Justice is Blind. Justice halls painted green. Does he have the right to do something?
From the beginning of the previous century, the terms right and wrong, good and evil, had a lot of troubles surviving, these terms needed some kind of relation to something, you can say this thing is right for some kind of culture or religion or any kind of ideology.
In the end they depended on power, the one who has power, is the one who has the right. Like did the US had the right to invade Iraq? Well depending on our culture, maybe not, but did that matter, they invaded it anyway, and who could’ve stopped them, depending on there power, yes they had the right.
And now the question that is lately so much asked, did this Danish newspaper had the right to publish these cartoons? Till now nothing is clear, as the forces are not really visible. And does freedom of speech allows them to do that? well if we can get a couple of years before, when Bin Laden destroyed the Buddha’s statues, did he had the right to do so? Well it appears that he had, nobody had complained. Like Buddhism is not a religion or something, and he did not discriminate them. Every day in our life a lot of people discriminates Buddhas, Hindus, Maharishis …, and you know that is not discrimination, as those people has no power, and depending on our culture they are wrong, and they are stupid, and they are just a few unbelievers, cause they have gods other than ours, and we also swear at Jews, even in the fact that it is forbidden in Islam, but we consider them as enemies of god, even they believe in god, and we also consider them to hate Muslims, forgetting about some Jews who supported us and our case (Like Felicia Langer), but who cares, they don’t complain about it here.
I remember before a couple of years, I was watching Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC, where I don’t really remember whom he was talking to (I guess it was Chris Rock), who said that this is the end of time, implying somethings about the current time (I remember that he said that the best rapper is white, the best Golf player is Black, France is accusing US to be arrogant … etc.), well I guess it’s really the end of time, US is teaching Europeans how to respect religions, Britten is accusing the rest of Europe with being Racist (which the Britons were always not ?!), the Arabs are teaching Europeans the freedom of speech, And Syria is the first country to take her ambassadors out of Denmark between the Arabs based on a religious issue, Man it’s really the end of time.
And at the end, what does Muslims really want from all of this Danish thing? aren’t we having enough troubles with the rest of the world (Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Iran)? do we need a new one? and what does the other European journals (who republished the cartoons) are up to? and how is it going to end? are we going to forget as usual? or it’s going for eternity?
I guess everything is going crazy around here. This planet is lacking a lot of logic, I guess everybody is going crazy (including me). (Eza janno rab3ak 3aglak ma benfa3ak, If your people are gone crazy, your mind is not of good use for you!).
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Resistance By Souha Béchara
Yesterday, I got sick, I couldn’t go to work; actually I couldn’t leave my house. As being in my bed where there is nothing much to do, I got a good chance to read a book that I’ve bought lately. It was Resistance (مقاومة) by Souha Béchara.
أن بكبر المرء أثناء الحرب الأهلية ويتقلد السلاح في العشرين، ويطلق الرصاص على قائد جيش لبنان الجنوبي ويصمد على مدار عشر سنوات في معتقل الخيام وجحيمه … تلك هي الصورة المؤثرة للغاية التي رسمتها امرأة استعصت دوماً على الاستسلام.
What a great book, this is the first book that I’ve ever read that really gets deep inside me, a book that I could feel my tears on my cheek with every word I read.
إنها سهى بشارة، ذلك الرمز الحي للمقاومة اللبنانية. ففي العام 1988، وهي بالكاد جاوزت عمر المراهقة، حاولت سهى أن تقضي على قائد المليشيا الملحقة بإسرائيل والمكلفة العمل على حماية وجود الاحتلال في جنوب لبنان. وحالما اعتقلت، سيقت سهى إلى معتقل الخيام حيث تعرضت لتعذيب قاسٍ وطويل.
With every word I read from this book, I felt her pain. I really felt how beautiful she is, and how much pain she’s been through.
Ms. Béchara, Thank you for this great book. I really recommend it.
We Lost More Than 20,000 Dollars Yesterday
Of course we don’t have this amount of money, but we happened to lose them anyway.
Yesterday, in the end of the day, where there is nothing else to do, Aboud and I, opened the TV, and we passed on NTV, where there was a contest show being broadcasted, the prize for the question was 20,000,000 LBPs (13,309.7$).
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The question was how many times where the word (الكويت) mentioned, we did our calculations and it was 23. Ok, it’s now the time to call, my mobile was out of credit, and his cannot make international calls. Oh my god we tried to figure a way to call, while the show was running and nobody is giving the right answer. Man it was annoying and that girl who was introducing the show solved it, it was really a sad moment for both of us.
The second question was that Match thing (you have to move one match to make the equation correct), it was for 15,000,000 LBPs (9,982.25 $).
It was like 7 – 1 = 2, it was an easy one simply you move one of the 7 matches to make it one, and make the – a + which would be 1 + 1 = 2, and of course we couldn’t call. Which made the total of 35,000,000 LBPs (23,291.9$).
Immediately after I figured the second question, we changed the channel, as we just didn’t want to loose any other money.
Man it was really annoying.
Why the west won’t believe us when we say we hate …
Well look here, it’s really disgusting.
If this thing is spread all over the Internet, who the hell would believe that we hate Bin-Laden, or that we don’t support Al-Zarqawy.
Man this Danish thing is getting on my nerves.
How can anybody be happy about killing people, except Bin-Laden and his guys.
Long Live Lurpak …
Pandora Really Rocks
Man, I really love this site, I’ve been using it for quite sometime, it really picks me the best songs I love to hear.
http://www.pandora.com/
Try it, and you would live better.
I’ve been tagged too
I’ve been tagged too
Well at first thanks Dar for you tagging me, so ok I’ll start.
5 things about me (let’s see):
- I love music a lot (I listen to it almost all of the time).
