Sorry, you can’t pray!*
 
 

"Stop! You’re too young,
"you cannot pray!"
"Is this a bomb?"
"No.  … You’re O.K."

At every gate,
of ‘the mosque that’s far’**
There’s a barricade;
There’s guns and fear

“We must insure”
The spokesman said,
“That God won’t hear
“Their cries for help!”
 
 
 

Ehab Lotayef
Montreal, Friday, October 13th, 2000
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* Israel bared Muslims under 45, on Friday October 13th, 2000, from entering al-Aqsa for prayer
** ‘the mosque that’s far’ is a direct translation of the Arabic “al-Masjid al-Aqsa”