[Blind-international-students] Responding to (help emma video).

[Guido Corona]

Mustafa, I would appreciate it if you refrained from introducing red herrings
on this thread, religious or otherwise. 

 

On the other hand, if you really insist taking such deep offense about RNIB's
fundraising techniques, please go ahead and enjoy venting your lone anger...
Just do not be surprised if you do not always find world-wide sympathy for
it.

 

G.

 

From: Blind-international-students
[mailto:blind-international-students-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mostafa
Al'mahdy
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:58 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: [Blind-international-students] Responding to (help emma video).

 

Hello. I received various reactions about my previous post. Well, I suppose
that it is quite natural to have different opinions, and to disagree on any
subject. But, it's quite self-explanatory to be courteous, to make sense, and
to not be irrelevent  as we show our disagreement as well. I emphatically
consider this video to be tremendously disgraceful, offensive, and
downgrading to blind people dignity. It pretty much sounded like someone
sitting on the pavement, just raising his hands for money. Well, a beggar. If
any charitable association in the world wants to encourage people to donate,
to fundraise for its activities, well, there are many respectful ways to do
so. They can  organize for benevolent parties, where people  buy tickets,
they can get sponsored for their event, and they can sell products on
display. That's just for instance. If someone thought it's fine to be
mendicant, well he then should carry that out on his own. But he absolutely
has no right to extrapolate his concepts, so it's to avoid destroying the
mass reputation of certain people. Blind people are perfectly dignified, and
this video is quite derogatory to the one who made  and published it to say
the least. I have many blind friends who labeled this video as derogative,
offensive, and it's actually very insulting to blind people. Here you go, so
you can reassess.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cJLF1qVpI

 

To seek for positive tendency, here is a video that promotes for blind people
achievements.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9HgwRQgW4

              

 

The purpose of each video is quite obvious by contrast. Blind people can
achieve anything, if only they wanted to. Taha Hussein achieved the most
highest level of academia, he prosperously attained the most prestigious
degree of professorship of his time, and he excellently was granted many
domestic and international academic awards on Literature, Novelty, and
ancient Philosophy. He was quite popular for his sarcastically political
articles, his liberal views, and his modernized way of thinking. He was
recognized as the dean of Arabic literature, the chief of Cairo University,
the secretary of education, and ultimately, he was entitled to (Nobel Prise)
on literature. Yet at his time, there was no any significant aid to blind
people. There was no braille printing, no audible libraries, and there was no
adaptive technology provided for him. His only way to read anything, is just
to rely on sighted assistance. He fought, strived, and struggled, so he
finally arived. It's quite a shame on us if we have all of this advanced
technology provided for us, and most of us can't even reach the half of what
he was. Well, I am not trying to write an essay for my English class, just in
case if someone attempted to ridicule. Well it's time to go pray. It's dawn
prayer. If someone trys to put words on my mouth, I will simply ignore him.
If someone shows radical notion, I will basicly dismiss him. If someone
assaults Islam, and he thinks it's a good idea, I will basicly disregard him,
or her. Mostafa.    

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