Comments on: Resentment VS. Coexistence

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Global Voices Online » Tunisia: Resentment Vs Coexistence — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:59:34 +0000

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By: orange

orange — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:24:29 +0000

Miss you too, haini bi aradi Allah el was3a,
finishing my studies soon, and planning to be lazy after!

By: Mohanned

Mohanned — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:52:56 +0000

Orange,
Thanks!But actually my hands will be washed before after this reply to you.

Eman,
Yes I refuse to be judged as a terrorist, but what do I do to prove that I am not?Let us agree on this before we disagree:
1- I do believe that we are all humans, and I do cry and feel outraged when I see the pictures of innocent people killed for no reason expect their identity of sect.
2- I would be more than happy if jordan became a country of 20 million, you know why? Because I believe in deiversity and opennes.

Now, Iraq is infested with terror, and terror as you and I agree has no relegion or color so basically it is a disease, and when a country is accepting refugees or people running from this disease they are required to make sure that those refugees are not infected, right?

How can this be solved? We are not God to tell what someone will do, and if he wants to harm us, BUT we can demand aid from Iraq and the US for handling this amount of pressure on our security and limited resources.

Last point :”Precautions must be taken, respect should be exchanged, but no one should pay for the mistakes of others.”

10000% agree, but are we god to force iraqis and jordanians to love each other? You know that 90% of jordanians worship saddam and 90% of the iraqies hate saddam, complicated formula we have here my friend, but the facts on the ground talk louder than our beautiful words.

Respect.

By: refugee

refugee — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:02:30 +0000

I agree with you ,as advanced media communications ,may not talk about hate per say, but generates hate by trading on ugly news captions coming as reality INFO , Yes this realty is a true part of the ugliness in this life ,we cant turn our shoulders and think all is well !!!can we ? yes we can by filtering what seems to pollute your life ,mine and many others, one has to be selective in this over powering life ,hate is not on media only hate and ugliness right next door to each one of us ,by the tactless neighbors garbage . Same on the street with bundles of inhuman acts ,so on ….but one has to be selective . I mentally keep and up date a list of what I like and dislike in order to be at a safe guard and not taken by surprise ,you cant imagine how much the eye ,ear and nose reflect to the brain daily ,that makes us subconsciously on the edge ,solitude ? we cant live on an island ,but we learn how train our selves to be selective in what we will observe and absorb . Yet the there is remedy by forcing our selves to look for beauty and the good things in life and they are plenty this is at all not a utopia but a realty as the other black side of life .Take care and start your list .

By: Eman

Eman — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:56:30 +0000

Orange,
Thanks dear. Wean aradiki? we miss you so much.

I don’t think Mohanned hates Iraqis the way you understood, he’s clearly worried about Jordan and the safety of its people, which is just normal and no one can blame him for that.
It’s just as I said, collective punishment is so unfair, and we all need to know that Iraqis are suffering inside their own country and outside by the humiliations of refuge in any country, let it be Arab or not.

By: Eman

Eman — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:49:30 +0000

Dear Mohanned,
I truly appreciate the fact that you shared your opinion here in a friendly manner.
I respect what you said, and I agree with you that words don’t change reality but I’ve always believed they provoke change, especially if it’s all we’ve got since we have no power or authority to make that change.

Back to subject. I know the awful bombings hurt us all and made the situation highly unstable. But just like we -Arabs- refuse to be judged by the terrorists who caused the US 9/11, we shouldn’t do same mistake and judge all Iraqis by what terrorists did in Amman. Terrorism is limited to no religion or ethnicity.
We must be more careful, discipline whoever crosses limits, but what about others who are just fighting for survival, for a decent life in which they can get their kids to schools and get jobs to support their families!
What about my Iraqi friends whose fathers were killed in Iraq by their own people. What about the many innocent Iraqis who are being kidnapped from their homes just like Jordanians, Syrians, Europeans and Americans?
Precautions must be taken, respect should be exchanged, but no one should pay for the mistakes of others.

By: orange

orange — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:16:53 +0000

Eman, welcome back dear

Mohanned, next time you watch the images of Iraqi corpses lying on their land, make sure you don’t touch the TV, and if you do, wash you hands, and dry them, and take a pill, just in case, you don’t want to catch the flu mate!

By: Mohanned

Mohanned — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:36:53 +0000

Of course all of what you said is beautiful, but saying beautiful words doesn’t change the reality, since the ottomans left we have been hearing the same old record about unity, but on the gorund: Nothing..It’s all now about interests, and sadly jordan is a poor country that has no political or financial resources to press anyone on doing anything! We all would love to see amman the arab capital of the world, I would like to see the day when not only arabs but all human beings can travel freely like they did in the old ages, but sometimes we forget that we are targeted, sometimes we forget that we don’t know anything about this refugee who came looking for peace, 99.9% of the are good people but what about the .1% who wants to blow something up? What about the jordanian embassy that was blown into pieces..What about the killing of jordanians over there? What about the Kidnapped jordanians over there? What about jordan’s 9/11? Anyway I hope that we don’t see the day where we in jordan fear that this car next to me might explode because we are “brothers”!