Shouting Loud for Fouad!

It's so easy for all of us to sit idly on our hands, sipping our hot chocolate and sympathize with someone who was thrown in jail, not for a crime, but for having alternate thought. Ideas against the main stream. Ideas not approved by the social, political, religious or even community dogma.

Sadly, we all practice this oppression against people and ideas that don't quite appeal to us, there are very few exceptions. Let me give you an example. Lets say you disagree with any of the famous bloggers. Do you think they will spare any opportunity to completely tear you apart? On or offline the idea is clear, disagree with me and you are doomed.

If we as a small community of bloggers are practicing this level of oppression against one another, Wouldn't it be clear why on the grander scale of issues governments are doing that?

Speak your mind, and you will be prosecuted!
-Qwaiderization

If not by the evil ignorant villagers with torches and pitchforks. It will be by oppressive governments. The villagers with pitchforks have been replaced with bloggers, from which I have personally suffered a many kinds of oppression, but I simply refuse to go silently into the dark

As we enjoy our freedoms, and simply "living" with all what accompanies that word, it's hard to imagine the suffering of others being dragged and thrown into jail cells, not for anything but having free thought, and a will to refuse getting silenced.  Free thought appears to be a crime against humanity these days.

To silence our blogs is to throw away our rifles in the heat of battle. To be silent is like asking writers to throw away their pens.

The pen, that little instrument that is mightier than the sword!

I don't understand how people don't get it. Being silent is the warm and cozy place, where you sip your hot chocolate and remotely sympathize with the poor victims of oppression. Oppression, that turned us to gears spinning in it's hatred machine. Being silent is safe. Being silent is what they want, therefore being silent is what me must NEVER do!

But, what do I know? I'm one of those outcasts that "know nothing" and "account for nothing". But am I really that far off? Or are we as people, as bloggers, as humans manipulating every atom in this universe to rally to our own glory.

It's pathetic to see people calling for freedom, and practicing the opposite...

I wonder, if I was ever detained for speaking my mind, would a single blogger (of the people proudly raising the banners now) care? Would a single word be written in protest and demanding my release?

Let me tell you right this moment, just like people who leave their will, if you even cared, and if it was for me, don't you EVER be silent, except maybe for a moment to mourn me.

"I, come what may, will not be silenced.
Come what may, I will continue my fight for equality and justice
without any compromise until my death.
Come what may, I will never be silenced."

- Taslima Nasrin,
a secular feminist protesting attacks on her life by some islamists

Today, I shout louder, I shout brighter, for Fouad.