We were raised from blood and bruises

1948 tattooed to our foreheads

We lived the years where silence murdered truth

We fell to our knees when terrorism became a religion

Terrorism is NOT a religion.

So I asked how do you define terrorism? --> 

Leila Khaled - 1969

Hijacked a plane for the very first time

In history.

Ordered it to fly over Haifa on its way to Damascus so she could see

Her home ONE last time.

Why?

Because the so-called democracy left her 

Imprisoned in Lebanon

Refugee for life

Never to kiss her soil again

Call it terrorism,

I call it desperation

Who took the land?

Who destroyed 400 villages?

Who mocked, raped, and killed the masses?

Maybe Leila is a terrorist

But nobody died from her actions.

Che Guevara - 1967

Cuban Revolutionary

All he wanted was for people to realize

That not everything was about money,

He wanted to pull his people out of poverty,

He supported racial equality,

Was murdered because of his Marxist beliefs

Call him a terrorist,

I'll call him courageous

At least he stood up for what he believed.

CIA -2002

Unmanned drones dropped the first

Robot controlled bombs

In Afghanistan

All those killed were civilians

You may call it 'collateral damage'

I call it terrorism.

I guess it's all a matter of perception,

But when did human life become so cheap?

I wonder if the people responsible stared

at their bloodied hands like Lady Macbeth?

Or, has war become a video game

So we don't have to face the death?

Why is it that the killing of an Iraqi means nothing

But the death of one American

Makes the whole world fall silent?

Like the life of this man is any more precious than the other

Oh, I'm so glad we've stopped racially profiling each other.

Is it because he was Arab? Is it because he was Muslim?

Oh sorry, I forgot, EVERY terrorist is a Muslim

I guess Hitler, Stalin, McCarthy, Mussolini, and Genghis Khan....

Were all Muslim?

Oh, and one more thing...

Osama Bin Ladin is NOT Muslim!

"The killing of one innocent person is like killing all of humanity"

This, a quote I've taken from the Holy Qur'an, is the true Islam.

So, let me be me.

Let me be who I am.

A faithful Muslim girl

With a message to portray

So you can bleed me dry,

with your stereotypes.

But for today

Please realize...

That terrorism is NOT a religion,

Terrorism is not MY religion.