Fake democracy

Few days a go I watched an episode of "The view"; they hosted former United States Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice. They were talking about her experience with the Arab and Muslim countries that she visited. She mentioned that there were Arab men who wouldn't shake her hand, and another highly status Arabic man introduced her to his own grand daughter who were a Muslim and wore conservative cloths then she continued that there's actually hope for Muslim to be more modern or have more respect for women or whatever she thought.

Another incident was President Bush in Egypt, there was a conference and Bush deliberately missed the opening speech of the Egyptian president, then he kept on lecturing the Arab attending presidents on the concept of democracy and its importance.

Frankly, I didn't like the attitude of neither of them. They claim to have a deep perspective of democracy and human rights while they set their minds on finding only disadvantages and week links. That's nether fair nor objective. The Arab and the Muslims overcame many wars and troubling incidents over the years. They have defeated the "Romans" the "Greek" the "Seven crusade campaigns" the" Persians" the " French" the " British" the " Nazis" the " Israelis" and more. All were great empires and their people spend quite a while in the Arab lands, and yet, we haven't lost who we are the customs, traditions, religion and the "Qura'an" hasn't changed a bit. That is due to the depth and true strength of the Arab and Muslim character. So for Bush and Rice to ignored all that history and criticize the Muslims and Arabs because their women wear too much cloth. To me it is just shallow and biest.

Democracy is about respecting the other person's believes and not undermine them no matter how odd they might seem.

It is about the right to believe in whatever you want and not having people picking up on you just because they don't have as sold history as you do.

And it is most definitely not about people seeing only the bad side in you and ignores whatever good qualities you have, simply because they don't.

In my opinion, if wearing veil would consider being a flaw in the Arab and Muslim believes, I'd rather have than tolerating homosexuality and pedophiles.

Islam urges women to wear veil out of respect. A decent woman shouldn't be too exposed. Like a diamond that should be withheld out of sight until the right person who deserves the honor of having that diamond comes.

Anyway, I'm just speaking up my mind.

Enough is enough

 

I have a friend whom I once called BEST FRIEND. This friend had let me down countless times betrayed my trust more than once and eventfully lost my respect and faith in her. Generally she is not a bad person, but she just doesn't learn from her mistakes. We have been friends for 10 years ,so at some point she was actually more matured than me – or so I thought.

Anyway there's this movie I saw once, it was about a couple who used to fight all the time. A character in this movie asked the guy: "When is it that enough is enough?" the guy couldn't answer right away. After sometime he went to the person who asked him and said: "You asked me when enough is enough?

Well, NEVER"

That made me wonder, is he right? Should you bare the burden of being a friend to a person you don't know if you can trust and respect like you used to?

 Or should you just pull the plug on this friendship once and for all and say

 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Anyway, I'm just speaking up my mind.

How far would you go for a dream?

A while a go I read this book about a very ambitious person who had some sort of a disability that didn't make him walk right. Any way this person was quite a dreamer. He had many ambitions and dreams that didn't make him appreciate the reality that he lived in until latter when he opened his eyes he saw a person who was next to him the whole time but just didn't notice.

 That made me realize that sometimes when you have high hopes and many dreams and ambitions, instead of motivating you, they're disappointing you, they make you hate your current status and not see it for what it is, even worse it might push you to make hasty decisions or things you normally don't do .

What about you? How far would you go for a dream?

Would you hurt someone?

Would you stab a friend in the back?

Any way, I'm just speaking up my mind.