Opinion

'Ebola Qatar'!

April 23, 2018
'Ebola Qatar'!

Hussein Shobokshi



AT one of the Arab airports, I was sipping coffee, waiting for my plane to take off, and I was surprised by someone with a Gulf accent coming near and asking me, do you mind talking to a Qatari businessman? I felt as if I was meeting an alien from another planet in a neutral space. I told him I do not prefer as it will make my blood boil and ruin my session.

He said quickly, “I follow you; I follow your writings, your media presence and your continuous attack on Qatar.” He added, “God is with you and I follow your admiration and love for Bahrain. How can you love Bahrain more than Qatar?” I interrupted him and told him I thought it was time for Abu Haifa to extend his feet.

Bahrain is a civilized country and you are a rogue state. Bahrain has presented a cultural model called “Spring of Culture.” You presented the region with “Autumn of Treason”. Bahrain has presented wonderful examples of successful stories. National figures influenced the scene, such as Sawsan Al Shaer, Dr. Abdullah Al Madani, Samira Rajab and Jamal Fakhro all defend their country by building bridges of citizenship and support the region.

What have you done? Hamad Bin Jassem, Hamad Bin Khalifa only. You have claimed that you are supporters of freedom and democracy and you are the symbol of coups, corruption, tyranny and suppression of freedoms. You have publicly demanded that the regimes be overthrown in the region and what you have done is the assassination of the “dream” project.

You killed the ability of dream because you spread fear and extremism and opened the way to voices of evil by empowering them by money and readiness. You killed the process of “peace” in the Arab world and set fire to the process of “talk” with poisonous words, deadly words, destructive words but words. The difference between you and Bahrain is your bank balance and it is in your favor. The moral balance is in Bahrain’s favor. The financial balance is likely to change after the recent oil discoveries in Bahrain and the positive improvement in the economic situation.

You are dependent on the region for your survival like the Ebola virus while the region does not benefit from you. Exposing you and isolation from you on all days are both prevention and treatment at the same time. Even Saudi Arabia, which you are attacking it day in, day out, is now undergoing the most important change, development and reforms in its history. It is emerging from the shell of its “privacy” to be a new “global” power, an active participant and contributor to human progress.

I remembered my conversation with the Qatari man. As I recovered my emotional composure, I realized the man represented everything ugly in the Arab world — hypocrisy and duplicity.

It is a state of schizophrenia where dominance of money and the media do not know any ethics. It has promoted a system that has succeeded in mixing concepts, providing legitimacy to extremism, tyranny and terrorism, in not separating the chaos and revolution and mixing the criticisms and curses with the religion.

I concluded my conversation with the Qatari man by saying to him, “Check yourself and review the concerns that I have voiced. Take a look at the amount of hatred that Qatar has brought to itself.” I left my place and in my bid to recover from the area of “Ebola Qatar” in a jiffy.


April 23, 2018
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