Hostility

I wrote this in 2010-09-06 but never post it. Now I feel like it's the time for it. 

First of all, let me say that this topic is not directed to anyone in particular . It was a mere response to some posts i have been reading lately and talked about it before in my blog. 

Why the hostility? 

Why the prejudice? 

Why not trying to understand ?

Why not trying to respect and cherish ?

I am from one of the most ............... areas in the world 

( fill in the blank , but let me give you some choices, can i ? - sophisticated, beautiful, dangerous, poor,rich, stupid, colorful .....etc - you can add yours if you wish ) 

I used to have many pen-pals from all over the world at the university, before being able to have friends online in these days- and we used to discuss and talk about lots of topics. 

Some would be surprised to know that i am from Saudi Arabia, a strange land to them. some knew a lot about it while others don't even know where it is located . One of them was from China, she was so sweet, when we talked about politics and what the media said about China, she would simply say that people and media have to see things from the point of view of the Chinese people, to be in their shoes. 

I never forgot her words .

Being a huge reader of everything, I can say that in the eye of the media we are all awful people. 

when i say "we" i mean the whole world. 

Right now, it's Muslims and Arabs. Some of it because it was our faults and some aren't. And our faults means the faults of SOME not ALL. 

some Muslims kill themselves and terrorize others in the name of Islam and colonialism. 

But did the media -west ,east, north or south- done any good about it? . It's easier to simply say ALL Arabs and ALL Muslims agree with that. 

Did the media try to show the good ones, the ones who refused that and they are by the millions btw ?

No, why? because simply .Good News are not News .

When America with the help of Britain attack Iraq did the media shows us that thousands of people protested against that war ? Our media ? Rarely. 

Does our media shows how is tony Blair being attack everywhere he goes to prompt his book and keep calling him a war criminal ? 

even hate speech are ok with me, they have to hate as much as they like and i don't have to listen but i can not and shall not stop them in anyname. when these speeches turn into action then yes legal steps must be taken. And we can explain ourselves.

But are there anything we can not discuss on blogs .

This says that there are ten things shouldn't be discusses online which are :

1-the middleeast

2-homosexuality

3-jesus christ

4-race relations

5-abortion

6-gun control

7-the holocoust

8-politics

9-origins of man

10-religion

They are mainly talking about the United States, 

what about the middleeast?

the Arabic and Islamic countries?

Saudi arabia ?

why are we so sensitive to critizisem?

why do we have to assume that everyone lives a happy life ?

why do we all have to see life in the eye of only a specific group ?

what about others?

do miniority have any legal rights to speak?

Update: 24/11/2011

it's so disgusting with all the hostility going on towards the Shi'ite in my country.