الجمعة، 25 مايو 2012

Ian Birrell: Like Afghanistan, Mali is a victim of our 'war on terror' - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent



Ian Birrell: Like Afghanistan, Mali is a victim of our 'war on terror' - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent




Al-Qa'ida in the Maghreb is increasingly active, while even Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram is involved


So now we know that Nato will bring its misguided campaign in Afghanistan to a close by the end of 2014, although even Barack Obama admits that the country will remain highly insecure and a hotbed of terrorist activity. A war in which 414 British service personnel have died and which has cost the country £17.3bn will turn out to have been one of depressing futility, our troops possibly having to fight their way out and our government doing dodgy deals with central Asian despots to release our equipment.



If nothing else, the closing of this tragic chapter should serve as a warning that the world needs to be on guard against the failure of nations. But even as Nato leaders slapped backs in Chicago this week, there is little attention being given to the rapid collapse of another country – an event that could have devastating global implications.

For 20 years, the west African nation of Mali has been a model of stability – a tranquil, beautiful country famed for its mangos, music and mud buildings. But following a coup – an increasingly rare event in modern Africa – two months ago, it has descended from beacon of democracy to basket case with shocking speed.

This accidental coup began with a barracks mutiny on 22 March. A group of soldiers, angered by lack of supplies to crush a festering rebellion in the huge northern desert region, ended up in control of the capital. This weekend, regional leaders brokered a deal for a return to democracy in 12 months' time – partly by bribing the blundering coup leader with the spoils of presidential office, complete with a mansion and pension 50 times his current pay as an army captain. Despite this, there are fears the agreement will not stick.

Typical of the sudden chaos engulfing the country, the deal resulted in the 70-year-old interim president, a renowned scientist, being beaten by a mob. This in a country formerly so law-abiding that when a friend of mine left his wallet in a nightclub it had been returned to his hotel by the time he awoke. Now residents stay indoors at night, terrified by incidents such as the gang rape of a teenage girl, filmed on a mobile phone.

But it is events in the north that are so alarming. One legacy of colonialism is that Mali, like many African countries, is an uneasy fusion of diverse cultures. The Tuareg took advantage of the coup to declare independence, sparking events that have led to the black flag of al-Qa'ida fluttering over buildings, foreign militants flooding in, refugees pouring out, and harsh sharia law being imposed.

It is all a dismal echo of Afghanistan. Nationalist groups fighting for control with Islamist gangs, while families and clans settle old scores in the most brutal manner. Many of the soldiers are well-armed and battle-hardened after fighting for Gaddafi in Libya.

At the centre of events is a charismatic figure named Iyad al Ghaly. He was leader of an earlier Tuareg revolt who, influenced by Pakistani salifists, became an Islamist and now heads a powerful group called Ansar ud-Dine.

Traditionally, the Tuaregs enjoy music and dancing, while women have gone uncovered. Now they are are being told to cover up, with even male and female children banned from walking together. Music and television are prohibited, shops are closed, and looters threatened with beheading. Cities are being emptied, with an estimated 310,000 people displaced. Gao, the most populous centre, is now a ghost town while in Niafunke, where once Grammy-winning guitarist Ali Farka Touré was mayor, four out of five residents have fled and those remaining are preyed on by marauding militia. In Timbuktu, one of the most extraordinary and mystical cities on earth, a sufi shrine has been destroyed, to the fury of locals. There are fears that the legendary libraries, holding thousands of ancient texts, may be next.

This is not just a tragedy for Mali. The civil war is drawing in neighbouring countries who are starting to fight a proxy war with their chosen groups. Al-Qa'ida in the Maghreb, thought to be Algerian-backed and behind the kidnap and killing of Western tourists, is increasingly active, while there are claims that even Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram has become involved.

Already there is a humanitarian crisis. It could get far worse: we have seen the damage caused by a broken, chaotic country – and how Islamist terror groups promising stability can fill the void. This crisis threatens the entire West African and Maghreb region; even the most peaceful countries could suffer collateral damage.

Mali is a huge and strategically important country. This is why American special forces have been operating there and why the West encouraged the militarisation of the north – a policy that has backfired so spectacularly. Mali may be one more victim of the "war on terror". And just as in Afghanistan, the shockwaves from this disaster in the desert could be felt far beyond its own borders.

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الاثنين، 21 مايو 2012

Text book for Jewish Children in Toronto



Text book for Jewish Children in Toronto.
  some of the passages from the book being taught to Jewish Children in Toronto, including the school on Bathurst street.

Please note the following

1. The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) claimed that calling Medina Jews of 1400 years ago 'treacherous' and 'crafty' was anti-semitic.  On page 41, Prophet Mohammad (SAW) is called a 'Rabid Jew-Hater', page 43 describes how muslims butchered the 600 Jewish men, took their wives and children to be sold in to slavery and Prohet Mohammad (SAW) kept a beautiful Jewish woman for his harem. Page 43 also calls the muslims a 'swaggering, venegful horde', page 45 describes shi'ites as rabid fanatics and uses a expression later stating "The savage beginings of Mohammed's sweeping massacres". If calling the Medina Jews of 1400 years ago 'treacherous' and 'crafty' is hateful then the language used above is definitely much more hateful. Lets see if the Jewish Schools teaching this curriculum issue an unreserved apology for this hateful text, have a board review and revise the text and then have our board approve the revised text. (For those whose first language may not be English, Rabid means mad or fanatical, rabid animals are those suffering from rabies)

2. David Spiro, Greater Toronto co-chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) termed the assertion Jews wanted to kill Mohammad a “horrific conspiracy theory” and “blood libel.” It is very ironic that the same concept is being taught to Jewish children in Toronto through page 43 of this book which describes how Jews tried to kill Prophet Mohammad (SAW). CIJA calims were slanderous in nature and were meant to intimidate teh community and run a propaganda campaign.






