un/Patriotic people in Jordan

There are many things in the Jordanian sociaty that I find strange, and a lot of things that I find stupid, but there is one thing I feel most “shocked by” and remain shocked every time it passes by me, which is the way the locals are “Patriotic”…

   Jordan might not be the most perfect country, its also not the worse, but still people never sees both sides at the same time, or at least remember both sides at the same time.

I am getting sick of hearing them defend Jordan when I mention something bad here, and they argue with me with a tone that would make you believ that Joradan is heaven on earth even though its clear to anyone with a bit of logic that this special thing is wrong, I mean how can they excpect to improve their country if they don’t admit that it needs to be improved.

  I am more sick of hearing people complaining about how BAD Jordan is, and how much they want to leave and have a life else where ( else where = the west), after all this is their country and they should have somekind of loyalty to it, and I don’t mean blind loyalty, neither do I mean total blind loyalty to the goverment.

Is it really so unlogical to ask people to see the bad sides of their sociaty, admit it, then try to change it?

Whats worse is that those who don’t see the negative sides (or at least don’t admit it) are not willing to even improve what they see is a GREAT place, and those who only see the bad sides are not willing to try to improve it.

I am such a bad writer, and are not able to get the point across in this post, but I guess any sophisticated person who lives in Jordan and read this will understand, so if you are one of those please leave a comment and help me explain the situation.

 I have seen this “situation” for a while now and the reason I am writing about it today is as following… I was sitting in the university with my friends waiting for the time of my lecture, and these 2 guys I have never seen before comes up to me, and asks if I am Hamza, I answered yes, then they asked if they can talk to me in privet, so I stand up and follow them a bit away from my friends, here is the dialog

guy 1: is it true you only got the Norwegian Nationality??

me: ya, why?

guy 1: well we heared about you from a few friends,a nd was wondering if you could help   

            with something.

me: what do you mean?

guy 1: we heared that gay marrieges are allowed in Norway?

me:  ya well kind of,

guy 2: (jumbs into the conversation very happy and inthusiatic after my answer) well

         lets talk honestly, we were wondering if you could marry my brother, just on paper, so that he can get the Norwegian nationality, we’ll pay for any expences, and even give you a bit extra.

at this moment I was shocked and speach less, I mean others have suggested it from before, some have tried to get to know me for that reason, but NEVER have some total stranger came up to me and said something about that without any pre-introduction or anything. and when I refussed thay got upset and said that I have nothing to lose if I do it, and when I tried to explain thats its not as easy as they think they accused me of lieing just so that I don’t do them a favour, they accually acted as if it was their right to ask for this, and after makeing it clear that I won’t be a part of it they ended the conversation with : ” we blame the world for being against us Arabs, while our own arab brothers won’t even do us a small favour to save us from doomed life”, well thats the best translation I could do without putting a lot of curses in, and please notice that it was all in a very ANGRY tone.

well thats what happened, feel free to agree or dissagree that the Jordan Patriotic issue is strange and stupid, but I do hope no one of those who read my blog dissagrees that the event with the 2 guys WAS STRANGE AND STUPID.

Ooo its the Muslim’s holyday, lets insult them *Sarcasm*

Yesterday we woke up to celebrate the first day of “Eid al Adha” which is one of the Muslims holy annual occasions,  and were surprised as many others with the news of Saddam’s execution, now this event had a lot of responses, and there are many points I would like to discuss so please be patient with my unorganized post and try to grasp what I am trying to say. 

    I am personally against Saddam in many ways, I have always been, but I have also always recognized him for the good he has done, we shouldn’t -as most of the Iraqish have done- only remember his actions of madness, and forget his actions that brought his country and people to greatness…   Is it not true that he provided food and water for free to those who could afford it in Iraq?, did he not provide free education for the people until Iraq became in the” top ten list” of countries with highly specialized scientists?Did he not offer assistance to ANY Arab country that needed it? (eg he helped the Palestinian families in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and
Jordan. When
Egypt was about to brake economically he gave stable salaries to 3 million Egyptians even thought they did not do anything, and the list goes on…) 

I am not saying that he shouldn’t have been trialed for what he has done, but the way it happened was stupid, the trial it self was so twisted that I am REALLY surprised how anyone (even the Americans and their allies) could  except it to go on. The story about how unconvincing the trial was can go on for ages, especially if I start mentioning how the witnesses could remember with very accurate details what happened to them when they were 8 years old (and they are now around 30) at the time personally I can not remember that many details about the people in my classes last week, and I wasn’t scared to death at that time, but the witnesses -according to their statements-  believed that they would be mercilessly killed in hours or days, any way for those with a bit of intelligent and willingness to see the truth can do that without my explanation , which reminds me that I am truly shocked by the number of people who still don’t want to see the crystal clear truth. 

  Well anyway as I said the story can go on for ages (and pages) but I want to mention 2 last points: 

1) the USA have stopped their assistance to countries because they still used hanging as a method for execution, but they didn’t mind it this time, and please don’t try to convince me or yourself that the USA government was not aware of the execution with all its details, or that they couldn’t have made the Iraqi government change their mind about the method (that’s if it was their idea in the first place). 

2) About the timeing, in the states no execution takes place on the national holidays, why did the Americans allow this one to happen on the first day of Eid?, not only that but also at the time of the Eid prayer, and again don’t even try to convince me that the USA government had no idea or control over the process. Personally I believe it was meant as direct insult towards Islam and Muslims, I might be wrong, and even if it wasn’t meant like that it still underestimate the Islamic believes, ( Its strange how many times Islam has been directly insulted lately without them “meaning” to insult, don’t you think?)Oh I could write a whole book about this subject and yet not be able to put everything down, unfortunately even if I do write the high majority of the Arab and Muslim nations are living cozily in their little American built illusion.