Old Politics in a New Year
12/31/07
Salamaat,
It feels strange to welcome a New Year on the precipice of fear and uncertainty. Please pray for my extended family in Kenya, caught up in the madness and chaos of post-rigged-elections. It’s really tense around here. There’s too many words crowding my throat right now and a disbelieving sadness blanketing them….
May the New Year arrive heralding peace. Amin.
01/1/08 at 3:53 am
Ameen!
Happy New Year, dear heart!
01/1/08 at 10:03 am
It’s so deplorable - was listening to this last night on the BBC. Seems like genuine leadership is lacking all over the world these days. We have one more year to put up with Bush. It feels like he’s been in office forever.
01/1/08 at 10:41 am
Salamaat,
Achelois: Happy New year to you and your family too.
Paul: Welcome to my blog. Kibaki has disappointed greatly. If he had just stepped down gracefully, and accepted the democratic decision of the people, he would have left a shining legacy behind. Something about power, that corrupts…absolutely.
01/1/08 at 8:08 pm
A happy new year to you and your family. We are also here really worried as we usher in the new year full of worries. The kenyan people are so in need of a leader who would serve them as an honest head of state. We are calling home all the time and things don’t sound positive. We are all praying,inshallah kher. Am so worried as now groups are being targeted due to their ethnicity.
01/2/08 at 1:28 am
My prayers with you, Maliha. Take care and inshallah everything will be all right. Have a lovely year ahead.
01/2/08 at 11:52 am
My parents, family and friends are in Kenya too. I’m so worried about them and pray that things go back to normal soon. Will be praying for the safety of your loved ones too.
01/3/08 at 11:13 am
Feel so small and helpless in the face of all the hateful things in this world we live in….
01/4/08 at 1:14 pm
Maliha,
I hope any friends and family you have in Kenya are safe, now and in the coming days. A colleague here in Japan (and one of my first friends here) is a Kenyan, and I know that he’s worried by what’s happening there.
As a Canadian living abroad I tend to (perhaps somewhat smugly) view changes in my home government like (natural) changes in the weather. I certainly don’t fear for the safety of my loved ones.
I *do*, however, care about *all* of my friends, and their worries become mingled with my own. You know that I’m not one for prayers, but my thoughts are with you and any loved ones who may be in danger.
Take care of yourself and your family, and try not to worry too much.
Rick
01/4/08 at 6:11 pm
Ameen to your prayer, dear Sister. And May Allah help the good and brave people of Kenya.
Ya Haqq!
01/8/08 at 6:08 am
Assalamu Alaikum. May Allah protect them. take care. Ma’asalama.
01/8/08 at 6:40 am
Ameen.
I have cocooned myself in a world with no news,no tv,no newspapers, so I’m ashamed to say I’m unaware of what is happening, but you are in my thoughts and prayers.
I linked to you and hope that you don’t mind,your words have moved me a great deal since the first time I stumbled across your blog and found myself reading a story about myself!