الأربعاء، 16 مايو 2012

Who Will Suffer As A Result of Euro Policies? The Jews. :: Gatestone Institute

It is as if the U.S. were to renounce the dollar for the "amro," a common currency with countries as different as Mexico. Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. A documentary on German television last week revealed that the political class in Europe knew that the Greeks were cooking the books, but did not care. Extremist parties of the Left and the Right (all of them anti-Semitic) are rapidly gaining electoral support at the expense of mainstream parties....
The European Union, and especially its common currency, the euro, is on the brink of collapse. The Greeks, unable to form a government after the May 6 elections, will have to go to the polls again next month. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is rapidly losing support. If she cares about her reelection next year, she had better push Greece out of the eurozone rather than keep that country afloat with German taxpayers' money. If Greece leaves, the whole euro edifice might come down – a better outcome than the present situation, in which extremist parties on the Left and the Right (all of them anti-Semitic) are rapidly gaining electoral support at the expense of mainstream parties which keep clinging to the failed project of the common European currency.
A recent program on German television revealed that former German Chancellor Kohl had exchanged the strong D-mark for the crisis-prone euro because he wanted to atone for Germany's role in the Second World War. Contemporary Germans, however, are not inclined to pay for the Greeks and other southern Europeans to make up for their grandfathers' role in the Second World War.
The euro project was flawed from the beginning. It lumped various countries with widely divergent economies, cultures and languages together in a single monetary union, imposing a "one size fits none" monetary policy on 17 countries which have little in common but the fact that they are all located on the European continent. It is as if the U.S. were to renounce the dollar for the 'amro,' a common currency with countries as different as Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.
In this fashion, a prosperous and industrious northern European country such as Germany, the economic powerhouse of Europe, renounced the D-mark for a euro, which also included a nation such as Greece, where corrupt politicians lied and cheated about the country's dire economic situation.
A documentary on German television last week revealed that the political class in Europe knew that the Greeks were cooking the books, but did not care. The euro was a political project. Former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein admitted as much in the documentary. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl renounced the D-mark for a euro which was to include as many countries as possible. "Kohl was a romantic as far as the EU was concerned," Bolkestein said. "For Kohl, European unification was the way for Germany to atone for the Second World War. That is why he wanted to have as many countries in the eurozone as possible, whether they qualified or not."
Bolkestein admitted that he had misgivings about the inclusion of countries such as Greece in the eurozone. In the same documentary, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011, admitted that the financial crisis in Greece, which is currently dragging the euro down with it, could only have happened because the EU refused to see the obvious. It was an eye-opening documentary that enraged many Germans viewers.
The euro crisis is leading to a general dissatisfaction of the Europeans with the governing political class, whether left, the right or center. In less than one and a half years, 10 of the 17 government leaders of the eurozone have been brought down or voted out of office. This happened in February 2011 to Ireland's centrist Prime Minister Brian Cowen; in April 2011 to Finland's centrist Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi; in June 2011 to Portugal's socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates; in September 2011 to Slovenia's socialist Prime Minister Borut Pahor; in October 2011 to Slovakia's center-right Prime Minister Iveta Radicova; in November 2011 to Italy's center-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Greece's socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and Spain's socialist Prime Minister Jose Zapatero; in April 2012 to the Netherlands' center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte; in May 2012 to France's center-right President Nicolas Sarkozy.
All ten of them fell -- directly or indirectly -- as a result of the eurocrisis. It is generally expected that the same fate will befall Germany's center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's German general elections. Merkel is Helmut Kohl's successor as leader of the Christian-Democrat Party CDU. In last Sunday's state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state, where almost a quarter of all Germans live, the CDU lost its position as the biggest party in the state to the Socialists. The CDU lost a quarter of its votes, while the Pirate Party, some of whose leaders acknowledge that the party is infiltrated by neo-Nazis, entered the NRW state parliament.
The largest European countries, Germany, France and Italy, which were (or, in Germany's case, are) led by center-right politicians, are shifting to the left. In countries where the left has lost the leadership, the extreme-left won significantly in the elections.
Extreme-right parties are also on the rise. In Greece, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn won 7% of the vote on May 6. For the first time, the Nazis entered the Greek parliament, winning no fewer than 21 seats.
Europe's shift to the Left will also affect its domestic policies: the Left's penchant for deficit spending and multiculturalism will become dominant again. Rather than bringing peace and prosperity to Europe, the failed EU project may lead to economic decline and risky political behavior.
As explained earlier, the shift in European politics will surely affect Europe's future relations with the rest of the Western world, in particular the U.S. and Israel. While Golden Dawn remains a fringe party, the extreme-left Greek Syriza party became the second biggest party in the country on May 6, surpassing the socialist Pasok party. Syriza has a party platform which includes "disengagement from NATO" and "termination of the military cooperation with Israel." Syriza is expected to become the largest party when the Greeks are called to the voting booths again next month.
In France, too, the election victory of the Socialist Francois Hollande has driven Jewish unease. "More French Jews will leave France," journalist Melanie Phillips predicts.
The fact that Kohl's atonement policy for German crimes during the Second World War has led to the euro disaster is bitterly ironic: the people bound to suffer the worst as a result of Kohl's hubristic euro policies are Israel and the Jews.

