Compassion (funeral, experience, Allah, Yahweh)

[Djamila]

I'm sharing this interview with Juliette Binoche because my sister and I had completely different reactions to it. It's only 2 minutes long, have a look first and then I'll explain:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...86045173527785

I though it was nice. I didn't feel it was entirely accurate, I'm sure coming here at that time was overwhelming for a French woman but for us it wasn't shocking any more. After four years it just becomes your normal way of life and you adjust such that the general war is your starting point. Every day waking up during the war is no longer bad, it's just normal - and you still have good days, and you have days that are extraordinarily horrific and consequently are bad.

But to come just after the war and be left with this impression of pain is something I can understand but I can't relate to. There was tremendous pain but it was so common among everyone that it just became, for us, like a steady noise in the background and we felt and experienced, instead, only what stood out - whether it was positive or negative. She did make me cry, though - hahaha. So, overall, I liked it.

My sister, on the other hand, cursed and waved her hand to get me to turn it off when Juliette Binoche started to cry. She said it was extremely offensive that a woman who spent a few months here after the war had already ended would become so emotional about her experiences, like the distant cousin who cries more than the children at a father's funeral. She thought it was in bad taste.

Now I don't pretend to have had my sister's experiences, which were immeasurably worse than what I went through. I don't pretend to know what it's like to be that angry, I just know that she is.

So, my question is, why do people become offended by compassion? I think we can all agree, watching that interview, that Juliette Binoche is being sincere - so why do some people react to that with anger?

Is it spite? Is it pride? I don't understand.

[astarath]

It is pride in their pain which is saddening. They feel that they need to defend their suffering and prove their's worse so that they are the focus. It is a strong tool of Shatan because with it not only is the person fullof pride losing focus on
God but all those around her as well shift their focus from Allah to saddeness and anger.

Keep the focus your sister should be loving and thankful to Allah that one of her sisters (in the general sense of humanity) is emotionally wrought as well and if they we are all to come together and share the love of Allah their sadness would leave and all that would be left is Yahweh