« Entah azim ya Allah ! », You are great oh God ! Allah is a God of many names…Actually He has 99 names according to the Quran and folk tales have it that the camel is the only one to know the 100th name, which explains the smug look he has on his face!These Arabic countries we have been to and have learned to get know are quite a change… We’ve entered a whole new culture: the Islamic culture. As a child you can do pretty much what you want, as an adult you must act responsibly, modest women is a good thing and honour takes the head of the family.
Something I cannot manage to understand is the mentality of neglect for their own country, I though my small French region was quite unclean, compared to most of these places it is a very clean region!
It’s strange to think that we went to places like Libya, Egypt and Oman where at this point in time things are falling apart!
Come to think of it, when you have a closer look at these countries all you find is people… that feel oppressed, are frustrated and just want to make friends with the outside world.
Behind every Mohammed you find a lonely person like you and me, trying to make his place in the world. I’ve stayed in contact with some guys from these countries, and what they tell me is that this is for the better of their countries!
I’m not the type to adopt a “total tolerance bill” just for the sake of claiming to be culturally sensitive. But I do wish we’d change our perception of the Arab world, it’s not one big
mass of terrorist active people. It’s a group of countries like any other, with their advantages and their disadvantages, nothing less, nothing more, a people.
Pray that during this time of transition this part of the world would change and open up to the outside world. Not that we can overcome them with our materialism (which we will, and already have) but that we can build long lasting friendships with another part of the world.
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