I remember last year's debates that took place in Hungary as I was there for a course of several weeks. To be frank it was more of an investigation done by a Belgium man about Islam, Terrorism and Saudi Arabia. yes I know how much of a beautiful triad to be arguing about for five weeks :\ . to be honest I was enjoying it and that gentleman was a curious clever person making me look to other faces of reality and making the breaks in each day more than just a time for getting a bite to stop your hunger.
it was that day when he asked me a new question about the causes of the Sunni-Shiite conflict. *SIGH* I replayed then took a breath and a few minutes to try summarizing it but couldn't. I started talking and explaining the beginning by the killing of othman ibn affan the third leader of the young islamic state followed by the fight for power between the two strong men of that time ali and moaweya passing by the years later and the death of hussain the grandson of the prophet and the son of ali and the bequeathing of yazeed the son of moaweya ... he suddenly stopped me asking me if the bombings in iraq are justified and based on such stories ?? well, if you add a lot of self interests and thirst for power in the last 1000 years then yes, can you believe it? I answered.
what made me remember that argument is that tension I see each time in the faces of people in my college located in Riyadh the capital of Saudi Arabia which is known to be the political HQ for Sunni islam not only that but a more strict one. the tension is brought by many things mostly political as recently the bahraini protests. because in a shiite dominant country Iran "you've said it the shiite HQ" must be involved !! as if their demands of a better life is a cover for an "Islamic revolution" there "personally I'm not interested at all actually i was happy to hear a DJ demand in the protesters gathering, it was a real relief."
this conflict makes us weak from the inside and gave a golden chance for occupiers to keep iraqis divided and more away of each other, not only that but made that gap that extremists from both sides used in a terrible way.
trying to understand the reasons behind such ideas is not that hard. some religious politically guided assholes are behind each recent conflict. raising children under a speech praising sects not land, pointing the difference not the common and turning the credibility of the preachers and history events into a non questionable dogmas plus a long history of lacking trust in each other.
all of these are making this phobia spread in a wider range between the young and the worst part is they don't even need to know history to make a point of it .. it's inherited nowadays !
no one decided what he was born as and history does not belong to anyone, logic has no role in this as some will try to convince us with "or themselves maybe" .. i believe he has the freedom to believe in it or not to believe in anything at all as this is his pure business and if bahrainis choose the spaghetti and meat ball god as a supreme leader I'll be happy as long as they get and apply a constitution giving them all their rights making them a major part in building their land.
in the old days I've been filled with such stupid thoughts but now for sure I know and will try my best not to put my future children in a such environment. it's enough that I lived in this ambivalent sphere which both parts are guilty in making it. enough is enough.
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