For Nouténé Sidimé

For Nouténé Sidimé

it is said by her closest friends that she
was the “coolest in her class”
and now she has been robbed & taken from us
taken in the name of a fictitious character
taken in the name of
allah
i wonder what she could have done with her life
had she not been beaten to death
in the name of religion

had she only said her prayers
had she only done what she was told by this murdering ignorant monster
not aware of his own strength
who swung no doubt with his eyes closed
filled with all the righteous indignation of someone who has been
assured
by a great &
invisible &
omniscient
force
(something twisting and burning inside his
thick
idiot
skull---
something that has been carried on the shoulders of cretinous dolts
multiplying itself
year after year,
like some kind of Bubonic Plague that rolls through the countryside
killing everything in its path
through an excruciating process of
drawn
out
torment
and
he has the book to prove that what he says goes
because he is a man
with the backing of 1400 years of bullshit
1400 years of keeping Women at
bay
1400 years of
god &
angels&
prophets&
resurrection &
judgement &
predestination &
five pillars &
testimony &
fasting &
alms-giving &
pilgrimage &
laws &
& more laws
& even more constratints on thought and everyday human life
strangling
suffocating
and polluting human hearts
all
on "the path leading to the watering place"
the place where
your drowning is inevitable
if you question why you are walking in this direction)
yes,
if
she had
only
said her prayers,
then maybe her father would not have killed her

please
forgive me if i come back to the fact that none of her loved ones will ever see her deep intelligent brown eyes again
and that that huge smile that certainly filled a room with
sincerity, love and optimism
(which no religion guarantees)---will never shine in our lives again

forgive me if i wonder if she thought outside the box
if she, like so many smart, talented and justifiably frustrated & angry muslim Women
are fucking fed up
(and they continue to SPEAK UP
to raise their fists to this overwhelming oppression that they face---never ceasing to inspire)
i wonder if Nouténé saw in her father’s eyes
the authority held strong by the book
where
those with cocks are told that
“if any of your women are guilty of lewdness (resistance, intelligence, passion)
then they are to be confined in the house “until death” does “claim them” (qur’an, 4:15)
and that men can exchange them
like someone at walmart taking back
a pair of pants that just didn’t fit
because allah saw fit to
give Women less “strength” than those with cocks (qur’an, 4:34)
because allah himself, paranoid & mistrustful of those 2,000 or so other fictional characters floating round (some of them female)
(as well as being obviously insecure because he felt that his own penis just might not be big enough)
said unto the men of this earth
“As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and beat them” (qur’an, 4:34)

in complete submission young Nouténé was to walk
all the days of her life
that was what she had been told to do since she’d been born
but did she believe it?
inside was she stronger than allah would have her be?
was she as strong as the Women in this world that are gaining daily, excelling and breaking down the walls & exceeding the
boundaries set by all these extravagant cults based on flamboyant works of fiction and the
holy pricks that continue to profit from them?
we will never know
WE
WILL
NEVER
KNOW
just how much this one Woman could have accomplished
had her life not been cut short

a moment of silence isn’t powerful enough
to bring back a stolen life
it isn’t powerful enough to heal the permanent scars
still bleeding & burning within those that knew her best
and it certainly isn’t powerful enough to keep this kind of horror
from happening again

those who feel that Nouténé should NEVER be forgotten
and that her memory should propel us amongst the living to stand up against the savage injustices of islam
WE MUST BEGIN NOW
using everything in our own individual capacity to end forever the murderous reality
found in the acts of everyday practitioners like this young girl’s father
WE MUST BEGIN NOW
to stifle these ridiculous fictions
these organized religions which
are responsible for such turmoil
in the short time that we are on this planet together
WE MUST BEGIN NOW
because every second that these plagues continue to flourish
another person’s future is nearing an abrupt end

may peace be upon US
who live here on this planet TOGETHER
may peace be upon US---
who value the lives of one another
EQUALLY
may peace be upon US
who refuse to divide one another into isolated death cults based on
ANY OF THE FUCKING REASONS THAT THE KILLERS AMONGST US DO

we have no one to blame but ourselves if we let this continue

-delapruch