It is facing people everyday, no matter where they are, and no matter from where they are.First I wanted to define it correctly to have a good picture about it. "Racism, by its simplest definition, is discrimination based on race. One with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their race (i.e., bigotry), or in the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits. Racism typically starts with, though is rarely confined to the assumption that there are taxonomic differences between different groups of people. Prejudices on other grounds would strictly categorize as discrimination to national or regional origin, religion, occupation, social status or some other distinction." [Wikipedia]
All of us got used to the idea that the West has a bad idea about Muslims and Arabs, we might even faced some actions that showed these bad feelings against us, mainly for those living abroad. Violence against some of us, hate speech, or sometimes insults just because you look like you are. We go to Libya, let’s talk about Libyans now, and say: they have a problem with us Muslims, they see only bad news on TV, and they don't see the actual picture. We love peace, we are normal just like them but with traditional and cultural and religious differences. Friends and family ask us if we had problems abroad, some may had while others not. But all of this is not my issue, my question is: " why do you want the others to accept YOU, if You don't accept the others?????" I was chatting with some Libyans, we were talking about the difficulties living abroad, the experiences we had, the relations to the citizens and how they treat US in their country, since WE ARE the FOREIGNERS in their country while at the same moments they were speaking about some other foreigners as people less than us.
We complain about racism, but we are racists too. How many times you've heard people speaking bad about other Arabs in front of you? I can't even count the times; the funny thing is that we are racists even between each other. Tripoli, Benghazi, Zwara, Jbalia. Isn't this true??
How come we expect people to accept us if we don't accept the others?
I thought no one is better than his brother? How come you are a Muslim and at the same moment you think you are better than another person. Only you work and good deeds will tell if you are better than the one you are looking down at. Maybe someday the people you are now ignoring will look to you from paradise while you might not be with them.
