Just some thoughts I get when i surf the net. so i like to get them out of my head or else they wander inside my brain all day and give me a headache
Monday, November 3, 2008
Feminism !
Feminism, is a very interesting concept for me.
all my life i heard phrases like, women's right, feminism and equality. and to tell you the truth I never took the time of day to figure out do i actually believe in that or not. my own personal opinion was a blur. then lately that issue rose to the surface all of a sudden , Maybe it was because of too much Talkshowes that had to fill their airtime with something , or maybe i suddenly was old enough to care, or maybe women just went crazy or maybe it was about time women started talkin about what was rightfully theirs. whatever the reason I suddenly discovered I had an opinion, an opinion that shocks a lot of people who knows me. people around me have this misconception about me as being this independent, wanna-b-American, spoiled brat. I am not a Feminist so that surprise almost everyone around me, except few people who knows me well enough to realize that looks is deceiving.
I Honestly don't see women as in desperate need for help to have their rights. what really bothers me about Arab Feminists, is that a lot of them make couple of stupid mistakes for instance they claim that the "Arab" world is designed to automatically give the man more rights, when it's very evident that this is a GLOBAL issue, they claim that the "Civilized world" has given the women their rights while the fight for women's right is still fought even in America, of course gone is the times of bra burning, but by their own recognition it is still going on. and get me started about their stupid complains about how our society allow men to make some mistakes and denies women those same mistakes and their BIGGEST example is always pr-marital sex, how women are punished for the by death while men get away with it, it's a vaild point but how come every time thye talk about it they comeof as if they just want parents to be cool with their daughters having pre-marital sex instead of wanting partents to raise their sons not to do itreligion is usually their biggest obstacle some choose to get out of this predicament by claiming that the they (sheik and Imams) don't get it right some go as far as claiming that the religion is flawed like of course Nawal el Sadawy, some just ignore the religion all together.
A lot of men would tell you that most feminist are just ugly women who failed in live so they are taking their frustration out on men, I wish i could contradict that but sadly this is the picture that most feminist draw, when they talk you can easily see that they are pushed by merely stubbornness, or bitterness and sometimes even both, most of them refuse to listen to common sense I mean comeon people is it really that important to have women working in EVERY SINGLE JOB, we have to have a female judge, a female Ma2zone, a Female this, a female that! I do believe that some jobs are best preformed by a males some are best preformed by a females.
I also believe that men and women were created different but still equal, I just see equality in a different light. I don't have to be ina male dominate job to feel my equality, hell i don't even have to have a job. it sounds kinda pointless for both men and women to do the same jobs, it's like having a company filled with managers with no emplyees, if both men and women went to work how would raise children? usually anyself respecting feminist would simply tell you, why don't men stay at home and raise children ? and my answer is quite simple because women are better at raising children than men, they have more patients and more nurturing, it's in their nature. it doesn't make them less equal or less then men. We were created on this earth to worship God and to proliferate so raising a family is an imprtant part of our religion , and to raise a family we need a man and a woman. A man protect and a women nurture, it's not a master and slave realationship, it's a partnership and like any other partership ONE has to be in command not 2. Women are married by will, so basically the women gets to chose the man she's gonna live with and follow for the rest of her life, and both of them would follow God's Commands in thier life.
For me it's as simply as that, if you don't like that (as a women) then simply don't get married, (unlike men women are not required to get married in religion).
I am told that this is my view because I've never been to the real world, I've lived in my very own cocoon , a happy family, a privet school , a nice job ,driving my own car and hanging out with friends in cafes and Malls.
Maybe that's right, I don't have any male brothers so maybe I don't know how it feels to be treated as a second grade citizen (as femisits claim happens) but i do believe that this praticular problem which is the only problem I honestly feel for and see, have a very easy solution, instead of goin to talk shows and rallies and assosiations. stay home raise your kids and treat them equally tell your son, you and your sister are alike.
I am sorry but I don't see men as the enemy women are.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Freedom is a privilege not a right
Rachel Corrie
Who is Rachel Corrie?
i admit that until couple of days ago I had no idea what's so ever who that person it, i avoid news about Palestine like the plague. sorry! but it frustrates me . it always feel like a person i knew and abandoned. I suddenly found myself facing a pieces of information saying that she was an American peace activist that was ran over by an Israelis bulldozer while attempting to stop an illegal destruction of a Palestinian house.
