Shouting Out Loud

As I found out that a friend of mine has left his apartment, and won't be back for the next two hours, I decided to get myself a shawarma and go to Hyde park and enjoy the sun for the first time this year. When I arrived at Hyde park, with my shawarma sandwich and drink, I noticed a large gathering of people at the speakers corner (this happens every Sunday where random people stand on stools and start ranting about either Islam, Christianity or the Palestinian "Israeli" conflict most of the time. obviously people go and listen to them).
The first speaker I got to was an old English man who was talking about the Palestinian Israeli conflict and his opinions about it. Of course there is the usual suicide bombing, the right of Israel to the Land, how muslims are violent people etc etc, the usual really. At the same time a group of Arabs (amazingly the majority of people in speakers corner were Arab) surrounded the English man and they managed to turn the debate into a comedy show as well as giving really good arguments about every single point the English man on the stool was saying.

I must say the funniest thing I heard was when a African British man shouted, "you arabs are stupid! you lost all those wars and your still fighting, you are idiots!"
To which the main Arab dude who was controlling the show replied,"Shatap you coconut! look at your country Nigeria, Western oil companies are stealing your oil and you are doing nothing, go back to Nigeria, and when you can sort it out then come and talk about Arabs!" (I presume they knew a bit about each other)

I must say though, I'm not the type of person who would stand up and try to make a point in front of many people, I'm not a really public speaker type of person. At least not until that Polish Christian Zionist lady, and later on an African/British man came along. For the first time in my life I managed to shout my head off while making a completely sane and logical argument. (I must also point out that I am a very calm, laid back, taking it easy type of person, so you can only imagine the type of comments those two jokers were making). Later on, the English man left the place where he was standing, I had my own crowd and people were coming from all over the park, then slowly the Polish lady and the other man left leaving me behind with all those people. Only then was I conscious to what happened. I stepped aside, walked away and started eating my Shawarma.

After that I was thinking to myself about the reason a person defends and idea or supports one side over the other. In most cases people decide what or which side of an issue they are on depending on where they were born (i.e. the influence of the culture and traditions of that region) and to what family they were born into (i.e. the religion of the parents and the way they are going to be raised). Which means that most people will support something only because they were told to do so, and not supporting it would lead to that individual being scrutinized and attacked by his/her "own people".

God has given mankind a brain to think with, to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. Is it right that just to prove that you are a patriotic person and that you love your country so much, that you support the invasion of other countries which you at first thought was for a just reason, but then turned out that it was for false reasons based on lies? Is it worth it that people are still dying, because you want to pretend you are so patriotic that you send your own children to fight a war that is endless, a war where the majority of people that are killed are innocent civilians?

To stand for what is right is always harder than to stand for what is wrong. I support the Palestinian cause not because the majority of Palestinians are muslims, or because they consider themselves as Arabs, I support the Palestinian cause because it has the right to be supported, I support the Palestinians because they have a right to live, just like how the "Israelis" are living.