Saudi Minds

Synergy

There has been lots of debates about lots of issues in the region. starting from local issues ( traffic police, moral police ….etc. ) to international issues ( Palestine , Syria , Lebanon …… ).
There was a time when people were dreaming of uniting, dreaming of no boarders, dreaming of accepting each other.
Right now most of us are looking into only survival of the fittest. Countries are turning there backs to each other. The gain in this NOTHING.
When will we consider ourselves mature enough to recognise the affects that we are implying on each other. We love to talk about unity, we idealize it a lot in our daily lives, but we never think about acting on it.
Lets start with a few simple steps, acknowledge the fact that each and everyone of us is different ( race, religion, origin ) and do not act on these as a basis to be different. We have seen the affect of this back in the early 20th century. We will see the affect of this in 21st century. It is dated back to the beginning of time, and there was nothing gained about this.
While the fact is that most of us don’t want to see the big picture, and we talk about being one nation bonded by all of these ( not divided ) we act as if we are the only people here through poems, through story telling of glorious days of conquering other tribes, and also through interaction with one another.
Why is that when we mingle with foreigners, we try to understand them even though there are from a different culture, BUT will not try to understand each other?
This relates to every one and everything in this region from top to bottom, from left to right.
Synergy does not and will not exist if this continues.
It reached to a point that outside of this region are planning a reform strategy for us and declaring on international TVs, while we sit, listen and acknowledge this. We are good , or maybe even great in condemning things , but we are NOT even close to acting or trying to implement anything that has to do with the greater good of our nations.
Also another step that could be taken is to respect one another. most of our problems can be solved by doing this. From forming lines to national debates, if only we listened and recognised each other as humans with simple rights, things would be much better.
Do this for a change : when you see someone who needs your help ( and you have the time ) try to help them. It could be helping to walk stairs or allowing an elder person to pay ahead of you in the supermarket. These simple gestures will help us elevate to a higher standard as a nation let alone as humans.

Thank You All

I don’t know where to begin. As an Arab or a Muslim it is a combination of lots of things. Well here it goes any ways.

I would like to personally thank the World for supporting the Iraqi’s and preventing them from being murdered ( by themselves or by others ) and also preventing the abuse of their Human Rights. And also helping them maintain a stable government (since they never had a stable government).

I would like to thank the World for protecting the Afghan’s against the radicals which they were self taught about blowing up, military tactic and deterring outside forces (they were NOT affiliated with ANY WESTERN country when Afghanistan was being attacked by Russia. and they DO NOT use any western weapons in the attacks).

I would like to thank the World for helping to protect the Palestinians from an INVADING ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT ( since the Palestinians were their for only 2000 years, unlike other continents who are existing for LESS than 300 years), 2000 years is too far back that people can not remember.

I would like to thank the Arab League for denouncing any wrong doing that has happened to our Nations (would any one please explain to me about the gains of denouncing, I think I am missing out here).

I would like to thank the U.N. or agreeing on resolutions and giving out numbers to make them seem important ( 446 , anyone? ).

I would like to thank the ARAB NATIONS for standing with each other ( WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ……… ).

I would like to thank THE nation that reelected the same president TWICE for being very SMART ( THEY GUY CANNOT SPEAK , let alone run a country).

I would like to thank our ARAB LEADERS for uniting the front against any intervention of outside influence (Great work on Palestine guys).

I would like to thank myself for being so honest (I cannot put my name here, but hey, who are we kidding here).

And also, I would like to THANK YOU ALL for reading this.

Reasons for this !!!

One of the main reasons that I created this blog is to let out some steam about a few things, and share it with all of you on how some things are working. This is NOT a Saudi bashing blog. I am Saudi. Born and raised and deep rooted (generations in the home land). This is not a blog about Al-Qaeda or supporting them, or some radical left or right wing, communist or capitalist, political party. It is a place for thinking out loud about various issues of our day to day lives.