Again righteous battle--
Turning Owen’s Parable to Speak to Islam:
The Parable of the [Imam] and the Young Men
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac [and Ismael] spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youths with belts and straps,
and builded parapets and [tunnels] there,
And stretched forth the knife* to slay his sons.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lads,
Neither do anything to them. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of them.
But the [imam] would not so, but slew his sons,
And half the seed of [the Middle East], one by one.
-Wilfred Owen, original poem
written against the Great War
*"Palestinian Nights of the Long Knives"
*Palestinian President Abbas: "Jews have no right to defile the Temple Mount with their filthy feet.”
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Wilfred Owen’s Original
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
and builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
--Wilfred Owen
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Lift up Muslims, Jews, Christians and Atheists in the Light.
May they turn from their ideological pride.
May they humble themselves
and reject revenge and killing.
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