Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Iraqi blogger, Ays, writes:
I’ve been in multiple arguments with many people and I told them :” consider that you were in a Jewish country and they drove you out of your estates and homes and out of the whole country ..then you got the opportunity to get back whatever was robbed from you , then what would you do? Wouldn’t you run and take your properties ? Why don’t you think in others ? What is this selfishness ?”
Another group said that we shall fight them !! I said “why?”
They told me that we are Muslims and they are Jewish and we must forbid them from entering our country !!
I said “ because of such poisonous and destructive thoughts that you believe in ; they are describing Muslims as terrorists,and they are correct ;because there is no religion in the world that encourage fighting and killing !!
You and many narrow-minded people are brains washed with such anti-social activities”.
There was another man who was a taxi driver ..said “How can we let Jewish and Christian people enter our mosques and holy places ?they are not clean ,not pure.”!!!, at once I stopped from talking to him because his face ,hair and clothes said that he did not see the bathroom 4 months ago !!!
So , as a result of these silly principles , the Muslims became faraway from the world and have a worrying delay in the development and the progress.
I am tired from the repetition of those debates with those people , and I lost a friend in a dispute regarding this subject.
On the other hand, there are many respectable and educated Muslims who are convinced by my ideas and thoughts...
This is hopeful stuff, and while I don't think anyone should say that the Jews will be coming back to reclaim their property - something that probably won't happen and will just serve to scare people - the idea that Jews shouldn't be feared, and should be accepted as citizens, property and business owners is welcome and something missing from many places.