I posted this blog a year ago today, & wow was there some controversy regarding it, but today, I want to say that the dream really hasn't changed very much. I feel slightly closer and that today on the anniversary of the attack of the Mavi Marmara in international waters by the Israeli Offence Force I say that we should honour the 9 human lives which we lost and we should stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza, today and every other day. They need us to protect & demand their basic human rights & as Muslims that's more than something we feel we should do, its an obligation. The more people who recognise the suffering & help the Palestinians the more hope of a brighter future for the children of Palestine.

So my blogs usually rhyme, yes? well this isn't poetry it isn't rap this is me. Si. Exception from revival. Or eS if you know me personally. Anyways read the story

After what happened today at like half past four this morning when the Isreali's decided to drop soldiers out of helicopters onto Marmara the one of the ships which was part of the flotilla travelling to Gaza, carrying tonnes of aid I realised something I'd known for a while. Something reflected in things i write usually (before I began writing soley about the loss i've had recently). Something most people tend to see in me only once they've really got to know me. The fact that I eS or Exception or (insert real name here) would love to be a humanitarian aids worker.

I'd love to travel abroad and teach children who never had the chance to learn, Or to work with the ill to make them better, or to build homes for those who had no shelter, or to in even in the slightest way help those less fortunate than me too rebuild their lives. That would make me happy. To see a smile even a slight glimpse of a smile on the face of a human, who had been living in poverty.

Why? Because before I was anybody or anything else, my first duty is as a human being. Because I am a human being. So I as a human being should respect the rights of other human beings. Should help other human beings who do not have as much as me & to share what I have with others even if that leaves me with nothing. A human beings basic rights to food, to clean water, to an education, to a home & to most importantly love should be fulfilled & I want to help those who cannot fulfill them needs themselves to gain what they need to be able to do that.

I believe in a society in which my brothers and sisters not only in Islam but of the Human race can live within, in peace & prosperity. Not fear under governmental dictatorships and harsh regimes inflicted upon them by people who care not for their people.

Yes I'm Fifteen & yes that may seem like a very long shot. But I'm optimistic and whatever little part I can play will be beneficial to a life, or many lives.

Inshallah Allah(swt) will aid me in this and inshallah one day I will help to change a life for the better. Ameen.