Islam Arrives in the Basque Country :: Gatestone Institute


Muslim parents are now pressuring local educational authorities to begin teaching Arabic in public schools. The Islamic Council of the Basque Country says Basques should view the spread of Islam in their region "not as a problem, but as an opportunity."
The Basque regional government in northern Spain is drafting a controversial new Law on Religious Institutions, which states that mosques and prayer rooms with a capacity of fewer than 300 people will no longer require prior local government approval.
The draft law is generating considerable opposition from elected officials of all political stripes, who fear the new measure will encourage the proliferation of mosques throughout the Basque region.
The mayor of the Basque capital Vitoria-Gasteiz, Javier Maroto, said in an interview that the practical effect of the new law will be that "any fruit and vegetable shop can be converted into a mosque and there will be nothing we can do about it." He has promised to fight the new law, which he believes will encourage "mosques to spring up like mushrooms."
The debate comes as a new survey shows that one in four Basques reject the idea of having a mosque in their neighborhood, and according to a new survey commissioned by the Basque regional government in northern Spain, one in five do not want a Muslim as a neighbor.
The new study, entitled Religious Diversity, was commissioned by the Basque government as part of an effort to assess public support for the new law. The survey shows that while nearly half of all Basques say they have had personal interaction with Muslims, 49% say they are opposed to the construction of more mosques in the Basque Country.
The Basque Country is home to more than 50,000 Muslims, as well as two dozen officially licensed mosques and hundreds of unofficial Islamic prayer rooms and cultural centers.
Hailing mostly from Algeria, Morocco, Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa, Muslims in the Basque region have become increasingly assertive in recent years.
In May 2011, for example, more than 2,500 radical Muslims gathered in the Basque town of Trápaga for the third annual Salafist Congress. The president of the congress, a Moroccan named Jamal Ennaciri, said the purpose of the meeting was to find ways to live together side-by-side with Spaniards. He characterized the congress as "intercultural dialogue."
But Salafism is a branch of radical Islam that seeks to establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, particularly Spain. The Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. Salafists believe democracy, because it comes from man not from Allah, is an illegitimate form of government.
In October 2010, residents of the Basque city of Bilbao found their mailboxes stuffed with flyers in Spanish and Arabic from the Islamic Community of Bilbao asking for money to build a 650 square meter (7,000 square feet) mosque costing €550,000 ($735,000).
Up until just recently, the Islamic Community of Bilbao had the following statement posted on its website: "We were expelled [from Spain] in 1609, really not that long ago. … The echo of Al-Andalus still resonates in all the valley of the Ebro [Spain]. We are back to stay, Insha'Allah [if Allah wills it]."
Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of Spain ruled by Muslim conquerors from 711 and 1492. Many Muslims believe that the territories they lost during the Spanish Reconquista still belong to them, and that they have a right to return and establish their rule there -- a belief based on the Islamic precept that territories once occupied by Muslims must forever remain under Muslim domination.
In December 2011, Islamic Sharia law arrived in the Basque Country when a Chechen immigrant attacked his 24-year-old son-in-law, a Christian, for marrying his 19-year-old daughter, a Muslim.
The victim, who goes by the pseudonym Julián Gómez because of the Islamic "death sentence" against him, said: "My father-in-law wants to kill me so that he can regain his honor because I am a Christian and I married his Muslim daughter. According to him, his daughter should only have married a Chechen Muslim."
The daughter said: "This seems as if it is a horror movie, but it is not. I have no doubt that my father is capable of killing my husband to get what he wants. And what he wants is to send me to Chechnya. All my father wants is that we know our native language and focus on our Chechen culture and religion. But I am Spanish. I was five years old when I arrived here. This cannot be."
In November 2011, a Muslim man stabbed and killed a 65-year-old man and injured six others in the Bilbao district of Santutxu before being constrained by local residents and subsequently arrested by local police.
In October 2011, hundreds of residents of Bilbao protested against the construction of a new mosque in the Basurto district. Bilbao Mayor Iñaki Azkuna said there were "enough" mosques in the city and he vowed to oppose the construction of any new ones. A spokesman for the local Muslim community, Redouan El Farah, promised a fight: "We are not going to give up. We are going to continue fighting until this mosque becomes a reality."
In June 2011, residents of the Basque city of Vitoria faced off against angry Pakistanis who want to build a mosque in the Zaramaga district. Pakistanis marched to city hall to demand "respect for the freedom of religion."
In December 2010, 24 Islamic associations banded together to form the Islamic Council of the Basque Country. The Islamic Council, which aims to become the main interlocutor between Muslims living in the Basque region and the regional government, has been lobbying for the introduction of special Muslim menus in Basque public schools, reserved spaces for Muslims in municipal cemeteries, and the construction of new mosques.
In July 2010, it emerged that 60% of the 480 public schools in the Basque Country now serve special halal meals for Muslim students. Muslim parents are now pressuring local education authorities to begin teaching Arabic in public schools.
Meanwhile, Basque and Spanish counter-terrorism authorities have arrested dozens of Islamists in terror sweeps throughout the Basque Country in recent years. One of them, a Moroccan imam by the name of Samir Ben Abdellah, was directly linked to the train bombings in Madrid in March 2004 that left 191 people dead and 1,800 wounded. Before his arrest, Abdellah was grooming future Jihadists in mosques throughout the Basque Country.
The Islamic Council of the Basque Country says Basques should view the spread of Islam in their region "not as a problem, but as an opportunity. Diversity is good." To those who remain skeptical about Islam, the group recommends that they "change their chip."
Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.

