03 December 2006

How Sectarianism Penetrates Through University Walls?

Indigenous political manipulation is manifested so garishly at a student echelon. Politicians shadow the youth by bombarding them with ideal themes to be able to snatch their innocence and corrupt them to make sure they have a seat in the next elections. Why do we need to live under the clemency of avaricious politicians with private paradigm for power and twisted grandiosity? They are practicing sectarian blackmail to encroach in our own milieu and pressure us to vote for their own benefit. We merely fall into the trap of trusting political leaders who relinquish their beliefs for personal ambition.

Last week there was a blast in one of Lebanese universities, AUB, you could feel the inescapable tension flooding through the students when they were parading in front of the university with flags and scarves of orange, yellow, blue or white and shouting the names of political leaders of their specific party. It is so pathetic how politics is being engraved through university walls to spread sectarianism all around, as if the university is the miniature of the bigger jungle outside their premises……

I hate to see our youth being robbed of its innocence, corrupted by manipulative politicians, who don't care about the public good and the ideology that they claim they fight for, but voraciously seek to fulfill their own whereabouts…….

Why do we have so many colors for such a small country as Lebanon? Why we need to identify ourselves with various colors? Why can't we have one flag, one identity, one color? But otherwise we won't call it Lebanon, because Lebanon is bound to be a battlefield, if we don't have outside invading troops, we will go our way to create inner conflict. Why can't we realize that we are being maneuvered, we are being forced to live in instability because people aim to divide us to conquer, and we are feeding their ambition by being so absurd, so naïve , so pathetic……..