I have seen my cousins, who live in Tripoli, turn from cool dudes whom I enjoyed a couple drink or two with them, into devout Muslims, with covered wives, mothers and children.

This did not happen now, it happened 10 years ago, and the build up for it started another 10 years prior to those 10 years, but nobody cared. Nobody cared that outside of Beirut, there is no work, no infrastructure, no affordable schools, no community teaching, no hobbies, no reading, no theatre, no music….NO MONEY. So people started turning more and more to God, and men of God started preaching, and people listened, and we in Beirut thought that Beirut was Lebanon. I remember how shocked I was when I first went deep in Dahieh in 2002 to visit a colleague “My God it is a different country” I kept repeating…you know what, it is true, many different countries, all following their Gods (their God happens to also be politically connected and could facilitate their life where they lived), and so, today, we are shocked to see that there are boys that are ready to blow themselves up because they think God is on their side.

And no, they have not felt the affection of their mothers, coz most of them come from a 15 child family, their moms are either busy popping another one, or cooking for an army of uncivilized children, who will never learn manners, nor will earn their baccalaureate. They have nothing to lose, that’s how desperate they are. They can’t even afford to get married or have sex, they don’t have the money to buy themselves a prostitute, and if they do, the bearded men will freak the bazonka out of them with hells fire that’s going to barbecue them over and over again, so they blow themselves up, and think that their virgins are waiting, my God, did somebody even tell them, that 70 virgins will be painful for the penis at the end, or is baby oil available there???

Excuse my sarcasms, but it is the pieces of shit that we have elected for the past 30 years that never cared about future generations, nor about paving an economic infrastructure for education, health, career planning…. Why do I love Rafic Harriri, and still do, because I lost my father when I was 9. He educated my sister all the way to her PHD, she helped with the finances until I got to my MBA, and because I believe he was trying to create an infrastructure for the future and wanted Lebanon to be on the map, the real one, not the ones we see on instagram or timeout. Lebanese men have been blowing themselves up since the 70s, to kill Israelis, to kill Christians, Muslims, Druze whatever, but they have always been blowing themselves up. So have a look at them, and deal with them, coz ignoring won’t solve it….

#justsaying …..