and I am ashamed to admit that what caught my attention is the fact that she's American. don't get me wrong i like Americans as the next person but it's well known that most Americans are more interested in internal affairs and most of them (not all just most) knows next to nothing about other countries especially Arabic ones. and also America the big monster . you'd read in an accident about people killed from all nationalities but if one American was injured America don't let it slide so easy, it's a rule that America doesn't allow ANYTHING or ANYONE to hurt Americans aboard. (I bet it feels great to know that your country would support you in time of need). so after reading for a while about Rachel Corrie, i surfed the net for news of the American reaction and found that they demanded an investigation which was done by "Israelis" and concluded that she was recluse and she "jumped" in front of the bulldozer despite various eye-witnesses that assured that wasn't how it happened and that the driver did it internationally.
and that was when it came to me that people who rules all across the world , be they kings, queens , Prime ministers , emperors or presidents. believe the same thing that "Freedom is a privilege not a right". No matter how hard they scream and shout the opposite of that. every country gives it's people a limited amount of freedom , sometimes it's a lot other times it's nothing, you can never exceed your amount. just like when the war at Afghanistan started among all the Taliban's there were an American ,I am not sure if there were others but am quit sure there was at least one, that person was treated just like the rest of Taliban like a terrorist and not one American objected ,at least not loud enough for international ppl to hear, what about his rights ? what about innocent until proven guilty , what about.... what about?
all this makes me think that living in a country like ours is at least more honest they don't pretend ,at least they didn't start to, that we have freedom of speech or any type of freedom. they simply tell us Freedom is a privilege and you don't deserve it . unlike all over the world were they teach them that Freedom is a right, but the fine print says as long as you don't stand in the way of bigger schemes. I think that's why a lot of the so-called civilized world get a shocked when they get ran over and left behind by their strongest country in the world.
this whole post starting to not make sense and lost all it's consistency and isn't even coherent and feels pompous and pretentious, so I apologize for anyone who read all this JUNK
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Shuffle Tag : Alone I break
RULES:
1. Put your iTunes/music player on Shuffle.
2. For each question, pres the next button to get you answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!! After you’ve answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and then let them know they’ve been tagged to do them themselves.
1.IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
It’s sucks – Skye Sweetnam
LOL, so true
2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Uptown girl- Westlife
No doubt in my mind ;)
3.WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
when ever you call – Maria carey and Brian McKnight
yeah sure when ever you call is the first thing that attracts me to a guy , LOL
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Wine Slow – T-pain & flow ridin
HUH!
5.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
get low – lil jon & ying yang twins
No way! Lower than that
6.WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Going under- Evancences
What’s with the down theme!
7. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Sweet sacrifice – Evancences
So true!
8.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Tangled – Maroon 5
Yeah I know am very sophisticated
9.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Hey there Delilah- plain white T’s
Huh!
10.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Tourniquet – Evancences
Thanx a lot person, and what’s with Evancences, don’t like her that much
11.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
My Name – xzibit & Nate Dogg
Again Huh!
12.WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Never Again - Nickleback
Tough Love LOL
13.WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Saturday night – Whigfield
That doesn’t even make sense
14. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Courage is…- the strange Familiar
LOL
15. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Moving Mountains – Usher
Poor me!
16.WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Trading Places – Usher
With who?
17. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I don’t want to miss a thing – Aerosmith
So true
18.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
lifetime - Usher
That can work, but what’s up with Usher
19. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Alone I break – KoRn
Did that
20. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF?
Angel Eyes – Raghav
Duh! LOL
I tag
marooned84
and
Z_diva
did that surprise anyone LOL
Not only because they are my *cough* only *cough* readers, but also they are very dear friends :)
O and P.s I think it’s clear I didn’t change any of the answers (as some don’t make sense at all), but my music taste is very wide, I have over 1000 songs , don’t think that I only listen to evancesnse and usher, I have no idea why I was stuck with 3 songs for each of them LOL
Monday, August 18, 2008
The book Vault: Happy Bday
This is just Another post about Books, I’ve been surfing online for some good book reviews websites, and since I am so into Blogs right now I thought what the hell, let’s find some decent book worms who review books, you know to see what they think about books. So while I was doing that I stumbled on a site called the book muncher, read in it a little bit then it mentioned another book review blog, what’s special about that blog is that the blogger Dominique, is conducting a riddle-contest, she says a riddle about a certain book, and we (the people who’d send her the answers) had to figure out what that book is and send her an email. Then she’d give a point for each correct answer and in the end the ones with the most points win, what exactly do they win, my personal faviourte and every book worm fav. FREE BOOKS LOL.
This time I won't forget the website. LOL
so here is the post about the riddle at book muncher, and here is the one at the book Vault
Anyways she also gives 2 points to anyone who blogs about the contest, but honestly I would’ve blogged about it anyways, I mean Comeon there is nothing more worthy posting a bout than books especially free ones. LOL
By the way the whole reason for the contest is Dominique’s Birthday, so happy birthday Dominque. And whether I win or Lose, you just gained a dedicate reader for your blog
That’s it for now
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Arranged Marriage
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Books
BUT
I really don't think that such idea is actually do-able in Egypt.I am not sure I'll ever do it. a book left somewhere here in Egypt has one of three destinys1- found by someone and sell it by the Kilogram (to be turned to paper which contains falafel)2- found by someone who'd sell it to a wondering book-seller3- thrown in the garbage.