- I’m kind of moody, (I’m working on it).
- I don’t speak a lot.
- I don’t like to know useless information (I’m not curios about who is walking with whom).
- I like to spend a lot of time in my solitude.
First part done, ok 3 things I like in others:
- Being smart.
- Their body language.
- Being nice.
And 3 things I hate about others:
- Acting as a wise man.
- Spending their lives thinking about how they are going to seduce girls.
- Blaming others for their mistakes (It’s your fault, you’ve left your monitor on your desk, and then a stupid daaaah).
4 bloggers to tag:
I guess I’ve done it right.
Once I Had a Friend
Dear Ra’afat,
I know you won’t receive this letter, but I’m writing it to you anyway.
I know it’s been almost 3 months since you’ve gone, but your memory just cannot fade away, I almost cry every night for your loss, It’s really hard for me to imagine the world without you living in it.
Do you remember the night when we bought these, I’m keeping it close to my heart, well of course you remember, at that night we both knew that seeing each other would not be easy anymore, everyone of us has to take care of his business, and the business that both of us were in was ended, I remember your words that night, you told me that we should keep them as a memory of each other, in case we did not see each other again.
Do you remember the last night you were in my house, you came to me that night, and slept in my house, we spoke a lot that night, we spoke about a lot of personal stuff, I guess you still remember all of them. At that night, you kept listening to the song Hello, you’ve listened to it over and over again. Now every time I hear it, the tears just start to wash my eyes, I can’t hear it anymore.
Why?
Why did you have to go? Why did you have to leave the world like this? What was the reason for your death? Is it because some moron wanted to kill people? Is it because you had to go to work that day? Is it because you needed money so much? Just why? Nobody gave me a good reason for it.
I still remember the moment when I heard the news, I remember I was in the street that moment, when Baha called me, and told me that you were gone, my legs could not hold me anymore, I remember that I fell in the street, with tears flooding of my eyes, I didn’t know what to do next, how I’m going to live, I still cannot figure the answer, I’ve tried to do a lot of things, but believe me, I’m still having troubles living, just who is going to wash my tears away …
And now the tears are still in my eyes, and nobody is going to wash them while you’re not here.
The other day Baha told me that we were a lot alike, we both don’t talk much, but when we are together we don’t stop talking.
I guess you still remember the song (be 3’orfeh z3’eereh), which both of us used to like it so much, I still listen to it, and I still love it, but after you’re gone, the words have a stronger meaning to me, as for me, it talks about you and me.
You are a martyr, and what difference that makes to me, for me it’s still that I lost you, it’s still that I wont see you again.
May your soul rest in peace,
Your Friend Forever,
Ala’a.
My Dearest Friends
Just a photo
When will we grow-up?
Inspired by a post on Khalaf’s blog about the human rights report, and the Jordanian responses against it.
Well I guess it’s in our culture to think that we are perfect, and we never do anything wrong. We never accept the thought that we might be wrong at some point, if you come to your colleague and tell him that he did something wrong, the first thing that he tries to do is to deny, and if he couldn’t he would start blaming somebody else, or even starts blaming you, even if you have nothing to do with it.
One of the points that I learned during My work with the UNFPA, is if you want to reach to something you should learn from your mistakes, and to learn from them the first thing you need to learn is where did you make mistakes, for that you need to criticize your self and to listen to other people criticism, as they have another points of view, you should listen to them, unfortunately in my live, the only people who criticized me was my bosses (who should to make the job better), and my close friends who really cares about me (as we always had this thing between us), other people thinks that they might hurt my feeling with their criticism, for me nowadays, (it’s something wrong that I do) as I’m bored of all of this, if I criticized somebody, and he just started to deny it or to take the defensive side, as if I was attacking him, I would put him in some list, and would start to avoiding any interaction between me and him (and of course try to ignore his existence), and if it was work we are talking about, (alright I would tell him first) if he took that side again, I would report it to the manager (as he cannot take that side with him), I know that it’s mean, but I just hate this kind of people.
If you don’t criticize, and accept criticism, how can you develop?
Let’s see what you have to say …
People who affected my life
My life had run through a lot of changes, almost all of these changes were made by my own decision, (some of them were because my life has changed depending on my conditions, but in the end I’m still what I am in the end), my decision was made through my change in the mental field.
from the people I never met, the first one I remember was Irwin Schrödinger, for those who don’t know who he is, he had put one of the most important equations in the history of physics, he made the change from classic physics to modern physics, the most important to me was not what he done, but the when did he do it, and what was he, he was a second year mathematics student, he wasn’t even specialized in physics, or chemistry, he just gave me the thought of that where ever you are, and who ever you are, you can make a change to this world, and you can be one of the greatest this world has witnessed, he gave me the ambition with no limits.
The second one I remember is Karl Marx, Although his great thoughts that he had written, the most important thing for me was mentioned in the Communist Manifesto rewrite, The Communist Manifesto was first written in 1848, when he republished it almost 30 years after, in it’s preface he said a very important thing, he said that he is publishing it the same it was before just for the scientific integrity, although he does not agree on the most of it, when I read that, I just realized how change can be, how every period needs it’s own study, you cannot say something and after a hundred years to expect that it’s still working as when it was put, I really understood what a changing world we live into, and if I couldn’t understand that change, I just can’t live in it.
The third one was Jack London, from his writings I learned a lot of things, I learned how can I analyze the world around me, how can I argue about something I really believe in, and prove myself right (this doesn’t mean I’m closed minded :p).
From the people I’ve met who made a change for my life, there was actually not a lot of people (most of them were girls :p).
In the end I would just like to say, that I just hope, in one day, that somebody says, that Ala’a had affected my life, I don’t know, maybe that’s a dream, maybe I’ve affected some lives before, but I just hope that this happens.