I Have The Right To Be Angry
I have the right to be ANGRY
Prof. Hasan Yahya
Can any one deny this right to me? I don’t think so.
Every one also has the right to be angry sometimes or all times by nature, and they are free to tell why or not. If they tell they might get relaxed, if they did not, however, their right still exists.
As a Palestinian: Palestine have a large number of studies deal with Palestine history, in the social, political, cultural, and psychological areas. Data and maps shows the transformation of Palestine to an Israeli State, to West Bank and Gaza, to a Palestinian State. Some of the data are shown in this script collected from several sources. It is expected through this script to understand the origins of the problem as caused by the Western World, represented by British Government. The chances given to the Jews to establish their homeland was not given for Palestinians to do the same.
As an Arab :Relations between Islam and the West are going down. In spite of the great number of meetings nationally and internationally between religions and governments representatives….. The more meetings and conferences to close the relations gap, the more people have negative opinions about Arabs and Islam. A word to Muslims and Arabs, to stop these conferences and meetings and begin to take care of their people who need assistance in all aspects of their life. No one can prove the opposite. Arabs and Muslims alike, they spent millions of dollars on these meetings and conferences for the purpose of talking abut relations.
The matter is not that the WEST does not understand, the matter is the Arabs and Muslims are weak. They have to look to the future, plan for it, build their economies, and civil institutions, open their minds to logic and reason rather than emotions and feelings. The West will never change its mind about Arabs and Islam. Their institutions and Judi-Christian combination do not admit that Islam is a Godly religion. Instead, they attack Islam in their churches and attack Arabs. Just listen to their Sunday speeches. Are Muslims and Arabs deaf or ignorant?
The matter is that Arab governments are not in the level where a democracy can spring alive. And Arab and Muslim governments are not in the level of accepting freedom, or justice or equality, even to their citizens. Tell me! which country does not discriminate among its own citizens? NONE of them. I lived in the West Bank (Palestine), in the East Bank (Jordan), in Kuwait, in the United Arab Emirates, and visited many Arab and Muslim countries. They almost all have the worst treatment in their borders. You can guess immediately that the employees on the borders are never socialized or modernized. You may ask the passengers from and through any Arab or Muslim country and the neighboring countries. How much difficult is to travel alone or with your family and cross the borders from an Arab country to another. You will suffer, it is a humiliating experience.
Arab countries share the Muslim countries in the population growth phenomenon. Even though it is considered to be less in the African Muslim countries than the Asian Muslim countries. It is still far from the zero growth achieved by Denmark and Sweden. In the year 2000, considering a growth increase of 2.65% percent in Arab countries, Arab population reached the 290 million figure. and projected in the year 2025 to be over 470 million. Population of the Muslims all over the world have passed the billion figure in 1985, and the 1.3 in the year 2000, and projected to be 1.6 billion in the year 2025.
As A Muslim :Islam is great achievement to humanity through its teachings:
These are some examples: Don’t feel powerful over all, because God is the only one who claims superiority not one of His creatures. God says: “None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: knowest thou not that God hath power over all things?” (al-Qur’an, 2:106).
Another verse reads: “We did send apostles before thee, and appointed for them wives and children: and it was never the part of an apostle to bring a sign (ayat) except as God permitted (or commanded). For each period is a Book (revealed). God doth blot out or confirm what He pleaseth: with Him is the Mother of the Book” (al-Qur’an, 13:18-19).
The basic difference between the Islam that God has revealed to earlier prophets and that of Muhammad, is that the former is designated to a particular group of peoples for certain periods of times, like Moses and Jesus for the children of Israel (al-Qur’an 5:22, 61:6); whereas the latter is for the whole world and for all times to come.
God says: “We have not sent thee but as a universal (messenger) to men” (al-Qur’an, 34:28. See also verses, 4:79, 7:158 and 21:107). That is why every Muslim is obliged to believe and to say: “Say: we believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma`il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord: we make no distinction between one and another among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)” (al-Qur’an 3:84).
One of the most pervasive assumptions in discourse on European Muslim integration is that Muslim religiosity threatens Europe. Those who believe in the irreconcilability of Western and Muslim identity generally argue that Muslim piety, expressed in religious symbols and moral conservatism, contrasts against the backdrop of an increasingly secular and sexually liberal Europe: a recipe for increasingly insular Muslim communities and profound alienation from European national identity. These isolated communities, the argument continues, represent illiberal islands corrupting Western society’s liberal values; they are “cesspools” for radicalization. Integration, or conformity with majority culture, is therefore seen as vital defense against citizens with dual loyalties.
Jesus was a social, justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior who rose up [intifadah] against the corrupt Temple authorities and challenged their job security by teaching the people they did not need to pay the priests for ritual baths or sacrificing livestock to be in the right direction with God; for God loved them just as they were: Sinners, poor, diseased, outcasts, widows, orphans, refugees and prisoners all living under whatever type of regime or state. No one can deny this fact.
As a philosopher: I live in a world more and more getting a slope diving in ethical issues pool. This is the main reason to write this book.
Before a half decade, I was young in my twenties, according to my thoughts, I wished to do something to stop the craziness of this world. Where injustices where spread more and stronger in the global sense. In the fifties and sixties, of the previous century, when the idea of colonization came finally to a holt, and colonization masters in Europe and the USA, were not able to control the spirit of independence , self determination for the African and Asian small nations, they admit the independence, human rights and self determination as it was the core of modern democratic world, BUT they admit it by anger. And as modern civilized nations they think of reasonable methods of control to benefit from such spirit. Therefore, policy makers and legislatives decided it should be practiced when the matter comes to these countries by different motives. Overt and covert, the overt to show acceptance of these nations spirit of freedom, the covert reasons are concealed to cover the real intentions of those defeated colonizers. The West was angry of course, BUT not without reasoning. As powerful nations (the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, and USA to name a few., ), They have to get the best results from such dependence , and self-determination spirit in these countries. But the question was HOW?
As an American : I have gained knowledge enough to be a wise American. To practice my rights in a free land. And I like all humans to practice the same freedom in their lands, like me as an American in my land. I am like all my fellow Americans like justice, freedom and pursuit of happiness for Americans and others anywhere on this planet.
As a human being: To be angry is a self right to have as a human being. As a person angry is synonym to pleasure, and therefore, we ought to be angry sometimes. Because if we did not get angry we will not act as animals who usually reflect against others’ mistrust. I will explain these words later if the reader feels ambiguity of their meaning. Donkeys for instance, did not rebel against those who beat them up, by a stick or whip. They continue to work hard no matter how much they suffer. Peasants anywhere on this planet, also work hard continually day and night to survive. Anger feelings is the basic ingredient of our existence on earth. The two sons of Adam without anger were created, the good man died, because of the brother’s anger.
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