Freedom of Speech & Hatred Consiquences

Thursday, February 16. 2006

I read this shocking story on Philipp's blog regarding the consiquences of "freedom of speech".

Why else would the guy in an Amman supermarket packing the bags utter
to his cashier colleague that "He will soon see what will happen to
him"? "He" in this case was our one year old son, who went shopping
there with our nanny, who speaks Arabic fluently.
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Posted by Ammar Ibrahim in Jordan at 08:22 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ammar, stuff like this happens to foreigners all the time. People don't assume we understand Arabic.

Not just from strangers. We finally pulled my son out of the Jordanian school he attended when his TEACHER started spouting junk like this - and the friends he had since kindergarten followed suit.

Not just words. We've had tires slashed, windows broken, tomatoes and eggs thrown. Due to a strange series of atempted break-ins that aren't 'normal', we have detectives patrolling our neighborhood twice a night.

It's not fun to be a foreigner in Jordan right now, and I'm not sure how much longer I'll last.

#1 kinzi on 2006-02-17 09:24 (Reply)

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