Average Mohamed Santa Wish List

Apparently, there is a fat white guy in a bright red suit with funny hat who dispenses wishes for those who have been good and bad. Goes around the world making wishes come true. Now they don’t teach that in our madrasas or temples or synagogues, but I think I saw him in the mall. He seems to be ubiquitous around the world. For a fat man with special skill set of coming down chimneys when there is a perfectly good door. Travelling by reindeer one of them red nosed. Tracked by NORAD our military of hero’s.

When in Rome do as the Romans do then they say.

Here is my list. I can’t call it whether I was good or bad this year. But I tried to be good. My list of wishes is short. The question is what do you wish for?

 I would like to say PEACE. But as a realist I know what the Swahili proverb teachings. “Amani haikuji bila ncha ya panga”. Meaning “peace does not come without the edge of a sword”. My next best ultimate wish is end to poverty. Being a realist again, we have waged in America a WAR on Poverty. Every index of this misery is going up in 2023. From Hunger, Suicides, Drug Overdose, homelessness and even lack of affordable housing.  We lost that war here in America. Globally even worse off. For when Americans sneeze into poverty the world catches a fever of massive poverty Keeping it simple this wish then.

My wish for this season is KINDNESS. Something that cost nothing but is everything. Smile is an act of charity so taught us by Mohammad Peace be upon him. The cheapest of kindness to one another. I try grin it always with tobacco-stained crooked teeth and coffee habits. Feeding the hungry when they ask for it. Hey, I may not be rich but food sharing with another is the closest we will ever get to grace of our own humanity. Let another eat so we may say on the day of judgement. We fed a hungry soul. You should do the same this season.

Kindness of loving one another. I had a brilliant conversation with a man tonight in a cigar lounge. It is a good day when one can smoke a cigar in good company of mind. He said the ultimate teaching of Reverend Martin Luther King was his Christian faith. A concept so simple lost in time. It was not just about color of a man skin, but love. “They hate you for they hate me in hating you”. As I follow the world in antisemitism, islamophobia, anti-Christian, anti-LGBTIQQ, and racism exploding again. I worked 10 years as a thought leader and activist in this field as an Average Mohamed to try do my citizen nobody part to stop it. Feeling lost right about now at the avalanche of it globally. Feeling like I was with a bucket without a bottom clearing mind out of it when a tsunami is now upon us in an avalanche of it. Many of us feel that way. My wish is I build a tractor next year to do the same works. AI is going to be awesome as a tractor.  Kindness by the village idiot. They say it takes a village to raise a child. Another African proverb. But so does the village idiot in this village. If the world is a village. Social Media is our village idiot. I chose to compete there too. Spread Kindness. Now thinking AI with cartoons is my next step to spread kindness on it.

Miscreants understand and the forces of chaos that kindness is seen as a weakness to be exploited. Teaching values of oppressor and oppressed. One race, one class, our nations of democracies and one form of thinking usually of the old traditions of understandings of people permanently defined as oppressors. Those who call themselves oppressed unleashing their counter oppression in culture clash, cancel culture and shout downs. Now moving to boycotts and anti-values. Kindness to try make their case to the rest is seen as weakness or cavorting with the enemy or worse selling out. I have been called coconut, American imperial kisser, Oreo, Fake Muslim, fascist, Islamism, terrorist, unamerican, deportable immigrant not needed, fifth column, Zionist lover, enemy of state, queer lover by all on the far right and far left spectrum. And then some in between. Many of us out here are labelled unjustly. To kindly just shut up and hide their thoughts and ideas.

The result, well go visit the village idiot and spend time beyond your bubble and see for yourselves. Hate is common, anger is common, we all have opinions hiding behind anonymity. Devaluing our traditions, tearing each other down when some try build consensus. The consensus we seek, and I advocate passionately just as an Average Mohamed, be kind to one another, love one another, be a patriot to our country or your country for it is a democracy and a republic, support our troops, spies and diplomats, embrace the police, speak up against hate, fight ideologically the terrorist, coming from the right, let’s go to work elephants in America and to the left good luck for you too are one of us.

My wish to jolly old Santa is let there be kindness this season. My second wish is we be allowed freedom, liberties, and rights to go do works for God, country, and humanity to get it there.

We shall see won’t we what comes next year?

Either way, I got cookies and camel milk out this season.