My Response to a Cyber Bully from Bahrain
@AmootFelBahrain @reem_tweets No, we are not in Somalia, because there everyone can get armed: we are in #Bahrain where u can attack me and I have to keep quiet because there is NOTHING I can do other than shut up and put up with all the abuse and humiliation I get from anonymous people I don’t know and whom I have not harmed in anyway. Please look at your reactions and threats: Is this fair? Do you know me? Have I ever abused, threatened or harmed you in anyway? I have all the international contacts and connections to do real damage but have not used them in anyway because I worry about my country and its future, which I am invested in because I don’t have a Plan B or a Plan C. I am Bahraini and will always be Bahraini. It is my country and I accept the status quo. I have not taken part in the protests and have been vocal about their uselessness, and what they will bring to Bahrain, even BEFORE they started. I don’t want a full fledged democracy in Bahrain because I have an atlas which shows me that the geo-political factors in this part of the world do not support a democracy in the true sense. The events of the last few months also show that as a people, we are not cut for democracy and all the freedoms and liberties it brings. I have laid all my cards out in the open: I am not from the pro-democracy camp in Bahrain. It is a lovely ideology - but it isn’t for us. Back to the name-calling, allow me to preach: you are part of a herd hellbent on terrorising me along with people who have nothing to do with anything just because you have been emboldened enough to cross all the lines of respect and etiquette. Is this what your parents have taught you? Is this what you were taught at school? I am sure you love Bahrain as much as I do, so please, as a Bahraini, I beg you to look at your actions and stop tarnishing the reputation of Bahrain and its people. Your trolling and cyber bullying is damaging, unacceptable and punishable by law in any respectable part of the world. You cannot label people as traitors and continue with this witch hunt. It serves no purpose. It just makes you look bad. The world is disgusted with your behaviour. I try to explain it that you are children and don’t understand the repercussions of your handiwork, but colleagues point out that you are seemingly smart and educated. This makes you responsible people, the future of Bahrain, the same Bahrain I belong to. You have no more rights over Bahrain than I do nor do I. You are not more Bahraini than I am and I am not more Bahraini than you are. I am sincere in my love for Bahrain - and all things Bahraini. I have the capacity to forget and forgive. I am able to give everyone the benefit of the doubt - even the people who threatened to let their pit bulls rape my cats. Do you know why? Because I am Bahraini and I love Bahrain. Because I want to live in peace in Bahrain, with all my loved ones and because I believe that this will blow away soon, and all Bahrainis will go back to their senses. I don’t know if you will read this or whether I have just wasted a precious five minutes of a sunny morning in Berlin lecturing you. I hope you do and stop the cyber bullying.
(Source: tweetdeck.com)
