(April 25, 2021 at 1:29 am)WinterHold Wrote: So, I remember why I kept posting here, and I remember exactly why I ran away from my environment.
I also remember why I left this place, went back to my environment, then...got kicked out of it.
Back in the day, I was a normal guy. Your typical Arab Muslim, loved a girl, got ignored, graduated from college, got an M.S diagnosis. I was here all along since 2013..or was it 2014? 8 years.
That's like a generation. I didn't like my environment and from day 1 I said it: this region is going to hell if the natives didn't do any serious reforms. My contributions in AF were mainly to remind the world that we Muslims are "human beings", not all "ISIS" or "Al-Qaeda". And I was right, few years after joining this place ISIS vanished, Al-Qaeda vanished, and the real extreme enemy stormed the American Capitol.
I left AF because I felt that there is no reason for me to keep writing here, better get back to the place I came from and start fixing the environment there. So I came back just like the way I spent with you for years: but on twitter. Tweeting the experience I got from here but in Arabic, targeting the Saudi people.
I began fighting on 2 fronts: against Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims; with more concentration on Sunnies. I got kicked out from a chat room discussing the situation because I refused their method of decision making; I despise obeying a single person and prefer the democratic way of voting and free opinion. They didn't like that. So they kicked me out, even though we were all against the Sauds.
Reports began to rain against me, I didn't make friends because...like in here: I'm not a great social being. Or did they despise my opinion, and saw me like a western-wannabe ? I think it's a mixture of both.
So, that's it. I got banned from twitter. It's quite easy to open a new account but why bother?
And I discovered the same fact I discovered when I came here: Arabs need a long road to learn. And I expect civil wars and terrible doom coming to this region, similar to the French revolution era.
If they couldn't handle my opinion, then how would they handle other opinions? how would they handle a lesbian woman or an Athiest native ? just how?
All I asked for is understanding of democracy or in Arabic "شورى".
So,that's that.
Fuck the Us vs them bullshit. Atlass, in all seriousness, the sane people of the world know that there is no such thing as a utopia. Saying that not all Muslims are terrorists, is the same as saying not all white people are Neo Nazis or KKK members. But, while that is true, religion of all labels worldwide, still produce the tribalism that devides humanity.
I hate the fact that the former guy(president) managed to run and win his one term, and served his one term selling fear. But the "otherism" he sold and briefly one on, is the same "otherism" that controls Saudi Arabia and Iran, and lead to monsters like Hitler and Stalin and Mao and Po Pot.
But the reality still remains, as imperfect as the west is, it is nowhere close to the oppression of the dictatorships and theocracies in the likes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba. There is lots I hate about our right wing here in America. If humans should accept anything above all else, all 7 billion of us are still the same species living on the only home we have.
