Sunday, January 03, 2010

Where is the truth?

It is not that there should be no injustice in the world, in fact there always will be, but that it is beyond any kind of balance. I find myself, in examining what is happening in the world, struggling to avoid slipping into the "left" and "right" discourse of Western politics. How should I see what is happening? How should I react? I feel torn, angry and confused. I'm not a leftist anymore, not since years. Fascism is a Western problem, it isn't my problem. My problem is the "West" this vague label I've attached to a collection of ideologies and ideologues who draw their inspiration from this myth called Western civilisation, the past three hundred years of European and North American history, right up until the Greeks. Their ideas have stripped me of my history, my Arabism and my religion. They've denied me the right to an opinion by shaping what options I'm supposed to opine with. It's like if I choose to be a Muslim then all I'm left with is f*cking Bin Laden.

The people who beat Hitler and fought the fascists convince the world through their movies and books that they are the good guys. But they have oppressed Latin America, destroyed the Arab and Islamic world, and caused untold damages throughout Asia. They are supporting Israel and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. The good leftist cause in the forties was to support the creation of the Israeli state. Now apparently they support Palestine, but they support a Palestine that is liberated according to their ideology, not according to what real Arab Muslims and Christians would want it to be. Basically I want my g*d-damn identity back. In fact I never had it, it was stolen from me before I could ever receive it.

The Arab world is a mess, our leadership is pathetic, the Islamic world is in even worse shape. The poor are being stamped into the ground and the only people saying anything or doing anything are the people whose ideologies have colonised us in the first place and whose help we don't want, at least in my case. We have a saying in Arabic....

و آخرتها بقى؟؟

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

و آخرتها بقى؟؟
Not sure but its far from now. If it wasnt for the Quran i wouldnt even think this mess could be fixed.
And in my opinion your identity is what u make it- what you want it to be- not what others look at you as. As for a Muslim i think trying to be as close to our Prophet as possible is good.

Maysaloon said...

Thanks Anonymous,
Yes, what we make it to be. How simple and true. We tend to lose track of what's important so often in our lives, and make so many mistakes trying to win them back. All it takes is the courage for that one simple action...

Anonymous said...

Yea, courage and a strong reminder. The hard part, for me at least, is remembering how to act, etc