Comments on: A Letter to Mr. President http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Howie http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2767 Howie Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:11:29 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2767 Edno- I know exactly what you are trying to say. Tension and depression and self-loathing are equal to the distance between your beliefs/values and your actually behavior. It ain't easy...esp. once you have responsibilities, kids, and others that need you out of prison or alive. Edno-

I know exactly what you are trying to say. Tension and depression and self-loathing are equal to the distance between your beliefs/values and your actually behavior.

It ain’t easy…esp. once you have responsibilities, kids, and others that need you out of prison or alive.

]]> By: Edo River http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2766 Edo River Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:29:43 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2766 The bats are out, beware of their fangs. They are blinded by the light and they will strike at anyone and anything. There is one SURE protection, but the price you have to pay for that protection, probably seems the same or worse than if you joined the bats. I can't say much more, because even I, Mr. Trying-to-be-holy, can't quite give everything up....so I too suffer along with all the others. It will probably get worse before the situation gets better. Maybe "a new race of men" must be born. You have to "lose" your life in order to regain it. There is a spiritual interpretation to this, but either way, it is painful ;-( The bats are out, beware of their fangs. They are blinded by the light and they will strike at anyone and anything.

There is one SURE protection, but the price you have to pay for that protection, probably seems the same or worse than if you joined the bats. I can’t say much more, because even I, Mr. Trying-to-be-holy, can’t quite give everything up….so I too suffer along with all the others.

It will probably get worse before the situation gets better. Maybe “a new race of men” must be born. You have to “lose” your life in order to regain it. There is a spiritual interpretation to this, but either way, it is painful ;-(

]]> By: Esra'a http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2765 Esra'a Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:04:55 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2765 I agree with you on the seriousness of the issue, that's why I made it into a seperate post. Most importantly I can REALLY relate to this. I agree with you on the seriousness of the issue, that’s why I made it into a seperate post. Most importantly I can REALLY relate to this.

]]> By: Howie http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2764 Howie Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:02:22 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2764 Esra'a- I might have my differences with the Palestinians..but this is a different type of terror...this is Farenheit 451, this is true Nazism...this is an attack on the essence of freedom. This is book burning and mind burning. It is really really really bad stuff. Esra’a-

I might have my differences with the Palestinians..but this is a different type of terror…this is Farenheit 451, this is true Nazism…this is an attack on the essence of freedom. This is book burning and mind burning. It is really really really bad stuff.

]]> By: Esra'a http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2763 Esra'a Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:44:03 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2763 Howie, This angered me so much I wrote a special entry about it. Thanks for the linkage. Howie,

This angered me so much I wrote a special entry about it. Thanks for the linkage.

]]> By: Jina http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2762 Jina Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:05:25 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2762 sigh... wtf wrong with these fundamentalists? If Muslims don't stand together against this level of ignorance, there is no hope in the Middle East for anything, let alone peace. <blockquote>In Rafah, arsonists set fire to a shop selling cassettes and CDs. The owner, Farid Awad, said masked gunmen had warned him in the past not to sell modern music.</blockquote> sigh... sigh… wtf wrong with these fundamentalists? If Muslims don’t stand together against this level of ignorance, there is no hope in the Middle East for anything, let alone peace.

In Rafah, arsonists set fire to a shop selling cassettes and CDs. The owner, Farid Awad, said masked gunmen had warned him in the past not to sell modern music.

sigh…

]]> By: Howie http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2761 Howie Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:48:05 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2761 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378512305&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull This is what you have to be so careful of...this is lurking. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378512305&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

This is what you have to be so careful of…this is lurking.

]]> By: Howie http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2760 Howie Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:16:46 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2760 Jina- And Lebanese, and Syrians and maybe most of us..but still your point is very well taken. Jina-

And Lebanese, and Syrians and maybe most of us..but still your point is very well taken.

]]> By: Jina http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2759 Jina Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:48:17 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2759 I wish more people were like you. Trying to solve the problem by yourselves with your countrymen rather than siding with another foreigner who have their own agenda... some Iraqis come to my mind. I wish more people were like you. Trying to solve the problem by yourselves with your countrymen rather than siding with another foreigner who have their own agenda… some Iraqis come to my mind.

]]> By: Esra'a http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2758 Esra'a Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:46:54 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2006/11/29/a-letter-to-mr-president/#comment-2758 I think what Arash meant to say is "you have your own version of Ahmadinejad," as opposed to a "less dangerous" version. I think what Arash meant to say is “you have your own version of Ahmadinejad,” as opposed to a “less dangerous” version.

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