متى تصبح النكبة مجرد ذكرى

د. مصطفى يوسف اللداوي
متى تصبح النكبة مجرد ذكرى
مضى على نكبة فلسطين أربعٌ وستون عاماً، وغاب من عمرها معاصرون كثيرون، وولد في ظلها أجيالٌ آخرون، وشاب في حبها عديدون، وفني دونها مقاتلون، ونشأ لأجلها مقاومون، وضحى في سبيلها أبناؤها المخلصون، وما زال حلم العودة إليها يسكن قلب كل فلسطيني، يعيش في نفوسهم، ويكبر مع أطفالهم، ويشتد مع ناشئتهم، ويترسخ عقيدةً لدى شيوخهم وعجائزهم، يرسمه الأطفال على أوراقهم، وينقشه الكبار في قلوبهم، وتطرزه النساء أثواباً وفساتين، وتلبسه العروس في يوم زفافها، ويحمله الشباب بندقية وعصا، وسكيناً ومدية، ويسعى لأجله الرجال والمقاومون بقنبلةٍ وعبوة، وصاروخٍ وقذيفة.
إنه حلمٌ أكبر من أن يشطبه بطش الاحتلال، وأعظم من أن يزيله من قلوب أصحابه ظلم السجان، مهما بلغت قوته وتعاظمت سطوته، وتآمر معه الحلفاء، وتعاون معه الأعداء، فهذا الأمل يتوارثه الفلسطينيون ويتواصون به، يشربونه مع حليب أطفالهم، ويتعلمونه مع آيات قرآنهم، ويؤمنون به يقيناً كفلق الصبح وكنور الشمس، وينتظرون يوم العودة ليكون حقيقة لا مجرد أماني وأحلام، ويكون واقعاً لا خيال.
فاليوم الذي سيطأ به الفلسطينيون بأقدامهم أرضهم من جديد، وسيفتحون بمفاتيحهم الحديدية الصدئة أبواب بيوتهم القديمة، قادمٌ لا محالة اليوم أو غداً، وسيعودون من جديد إلى بساتينهم وحقولهم، يقطفون البرتقال، ويجمعون أعشاب الزعتر وحبات الزيتون، وسيلتقون من جديد على شواطئ حيفا، وأحراش الكرمل، وأسوار عكا، وسيمرون على يعبد وجنين والقسطل وحطين، وسيصلون في مساجد فلسطين العتيقة ومسجدها الأقصى الأسير، وستقرع أجراس الكنائس في الناصرة، وسيسير المؤمنون في وادي القلط وسيعبرون إلى كنيسة المهد، وسيحيون قداس المسيح في بيت لحم.
لن يقتل إسرائيليٌ حلم العودة من قلوبنا، ولن يتمكن صهيوني من أن يغتال أحلامنا، أو أن يقتلعنا من جذورنا، ليزرع اللقطاء من أبناء جلدتهم مكاننا وعلى أرضنا الطاهرة، فهذه الأرض التي ينمو فيها الزعتر ويثمر فيها الزيتون، ولا تتوقف معاصرها الحجرية عن إنتاج الزيت، ويدندن فيها الرعاة وهم ينتقلون من جبلٍ إلى سهل، أن هذه الأرض لنا، عشبها وماؤها وسماؤها وهواؤها لنا، فهذه أرضٌ لا يعيش فيها إلا أصحابها الفلسطينيون، وملاكها العرب الأصليون، ولا يعمرها إلا أبناؤها المخلصون، ولن يكون فيها مكانٌ مهما طال الزمن لغير الفاتحين المسلمين والسابقين المسيحيين.
فإلى متى سنبقى نحيي ذكرى النكبة، ونراكم في عمرها سنيناً عاماً بعد عام، فتكبر معنا وتهرم مع شيوخنا، وتترك آثارها في نفوسنا، تؤلمنا وتحز في قلوبنا، يموت معاصروها ومن ولدوا أيامها، وتنفطر قلوب من لم يعيشوا فيها ولم يواكبوا نكبة بلادهم، ورحيل وشتات أهلهم، فهذا هو العقد السابع للنكبة، عمرها يكاد يفوق عمر أكبر عجوزٍ فلسطيني ممن شهدوا النكبة، وعاشوا بعضاً من طفولتهم في فلسطين.
إنها تتوالى في سنينها بسرعةٍ ككر الغداة ومر العشي، ننتظر ذكراها كل عام، ونتهيأ لإحياء مناسبتها بشتى أنواع الاحتفالات والمهرجانات، ونبتدع لها كل عامٍ شكلاً جديداً من أشكال الاحتفال، ونستعد في الأعوام المقبلة لتنفيذ أفكارٍ جديدة، نعد الصور والملصقات، ونجهز الأعلام والرايات، وننتقي أجمل العبارات وأفضل الشعارات، وندعو لإحيائها في كل البلاد والساحات أشهر الخطباء، وأبلغ المتحدثين، ورموز السياسيين، وأعلام المقاومين، ومن نبغ في الشعر والغناء، والنشيد والزجل وجميل الكلام، ونكتفي من الأرض بشذاها، ومن الحق باستذكاره.
يقف المنظمون والمشرفون على كل احتفالٍ ومهرجان، يهنئون بعضهم البعض بالنجاح الباهر، وبالتوفيق الكبير، وكأن المطلوب هو نجاحٌ في الاحتفال، وتميزٌ في المهرجان، وحسنُ إحياءٍ للمناسبة، وقدرة على إثارة الحضور ولفت انتباههم، وكأن الفلسطينيين يشبعون من الوطن بسماع اسمه، ويقتنعون بحصتهم فيه بالاستمتاع بأنشودة يذكر فيها اسم الوطن، وحواري الوطن، ومدنه وقراه وكثيرٌ من معالمه.
يتحمل المسؤولية الكبرى في استمرار الاحتفالات وتوالي المهرجانات وزيادة سنوات النكبة، وفقدان الأمل ومضاعفة اليأس، وتأخر العودة وانحباس النصر، وزيادة الخسائر ومضاعفة أعداد الضحايا، وتبذير الأموال وإهدار الطاقات، وإيهام الشعب وإشغال المواطنين، قادةُ الشعب ومن يتولى إدارة شؤونه، ويشرف على تسيير مصالحه وتوجيه مقاومته، الذين يشغلون الشعب بحاجاتهم، ويصرفون اهتمامات الأمة لمصالحهم، ولا يفكرون إلا في بقائهم، ولا يحرصون إلا على امتيازاتهم، ويحرصون على التشدق بخطاباتهم، والظهور أمام الشعب النازف بلباس الصدق والإخلاص.
فالشعب الفلسطيني وأجياله يحملون أصحاب الشأن من القادة العرب والفلسطينيين قديماً وحديثاً، المسؤولية الكاملة عما يجري لهم ولبلادهم، وعن شتاتهم وتعذر تحقيق أهدافهم، فالفلسطينيون قد نذروا حياتهم لهذا الوطن، ودفعوا أبناءهم فداءاً له، ولم يتوانوا يوماً عن تقديم المزيد من الضحايا في سبيله، ولن يتأخروا عن تحريره مهما كبدهم من ثمن، وحق لشعبٍ جرى دمه أنهاراً، وامتلأ جوف الأرض برفاة شهدائه، وغصت السجون بأعظم رجاله أن ينتصر، وأن يحقق ما يريد، وألا يكتفي من الوطن باحتفالٍ أو مهرجان، وألا تبقى نكبته مجرد مبكاةٍ سنوية، وذكراه مأساة دورية.
لا يريد الفلسطينيون أن يستبدلوا الوطن بخارطةٍ أو مجسم، ولا أن ينفقوا أموالهم على احتفالٍ أو مهرجان، ولا أن يضيعوا عمرهم وهم ينتظرون الذكرى السنوية التالية، ليقدموا فيها الجديد، ويعرضوا فيها المزيد، إنما حلمهم في أن تتوقف مظاهر إحياء يوم النكبة لتحل محلها مظاهر العودة، ومعالم النصر، وأن نلتقي على تراب الوطن، وعلى سواحله وشطئآنه، وفوق جباله ووهاده، وفي صحرائه وبساتينه الخضراء، بدلاً من أن تجمعنا ساحات الشتات والمنافي، فقد آن الأوان لهذا الشعب أن يعود إلى وطنه، ولهذه الأمة أن تنتصر على عدوها، وتحقق أحلامها، وتستعيد حقوقها، فنحن لسنا أقل من غيرنا من الشعوب، ولسنا أضعف من كثيرٍ سبقوا وقاوموا، فانتصروا على عدوهم وعادوا إلى بلادهم، فما لدينا أكثر مما لدى الآخرين، وأعظم مما كان متوفراً لكثيرين، إذ لا تنقصنا الحمية، ولا تعوزنا الشجاعة، ولا نشكو من نقصٍ في الرجال، ولا من عجزٍ في الطاقات، وتاريخنا يشهد لنا، وديننا يشحذ هممنا، ويقوي عزائمنا، وينهض بنا، ويعجل بخطواتنا نحو العودة والنصر.

