Saturday, February 04, 2006

A Cartoon burnt embassies down?

What can we say to those people who are protesting and burning Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus and other Arabic and Muslim capitals?

How can we describe actions taken by some Muslims who burn churches in Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan and other Muslim countries and at the same time felt “Insulted and wounded” by a cartoon about Muhammad who nobody knows him, or knows whether he did exist or just was an invention of the desert?

Why nobody tried to protest against burning down these churches?

Why nobody protested about those Muslims who live in European countries and describe the original people as “Kafirs or infidels” or “dirty people who will go to hell”?

Why nobody protested against bombing London Metro on July 7 and killing innocent and poor people who were going to their jobs?

Why did not the British people demand the apology from all Muslims governments and peoples for bombing the Metro and buses by few Muslim bombers?

Why all these mops did not protest against the dictators who destroyed our values and killed our spirits and stole our public money and spread out corruption through out peoples’ bones?

Who is more guilty: a Danish cartoonist who expressed peacefully his point of view and described Muhammad the way he imagined or peoples who cannot live normally and do not let anybody live normally, by controlling each other’s lives through out the whole Middle East?

How can I describe my feeling towards such blind crowds who are protesting against a cartoon which they have never seen?

How can I feel close to a culture which does not recognise the right of others to have their own views or style of life?

How can I accept a culture where fathers oppress their wives, and children!! Mothers oppress their daughters!! Older brothers oppress their younger bothers and sisters!! Teachers oppress their students!! Employers oppress their employees!! Neighbours oppress their neighbours?

How can I understand people came from Middle East and Muslim world to live in European countries and wanted to change the European peoples’ culture and style of life to make it similar to an oppressive culture they came from?

How can I accept it: an Arabic woman swears at the British government and describes it as a criminal because “they do not allow mosques to say the “azan or calling for prayers” loud and the woman heself ignored that the British authorities allowed to fill the country with Saudi Arabian sponsored mosques while the same Saudis and Qataris and gulf people protested when Qatari government gave a permission to build a church?
How could she ignore that anybody is suspected of having a copy of the Bible in Saudi Arabia, would be arrested and killed if he or she came from a poor country?

How can I speak about an Arabic man spits at two lovers living their culture and kissing each other in a London street?

How can we find a solution to our intolerance towards each other?

How can we find a way to explain to Middle Eastern people that Religion is something personal, something for somebody’s inner self not for imposing it on other people and to be able to separate religion from their everyday lives and from their relations to each others?

How can we?
How can we live
or continue living?


London 04/02/2006

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