About The Arab Spring

These are the two things I don't like about the Arab Spring 


It's probably in our gene as Arabs to be very sentimental or probably a lie we like to believe in ourselves. Anyhow, we love those who stand by us and hate those who don't support us, is it natural ? I think so. We are too extreme in our emotions. emotions are great but when you only think with your heart you wont go far away, you will always be stuck in here and in that moment, ask abused women who keeps telling you how great their husbands are about this...

So here are the two things:


1) Since the beginning of the Arab spring in Tunisia, we started to form "black and white lists" for everyone who is with and against the revolutions. 
People rise because-among many reasons-they can't speak, they can not express their voices and the first thing people do is to silence ANY one who is against the revolution. 
What do we want from someone who is against all this? to lie !!! and then what? he is going to be one of "us" !!! isn't always said that it's best if people be honest even if we don't like their honesty than be a hypocritic !!! 
They-especially actors and singers- have the right to say and believe what they wish and we have the right not to listen to them or watch them ever again,
but none of us have the right to silence the other. 


2) We tend to put those who say anything that support us in the highest places regardless of their actions towards others or sometimes their own people, remember Saddam !!. 
Right now there is no one in the Arab world is as appreciated and loved as the Turkish prime minister "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", I don't mind people loving whom they wish to love and worship, but are we this blind and ignorant in politics to believe that everything he says and do is for our own sake, that he is just doing it because he is all for human rights and feels what the people feel !!! . There is no humanity or feelings in politics. One day soon we will know the price he is asking us to pay for his support. 

And let's not forget-the same way we wont forget about our Arab dictatorship and the west records with human rights-that Turkey itself is not a heaven, Read about The Kurds. While Erdogan was denouncing what is the Syrian president is doing against his people, The Turkish  planes were attacking the Kurds. 

Please don't say they have the right to do so? The way we kept and keep ignoring the rights of all minorities in the Arab world -including the Kurds -is and will be a hug stain in our history. 

I am not contradicting myself when I say don't label those and label these. I am just saying don't do # 1 but also don't substitute a dictator with another one in #2. 

Let it shine and always be an ARAB spring.