Arab dictatorships keep falling down, because they exceeded critical mass.
As top-down systems, they started to contradict with the social reality too severely that this reality adapted them to new conditions forcefully.
The American and the Western authorities, just like the Russian and Chinese ones, may be too happy too early, though. Because there are similar contradictions in their systems, too.
Seemingly unconnected developments in recent days show that we all must stay on alert:
* The French parliament debates a bill, which would jail anyone who rejects that the tragic events of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey was a genocide, as Armenian nationalists claim. A Turkish Parliamentary delegation is holding talks in Paris in an attempt to prevent the passage of the proposed resolution that they argue that is against freedom of speech: An integral Western value.
* Even after it was accidentally revealed that it was an underground Neo-Nazi terror organization that killed eight Turks, not the Turkish mafia in Germany, the German government has difficulty to admit the problem. German authorities keep saying that they keep fighting "extremism" and "anti-semitism," as if the victims were not Turks who were killed by skinheads, but Jews who were killed by fanatic Christians. When will they name the recent racist trend as "anti-Turkism?" Didn't they take the lesson after the Nazi era?
* The Dutch senate debates a proposed ban on slaughtering animals without stunning them, a move that Muslim and Jewish groups say violates their religious rights. If the Netherlands does outlaw procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims, it will be the second country after New Zealand to do so in recent years. It would join Switzerland, the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, whose bans are mostly traceable to pre-World War II anti-Semitism.
* Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Brevik, who confessed in his hundreds of pages long manifesto that he was among the ranks of a modern "crusaders" who strive to clean Europe from Muslims, is declared insane in a psychiatric assessment, which probably means that he won't be jailed.
* Meanwhile, in a German court (yes, a German one)... a psychologist said that an alleged Islamic extremist who has admitted killing two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport earlier this year is mentally fit and can be held criminally responsible for his actions.
* Meanwhile, in a U.S. court... (yes, a U.S. one) an American private may get a death penalty for treason. Let's see if this alienated young man, who was once seen curled up in the fetal position in a meeting room, be declared insane or not... And let's don't forget: He is being accused of risking lives by leaking evidence about war crimes like the Collateral Murder video. He didn't massacre 77 civilians or killed two soldiers...
We should admit these contradictions between our practices and values, bravely face our problems and solve them for sake of humanity... Otherwise, the Protestor will get the whole world down...
