Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Things That Don't Make Much Sense

Here are the top ten things that don't make much sense to me:

  • Religions that were sent to promote love, unity, benevolence, justice, respect, and the highest moral and social values be transformed into weapons of hatred and prejudice!
  • Perpetrators of the murder of a single soul are punished by the death penalty, while mass murders (of thousand of innocent civilians in unjustified wars, thousands of children by senseless embargoes,  hundreds in sunk fairies, millions from malnutrition and curable diseases, millions from pollution & the effects of climate change, ..) continue to be free and to reap the fruits of the highest political and corporate positions!
  • Death is the only certainty of life, yet people who enjoy immense power (the rulers, the rich, the privileged, the cops, the soldiers,...) act like they will live forever!
  • Many victims of  injustice, violence, and discrimination (mostly men who are victimized by despot rulers, bosses, and/or parents, and Jews who were victimized by the Europeans) become the worst offenders of injustice, violence and discrimination against other humans who are weaker than them ! (mainly women & children by men, and Palestinians by Zionists)
  • Rich people hold extravagant parties to feed their rich friends who can easily afford buying all the food they want and are usually on or pretend to be on diets, thus most of the food ends up in the garbage, while one sixth of the world population is hungry!
  •  Banks slamming owners of  humble bank accounts with debit & transfer fees, while exempting those with fat accounts from such charges. Banks also happily lend obscene amounts of money (which they got from their less fortunate customers) to the filthy rich to get even richer, but refuse to lend the poor to help them get out of poverty! (Mohammed Yunus's bank and those modeled after it are the exception)
  • Arabs read no more than four pages per year (yes 4 pages), and publish one new title each year for every 12,000 people, in spite of the fact that the Muslims majority know that the very first command revealed in the Quran is "READ"!!
  • Despite approaching the third decade of the Information Age, some governments, including that of the country that started the technology revolution, still think that they can lie to their people and get away with it!!
  • Sports, the best outlet for the physical energy of our youth, and the best preventative medicine for the not so young, is transformed into the spark that starts a disgusting & outrageous violence and  an overnight deep hatred between two sister countries!! I suggest we invite Israel to play in the Confederation of African Football.
  • Despite not winning any titles in 77 years and losing to every team in divisions 1, 2 & 3 of the Egyptian and even non-Egyptian leagues, I am still supporting Zamalek!!!
If you have actually read the above list and reached this paragraph, then here is the one thing that puzzles me the most: How come you keep coming back to this blog and reading my posts in spite of the absolute stupidity I write here week after week???

p.s. If you are Arab, then please note that by reading this post you are done with one forth of all the reading that you are expected to do in 2010. So please do slow down. We don't want to burden the UN with unnecessary updates to its statistics.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

My loyalty to our friendship makes me come back over and over to read ur blog, and U need me for comments from LaLaLand......but I will consider stopping my comments if u do not get rid of the "word verification" like "undstab"?

nahoul said...

Sorry about that.
Verification removed.

Anonymous said...

actually I jumped to the last 2 paragraphs!
noran

nahoul said...

you did not miss much ya Noran!!

Tigo said...

cool, it seems like i was wrong when i thought Egyptian "females" are empty heads. but clearly this head carries a lot.

also i have a question. why don't you provide more follow up information (not personal) just for fans (not gov 2)?

nahoul said...

Many Egyptian women are far from being air-heads, but air-heads are usually louder and cuter (thanks to plastic surgeons), so they get the attention and coverage. And this is true everywhere (Paris Hilton vs Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman, Ahdaf Soueif, Arundhati Roi, Radwa Ashour, Hanan alShaykh...)

What kind of follow-up info would you like me to write about?

Tigo said...

Oh, maybe any kind of social networks, Facebook fan page ... u know anything better than commenting on your last post :).

Anonymous said...

Hmmmmmmm.....facebook fan page for Nahoul? shall I be impressed with your blog readers? may be Tigo can start one for u!

Tigo said...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nahoul/297835045448

M. Hanno said...

Tigo, empty-heads are in abundance in our country among both sexes. I don't see much difference except among the upper class's young people were the girls are brought up to be devout air-heads.

M. Hanno said...

Nahoul,
I'm sorry but most of the women you listed are much more attractive than Paris Hilton.

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Anonymous said...

Great list. Although I think that there are far too many more substantial injustices in the world for bank transfer fees to be mentioned! I sense a bitterness for the years of transferring funds to canaka!!
-Mo