Sister Aloysius Beauvier: When you take a step to address wrongdoing, you are taking a step away from God, but in his service.

Doubt movie 2008

As I look around me today I see a world that is full of hat ,,you just need to watch the news for 20 minutes to understand that there is no way we are not going to vanish in thin air

Then you look beyond the news ,,check the news that were not headlines ,, in this media world were every one is broadcasting news ,,,you can hear a lot if you close your eyes and listen

In my country I still see nice educated people calling for the blood and justice against the old regime ,, they want new blood for old blood ,,, and it our sense of humanitarian justice they are right ,,, but because we can not see the whole picture we see the headline ,,,justice and crimes ,,,but we do not ask : who is exactly we need to take justice from today and how ?  maybe if you hear the answer ,,you will be terrified from those nice educated people ,,,because they had put revenge a head of  normal justice of god and human

This was only and example ,,so please do not take it the wrong way ,,,the old regime sons and families living away still crazy on glory days ,,were justice took place ,,,their justice ,,,their role that is called crime today ,,, and if you hear what they say ,,you will not feel so sympathetic if the nice people took their revenge

So old hate and ignorance produce crimes that we paid for in losing our way of live ,,then we still have people who had not get their justice and they produce hate ,,,and the survivals of old hate see it as existence war ,,, in the end survival is stronger than revenge ,,,so they turn old hate to new one ,,, both sides have new generations and they grow up hearing legends of the hate

If we see the bigger picture ,,hate turns into anti-something ,,,we had anti-sametic .. we all know the roots and we reached the point were people still do it but by covering it under conspiracy theory  or the nicer western way of the banks theory ,,, of course when we see what happened to the Palestinians from 1936 till today ,,see their world ,,,life,,, how the generations grow up ,,,, how the world treats them at boarders ,,,what we tell them and think of them …we may think that we live in a unfair world

Terror ,,we all hate terrorist ,,,but today we all hate Muslims ,,,  when we mention anti Islam in our cultures ,,,we jump directly to Taliban and  this group and this man ,,and hijab ,beards ,homophobia ,stones ,,,if you discuss Islam you will hear a lot about stones ,,, and of course most of the Muslims you see today on tv and in politics are radicals ,,because you are not going to talk with any one moderate ,,,can you name 10 moderate Muslims in your country ? I know the names of all the radicals ,,,they are tv stars ,,hear them on the comedy shows ,,,,and you will find their books in any public library ,,and many great authors spend time to discuss it ,in spite the fact that they are not Muslims or believe in Islam ,,, the reason is that they want the world to know the truth of those radicals…so what is the truth exactly ??

1-is it that they are only a minority in a 1,75 billion person faith ,,,,

Or

2- that Islam is a religion of hate and we need to leave our plant earth ?

If 1 then you are talking to me,, you respect my faith and want to tell me new information’s so I can live normally like you ,,,but if you talk to me from point 2,,,then what I should do ? disbelieve so I can have intelligent discussion with you ? if you tell me the world is treating me weird and see me as a radical and make it harder for me to work, travel ,, because of  ignorant people that are not even share my same faith ,,as any other religion Islam is multi branch ..so why I have to take the blame ?  and if you tell me lets talk but you must admit you believe in false god and every one you love is a hateful stone throwing person ,,,,what do you think that will be the normal scientific reflex to your hate…

Hate is getting hate…in fare African lands ,,,rape and killing ,,maybe connected to oppression in a far cold lands in the north….this is not a butterfly effect ,,,this is global politics and  having a very rich and powerful people and a dying from starvation people

You can also change the channels and do not see all this hate ,,,,snooky from jersey shores is pregnant…opps she is not ,,,,

I really hate this kind of news ,,,and I hope my hate will not produces a reflex

I have a doubt after all this hate,,,I see the creation of god ,,a baby laughing and playing and trying to be my friend ,,he can not see that my ethnicity as a problem ,,,and I can not understand that such creature is a product of happy coincidence between O2 ,H2, and Co2

I believe in the big man upstairs ,,,his intelligent creation,,I believe in his books we can see traces of his mercy if we look deep

I just lost my faith in people ,,,their hate ,,,need to defining everything ,,,their need to make everything so uncreative and cold,,, our   violence ,,,,how we are killing earth and nature

