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I agree with you, Firas. I always wondered why this is not happening. I wish I can do something to change this. However, living outside Jordan makes it difficult to follow what is happening there, but promise to give more attention.

On the other hand, I'll be looking forward for your posts touching local issue.

Best of luck!
 

Hi Haitham.
In my original draft I had mentioned your blog by name, but then decided not to, and sub. that for "with the exception of few that tackle mostly foreign issues".
About 40% of JP's bloggers live outside Jordan, and there are no independent media outlets in Jordan. So I won't really blame them. www.alghad.jo newspaper has been doing some good job. And I have to mention as well www.mahjoob.com Emad Hajjaj's cartoons are very bold.
In the absence of real political life in Jordan and free liberal media, blogging might be the answer.
Now, some may say, why don't you practice what you preach? Well, this blog was meant to share personal thoughts and feelings, and to get Jordanians more involved in their own community in a positive manner. Politics was not on my mind at all, as I believe it's not my fight, and to be frank I still feel that politics in Jordan did not reach the desired level of maturity so anyone could blog freely. I do realize that change won’t happen unless we little people speak out.
Please keep checking, I’ll be definitely pondering over many local and foreign issues soon.

Take Care
 

Hello Firas,

While I agree with you in general, however I don't conceder JP blogs to represent the Jordanian Blogsphere. I think they are a fraction of what exist only.

Taking your blog as an example, why it is not found there?

On the other hand, as you mentioned before, maybe it's all due to 'big brother eye'. But still I guess one can write objectively and will be appreciated if doing so without turning his blog to a troll to this person or that issue in Jordan.

Anyway, I live in Bahrain, however since you've been watching my blog, you seem to have missed a lot previously, specially if you came across my blog recently. Beside foreign related issues, I do also post about Jordan. In fact you can find the archive here: http://sabbah.biz/mt/category/ and Jordan archive here: http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/category/regional/jordan/

Check it out, and as I said before, I'll try to give it more attention in the future.

Thanks again.
 

Firas,
instead of commenting here I wrote a whole post about the topic you raised

Take a look

http://www.natashatynes.org/mental_mayhem/2005/09/lack_of_politic.html
 

Natasha: I see nothing wrong with commenting over here.Next time please be more considerate

Haitham : Well, I guess the rules state that you should be blogging for at least a month to be added to JP, I've been added to the list today. Anyways, Jordanians do talk politics at home, but refrain to do so outside, which I guess proves that there is no lack of intrest in politics, it is just because of Big Brother.
Yeah, I didn't say that no JP discuss local issues, I was talking about a 100% political blog.
Haitham, I think the problem goes much deeper than that,it seems we are inclined to accept authoritarianism, rather a democratic government that does not provide security, even if this was on the expense of our civil liberties.

And for sure I'll try to spend more time following your blogs, good job BTW. So how is Michel Sabbah related to u?
 

Firas, I did not mean to offend you, on the contrary I wanted to draw the attention to your post which I thought was very important.

This is a standard practise among bloggers caled "Trackback".
 

Oh okay, sorry Natasha..my mistake

Thanks though :p
 

Firas wrote.
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it seems we are inclined to accept authoritarianism, rather a democratic government that does not provide security, even if this was on the expense of our civil liberties.***UNQUOTE***


C'mon Firas, I think that you are pushing it here a little too much with your statement above!. First of all, who said that a democratic government doesn't provide security? Most of the democracies around the world that I'm aware of their presence seem to be very secure to me !? Secondly, Who said that civil liberties have to be sacrificed in exchange for security?! If there are people out there willing to sacrifice their liberty at the expense of receiving their security, then this kind of people people deserve none. Finally, the political system in Jordan is well defined and it has been that way since its inception. Monarchy is a hereditary system where the power passes on from the father to so and so on and so forth. The citizens of the country appear to be supportive of the existing system, ostentatious expressions of loyalties to the Hashemite dynasty are abound. Political parties in Jordan are very disorganized and very ineffective.So in essence, there isn't really that much politics to be discussed about Jordan unless the discussant wants to address the parliament, and the ministers.
 

big brother is always watching. where ever you go, what ever you do, THE MAN is watching. So I would dress in the dark because you dont want THE MAN to see you naked firas ;)
 

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