Stop this insanity of trying to cover our eyes!! It is the era of the internet. We are connected to the world now. No one can hide the sun in his bare hands!

Most people read The Da Vince Code, and most people would probably be able to bring the movie either on DVD or downloading it from some site of the internet. This banning is useless. It just shows out our stupidity.

The about homosexuality and women sexuality articles! How come other foreign magazines enter the country with those topics while our magazines can’t talk about it??

PLEASE LET THE PEOPLE SEE THIS WORLD AS IT IS.

From being exposed? You forego the fact that an article in a mass distributed publication is sympathizing with and glorifying homosexuality? Do you consider an article entitled ‘forbidden love’ to be a heroic attempt at exposing the truth? (that much is apparent from your praise of Viva) Truth is something arrived at by being critical and objective, not by glorification and sympathy…

Excuse my harsh words, you are blindly riding on the Freedom of Speech train. You simply aren’t doing your homework in critical thinking. The vaunted Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that anybody is free to spew forth whatever he wants. Do you realize the power of ideas? (example, people get killed for their ideas) Do you realize that there is what can be constructive and what can be destructive or detrimental to society? Do you realize that not all ‘percieved’ progress is forward (thus backwards progress)?

Here’s what I have infront of me, a young adult Muslim who is defending and helping distribute an article that clearly intending to normalize homosexuality in a Muslim and Christian society. A forbidden act for which a whole town was divinely punished according to the Qur’an (i.e. God’s words, if you’re Muslim).

That is proposterous. That is crossing the line between open mindedness and no-mindedness.

-Samer.

deeri balek ten7awlee,
looking so deep into the ‘problem’

I some times ask people who consider such issues straight forward: dose a mother “have the right”(not should) to shield her daughter from the fact that her neighbour has been horrifically raped and murdered?

I believe its extremely important not to view such issues as simple for that hampers the opportunity to make any serious progress.

well, unless I start to rule the world then all will be ok ;)

I believe Jordanian people are strong enough to keep the best of their conservative culture securely intact whether they know of other ‘options’ or not.

You would be amazed by the number of people who believe that they have a right to the latter.

If there is a bright spot here, it is

a)seeing what blogger solidarity and internet access can accomplish

b) recognizing that work must be done to bring other parts of the country up to speed with the capital. Long term reform in Jordan will stall if efforts are only centered on the people who live in Amman & those pockets of cosmopolitanism.