Questions ?

Let s just ask ourselves questions like:

How many mornings do we enjoy sunrise in the pretty cold days?

How many times did we accept, offer bribes while convincing our conscious that what we did is necessary and won t harm any body and might on the contrary help others?

How many days passed without telling a lie, even little unconscious white lies like “ thank you “ when you ve been offered fresh juice in a house you visit for the first time ,twice?

How many nights did we think about others who sleep without roof but the sky, learn from no school but life , wear nothing but pride of a victim ; How many nights without thinking about others who share the same country though they pay the price of been belonging to that cruel place in earth ? of others whom been denied even the label of a victim because they just not from here but from the far “ unknown “ west villages ?
How many nights without thinking about children who are like ours but betrayed by us? Whom been pushed to live in camps for four years? Whom been starved to death by us?

How many donkeys did you see beaten the hell out of it without saying “oh my god “?

How many families live in the down-town of your beloved capital been evacuated or arrested because your country does not want the famous guests of Arab summit to see them begging in the well fabricated modern streets?

How many newly born children been thrown in the nearest dump because of fear of the scandal?

How many life wasted in the long bumpy road to reach the clinic and find no medicine, no doctor, find nothing but the angel of death?

How many wars did our glorious army has to fight our outside enemies but find no one to kill except our own children? And even in these stupid ,cheap wars how many fighters been prisoners longer than the life of their own kids to be released and find no one in their formal reception , to hitch hike to go home because we don t want the world to know that we don t keep war prisoners but our fake enemies do ?

How many times did we say “slave, nigro, abed” to some one, some where? How many times do we accept to hear this same word from friends, families, neighbors without protesting, without saying even a word?

How many days did we think that we will have the heavens but others will not come with us because they did not pray five times like us?
How many times did we think of “us” and “them “?

How many touches lightly approached your soul but you did not notice?

How many person have HIV/ AIDS in your country but I , you and every one we know don t know ?

How many bottles of wine do we have to drink to forget that 94 Pulitzer winner photo was in our beloved country and because of us?

How many time in one day do we put our masks, to hide our shame or maybe to be more attractive, more fake but attractive?

How many atrocities committed in your beloved country and we denied it because we don t know, don t want to know to sleep well in the late night without nightmares?

How many times did you think that we might be just human beings, need love, and compassion, need a home –country with reasonable sincere relationships more than identity to protect us from internal confusion and forever conscious conflicts?

Will I / You prefer to give our children undisputable patriotic feeling and fortune of painful unresolved questions?