moustafa.leddawi@gmail.com             دمشق في 15/5/2012

الثلاثاء، 15 مايو 2012

أنا ضد اتحاد خليجي كهذا! - عبد الرحمن الراشد

أنا ضد اتحاد خليجي كهذا! - عبد الرحمن الراشد
أنا ضد اتحاد خليجي كهذا!
إذا كان الاتحاد الخليجي المقترح، والذي سيناقشه الزعماء الستة غدا في الرياض، يتضمن أيا من هذه النقائص فأنا بكل تأكيد أقف في الصف الآخر. ضد الاتحاد إذا كان يعني أن تلغي الكويت نظامها البرلماني ومفهوم المشاركة السياسية عبر الانتخاب لإرضاء السعودية أو الإمارات أو عمان. وبالتأكيد ضد الاتحاد إذا كانت البحرين أو دبي ملزمة بتطبيق أنظمة الكويت أو السعودية في تقييد الحريات الاجتماعية، فتمنع دور السينما أو السياحة أو الخدمة الفندقية. أو - وفي نفس السياق، سأكون ضد الاتحاد - إذا كان يعني ذلك منع المرأة القطرية من قيادة السيارة انسجاما مع الأنظمة السعودية. ولست مع اتحاد الدول الخليجية إذا كان يفرض عليها نمط تعليم واحدا. ولست مع اتحاد يساوي بين صحافة السعودية الأكثر حرية نسبيا مقارنة بصحافة قطر، ولا مع تقييد حرية الإعلام في الكويت لتكون مثل بقية الدول الخليجية التي هي أقل سقفا وحرية. وفي الوقت نفسه لا نريد أن تنتقل أمراض الكويت السياسية، من تحزبات قبلية وطائفية، إلى بقية دول الخليج. أيضا، لا نريد اتحادا ينقل النزاعات الطائفية في البحرين إلى الدول الخمس الأخرى.
ولا نريد اتحادا يلغي شخصية أي مجتمع خليجي، ولا ينتقص من حق أي دولة في اتخاذ ما تراه أصلح لمواطنيها، ولا أن تتدخل أي دولة في قرارات الدول الأعضاء. وبالتأكيد لا نتوقع أن يتدخل الاتحاد في شأنها السياسي الداخلي أو قراراتها السيادية. لقد طرحت كل هذه المخاوف على المشتغلين في مشروع الاتحاد الخليجي، وكانوا أمام كل سؤال يؤكدون على أن الاتحاد لا يقيد أي دولة أو يلزمها بقوانين الأخرى. البحرين ستحافظ على شخصيتها الاجتماعية، والكويت على تاريخها ومكاسبها السياسية، وسلطنة عمان على نظامها ومناهجها التعليمية، والإمارات بصيغتها الاتحادية. إذن لماذا الحرص على الانتقال إلى «الاتحاد» وعدم القناعة بـ«التعاون»؟
السبب أن المسار التعاوني رغم عجزه في بعض الجوانب قطع مسافة جيدة ولم يعد بصيغته الحالية مجرد تعاون، فهناك تعاون بين الدول الأخرى ضمن اتفاقيات ثنائية إنما في الخليج الواقع اليوم هو أقرب إلى اتحاد، ولا يضير أحدا أن يسمى اتحادا بصيغته التي هو عليها حاليا. وأتصور أن كلمة اتحاد بذاتها تخيف بعض الخليجيين لأنها تعطي المفهوم الفيدرالي، مثل اتحاد الإمارات الذي هو منظومة دولة كاملة، أو الولايات المتحدة. والاتحاد بهذا المفهوم ليس مطروحا لأن الدول الأعضاء غير متوازنة في إمكانياتها، فالسعودية خمس مرات أكبر من الدولة الخليجية الثانية حجما، أي عمان؟ هذا جزء من حالة الفزع، أو التخويف، التي ثارت في عام 1981 عندما قام مجلس التعاون، والمفارقة أن أكثر من خاصمه هم المثقفون الكويتيون ظنا منهم أنه سيكون أوتوسترادا سريعا للجارة الكبرى السعودية للاستيلاء على بلدهم. وخلال ثلاثين عاما ثبت العكس تماما. صارت الكويت عبئا على السعودية بسبب غزو صدام وتهديدات إيران المستمرة. كان يقال، آنذاك، إن المجلس مخطط سعودي أميركي، لتظهر الأيام لاحقا أن أهم ثلاث قواعد أميركية ظهرت في قطر والكويت والبحرين لا السعودية. وكان أكثر ما يقال إن السعودية ستفرض نموذجها الديني المحافظ عليهم، لكن الكويت تأثرت بشكل أكبر بثورة إيران اجتماعيا، لا السعودية. أما لماذا التوجس من الاتحاد المقترح، عدا الهواجس السياسية والاجتماعية؟
أظن المشكلة في عدم وضوح الفكرة، وتحديدا في مصطلح الاتحاد الذي يوحي بالفيدرالية، مع أن المفهوم الذي طرحه الملك عبد الله بن عبد العزيز يماثل فكرة الاتحاد الأوروبي، أقرب إلى الكونفيدرالية لا الفيدرالية، وتضمنت دعوة الملك تأكيدا على أن الاتحاد لا يتدخل ولا ينتقص من سيادة الدول الأعضاء. وأنا أعتقد أن التعامل الإيجابي مع الفكرة سيدفعها نحو نظام مرن يساعد الدول على تجميع إيجابياتها والجوانب المشتركة بينها ولن يكون الاتحاد وسيلة لإخضاع نظام أو إلغاء هوية أو خصوصية أو تهميش طائفة أو دعم نظام شعب. للمتخوفين كل الحق في أن يعلنوا عن تفاصيل مخاوفهم، وأن يضعوا شروطهم ويجربوا اتحادا مشروطا كما يريدونه. فبريطانيا في الاتحاد الأوروبي قبلت بالاتحاد وتحفظت على بعض نشاطاته وأصبحت لاحقا من أهم الدول التي عززته نظاما ونشاطا دون أن تغير عملتها أو تنحني لقوانين الهجرة. وأخيرا، الاتحاد هو الخيار الأفضل للدول الخليجية الخمس، أما السعودية عرابة المشروع فهي أقل انتفاعا، وأنا أقدر الحساسيات والمخاوف التي ستثبت الأيام، كما أثبتت في الماضي، أنه اتحاد إيجابي يستحق التأييد بروح إيجابية.

الاثنين، 14 مايو 2012

German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles and Stones :: Gatestone Institute



German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles and Stones :: Gatestone Institute





German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles and Stones


by Soeren Kern
May 8, 2012 at 5:00 am




















Rather than cracking down on the Muslim extremists, however, the German authorities have sought to silence the peaceful critics of multicultural policies that allow the Salafists openly to preach violence and hate.


In an explosion of violence that reflects the growing assertiveness of Salafists in Germany, on May 5th more than 500 radical Muslims attacked German police with bottles, clubs, stones and other weapons in the city of Bonn, to protest cartoons they said were "offensive."


Rather than cracking down on the Muslim extremists, however, German authorities have sought to silence the peaceful critics of multicultural policies that allow the Salafists -- who say they are committed to imposing Islamic Sharia law throughout Europe -- openly to preach violence and hate.


The clashes erupted when around 30 supporters of a conservative political party, PRO NRW, which is opposed to the further spread of Islam in Germany, participated in a campaign rally ahead of regional elections in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Some of those participating in the rally, which was held near the Saudi-run King Fahd Academy in the Mehlem district of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, had been waving banners depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammad (see photo here), to protest the Islamization of Germany.


The rally swiftly disintegrated into violence (photos here and here) when hundreds of angry Salafists, who are opposed to any depiction of their prophet, began attacking the police, whose job it was to keep the two groups apart.


In the final tally of the melee, 29 police officers were injured, two with serious stab wounds, and more than 100 Salafists were arrested, although most were later released. A 25-year-old German protester of Turkish origin, suspected of having stabbed the two police officers, remained in custody on suspicion of attempted homicide.


According to Bonn's police chief, Ursula Brohl-Sowa, "This was an explosion of violence such as we have not witnessed in a long time."


