Between «revenge» and «dialogue»
Two letters incumbents street Bahrain, one of them stems from the «culture of revenge», and the other stems from the «culture of dialogue». Heralds of retaliation after declaring a state of emergency in the country on 15 March 2011 (Pearl Roundabout and the storming of March 16) increased their voice more than ever before, and advocates a peaceful solution through dialogue and they themselves have not changed, before the emergency, and after an emergency.
Letter seeks revenge for the expansion and install and maintain all the decisions and actions that aim to take down the largest amount of damage against opposition groups and a class of society was and still have complaints and demands ... It raises the speech «revenge» confused about the concepts of revenge and grab the damages, and exclusion. The owners of this discourse must be dreaming, because what happened in Bahrain, but was one of the results of this culture is good, and Imam Ali (AS) says, «to Aswdd with revenge». Revenge, and also illustrates the Imam Ali of Edom, but goes back to one who does it negatively before returning to the detriment of others.
The culture of dialogue is fundamentally different, while revenge produces devastation and suffering of humanity, dialogue, understanding and compromise to build civilizations and spread justice, and happy of which the ruler and the ruled. We are going through a serious crisis in our country, we believe that talk of «dialogue» become something defective with the delights of subtracting the concepts of revenge. Some even talk about is a «dialogue» only official statement broadcast in Geneva and here and there, but this talk evaporates when confronted by the wishes of the wild-party calls to continue the approach has led us to the many calamities which we are currently experiencing.
Transition from a culture of revenge to a culture of dialogue requires a choice heartily and culturally, in directing the human to give up selfishness and the desire for revenge, exclusion and inflicting injury to other human beings ... It also requires the transition to a culture of dialogue-oriented cooperation, understanding and compromise and reconciliation, of living on a common ethical ground give way to building a better future, and more just world, based on partnership and community harmony
Mansour Jamri
Bahraini newspaper Al Wasat - No. 3124 - Sunday, March 27, 2011, corresponding to 22 Rabi II 1432 AH