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Today, France is experiencing a state of popular boiling through widespread protests known as the Yellow Jackets Movement, a protest that has taken place until we Arabs have been stunned. It is difficult for us to find out how France, as one of the most powerful countries in the world, We, who live in our countries, are miserable social situations that do not move and our lives continue to be calm.


A direct look at the reality of the situation here and there and the apparent comparison between the two cases that we have a picture of misunderstanding and lack of logic, how to the French and they are what they are in comparison to us from the desire to live to rebel and come out demanding to improve their living conditions ?! Atrahm exaggerating exaggeration or we are overwhelmed by the deterioration of our situation! To begin with, so that our response is not unjust, we must place the two different images in the thematic framework of each bank.


If we want to talk about France as an economically prosperous country, we must remember that this development has been prepared for a long time at the intellectual and political level, through difficult and bitter struggles. Let us not forget the French Revolution which took place at the end of the 18th century In the context of Western modernity, which culminated in a state of unprecedented human maturity, this stage of maturity has been prepared through a broad intellectual enlightenment, which dealt with the demolition attempts of the medieval thought, which was characterized by the predominance of the metaphysical and mythological views, as well as the tyranny of autocratic regimes that agreed to conquer human beings By S dissemination of the teachings of the undervaluing of the world on the value of the land of life for the Hereafter life promised in the sky, came the European renaissance and movements of religious reform to change the equation by restoring demand for earthly happiness to the earth through man made a center of existence in order to become his very no way.

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In our Arab societies, we have not lived in any of these difficult struggles or those profound changes, and we will not risk if we say that we still live on the intellectual and political perspectives of the Middle Ages
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All of this was achieved through the emancipation of the liberating liberal spirit that transcended the pessimism and defeatism of the Middle Ages. The rapid development of scientific and philosophical ideas, which allowed for structural changes, was characterized by the flourishing of rationalism at the expense of metaphysical tendencies, the spread of democracy and the concept of human rights as a supreme declaration of freedom And his right to decide his destiny now and here, freely and without any coercive tutelage.


Of course, we in our Arab societies have not lived in any of these difficult struggles, nor those profound changes, and we will not risk if we say that we still live on the intellectual and political visions of the Middle Ages. We are intellectually governed by narrow mindedness, unilateralism and the criminalization of difference. Authoritarian rule where the ruler is the shadow of God in the ground, which means in both cases the lack of the right to freedom of expression, whether intellectual or political.


From this we can understand why the French can move to express their demands in harmony with the values ​​of modernity that oblige man to constantly aspire to perfection, while this move becomes a forbidden and suppressed luxury. Hearing and obedience constitute a cornerstone of our life and expression of opinion. This is a case we find expression in a passage from the novel "Sunset Oasis" by the beautiful writer Bahaa Taher, who wrote: "There I learned that fear is not wisdom is the basis of the king , I learned that the public must always be frightened by licking B and suffering on earth and in heaven, so they know obedience and righteousness, I learned that the governor should not be allowed to public freedom or pleasure, but he has to teach them to find pleasure in fear, we must Aabdona in fear and fear). And so is our case, sir, O Karam.