Hello Guyz w gyuzat

Yaba I saw this video which was really interesting and made me try to find out more about this movement and I found that "i7na feen wil dunya feen"

No seriously now... this is a wonderful thing and I loved to share it with u:

The Free Hugs Campaign is a phenomenon which involves individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public settings. It began in June, 2004, and was widely publicized in 2006 by a music video on YouTube. The campaign is an example of a random act of kindness, a selfless act performed by a person for the sole reason of making others feel better. The original organizer has stated in interviews that the purpose is not to get names, phone numbers, or dates.

(Source: Wikipedia)


The story started when the founder of this movement returned to his hometown, Sydney from London and found that everyone had someone waiting for them, to welcome them, to hug them, to make them happy... almost every one apart from him and this made him to feel very lonely, so he took a cardboard and made a sign written on it "Free Hugs" on both sides and went to the busiest streets in Sydney and people stared at him for so long and then finally a woman stopped and hugged him and told him how this made her feel better as well.
So he ended up starting this movement that goals to cheer the people in the street and now it's a world wide phenomenon....


There's alot to read, I won't post it all here!

The video is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

The official website:
http://www.freehugscampaign.org/

Wikipedia's Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hugs_Campaign



Do you think that such a thing is possible in our Arab world?
Why?



Take Care

miss you man...
شنو رأيك نبديها بالعراق
!!!!!!!!!!!

والله متصير يمنه لو ورة ميت سنة لان اكو عقول قافلة متقبل تنفتح

Miss you too brother

Well why not??

Seriously talking... let's identify and try to resolve the "why not"s of such an act?

fast & simple reply ..

mainly coz of religious & social reasons, that such a thing can not be possible in Arab world ..

but if you think of it .. its an innocent move to do .. so it would be so beautiful .. but ONLY if it was innocent ..
& because you can't garantuee that ALL the intentions are innocent .. this will be an obsticle definitely ..

for me i would do it only with people i trust & can feel comfertable that they will not get me wrong .. but of course i never offer the first move lol ..
this is my opinion .. but its not always possible to achieve ..

hi

http://www.thebcmf.com/index.php?showtopic=3677&hl=free+hugs

and to answer ur question dear kadem, check this link in our forum http://www.thebcmf.com/index.php?showtopic...l=shaking+hands

so when a big part of our society can't accept shaking hands with the other sex, how can we expect it to allow hugging! I think our society is a sexual one, sex is the 1st thing we think of, women r sex objects and any touching with them is a sexual act and so it is forbidden. this is the mentality of most of us.

another point is that we r mostly a society that doesn't like display of emotions, feelings r out of equation, better leave them unexpressed, we just bottle everything.

i love this free hugs movement, i think it's great, we r humans and sometimes we need a hug

hugs

Ma6'boo6

hi every one
away from the religion
i see the hug is beautiful way to express our emotion
with stranger there is no emotion ,so emotionless meanless
according to me i dont like to hug stranger or stranger hug me
intersting topic
thanx for sharing
my regard

جوابا على سوال كاظم راح اذكر حادثة صارت وياية قبل سنة من كنت طالب.......

جنت راجع من الكلية الظهر وبما انه بيتي بالسيدية فطريقي طويل واحسن شي اقضي وقتي بيه هو ان اسمع اغاني بالطريق فدائما بجيبي احط ال ام بي 3 بلير وبالطريق واني راكب الكيا اسمع الا ان اوصل .....بهالطريقة هم اتونس وهم ما احس بالوقت يعني استغلال الوقت خاصه انه الدراسة بكليتنه متنطيك وقت تسمع وتتونس براحتك

المهم

اني كل مرة من احط السماعة باذني اشوف ناس تستغرب .....مرات يكتفون بالنظرات الغريبة او التعليقات ببيناتهم ومرات يسالوني شنو هذا موبايل ؟.....عبالك اني جايب شي من المريخ.......ومرة ما انساها جان اكو 3 شباب طلاب كلية لابسين زي موحد كامو يصنفون عليه وكل شوية يذبولي حجاية مثلا شنو هالزلم مال هالوكت وشوفو هذا الخنث ومن هالحجي السخيف اني تجاهلتهم بالبداية بس بعدين مكدرت اسكت ومن الغضب رزلتهم واني مجان المفروض اندك بيهم لان الواحد لازم يبعد عن المشاكل بس شسوي يعني طكت روحي........

جان اكو يمي واحد ديدخن وملاها للسيارة دخان والعالم كلهة تكح ومصنفو عليه بس اجوي عليه اني الجافي خيري شري ومحد بحالي شفوفو الجهل......كلتلهم بلة هذا الرجال اليمي ملة السيارة دخان والمرة الكدامي تكح وطفلهة يكح مابيكم نخوة وغيرة ورجولة صارلكم ساعة تصنفون عليه مكدرتو تخلوه يطفي جكارته؟.......هاي رجولتكم تطلعوهة براسي؟.......

بصراحة ردت انكتل وورة محجيت تندمت بس الله سهلهة وعبرت بدون خسائر


مخلص الكلام ......ماطول اكو شرقيين وماطول اكو هالثقافة اللي متعترف بحق الغير وبحرية الاخر .....وماطول اكو هالجهل والتخلف .........وماطول الناس متعترف بالمشكلة اصلا فشلون رح تعالجهة؟.............ماطول اكو هالشغلات فمراح يصير شي .......


