A spark in space
I don’t care about nasty emails or nasty comments. I am immune to them and I don’t care who wrote them. I placed a big bold message on my contact page a long time ago that says that if you insult me, then I will publicly display it. If you posted the wrong email address, then you have wasted my time. Can you imagine if someone did both? It is like a hit and run situation thinking that they will never get caught.
A lot of people think outside of the box, which is great, and they pointed out different possibilities from the previous post. That is fine, except you guys missed the bigger picture. I do not purposely provoke people to reach this level of personal insults. I don’t do it to get attention. Some said that I don’t deserve it. Most people judge me from one post, and I got used to it. People cannot accept the difference, and I am very different.
You guys think I just get nasty emails or horrible comments? Think again. Many websites and forums discuss my “teenage immature writing style” by emphasizing the very old posts that caused and still causing a commotion. I just write this way. I don’t think hard and try to come up with sophisticated attention grabbing posts. That is never my intention when I write. I just write what is on my mind, and my mind is an infinite sized mass of ideas.
Let’s think outside the box for a bit and discuss an important issue. You see, many people think when I write about Canada, that I hate being an Arab and forgot my roots. If I write about being an Arab and loving it, then people think I don’t appreciate the land that I live in now with the “better” life, and I have to thank God because many people back home don’t have food and water. There is no happy medium. No one is ever satisfied with my way of thinking or living.
I discussed a very important subject with my mother yesterday. I asked her, “Why are Arabs back home in the Arab world have serious dislike to Arabs living here?” She said, “They are just jealous and resentful of the Arabs here. The moment they get a Visa or are accepted for immigration, they will leave everything behind such as: family, friends, and loved ones without hesitating to look back. It’s the land of opportunity and it is worth it! Some of us wish to go back home and live there, but we were kicked out and told to leave our homes. It’s not like we had a choice to be here. We are lucky someone accepted us to live a peaceful life with human rights.”
While I was snooping the internet searching for the essence of my Rebellious name online, all I found was mostly negative feedback from Arabs back home toward me. They hate my site. They call me names. They ridicule me and make an instant judgment that I live in USA and that’s why my thought process is like “this.” Not like there is no other Westernized country in the world that speaks English other than USA. No no.. Auto-Arab-Judgment. Speaks fluent English: USA. Has absurd but truthful ideas: westernized Arab in USA. Totally unashamed to speak the truth: totally USA.
I learned to accept the difference and move on, why didn’t you?
Blah Blah, Culture, Idiots, Random Thoughts, Ranting as usual!, They said what?, Whatever!
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No one is ever satisfied with my way of thinking or living.i think u already know this but mona please your self n at best try 2 please yr folks n dont worry about any1 else salams
on the vote about culture i voted yes i dont think any 1 else here is from newfoundland n i think the culture here is the best it gets 4 anywhere in canada …..i just had 2 say that lol
I agree with Charlie. You’re satisfaction counts Mona, and we are all satisfied with you and the way you think. God bless you. You can’t please people its impossible to make everyone happy. You can only make God happy… but you’ve made us happy
I don’t think they’re jealous of you. They’re intimidated by you. They are afraid of you. I’ve had people on other websites write nasty things about me. My site has been discussed on Metafilter and “private” forums that have popped up in my hit counter and when I try to visit to see what gave me 10 extra hits that day, I’m denied membership. These people were afraid of me. The ones that spoke nasty of me. Their comments weren’t calling me an immature anything–they were calling me the vulgar version of a harlot. They made arrangements to contact my college, to track down my husband and email him links to my blog entries to ‘inform him of what I was doing online’. Once my mother got a phone call from people on the web letting her know that her (then) 21 year old daughter was disagreeing with them online.
None of these things moved me. I didn’t even blog about it. I didn’t email anyone about it. When I was contacted about it, I didn’t answer the emails. I was soon labeled as having ‘nerves of steel’ and a lot of people began to look up to me. Have I been emailed nasty things? Sure. Have people commented with nasty things? Yup. Do they get to me? Of course. Do the people who have done this to me know it? I doubt it. I never showed it where they could see it.
You can always be happy in knowing that somewhere, someone isn’t jealous of you, but intimidated by the fact that you have one of those special super powers: The ability to see right through their thick screen of BS.
Ah, but you’re Canadian. I think that there are very few people who dislike your blog and what you say. Unfortunately they are the most vocal. It is a shame that you are guilty through association and are labeled as being from the USA.
I am curious where these forums are and what they say. Did you find anybody saying anything positive? I hope you did.
Ignore them mona! Anyways, Im sure youll be fine, youre a tough girl
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Hey, there is one think i wanna say that all of them or most Arab dont learn how to accept the otheres whose deffirent. Not just because you are live in most beautiful country but even me spend my whole life in Arab country pple some times when i come up with deffirent opinion or write something deffirent call me names and attak my personality. I am Arab n i have no problem with Arab but unfotunetely some of them are really colse minded. Keep it up gerl i know you won’t care about this kind of people. Good night
Fatma
People need to chill out .Everyone has the right to their own opinion. Whether you see pros or cons in the Arab culture, it doesn’t matter. Some may see one thing as backwards but another party may see it as acceptable. At the end of the day there isn’t an absolute right or wrong. Its all relative
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@Jamie
I agree with your on this part..
It is nice of you to share your side of the story. Very interesting and something I read about that happened with other bloggers. Oh well.. just have to be the tough cookie I guess!
@Christopher (AKA: CaJoh)
It’s a mixed reaction online.. however, when I see the stats online of referrals to my site, I see lots of links from forums talking about me. That’s how I know.