Germany's intelligence and security agencies say they are closely monitoring the Salafists, who are increasingly viewed as posing a threat to German security.


Salafism, a branch of radical Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, seeks to establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and eventually the entire world. The Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. Salafists also believe, among other disconcerting doctrines, that democracies -- governments made by men as opposed to theirs, which was made by the almighty -- legitimately deserve to be destroyed.


According to German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, "Salafism is currently the most dynamic Islamist movement in Germany as well as internationally. Its fanatic followers represent a particular danger for Germany's security. The Salafists provide the ideological foundation for those who then turn violent."


The interior minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann, said, "The violence of the Salafists in Bonn has once again shown what is behind the mask of supposed religiosity: nothing but brute force." He also said that the violence was "a direct challenge to liberal democracy as a whole."


The interior minister of Bavaria, Joachim Hermann, said that: "We cannot tolerate violent retribution and revenge. We apply the rule of law, not Islamic vigilante justice." He added that Salafists should be "brought to justice and severely punished," and that "We have to monitor the Salafist scene even more. And we have to be more diligent in cracking down on hate and violence. We cannot allow that terrorists and violent criminals are free to operate under our noses. We need to take action against Salafism and its intolerant, fanatical ideology with all legal means."


Despite these and many other pronouncements, Salafists still have free reign in Germany: Salafist preachers are known regularly to preach hatred against the West in the mosques and prayer centers that are proliferating across the country.


In recent weeks, Salafists have been engaged in an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute 25 million copies of the Koran, translated into the German language, with the goal of placing one Koran in every home in Germany, free of charge.


The mass proselytization campaign -- called Project "READ!" -- is being organized by dozens of Islamic Salafist groups located in cities and towns throughout Germany, as well as in Austria and Switzerland.


According to the German newspaper Die Welt, the Salafists have launched a "frontal assault" against people of other faiths and "unbelievers." Die Welt has reported that German authorities view the Koran project, which fundamentalists are using as a recruiting tool, as a "most worrisome" campaign for radical Islam. Security analysts say the campaign is also a public-relations gimmick intended to persuade Germans that the Salafists are transparent and "citizen friendly."


A spokesperson for the Berlin branch of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) told Die Welt that "the objective of this campaign is to help bring those who are interested into contact with the Salafist scene to influence them in the context of extremist political ideologies."


In response to Project "READ!" PRO-NRW launched a cartoon contest under the motto "Freedom Instead of Islam." The contest, which ended on April 25, generated dozens of submissions. The winning entry was a cartoon depicting a Christian church surrounded by six minarets (Muslim prayer towers) with the caption: "I think the church in Germany has integrated itself very well." Some of the other submissions can be found at a German free-speech website called Politically Incorrect.


As Muslims have said they feel offended, and as Europe prides itself on being multicultural, left wing politicians have converted the "Freedom Instead of Islam" cartoon contest into protest against free speech. After releasing all but two of the Salafists responsible for the brawl on May 5th, the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jäger, cast blame on the democratic -- and peaceful -- PRO NRW. He ordered police to prevent PRO NRW from displaying anti-Islam any more cartoons during the final phase of the state's regional election campaign, to be held on May 13th.


Jäger, who is a member of the center-left Social Democrats, characterized PRO NRW as a "far- right extremist group" and said the group's cartoons had been a "deliberate provocation" that had triggered the attacks by the Salafists.


The guardians of German multiculturalism, enabled by the German mainstream media, invariably label PRO NRW "far-right" – presumably to dismiss its views rather than examine them. Ironically, most of the PRO NRW group's members, including its senior leadership, hail from the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and could never -- even with the most extreme exertion -- ever be considered extremists.


PRO NRW's members have, in all likelihood, just been frustrated by the refusal of the mainstream center-right parties to push back against the steady Islamization of Germany; they describe themselves as a citizen's movement (Bürgerbewegung), possibly akin to the Tea Party movement in the United States. The group's members say they love their country and are upset about the direction in which politicians are taking it.


On May 6th, administrative courts in the towns of Arnsberg and Minden ruled that Jäger's ban on PRO NRW freedom of speech was unconstitutional, and authorized the group to continue its campaign activities.


PRO NRW, in a statement, declared that the favorable court decisions were "predictable, because the law and our Constitution have not changed overnight. The only amazing thing is that an Interior Minister who has sworn to uphold the Constitution keeps enacting unlawful decrees."


PRO NRW also reminded politicians that they have "the responsibility to provide the police with sufficient human, financial and material resources" for them to do their job. Spokesmen for the organization said, "It is unacceptable that, as was the case in Bonn, too few police officers were exposed to an aggressive mob. Where were the water cannons or the dogs? Unfortunately, 29 injured police officers have paid a bitter price. They have our sincere sympathy. To Mr. Jäger and other responsible politicians, we have only one thing to say: Resign immediately."


Free speech lives on in Germany... for now, at least.


Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.

