I don't look at people's past, I judge their words based on the present as everyone has a past, and that past might include things we are not proud of, little pecadillos we might have made when influenced by external forces or just plain errors of judgement. We are all continuously learning, everything that comes before us modifies our thought, we are a product of our enviroment, but it is for us to not let our past, the past and our enviroment from influencing us and others to how we are in the present, how us, we truly feel.
So, you say other people's inputs are not making the situation any better, so I have a question to ask you ;
What would make the situation resolved, what do you want to put an end to this war ?
Remember though, the past is the past.
Khanjar, of course you don't have to look at the past, because you aren't the one being 'othered' here. The fact is, the continous use of "we" and implication of the "other" and "them" in the past, is the primary reason things have escalated to this point.
It is obvious that the whole purpose of this thread is to get everyone else to gang up on a new member, Awasef.
Now the funny thing is, the moderator of the now locked thread issued private "warnings" or "requests" to two people, Kharmine and Awasef, yet here you have Kharmine creating a thread in order to get back at Awasef the troll (pot calling kettle?) for the mere reason that Awasef disagreed with her.
If Awasef isn't driven out NOW, it is most likely that her disagreeing and "unreasonable" view is going to appear again in the future, especially since Awasef can speak perfect English and is capable of participating in stimulating discussions if she wanted to. This is just another attempt to alienate and slowly drive out the Arab members of this forum. If you haven't noticed, the declining active membership and alienation of Arab members are and have already been taking place.