They (Bookcrossing) have another part where you could trade books with the other members, so I just might do that and then again maybe not.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
ُEgyptian blogs
must bloggers talk about their life from a certain aspect.
after reading them all (most of them are in Arabic of course) i felt shame with my humble Blog.
I have a Bookmark with Interesting blogs a lot of them in English but some are in Arabic
and they are
Ghada Bride , the reason that started the whole Egyptian blogs for me after i read her book
Eman Hashim , Have a great Blog i agree with her sometime and disagree other. but on general i think she's a great person and very talented
ايمان اسامه , she writes in her blog every Thursday. it's hilarious and i totally love it.
رحـاب بـسـام , For soo long i resisted readin her blog cause the book's title gave me the "wrong " impression that it's about love and stuff like that but after reading it i discovered i was wrong. it's about herself in every possible way love may be there but only a part of her. it's soo personal but at the same time everyone can totally relate to.
عبده الرايق , the only Egyptian Male blogger i read for. before him i thought that blogging in Egypt was only for girls he writes about the fiction (hopefully) character Abdo . he's very funny and i think he should get published.
there was another blogger that i forgot her name she wrote about her mother-in-law, I read her whole blog then made the fatal mistake of forgetting to bookmark it now i can't find it.
so hopefully in the next couple of days i start discover more good Egyptian bloggers
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Found an intresting blog today
WOW, I mean to be able to read books completely free. wow
dad is the one who get me books, so whatever he finds cheap he buys, am not complaining at least am reading. but still it gets frustrating sometimes when i can't read the books i want.
Anyways am not sure she'd send me a books (being in Egypt and all that) but am doin my best maybe i'd win.
LOL
so keep your fingers crossed for me
Monday, January 28, 2008
Do We (Muslims) believe in Allah or God ?
whether the writer is with or against that (I don't remember) doesn't make a difference the fact that someone would say that is beyond me. and i think it's funny in a sad way. It's like saying that French Christians don't believe in god they believe in Dieu. ask anyone who speaks Arabic (not necessarily a Muslim for Arabic speaking Christians do exist). what does the word Allah means. you will be told that it means god and any muslim will tell you that Muslims believe in Abraham and in Jesus. they are prophets of Allah (God). we believe that Christianity and Judaism where sent from Allah too. the main difference is that we believe that they should have converted to Islam when Mohamed (peace be upon him) was sent and that the religions they follow now is diverted from the original religions that God sent.
In my opinion the reason muslims all over the world chose to say allah instead of god or what ever the language they speak is simply the same reason why we say Hijab instead of vial and Jihad instead of holy war. Muslims prefer to use as many Arabic words as they can. we on general don't like to translate our religion. The Quran was sent to us in Arabic so we like to preserve it in the original because we consider it a miracle.
So answering the question Do We (Muslims) believe in Allah or God ?
would be Both because for us (Muslims ) Allah is God. and God is Allah
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Islam Vs. Islamic Countries
People have to learn to differentiate between Islam and Islamic countries. It's not the same thing just because Saudi choose to beat women with no veil doesn’t mean that it's stated in Islam.
Islam is a choice people make. And like anything in life it has CLEAR RULES those rules include pygmy, Hijab (veil) , whipping and stoning as punishment for infidelities , etc. Those things are part of the Islam if you don't like it then don't be a Muslim. Those rules should only apply to them. If you see them as barbaric and inhuman then it's your problem. But you have no right saying that doing that is wrong and shouldn't be applied those people chose to live (and die if they must) by these rules. This is their free will so stay out of it.
Do I sound like am brainwashed? Maybe but being a Muslima that thinks the wearing Hijab (Veil) is the right decision. Then am probably viewed as Brain washedI am oppressed
Apparently we all are .
No matter how much I scream that I am not .
A Muslim woman in a Muslim country has to be oppressed. you can claim you are not as much as you like. but that doesn't change the fact that you are oppressed.
I am not Vailed (wearing the Hijab) so that's a point for me. Of course the fact that I am hoping to wear it soon doesn't change the fact that they probably look at me as if i am someone who's very brave because I fight for my own freedom.
The western World won't simply allow it. for you to be Muslim and not oppressed and suppressed.
because you don't wear revealing clothes and choose to cover your body instead.
and they are kinda right what women won't like to show (nearly) her entire body and walk around like a piece of meat and have men drool over her (J/k by the way)
if you chose to cover up then you are oppressed.
More on that later