Our politics ,,news ,,, hypocrisy

I lost my faith in people ,,,I just have faith in god ,,his words ,,and this kid that liked to laugh and play with me regardless of all the hate

After 10 years of war and 35 years of whatever you like to name ,,,we still think that death is something that happens accidentally ,that we can reason with the killers ,that they will understand ,,that people that masses will think …

In 1979 a group of elite leaders of Iraq were executed ,,,their crime was that they were traitors ,,,  they wanted Syria to  prevent saddam from taking over the power ,,,but what we do not read in the books that it took the state from the day saddam accused them of being traitors on national tv  to the day they were officially hanged ,,it took 21 days …they were prisoned ,torture and then all their fortunes taken by the state ,,and people send letters to the president and demonstrated in the streets asking him to kill them and do not feel sorry for them .

This was not the first or the last time the masses ,,or the people demanded blood ,,,yes they did not have a choice ,,but they also were not feeling they were participating in a massacre ,,, if you went to that day and talk to them they will tell you ,,,they deserve it

The fact that we over all our history feel that we can give reasons to killing and displacement and robbing the iraqi Jewish community ,,, invading Kuwait ,,, hitting Kurds with poisons…erasing the communist party from the face of our earth ,,,,2 or 3 wars ,,,,and killing the others.

We all if you sit and discuss with us our history will tell you at one point they deserve it …not for some specific group but we all had a specific deserving group …

What is happing in our life is crazy ,,,people are getting killed ,,and the government do not want to stop it ,,,in fact they look forward for helping in the killing ,,,and they can show you letters and demonstration of people asking them not to feel sorry

We think we can build our country by telling them …the masses the truth ….the problem is that they know the truth and decided to overlook it

So what is the solution ?? should we give up …go home ,,,travel to China and works in apple shop?

No ,,,but we need to understand our politics ,,, our history, outside the propaganda of god advocates and tv news channels

Then we will figure out why this man killed the emo ,,,and we can tell the masses that he killed them because it make money ,,,he is getting green money from it ,,and he is not sharing with you ,,, masses love green ,,,masses get angry

But  we need also before wanting to build our country to think ,,are we people that just want to help this political community in getting better and building the country ? or we need someone else ,,,?

To answer this question ask the young men in Egypt why are they standing every day and shout …go go go

After long years of war people keep asking what can we do? How can we be united? what should we do ?

I hear these questions and wonder why do they keep wearing black glasses that prevent them of seeing what kind of hell we are living in?

We had a daily death tool in our country , people die ,,,they die brutal death .. and every time we hear and see that we feel sorry ,,, and say how can we stop this?? When it will stop ?? and why us ??

The answer is easy ,,,we had a humanitarian crisis ,, people die and we can blame who ever we like ,,,this will not change the fact ,,,people are getting killed ,,,

So what we can do ?? how can we be united ?? …after all we are not police men ?? we are not an army ?? we are alone ,afraid ,,and we all had lost someone

We need to be realistic ,,, to use our heads,,, and participating in stopping this death tool …the fact is that it is very heard for us to work together ,,, because every one has fear from the others ,,,and we all want to be leaders ,,, and it is useless to work alone ,,,it is like trying to fight huge fire with a cup of water

We need to find a cause …I like women rights ..then this is my cup of tea ,,,others like free media then they work together ,,, I can help and support,,, I might not like them ,,or feel they can not understand me ,,,but I need to pick a side ,,, and they need to do so ,,, also we can not have room for people with 2 hearts ,,one day with us and next saying we are crazy ,,,we need people with true believe ,,,people that can see the problem of our situation  without needing us to point it to them

People with tools to fight and build are so rare ,,,you can meet one in every few groups ,,,and many lack knowledge and training and experience …. And trying to motive them so they can be effective part of the struggle ,,, and in order to help them to get what you learn in 10 years in 10 days ,,they need to change their priorities ,,,they need to know that their country come first ,,,not their group ,city or favorite politicians

We need to put our personal glory, ego  ,pride , hopes , greed , lust and needs low in our priority list ,,,you need to love and have passion

This is the bases of voluntary work and patriotism ,,,you need to remember that some where a man and a women are giving his life ,,,so I can do my part ,,,and we need to be humble

But all this is against our normal daily point of views ,,,and god forbids me or any other humble person may questions our divine views

And the dilemma continues ,,, and you get hit by a brick on your head because reality bits ,,,and you need to work using the same few people ,,,doing the same small stuff ,,,building a small wall ,stone by a stone ,,,for the old bad wolfs to come and blow it up ….