Mexican Jihad :: Gatestone Institute


"Our porous southern border is a nightmare waiting to happen."
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it might do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da'wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, to simple extortion, kidnappings and enslavement—have been subverting Mexico in order to empower Islam and sabotage the U.S.
According to a 2010 report, "Close to home: Hezbollah terrorists are plotting right on the U.S. border," which appeared in the NY Daily News:
Mexican authorities have rolled up a Hezbollah network being built in Tijuana, right across the border from Texas and closer to American homes than the terrorist hideouts in the Bekaa Valley are to Israel. Its goal, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper that reported on the investigation: to strike targets in Israel and the West. Over the years, Hezbollah—rich with Iranian oil money and narcocash—has generated revenue by cozying up with Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S. In this, it has shadowed the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Tehran, which has been forging close ties with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who in turn supports the narcoterrorist organization FARC, which wreaks all kinds of havoc throughout the region.
Another 2010 article appearing in the Washington Times asserts that, "with fresh evidence of Hezbollah activity just south of the border [in Mexico], and numerous reports of Muslims from various countries posing as Mexicans and crossing into the United States from Mexico, our porous southern border is a national security nightmare waiting to happen." This is in keeping with a recent study done by Georgetown University, which revealed that the number of immigrants from Lebanon and Syria living in Mexico exceeds 200,000. Syria, along with Iran, is one of Hezbollah's strongest financial and political supporters, and Lebanon is the immigrants' country of origin.
A jihadist cell in Mexico was recently found to have a weapons cache of 100 M-16 assault rifles, 100 AR-15 rifles, 2,500 hand grenades, C4 explosives and antitank munitions. The weapons, it turned out, had been smuggled by Muslims from Iraq. According to this report, "obvious concerns have arisen concerning Hezbollah's presence in Mexico and possible ties to Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTO's) operating along the U.S.—Mexico border."
As far back as 2005, an article entitled "Islam is gaining a Foothold in Chiapas" showcased the inroads of Islam in Mexico:
Long a bastion of Catholicism, southern Mexico is quickly turning into a battleground for soul-savers. Islam, too, is gaining a foothold and the indigenous Mayans are converting by the hundreds. The Mexican government is worried about a culture clash in their own backyard… Muslim women in headscarves have become a common sight….
"Life is cheap" in impoverished Mexico. You want a job? Fine, pray five times a day, etc…
Kidnappings, as part of a drug cartel or as part of a jihadist operation, which legitimizes crimes such as kidnapping and child slavery, have become increasingly common. To convert non-Muslims to their cause, Islamists also whip up—and then exploit—a sense of "grievance" against the "white man."
In addition, according to counterterrorism experts in this report, Islamic terrorists blend in better with Mexicans than with Europeans, thereby enabling them to sneak into the U.S. across the southwest border. This Muslim cleric, for example, discusses how easy it is to smuggle a briefcase containing anthrax from Mexico into America, thereby killing at least some 330,000 Americans in a single hour.
Similarly, Michael Braun, formerly assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said that the Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America; however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S. Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels."
Only a few months ago, Washington announced that FBI and DEA agents disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States," tied to Iran with roots in Mexico. The increased violence—including beheadings, Islam's signature trademark—is even more indicative that Islamists are well ensconced in Mexico's drug cartel.
The threat is not limited to Hezbollah; back in 2006, according to an ISN, "Mexican authorities investigated the activities of the Murabitun [a da'wa, or missionary-outreach, organization named after historic jihadists along Spain's borders] due to reports of alleged immigration and visa abuses involving the group's European members and possible radicals, including al-Qaeda."
Even innocuous reports, such as this Muslim article, are cause for concern: "Today, most Mexican Islamic organizations focus on grassroots da'wa. These small organizations are most effective at the community level, going from village to village and speaking directly to the people." Although this may not sound problematic, the strain of Islam being spread by many of these da'wa organizations is the radical, "Salafist," anti-American variety. Here, for instance, is a popular Egyptian TV cleric saying that while Muslims must never smile to non-Muslims—who, as "infidels," are by nature the enemy—they are free to do so if the Muslim is engaged in da'wa, trying to win over the infidel into the fold of Islam, especially if the potential convert can help empower Islam in any way.
These are but a few of the many reports on Islam in Mexico. The evidence that many Islamists in Mexico are plotting against the U.S., using all means—such as drug trafficking, which is not forbidden in Sharia law if it serves to empower Islam—is overwhelming.
Under various methods—from the violent to the subversive to the exploitative—Islam allows Muslims to lie and commit other duplicitous acts in the furtherance of Islam. Taqiyya [dissimulation] permits Hezbollah and other Islamists To engage in Mexico's drug cartel, just as "pious" members of the Taliban in Afghanistan pursued the heroin trade. Aside from sheer violence, justified as "jihad," or holy war, tactics pursued by Mexico's Islamists include:
· Kidnappings and enslavement, for which Mexico is already notorious. Sharia permits kidnapping, and even enslaving the infidel, in this situation, any non-Muslim in Mexico. The Quran not only approves of this, but allows male jihadists to have sex with female captives of war (Sura 4, verse 3). Here, for example, is a Muslim politician trying to legalize the institution of "sex-slavery."
· Extortion and blackmail, features of the Mexican landscape, are also permissible in Islam. According to Sharia, during jihad, Muslims are permitted to hold for ransom infidels to be sold back for large amounts of money. Here, for instance, is a popular Egyptian sheikh saying that the Islamic world's problem is that it has stopped plundering and enslaving its infidel neighbors. He even boasts that under true Sharia, he could go to the local market and "buy" a female "sex-slave."
In using subversive elements for da'wa, Muslims might comfortably use false arguments to turn Mexicans against their northern neighbors. They might, for instance, argue that Islam is a religion of "racial equality," whereas Christianity is the "white man's" religion, imposed on their ancestors by racist whites who sought to keep them "impoverished" beyond the border. Islamist strategies in Mexico amount to trying to win the unbelievers over to their side, whether through conversion or just cooperation. For those who refuse to cooperate, they are infidels to be used in any way that seems fit.

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صور من ممارسات اجتماعية خاطئة "2-2"


في الجزء الأول من المقالة تناولنا عدداً من الممارسات الاجتماعية الخاطئة رغبة في تصحيح مسار تلك الأنماط السلوكية السلبية من خلال إبرازها، وتسليط الضوء عليها، وبيان خطئها، ومحاولة النأي بشخصية المجتمع السعودي برمته من براثن قيم وممارسات اجتماعية سلبية. وفي هذا الجزء الأخير سوف نتطرق لعدد آخر من تلك الممارسات الاجتماعية الخاطئة، التي منها ما يأتي:
 
التعميم
 
حيث نجد الكثير منا يعشق إصدار الأحكام العامة الشاملة من دون الالتزام بالدقة والحذر من الانسياق وراء الاندفاع بإصدار أحكام عامة جامعة، تطول كل من له مساس من قريب أو بعيد بالموضوع المثار؛ إذ نلجأ إلى إصدار حكم مانع جامع لا يقبل القسمة على اثنَيْن. ومن هنا فكثيراً ما نستخدم في حواراتنا ومناقشاتنا عبارة "كلهم يؤمنون بهذا الشيء"، أو "كل الناس هناك تمارس كذا وكذا".
 
عدم الجدية
 
وهناك أيضاً غياب عنصر الجدية عند تعاطينا مع الأمور؛ ففي المجال الأكاديمي - على سبيل المثال - عندما يكلف الأستاذ طلابه بواجب أو بحث يقوم معظم الطلاب بأدائه لمجرد أنه واجب عليهم أداؤه، دون إبداء أي قدر من الجدية والاهتمام به. وهذا بلا شك يؤثر سلباً في نوعية الناتج النهائي للعمل المطلوب إنجازه. وهذا يسري أيضاً على جميع نواحي الحياة لدينا، ونختزله دوماً بعبارات مثل: "يا رجال لا تشغل نفسك ما عندك أحد"، أو "والله ما درى عنك أحد".
 
التبعية وعدم الاستقلالية
 
ومما يثير الانتباه أيضاً اتصاف العديد منا بالتبعية وعدم الاستقلالية. وقد أدى الاتصاف بالتبعية الفكرية غير المستقلة بالكثير منا إلى تقليد أو اتباع الآخرين من غير إدراك لما هم مقدمون عليه؛ لأن همهم الأكبر ينصب على عدم الانشقاق عن ركب التيار السائد في المجتمع.
 
