Letters to...

Reading one of Murtadha's recent blog posts, I decided to get the idea and take it somewhere. So it's not just two open letters, but many!

To those responsible for the ghastly Maguindanao Massacre , stop pulling the wool over everybody's eyes! The world knows all about it! I won't name you here, but since this is a free country, I am free to condemn you all for what you have done! Words aren't enough to express my outrage. This is just too much! Our people don't deserve you for our leaders!

To my fellow countrymen, I hope the incident above will turn us all into responsible people this time. Your poverty is never an excuse to vote for someone who buys your votes but will push you aside anyway after they win. If these guys can shoot 57 people, crush them and their cars with a bulldozer, and then throw and bury them under a few meters of soil, they can do that to you too, unless all of us will fight for what is right and give our trust to somebody who will work with us to undo all the harm that has been done to our homeland.

To the people at government banks, don't behave like boors! I had a chance to do a transaction with a private bank, and wow, the people there were friendly! Everything was done in just under 20 minutes, not bad for cashing a check. With you I could expect bad manners and snail-speed service. You won't get to lose anything if you took time to smile a bit and make your clients feel thankful you're there to help them out!


To some women out there, if you want others to see what real Muslim women dress like, ditch the skinny jeans and tights/leggings. You're wearing your head coverings better than I do and yet your leg shape is perfectly visible with what you wear below. If you want to wear them,take off the headscarves. And if I'm not mistaken, you're number one when it comes to criticizing how women of other faiths dress, yet you imitate them too. Ok, so maybe you say that inner intentions are better than outward appearance, but hey, isn't Islam a way of life that covers everything down to the way we dress? What gives?

To some guys out there, ok, so you think we girls are sooo materialistic? Don't generalize, but you got to accept the truth that women want to end up with someone who can at least give them with the basic essentials. Too many of you are unemployed and looking for employed women to hook up to, thinking we'd take you in. I think it's our culture's fault that many boys out there don't know how important it is to aim high and work hard so that people will respect him, not because he's from some big rich family but because he's a self-made man.


To our elders. The world has changed. I don't think it's a sin to remain single if one has tried everything and anything, or if he/she is really barren and cannot sire/bear children. Maybe your idea that a wedding is a solution to everything worked during your time, but it certainly has bred so much more confusion nowadays. A marriage nowadays needs mature people, not a boy and a girl who only know how to romp in bed!

I have more to write, but I'll end here. Too much griping.