You know you are fighting alone ,,,and you are desperate for a hand or a word of help …that you are weak ,,,ignorant ,,, that every one had forget you ,,god had forget you ,,and you are a don don Quixote trying to beat the windmills ,,and you ask your self ,,what the hell I am doing ??  have I lost my mind ?? I am alone ..fool and broken ,,,and no body care or listen …and whatever I do is so small with my restricted potentials and lack of creativity

but your  conscious and the image of old people like you trying to fight,, ,force you to keep standing

then you see people passing around with all their power ,creativity, ,,potentials ,, wearing dark glasses, ,torturing them self’s for not being able to solve the dilemma of what to do and how ??

you feel so disappointed in your self ,,,for failing to make them take of their glasses ,,for having a week low voice ,,for not shouting so hard so they can hear you

After 10 years ,,, I feel disappointed ,,,and I hope for a quick death so I can leave the finally lie down to rest .

Today we are witnessing the movement of the masses in the Arab region has become known as the Arabic Spring, also in many other cities in the world, we witness  the movements of rejection to reality based on the substance not human well-being, and we also witness the leading role played by citizen journalists in these movement. We are a group of Iraqi bloggers, and under the banner of (A Step of Hope), we held the first conference of the Iraqi bloggers in the city of Sulaymaniyah on the 8^th-9^th of Feb. 2012, organized by the Iraq Network Social Media (I.N.S.M.), and sponsored by the International Media Support (I.M.S.) and Al Rubai’y Group for office supplies, with almost 70 participants bloggers attending the event.

The issues discussed in the conference were the reality of blogging movement in Iraq and its weaknesses and strengths, and the opportunities and revitalization of the movement and development in order to be an important source of digital culture in Iraq, the conference also discussed ways to protect bloggers and keeping their morale and the relationship between bloggers and journalist, that was done through intensive lectures and training workshops.

The conclusion of the conference was to hold elections for the members of board to head I.N.S.M. for the next transition

And this is the Final Statement :

• Establishing the first voluntary transition administrative Commission for the I.N.S.M Includes bloggers and digital activists Iraqis inside and outside Iraq.
• Attendees agreed to empower communication between Iraqi bloggers to serve the development process of codification in Iraq, to enhance the strength points and minimize weaknesses and to invest the existing opportunities and avoid risks.
• The Commission shall take it upon themselves to manage the election for the next I.N.S.M. community on a voluntary basis and prepare for an international conference for bloggers in Iraq before the end of 2012.
• Building bridges between the social media and traditional media in Iraq.
• Applying all the pressure possible to prevent the pursuit of Information systems and cyber crime law in the Iraqi parliament
• Establish a website that provides the means to improve the Iraqi blogging and make it the easy way for communicating between the Iraqi bloggers.
• Emphasis on the quality in presentation and not merely the amount of the number of bloggers.
• Activating the role of bloggers through programs that are implemented in real life and contribute to the dissemination of cultural awareness in all areas and actively participate in events to introduce the concepts and purpose of blogging to enhance blogging in Iraq.

For more information, please contact us.

Email : Iraqi.network.4.social.media@gmail.com

Phone : 00 964 770 88 66 150

For the next 2 days the workshop will open a discussion about laws and regulation in Iraq that concerns freedom of speech and censorship laws. Bloggers will work together to discuss new media applications and technologies and how they can use it to share information and building each other’s blogging networks and capabilities. The conference in held by help of IMS and HR institutes to develop new media in Iraq.