 
 
شعب اللحظة الأخيرة
 
شعب اللحظة الأخيرة أدق عبارة يمكن استخدامها لوصف ممارسة اجتماعية عامة، يلجأ فيها الكثير منا دوماً لتأجيل ما هو واجب عليهم عمله إلى آخر لحظة دون العمل على الاستفادة، والعمل على استغلال الوقت المتاح والمحدد مسبقاً لإتمام العمل بقدر عال من الإتقان والدقة، بل على العكس من ذلك يلجأ الكثير منا إلى الانتظار والتسويف حتى تأتي اللحظة الحاسمة، ومن ثم نبادر بالإسراع لعمل المطلوب بأداء مرتبك كثيرة أخطاؤه ومثالبه نتيجة السرعة.
 
اللجوء لمهاجمة الأشخاص لا مناقشة آرائهم
 
ومما يمكن إضافته إلى ذلك أيضاً طريقتنا السلبية عند التعاطي مع الآراء التي لا تنسجم مع آرائنا وتوجهاتنا؛ فالكثير منا بدلاً من الاستماع لقائل ذلك الرأي ومحاولة النظر في صوابه من عدمه يلجأ للهجوم الشخصي والكيل لصاحب الرأي على حساب مناقشة الرأي المطروح. وتولد من رحم هذه الممارسة الاجتماعية الخاطئة بعض الممارسات، التي منها أننا نتهم صاحب الرأي المضاد بالانحطاط الفكري، أو العمل بنية سيئة تنطوي على الإساءة لقيمنا ومبادئنا، وهناك من يتجاوز إلى أبعد من ذلك ويتهم الطرف الآخر بالجهل، والتسطيح، أو التصدي للآراء المختلفة بعصي العادات والتقاليد التي لا يتوافق بعضها مع مبادئ الدين الحنيف وتخالفه الفطرة الإنسانية.
 
التناقض
 
صفة الاختلاف، أو عدم التوافق بين القول والعمل، والاعتقاد والممارسة، تمثل ممارسة اجتماعية سلبية بارزة في مجتمعنا السعودي؛ فالكثير منا يعبِّر عن رأيه تجاه أمر ما، لكن هذا التعبير المبني في معظم أحواله على قناعة يتناقض مع ما يمارسه صاحبه في الواقع المعاش. ومن هنا فنحن لا نطبق ميدانياً ما ندعو له ونبشر به نظرياً، وهذه الممارسة السلبية يمكن ملاحظتها في العديد من تصرفاتنا الاجتماعية؛ فنحن ظاهرياً نلتزم بتعاليم ديننا وعاداتنا وتقاليدنا، لكننا نمارس على الأرض ما يتناقض تماماً مع تلك المبادئ والقيم التي نعلن أمام الملأ أننا معها قلباً وقالباً.
 
هذه الممارسات الاجتماعية الخاطئة لا تعني بحال أننا مجتمع دون خصال وممارسات إيجابية، وأن هذا المخاض الاجتماعي قضى على القيم الإنسانية النبيلة التي يتمتع بها الفرد السعودي، بل إن المواطن السعودي بالرغم من ذلك لا يزال يعتز ويفخر بانتمائه إلى الصحراء واستمداده منها تقاليد بدوية عريقة، تتمثل في الشهامة والكرم، وغيرهما من الخصال الحميدة، ولا يزال يحتفظ - على الرغم من تعدد مشارب تلك التحولات الاجتماعية وسرعة وتيرتها - برصيد ضخم من المثل والأخلاقيات السامية. وحتى نحافظ على هذا الرصيد الاجتماعي الإيجابي نحن بحاجة إلى تسليط الضوء على ممارسات اجتماعية خاطئة من أجل لفت الانتباه إليها، والدعوة للعمل على تلافيها.

التليفزيون الإسرائيلي: حديث مرسي عن السلام وسيناء وحزب الله يثلج الصدور

التليفزيون الإسرائيلي: حديث مرسي عن السلام وسيناء وحزب الله يثلج الصدور
معتز أحمد
محمد مرسي
عرض التليفزيون الإسرائيلي اليوم الخميس عبر موقعه على شبكه الإنترنت التصريحات، التي أدلى بها الدكتور محمد مرسي، مرشح جماعة الإخوان المسلمون للرئاسة، مع الإعلامي خيري رمضان أمس في قناة الـ"سي بي سي".

وأوضح التليفزيون أن أهم ما جاء في تصريحات مرسي أنه ينوي الحفاظ على اتفاقية السلام بين مصر وإسرائيل خاصة وأنها ضرورية لمصر، وهو ما أعتبره التليفزيون بمثابة تصريح يثلج الصدور ويقلل من خوف الإسرائيليين من الإخوان، خاصة وأن أسهم مرسي في الفوز بالرئاسة كبيرة، حسب وصف التليفزيون الإسرائيلي.

وأشار التليفزيون إلى أن مرسي مرشح ذكي، وأن ما قصده هو أن يتم التعامل بين مصر وإسرائيل على أسس الاحترام المتبادل بين الطرفين وعدم خرق الاتفاقية، إلا أن التليفزيون أبدى تخوفه من قول مرسى إن إسرائيل لا تحترم الاتفاقية، من خلال تهديد الحدود وقتل الجنود والتلويح الدائم بالحرب.

وتخوف التليفزيون من هذا التعبير الذي استخدمه مرسي، إلا أنه وفي الوقت ذاته زعم بأن تمسك مرسي بمباديء السلام مع إسرائيل هو أمر جيد.

وأشار التليفزيون إلى تخوف عدد من المراقبين الإسرائيليين من تصريحات مرسي بضرورة فتح معبر رفح على مدار العام أمام الفلسطينيين، موضحا أن هذا القرار من الممكن أن يؤثر سلبيا على إسرائيل.

غير أن المراقبين تعشموا خيرا من جملة واحدة قالها مرسي عقب مناداته بفتح المعبر وهي أن سيناء خط أحمر أمام كل ما هو غير مصري، وهو التصريح الذي وصفه التليفزيون بالجيد بالنسبة لمرسي الذي يدرك المخاطر التي من الممكن أن تهدد بلاده.

وأشار التليفزيون إلى أن أخطر ما جاء من تصريحات لــ"مرسي" كانت تأكيده بأنه سوف يعمل على بسط ذراع مصر لكافة دول العالم حتى إسرائيل، لكن على أسس من الاحترام المتبادل كدولة كبرى تنفتح على العالم وتدعم السلام، خاصة فى المنطقة العربية، وكذلك بين إيران ودول الجوار.

وأضاف أن علاقة مصر بلبنان لابد أن تكون جيدة وأنه لا دولة تسمى "حزب الله" بل دولة فيها حزب اسمه "حزب الله" ، وهذا التصريح أخذ التليفزيون يتحدث عنه كثيرا، مشيرًا في إطار تقرير له بعد هذا أن مرسي يرغب في إعلاء دور الدولة على الميليشيا، ويؤكد أيضا أن الدولة هي الأساس وليس الحزب.

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