Sunday, November 16, 2014

Why Do Arab Countries Fail?

WHY DO ARAB COUNTRIES FAIL?

I found this material from early 2014, probably from around April, that I scribbled onto a notebook, after having typed it on a little phone a month or two before. This does not resemble the original, but it was in my salad days, long before the true suffering.

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Because of
THE ARAB WAY OF LIFE
The man is the family.
The man’s wife and children are his property.
The man – the family – lives in a community.
The community has its own social laws
– rigid laws –
which is enforced by others’ beady eyes
and terrified everyone.
And on everyone else is conveyed to everyone else an image
– a façade – a mirage –
of what goodness and evil means to everyone in the community.
Conformity to the social law keeps the image spotless.
Breaking a tiny delicate law blots the whole image.
And no quicker and no wider and no finer blot
Than a man’s daughter losing her virginity!
GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS
Men love to look at and admire stranger girls
But enrage when a daughter, a sister, a wife is especially feminine.
NOT YOUR GIRL!
A man who slept with a stranger girl
Get praised.
A man whose daughter slept with a stranger boy
Gets shamed.
THE ARAB WAY
Hate the kin
Love the stranger
Silence the opinion of kin
Submit to the opinion of absolute strangers.

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