Re: do we need any arabeyes ?

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Salam

yeah that's what I wanted to hear :)

cheers ;)


Am Sam, 2003-04-12 um 02.36 schrieb Nadim Shaikli:
> --- Arafat Medini <lumina silverpen de> wrote:
> > with our political situation right now and the whole situation of the
> > Arab world, a question arises on which I want to hear some discussion
> > some arguments that really convince and some interesting reads. Do you
> > really think that our work helps the Arabs in any way? Do you really
> > think that our project will become a success? The resources are very
> > narrow the people are not present and the Arabic culture is heavily
> > using foreign languages for technical work, the arabs don't even now
> > what liberty is to understand what liberty of choice or open sourced
> > apps are, and hoping alone rally doesn't help much. what do you think?
> 
> Arafat, your questioning is most likely based on the recent world news.
> Its understandable to be sad/confused/happy/worried/hyperventilated/hungry
> among other things :-) but what is serious here is to question what has
> happened to us Arabs in general (I'm talking with regard to Arabeyes, but
> it can be extrapolated to other things).  What will it take for us to
> finally become active as we once were.  I contend that we need to fist-slap
> our own faces to WAKE-UP to realize we have things we need to do and things
> we need to accomplish.  This feeling of helplessness and indifference _is_
> in itself defeat and there is no reason to be defeated - hope and work go
> hand-in-hand.
> 
> Case in point - this mailing-list has in excess of 150 people on it (yup,
> 150).  We see at most 5-6 active people posting and actually working and
> caring.  What worries me and makes my head shake and boils my blood is
> wanting to know what will it take for the rest 144 people to get off their
> bums and finally say "Yes, I do indeed need to help and I will make a
> difference - I WILL DO IT !!".
> 
> We've been taught (culturally and religiously) to give back to our community
> every chance we get - why is that such a difficult concept to comprehend ?
> 
> As for "is Arabeyes needed - we're all going to be assimilated anyways ?"
> My answer would be, if you intend to dye your hair blond/pink, wear blue
> or green eye-contacts, change your name to Hans/Francois/John/Alberto and
> raise your kids as though they are from Atlantis then its a clear YES.  I
> love my heritage and will do all I can to keep it alive and to raise my
> kids by its values and standards.
> 
> > cheers
> 
> I'll keep the cheers for later - if you don't mind :-/
> 
> Wake-up people - make a difference and contribute.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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