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Review Gees: Bloggers Unite for Refugees!

[This blog entry is my post for participating in the Blogger Unite for Refugees event in 2008]

Bloggers Unite for Refugees (2008)

We always do math on daily routine, so it is normal adding 16 to 51 to get a sum of 67, but wait a minute: what about identifying this number; 67 roses, guns or what?

Well, it is 67 Million people! Yes; this number is the UNHCR‘s estimation for refugees plus internally displaced people (IDP) in our world as of 2007 according to “The UN Refugee Agency (2007 Global Trends) report” [pdf link]

Oh my God, I am horrified not merely because of quaintly which is terribly scary, but mainly by what lies beneath this scary number; sixty seven million humans just like me and you who may differ in the colors but share the same suffer! Hereby it is not a number anymore; rather it is a giant mirror that reflects our state of mind on planet Earth in the 21^st century!

It is notable tragedy that after less than two years from 2008, we shall enter the 2^nd decade of our 3^rd Millennium of living on planet Earth yet I still wonder about the mentalities behind committing atrocities against other people just because they are not sharing the same point of view regardless the race or religion! Hereby, the tragedy is doubled when we know that that both women and children are those who always suffer a lot during this because of the barbarian acts committed against them for no particular rational reason that can convince any human being except the ugly side of the human nature and how our human intellect is absent.

C’mon! I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic so despite being aware about the role played by Unite Nations, governments, NGOs and civil society to overcome these actions. I do believe that in addition to supporting their role, my role as an individual is to hold a torch because only light is capable of defeating the darkness! For that matter, as a Muslim personnel, I do believe we are born that we may know each other and understand each other; something that cannot be implemented unless we are aware about our differences and try to learn how to deal with them especially when it come to the cultural-based differences.

“You are dreaming about Utopia”, someone says.
“No, I am not” is my reply as Utopia shall not be found on planet Earth because we are just humans who are subjected to rise and fall plus right and wrong; however isn’t strange that we are achieving technological development that is not comparable with humanitarian one?

Finally, I am wondering whether there is any hope that one day we review this? Hereby, this is not the only wonder because it is followed by another one about when will people on Earth grow up to be humans?!

Tags: human intellect
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