Former Minister Dr. Bassam Al-Amoush stated in his article that Jordan is a country without Sednaya, Abu Zaabal, or the Military Prison, and the army has a mosque in its military units and pilgrimage missions.
Al-Amoush said in the article titled "I am a Jordanian patriot": Do not harbor negative suspicions about me, for I am in a country without Sednaya, Abu Zaabal, or the Military Prison, in a country with an army that has a mosque in its military units and offers pilgrimage missions.
Al-Amoush added: I am Jordanian and I want it free, dignified, and independent, without debts, sins, or remnants, led by a national government that wears fotyek and empathizes with the people's pain, a government whose leader cries at night over the existence of beggars and oppressed families who cannot find their medicine, a government that thinks not of its members' privileges but practices transparency without boasting about it.
The writer concluded saying: Yes, there are irritants here and there because we are human, and they certainly require treatment, which is the duty of the government we dream of existing.
Following is the text of the article:
I am a Jordanian patriot
This isn't a change of skin because patriotism is natural, and love for the homeland is not just love for a handful of soil but love for the people of the homeland, and "ask the village," i.e., ask its people, as the poet said:
It's not the homes that have transfixed my heart
But the love of those who dwell in the homes
And my patriotism does not negate my tribal identity nor my Arab identity, for God has clarified saying "nations" and tribes that you may know each other" and this is capped by my belonging to my Islam as uttered by our prophet Ibrahim peace be upon him "and I am the first of the Muslims," and still half the sphere expands to connect me to my humanity as our prophet Mohammed peace be upon him said
"All of you are from Adam, and Adam is from dust."
There is no contradiction, but successive circles with one center. Each circle has its rights and duties.
Yes, I am a Jordanian patriot, not a bigoted regionalist, nor do I acknowledge what the criminals Sykes and Picot have delineated, and I’m still trying to surpass what they did; however, as I proceed, I start from my country Jordan, companion to Palestine, loving Syria, proud of Lebanon, adoring Iraq, proud of the Arabian Peninsula, and my eyes are still hopeful for the great sister Egypt, gazing towards North Africa reaching my second country, Morocco, through the lands of Omar Mukhtar and Rached Ghannouchi and Ahmed Ben Bella, pained by the Sudan of Turabi and Suwar al-Dahab.
I am Jordanian who wants it free, dignified, independent, without debts, sins, or remnants, led by a national government that wears fotyek and empathizes with the people's pain, its leader cries at night over the existence of beggars and oppressed families who cannot find their medicine, a government that thinks not of its members' privileges but practices transparency without boasting about it.
I am a patriot, son of my tribe and equally I am Irbid in color, Hawrani, Ghorani, Balqawi, Karaki, Maani, Tafili, Aqabi, Zarqawi, Ajlouni, Jerashi, Humeidi, Sakri, proud of the Tuwayha, my eyes towards Al-Aqsa which I visited before the occupation, proud of the Hebronite, the Gazan, and Mount of Fire.
Do not harbor negative suspicions about me, for I am in a country without Sednaya, Abu Zaabal, or the Military Prison, in a country with an army that has a mosque in its military units and offers pilgrimage missions.
Yes, there are irritants here and there because we are human, and they certainly require treatment, which is the duty of the government we dream of existing.
