{"id":4703,"date":"2007-10-12T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/ajmer-sharif-take-my-blood\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:10:34","slug":"ajmer-sharif-take-my-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/ajmer-sharif-take-my-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajmer Sharif: Take my Blood…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is Arshad \u2013 8 years old \u2013 who died at Ajmer Shareef. A poem from another angle of this entire terrorism game\u2026. but the sentiments seem equally true here as well!<\/p>\n

\n

Death Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Jumah al-Dossari<\/em><\/p>\n

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.<\/p>\n

Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.<\/p>\n

And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world,
Of this innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history,
Of this wasted, sinless soul,
Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the \u201cprotectors of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jumah al-Dossari, originally from Bahrain, was seized by Pakistani security forces in late 2001 and turned over to the United States. The U.S. military brought him to the Guant\u00e1namo Bay detention facility in Cuba, where, he claims, he was beaten, his life was threatened, and he was isolated from other prisoners for long stretches of time. Dossari, who denies any connection to Al Qaeda or terrorism, and has never been charged with any such crime, has repeatedly attempted to commit suicide while imprisoned. His most recent attempt, according to Amnesty International, was in March 2006, when he tried to slit his throat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Arshad – 8 years old – who died at Ajmer Shareef. A poem from another angle of this entire terrorism game…. but the sentiments seem equally true here as well!<\/p>\n

\n

Death Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Jumah al-Dossari<\/em><\/p>\n

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.<\/p>\n

Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"\nAjmer Sharif: Take my Blood...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is Arshad - 8 years old - who died at Ajmer Shareef. A poem from another angle of this entire terrorism game.... but the sentiments seem equally true here as well! Death Poem By Jumah al-Dossari Take my blood.Take my death shroud andThe remnants of my body.Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely. 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