Q: So what happens when more than 50 bloggers and journalists from several parts of the world unite with the sole purpose of conveying the truth and highlighting a family’s tragedy at a Jordanian hospital?
After almost a month of the accident, my father is still unable to walk, but we’re still hopeful that with intensive physiotherapy he’ll get back on his feet again. Although it saddens me that my father’s case had to be the driving force and the changing trigger, I can take solace in knowing that such changes will hopefully prevent further similar cases from taking place ever again and that negligence and carelessness, at a place where these qualities must seize to exist, will eventually be eradicated.
September 26th, 2007 marks a very pleasant day for journalism in both Jordan and the UAE, as both King Abdullah II and Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, coincidentally, stood up for freedom of speech in their countries: a move that was widely celebrated in all local newspapers and journalists associations.
This video is truly hilarious and probably has nothing to do with the title of the post, but Hajjaj conveys, to some extent of course, the fake open-mindedness some of us expatriates claim to have adopted far away from home.
Of course I am all for standing for one’s principles and beliefs, but there are people who manage to simultaneously live in both sides of the fence and who eventually appear as hypocrites.
It kind of reminds me of those people who have no problem committing the seven sins [السبعة وذمتها] … yet when the Adhan calls, they’ll take a break from whatever bad thing they were doing, as if nothing’s wrong, pray, and then resume the wrongdoing after prayer … and of course when you dare to question their integrity, they’d say something to the effect of (إن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر) (Prayer restrains from indecency and evildeeds. (29:45)).
So, in other words, those people will continue to commit all the sins they can possibly commit in a one lifetime and pray for forgiveness in the hopes that God shut his eyes and overlooked all what they did. Well I would rather not pray at all than be a double-faced hypocrite who will probably serve more time in hell than someone who never prayed but never committed as much sins.
It’s been ages since we heard stories about King Abdullah’s incognito visits and this one took me back to the early 2000’s.
The more I think about it the more I become proud and content of the wise and considerate leadership Jordan enjoys. The best way to feel with the people and know what exactly needs to be corrected is to be present at the notorious scene.
King Abdullah could’ve simply taken the words of officials on the status quo of the PrinceHamzahHospital, but he’s well aware of the fact that people would most probably tell him what he would like to hear.
I can imagine Mr. Samih Al Ma’aita (سميح المعايطة) kicking himself for ever having to write the article on how promising the hospital looks and the great investment Jordan made (more than 100 million $) in building that hospital. A quick look at Al Ma’aita’s article would make you think Jordan has introduced its version of Mayo Clinic.
So to all the negligent, careless, inhuman officials in Jordan: you’d better start doing what you’re supposed to do, for the Disguised Man is back to haunt you!
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death."
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