are hoping and wanting change. However the question still remains are they too young to be a part of such a violent revolution? Or could their presence bring about some ground breaking change?

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Muslim Comic Book on the Way

An unlikey new superhero is on the rise and in the form of a young Muslim boy in a wheelchair. Sound strange? Well it is for some comic readers, but for Jay T. Snyder it's not. 

The young boy with super powers, is the brainchild of U.S. philanthropist and businessman Jay T. Snyder.  Snyder last month brought young Americans and Syrians together in Damascus by the Open Hands Initiative.  Snyder gave these young kids one job: come up with a storyline for a new super hero, and that they did.

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Ramadan 2010: From Across The World

It is the holiest month in a Muslim's life. Ramadan or the Fast of Ramadan is a time when Muslims concentrate on their faith and spend less time on the concerns of their everyday lives. It is a time of worship and contemplation.

Along with not eating and drinking in the light hours--smoking and sexual relations and consuming alcohol are also forbidden during fasting.

This year, Ramadan will continue until Thursday, September 9th.

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