By Mohammad Al-Maghut Translated by Abdullah Al-Udhari Scientists and technicians, Give me a ticket to the sky: I come on behalf of my grieved country, Her aged, her widows, her children. Give me a ticket to the sky I have no money... Only tears. No place for me? Let me stay in the hold Or on the deck. I'm a peasant, I'm used to it. I won't hurt a star. I won't be rude to a cloud. All I want is to reach The sky as soon as I can To put the whip in God's hand: He may stir us to revolution.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51