How many innocent women and girls are supposed to be murdered by their families in the name of honor for us to realize that our problem is internal?

How many men and children are supposed to support terrorist organizations for us to realize that we have a major ideological problem? 

How many of our minorities, like the Jews, the Kurds, and the gays, should pack their bags and run away from our countries until we realize that we are indiscriminately hostile to those different from us?

How many of our girls should get married until we realize we have a problem? 

How many atheists, blasphemers, and ex-Muslims are supposed to get jailed or killed until we realize that we have a problem with empathy? 

How many gays are supposed to get hanged or thrown from rooftops until we realize that we do not care about our people? 

How many painters, artists, teachers, and comedians are supposed to be slaughtered by extremists until we realize that the problem comes from us?

How much Arab blood is supposed to be spilled by other Arabs until we realize that WE are our biggest problem? 

Change doesn’t start ”out there” – it starts with us. 

We cannot continue to repeat the same traditions from our failed cultures and then point our fingers at the West and the Jews and say, ”They are the problem.”

Blaming the West and the Jews is a convenient scapegoat. It means that the problem isn’t within us. 

It means that they should work on themselves, but we? We can remain as we are. 

Believing that our teachings and our culture are perfect is a problem. If we keep doing this: blaming ”them,” instead of working on ourselves, then the Arab and Muslim communities will continue to regress. 

Source: Luai Ahmed - X