Our good media

I woke up few days ago, with everything being as normal as it is everyday, with nothing in my mind other than how the hell I might survive this long painful day of continuous lectures, and how may I "squeeze" some time out for relaxing and enjoying a beautiful moment exercising a very "deep" thinking session. On that day, everything was typical , up untill the time when I decided, mistakenly, to take a fast "sneak peak" on the latest news on our greatest "free" media publications.

I started reading the newspapers as I usualy do, or like to do, starting from the local news heading up to the global "mean" world. It all began with a bunch of fairly shocking headlines, mostly focused on Dr. Ibtihal's latest interview, which at that point I haven't looked at yet, and all those hideous words being used against a "liberal" thinker, or a writer if I may, and how she promotes sex-education and same sex marriage, as they wrote. I was hit in the face just reading those and how I used to anxiously hear and follow Dr. Ibtihal's moves and publications, so I forced myself to leave whatever I had planned for and just focus on this "interview" everyone is talking about, to see what's going on with her, or with them!

Few minutes after watching the "controversial" interview, I realised that I didn't hear anything new that I never have heard of, or that Dr. Ibtihal didn't mention before, as far as religion and those "radical" religious movements, that try to get involved basically with every single thing that happens in our country, or even the kind of water droplet that should go deep down our throats, which they must approve before we go ahead and drink.

The first thing I noticed, is how they changed what she believed to be "freedom of choice" and made it sound like "being involved in" whatever she agreed with, for example when she mentioned how she's not against in any way when someone says his beliefs "religiously" out loud, and they claimed that she's just ok with "atheists" saying it in public. The 2nd thing is when she talked about how she's not against the principal behind countries which have civil rights that won't stand against same-sex marriage, and how they changed it "again" to what they say "promoting" same-sex marriage, which to me, gives a very clear image of our greatest of all times "free" media that claims to be "respectful".

Throughout the years, we've noticed how our countries, or the third world as they call it, became more open to new ideas and new thoughts, and the fact that we got exposed more to various types of movements, or systems if i may say, like Liberalism and Secularism, and how that affected us and our public media and "refined" its image after it being completely under the control of exclusive parties and thoughts. We were happy about that for sure, because change and development, even in thinking, is needed those days, but once we saw our third world changing to a better "refined" place to be in and it sounded too good to be true, everything started to go back to point "zero" all of the sudden, as if we defined the future to be "going back to the past" instead of moving on to new horizons and stages.

Our media needs some serious changes nowadays more than anytime before, not just our media of course, even our minds, that got locked and drained down the sewer, which by the way only follows what a long-bearded man or a turban-head says. What Dr. Ibtihal said and keep saying by the minute, is what we will discover somewhere around 100 years from now, if we were lucky! we seriously have to re-define the name of being a Liberial and having a constitution that saves our "civil" rights and also take a non-biased look at our sunnah books which holds many wrongful statements that even those islamists deny, and that should be excluded from being an atheist, or an infidel.

Good luck Dr. Ibtihal, and you must know that there're many people that still think wisely, and reads minds/words before judging the looks/names, and that what you said in that latest interview of yours is EXACTLY what we need to start working on and implenet so that we, if we were lucky, or our children will have a safe place to live in, and a place where minds are highly rewarded!

Last but not least, I can't deny that I missed a great chance of talking to you Dr. Ibtihal on the conference that was held in Los Angeles California, but I totally understand that on that night you were tired and you needed rest before your flight back, so this time, I will excuse you for not accepting my invitation to hold a "small/tiny" interview with such a great mind of yours, after listening to you on the Nebrs workshop. Thanks again!