اذا الشرقيين بسماعة باذنك ميخلوك تلبس او لبس شوية غريب ميتفهموه وهاي كلهة اشياء بسيطة وما بيهة احاسيس شلون راح يكدرون يتفهمون رغباتك الانسانية وياخذوك بالاحضان؟..........ترة هذا طلب مستحيل؟............ترة ذولة اشباه بشر ماريد اكول غير كلمة حتة لايزعلون الشرقيين ويسووني ابو لسان طويل وللاسف اني وهواية من امثالي مسجونين بين اشباه البشر ....للاسف

it is not only our society who think this way .. the Western society also thinks this way, even more than we do .. but the difference is that they are opened to such acts even if they indicated a sexual meaning .. they dont mind it really .. or lets say most of them dont ..

my point is .. instead of accusing our society with being restricted .. try to dig deep & see the real reasons behind each idea .. & then compare it with the opposite idea .. & choose the one which suits you the most .. according to your own philosophy .. as long as you are satisfied with your principles ..

regards

simply because
كل ممنوع مرغوب

Interesting points raised....

First of all I agree but at the same time disagree with what Hammoodi said about our society being a sexual one, it's like this because a big part of our culture is our religion and if in our religion you are not supposed to touch or be in close contact with a strange woman then you can't really blame the society for following its religion... I'm the one who put the NO RELIGION rule and I don't wanna break it, but I just wanted to mention it so as not to blame everything on the people.

Now another important aspect of this assumption (that religion caused people not to accept hugging others) well we are not talking about intersexual hugs only, we are talking about hugs in general... so another important part of this is men hugging or women hugging each other which is not prohibited by religion but at the same time it's not practised in the society...
This is the part to blame our society on, right?

Now why did this happen???



p.s: sorry Nabeel for reading your story, I kind of felt what you went through, but if you want to live the day when you can listen to music freely in public transport you should not quit nor give up on your people... after all it's all because of ignorance and some people can be blamed for being ignorant, but sometimes others just couldn't help it? right?

hi tina

i think the western society is more open about contact between guys and girls, they shake hands, they kiss on the cheeks and it's all just greeting, hugs can be sexual but can be innocent too. we, on the other hand, think all of that is sexual and r not allowed by the society. in here, all of the girl's body is considered 3ora.

u said u r ok with hugging but there r religious and social reasons why it's not possible in our society, i just elaborated on these reasons. i do think our society is a restricted one, why can't i or any one else criticize the society?!

dear kadem
when the religious acts become incorporated into daily life and adopted by the society, they become customs, customs that even religious leaders can't change if they wanted to.

i think men hugging or women hugging is ok in here. it's not common but if u do it no one will object and no one will think badly about it.

take care

first interesting subject for long time.....

when i read it i just wanted to post the shaking hands page but then saw that hammodi did......

kadem you asked why??....if you cant make people accept the idea of shaking hands then you can forget about the hugs........simple hard truth.......

well said hammodi.......

nabeel i laughed when i read your story....its true ...it happens very often..


and tina what you said about the west is true but you can see even in the video that people didnt want to hug this guy in the beginning eventhough they are so open bcos simply it was something weird.....but its an innocent move so people started afterwards......

from my opinion such campains help people to love eachother.....get along.......see what life is about?? its about caring about other people.......i mean you wanna be doctors why?? dont you care about humanbeings......

sooooooo nice topic but sadly its never never gonna work ,neither in iraq nor in the arab world.

هسة عمي عوفو شغلة ولد يحضن بنية خل نكول واكفة شوية يمنه بس خلي اني وكاظم واحد يحضن اللاخ بالعرصات بالكلية وشوفو التصنيف والضحك والاستهزاء وعدم التقبل...........ترة المساله متخلو من محظورات اجتماعية صحيح واكيد الجنس عنصر اساسي والدين كذلك لكن لو بسطنه الامور الصورة راح تتوضح يعني الغي عامل الدين والجنس وخلي هالفكرة محصورة بين الولد بس او بين البنات....... بس تخيل يا كاظم روحك بكلية بغداد بالساحة وانت واصدقائك فد خمس نفرات واحد يحضن اللاخ شراح يصير؟.........ردة الفعل مراح تكون يابه كاظم تعال فهمنة شنو الفلم؟ وليش هيج دتسوون ؟ ....ردة الفعل ببساطة شوفو ذولة المخابيل شديسوون او شوفو ذولة الشاذين او او او الخ.......الشغلة شغلة تقبل للاخر واحترام رغبات الغير .....الشغلة شغلة تعامل انساني .......وللاسف كل هذا ماكو..............كل هذا ماكو ....ماكو


بس تدرون شكو؟...........اكو ناس تاخذهم العزة بالاثم.......اكو ناس تدافع عن الغلط لانه هوة موروت......اكو ناس متعترف بالغلط واللي ميعترف بالغلط ميكدر يعالجه.......اكو مثقفين للاسف متعلمين وباحسن المواقع وهمة من الداخل يروجون لهيج افكار من العصور الوسطى .......اكو ثقافة مجتمع كامل لازم تتغير .......اكو شرقيين .......كومة شرقيين ......بكد التمن اللي بالحصة اكو شرقيين ........شرقييييييييييييييييييييييييين...


كاظم اني صارلي فترة ساكت ومغلس واصلا نويت ابدي سلسلة جديدة بعيدة عن هالمواضيع بس انت يا اخي كلبت عليه المواجع وبالكوة حجيتني وانت تعرف معزة الشرقيين عندي وتدري من يجي طاريهم شكد احب اسولف بيهم