Several Arab and Iraqi bloggers had sent a video message that will be shared during the lectures, and several speakers will discuss media, freedom of speech and blogging.

wameeth@gmail.com

raq has been one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists since 2003….this did not improve in spite of the new freedom of speech and many international reports documented attacks on media and its people in Iraq .. according to gulf center for human rights many journalists pay heavy price for their words , it said in an articel in in 16th of jan 2012

On 2 January 2012, Al-Sabah, a State-owned daily newspaper based in Baghdad announced that it had dismissed the head of the cultural section, Ahmed Abdulhossain and journalist Ahmed Hossain, who also writes for the cultural section from their employment. Their dismissal comes less than a month after the Editor-in –Chief Abdulsatar Al-Baithany was fired from his position with Al-Sabah.

The dismissals of the three journalists took place without any prior warning to them and no procedure of investigation was followed

The three journalists were dismissed under a direct order of Mohammed Al-Shaboud, director of the Iraqi Information Network supported by Ali Salamn, head of the trustee council for the Iraqi Information Network.GCHR believes that the three journalists Ahmed Abdulhossain, Ahmed Hossain, and Abdulsatr Al-Baithany have been targeted because of their writings in the Al-Sabah newspaper and as a result of the legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of expression. GCHR also believes that the dismissal from their positions is directly linked to such writings and considers the dismissal as a shameful effort by the Iraqi government to curb the rights to freedom expression and the freedom of the press. GCHR calls on the Iraqi government to meet its human rights obligations and stop targeting journalists in Iraq and should ensure that the right to freedom of expression is respected.

links

http://www.gc4hr.org/news/view/57

http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/iraq-insights/-4-35582.html

by wamith alkassab ..

wameeth@gmail.com

Earlier this week declared Wuterich is guilty of misconduct, and Tuesday he met in court at the military camp Pendleton near San Diego in California to find out the sentence.

He was initially sentenced to 90 days in jail, but do not have to zone as a result of an agreement he made with the military prosecutors. Instead, he was demoted to Private.Prosecutors have emphasized that the 31-year-old lost control after seeing a comrade killed in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi town of Haditha 19 November 2005.

It is a big shock to iraqi people that the ministry of human rights is planning to call for appeal ,,the victims families can not understand how this just happened …many in iraq thought that the legal system in US  is better than iraq ,but to act with such disregard of the death of all those people makes them lose faith in the democratic system that they “brought” to Iraq.

wamith al-kassab

wameeth@gmail.com

Today in Baghdad  the Iraqi people celebrated the memory of the great iraqi sculptural  Jawad Salim, the clebration was orgnize by Al-mada   Foundation  of information  culture and the arts in collaboration with the secretariat of Baghdad on Friday night in Tahrir Square under the Monument of Liberty by the late Jawad Salim on the occasion of the passage of half a century of his death where the ceremony was attended by a large number of political figures, cultural and artistic by playing pieces of the music by Iraqi  Symphony and  reading poetic pieces in his honer ,this was a message from the people to the world that in spite of all the violence in Iraq they still believe in hope ,art and better live and future

You can see an Arabic copy of the new regulation below, it consist of 4 paragraphs, each one is restricting wearing certain clothes and shoes to females employed in the ministry and signed by the women affairs coordinator.

We need painters, musicians, writers; we need people to have dreams and faith in the possibility of it coming true…

My friend Mohamed Amer had a dream , his dream was no to tell the story of his country, but to tell the world that his country is still have good sons, who can rise from the middle of war and death, to tell the world good stories, he always tried to help others who he believed got the talent to stand by their side and help of building new generation, so this young Iraqi youth decide to use his ability of writing to make one step to achieve his dream and he wrote a book, the book title is God Is In The Rain , is a story about an old man who tells stories to children in a fantasy and realistic way to grab their attention , a story a bout an amazing journey into the worlds philosophy about life and religion, romance and war.

I advice you to read it, and to help this 26 years old Iraqi engineer who lived most of his life in Iraq, waiting that someone, finally, hear all the talented youth calling, so how you can help him ??

Well you can buy his book, which is available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com ,,, and you can spread the word, share the link for this article and help other who like to support Iraqi youth to find a chance to do so.

Believe me in the end you will read an amazing story and feel good for helping g to induce change for Iraq future

This is link to the writer book and blog page

http://www.iraqistreets.com/talented-youth-blog-mohamed-amer-book

This is link to the book on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/God-Rain-ebook/dp/B006R90QHU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1325344110&sr=8-5

This is link to the book in Lulu

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mohamedamer