Re: sex, booze, boys and life : Zaiba's blog
Reply #101 - November 04, 2011, 01:48 AM
My latest blog post.
I might be the most anti-climatic person out there regarding movies and keeping up with the celeb gossip, but I managed to watch The Infidel last night, and I must say it broke my heart with the amazing storyline. Although I have to admit I was a little wary of watching it at first because of the reviews I read and how it was “Islamophobic” and “blasphemous”, of course I should know better than to listen to a bunch of ignorant backward retards who find perfectly sane and educational movies as either of the terms I mentioned. Omid Djalili is a very talented actor, not that this is breaking news, but it deserves to be said, again. He was terribly realistic with the heart breaking scenes when his family leaves him for being born to a Jewish family. While Djalili was sitting there on the roadside crying, I began to cry too, because I knew what it felt like to be abandoned by your own family. I know how much it hurts to feel so lonely and helpless in a big bad world. Djalili was in reality acting out my life story, among hundreds if not thousands of other apostates in the world.
But if you’re not one of the lonely souls who have families abandon them, you wouldn’t have a clue about the importance of this scene, it’s not your fault you happen to believe and coincide with your family views, hence why it is not a matter of concern for you but a very few people can empathise with those unlike themselves. In the past few days I have spoken to a few people who have proven to me that most people have no regrets to be living in their own bubble undisturbed by those around them. As much as we as humans like to believe that we’re not purely selfish and that we do care and empathise with others, the truth of the fact is that just isn’t true for many of us. Nowadays, everyone is only concerned about themselves; each to their own, seems to be truer now than ever, and this is saddening because we have millions of helpless poor and deprived people on the other side of the world, the world that we are at most invisible to, the world that is known as the third world. It’s a shame that we cannot relate to others, we cannot be bothered to care nor appreciate what we have, at the very least.
This is just one of the many examples of ignorance that we, the people of the west portray all the time, without even realising it. But most importantly, the issue that The Infidel depicts is of the “Islam vs Judaism” conflict. How many times have you cringed at the helplessness of the “Palestine vs Israel” conflict? How many of you have wished that these two states could just live harmoniously together? Even if you have very little knowledge about these two religions, you would know that they are more similar to each other than conflicting. You would know that they originate from the same lineage, you would hope to believe that these two religions are in fact siblings and should be at peace with each other, rather than conflicting. Yet this just isn’t the case, unfortunately this only validates one argument, and that is the fact that religion divides nations, it does not benefit society, it creates tension and confliction, yet resolves very little.
Imagine a society without the pressures, conflicts, divisions of religion. Imagine how harmonious people among different cultures and societies would be. Religions may have their own benefits, and there is no denying that, but what use are those benefits if they encourage division rather than consensus? We have Muslms, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists and so many more divisive ideologies, when in the end we’re all humans, sharing the same Earth, and have more in common with each other than differences yet we still manage to find something small and insignificant to form allies and maintain a “them and us” attitude. Why? Is it so hard to set our minor differences aside and live harmoniously? Why do we feel the need to constantly validate that we follow the “right path” and that our religion is the “only true religion” thus we need to constantly fight amongst each other and make life difficult to live rather than to enjoy and appreciate the world we live in.
Religion does not need to be impinged on others. Religion should only be to serve oneself, and each person should only be concerned with themselves regarding their religious beliefs, not to be thrust upon others.
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