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Mohamed Makhafa, a retired school teacher, says he considers the size 10s a ‘medal of freedom and more valuable than everything he owns’, Al Jazeera news channel reported.
Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who became famous overnight in the Arab world, had thrown his shoes at President Bush during a joint press conference of the US leader with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad.
"It is more precious than all my property. I will bequeath it to my children and display it in a museum and call it the Medal of Freedom," Makhafa told AlArabiya.net.
Makhafa said the combined value of the land and property he owns exceeds the price he is offering for Zaidi's shoes, adding if the journalist's lawyer manages to reclaim the infamous pair he will buy them.
Makhafa said he does not look at it from a commercial point of view and said his offer was the start of an auction.
The 60-year-old stressed that he does not hold a grudge against the US, but said he hates its foreign policies that have humiliated the Muslims.
Announcing his offer on the Internet, Makhafa, an activist who has raised voice on various issues, said tribesmen and public figures in the Arab world had expressed their support and many showed interest in taking part in the auction.
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What about the thousands of innocents killed by Islamic terrorists? Why blame Bush? He was merely doing his job as President of USA while making sure that no attacks like 9/11 occur again on American soil. Muslims have started this confrontation so why are they surprized when they are at the receiving end?
Mr.Eddy, please be logical in your thinking, you have lost the sense of proportion.If a criminal has murdered your father, will you go out and murder all the fathers in your village, that is what US did, well 9/11 was tragic, it was horrible, but does it mean that 1400 million Muslims must be wiped out because some misguided Muslims were part of it and not a single Iraqi was one of the 19 accused in 9/11 and why the US attacked Iraq and killed 12 lakh innocent Iraqis and made 40 lakh Iraqis to leave their homes as refugees, please learn to put yourself in the position of Iraqis and do not hate a religion or caste simply because some of the followers of that religion or caste are terrorists, a terrorist has no face, no religion and we find criminals in all religions and in all races, kill your prejudices and try to build a peaceful India by learning to co-exist, do not use your personal experience with a bad Muslim to condemn the whole religion, you are committing a big sin.
Muslim leaders and their hon citizens were quite openly happy of this. Yes Mr.B shud be tried in Intl court of justice for war against humanity. But remember most ofArab Muslim Land Owners (who dynasty builded and control everything)do the same in different form (Sudan,Egypt, S-Arabia, Oman etc).These despots and miltary juntasshould also be brought to justice.Anyone who denies the basic fundamental right ofcitizens and rule of law violates must be handed over to ICJ.
Mohamed, Bush may have killed many innocent Muslim people, no doubt. However, if you take a careful count I am absolutely certain that more muslims have been killed at the hands of other muslims in this war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Killing seems to be an accepted means to attaining one's goal in Islam. The only great Muslim I have noted in all of the last century who lived in peace was Abdul Ghaffar Khan -- the Frontier Gandhi, a Pashtun or Pathan. All other modern Muslims are Osama wannabes. While the silent majority of Muslima are peace loving they are afraid to speak out from fear of retaliation from the violent minority. There is a bomb blast in Pakistan on a daily basis, do you blame Bush for it or another Muslim faction killing Muslim brothers? The team of 10 Muslims sent to Mumbai killed close to 200 people, of whom over 40 were Muslims! With a Muslim brotherhood of this kind, how do you ever expect to have peace within your own religion? So please open your eyes.
Mr MJ do some academic research and produce statistics on the number of Dalits killed and their women molested in India and the number of inter-caste clashes and killings in the villages of India, did you read about caste violance between two caste students in a Law College in India? How would you explain the Marathas hating the Biharis and UP people.. all are Hindus You are looking at the negative side of a particular religious group, you are concentrating on a piece of puzzle and forgetting the whole picture, you do not understand the international conspiracies to divide and dominate people about which simple and innocent people of all religions are simply ignorant, you have been brain washed to be obsessed with some people, unreasonably though.You will never understand the hidden agenda of Americans and the West, you are a kindergarten kid in international politics.
20 Years down the line, the world will remember Bush as a patriot and a good human being. Because 20 years down the line the war between Islam and the rest of the world(which does not want to be ruled by a fundamentalistic Islamic Caliphate) will be over, and in that war the Rest of the world that is the freedom loving people and countries and America will win, and fundamentalist Islam will lose, for the good of all humanity and with God’s blessings. The real reason to be in Iraq is clearly to be in a strategic location in the middle east for such a war. Clinton refused saying it was a political risk in 1997, 1998. Bush took up the challenge not bothering about a bad name. American presidents dont plan wars for the FUTURE, it is someone else whose name cannot be revealed, presidents only say YES or NO. Bush made the tough choices and a future for the future generations.
Bush deserved this and had been waiting for a long time anyway he is no worriedbecause he is going to retire from politics after killing thousands of innocent muslimpeople in Iraq and Afghanistan and I doubt before his retirement date anything elsemay happen to him perhaps, I don't know, only god knows.