Canada Day: 144 Anniversary- July 1, 1867, July 1, 2011

Quote: Salam 3aleikum, Do I smell warmer feelings for Canada than Sudan here or what is going on behind our backs?? You may be Canadians , or whatever, on paper you cousins but Sudanese to the core you will stay!


Dear Ustazah Asha!
Look who is here! Nice to see you in this column Ustazah Asha! They say Talk is emotional! I love Sudan, the land of ancestors and history. It is not to mention that Sudanese are simple and humble. Yet they faced a lot of problems throughout their recent age of what so called Sudanese civilization! See, today we're facing a divided nation! Instead of approximately million square miles of landscape here we have approximately a million square kilometers! Yet we do not guarantee the spill will stop! Obviously you know what I mean! It is sad to see this great nation scattered! We should have done better! We only have to say: Congratulation our (once fellow citizens!) I recall the nice years ever I lived in Juba in Moniki and in Abyei with one international organization base in Genève! What days it was dear Ustazah Asha!


Quote: In 1968 and my mid twenties,I lived in Leeds where I shared a flat with a lovely Canadian friend.Rita Crow, now Dr. of Textiles,with whom we -we had athird American flatmate- had a swell time.The most interesting experience was when her father instructed her to travel through North England up to Scotland to look for a cemetry where his ancesstors the Crows were burried.


Dear Ustazah Asha-as you definitely know- Canada is a nation of immigrants! Dr. Rita Crow was looking for her ancestors because she is a Canadian! Yes! Canada asks you to be (The way you're!) yet you're a Canadian! You may be a Sudanese-Canadian, a German-Canadian and so on!
Believe me dear Ustazah Asha if we applied the multiculturalism system in our home land, Sudan things would have defiantly played in really different settings! But hey, let us still dream of a better tomorrow although we're surrounded by a huge thick ash!
God Bless the soul of your uncle. I was so delighted that you visited this column!
Thanks! Abdul-Rahman Babiker

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