Xuhaib
International Coach
My comments may have seemed harsh, biased and inappropriate towards Afghanistan and its people but I had the misfortune of experiencing a serious personal grief due to actions of some ruthless, cold hearted Afghans. Sure this does not give me the right or an excuse to paint all the Afghans with the same brush as I am sure many of them are good decent people but sometimes when you go through a terrible ordeal and find out it continues to happen then you tend to develop a strong opinion for certain things and you tend to not care or rationalize whether you are being politically correct or not.
So, did my comments seemed harsh and spoiled the forum atmosphere? Yes
Were the comment wrong? This is a discussion forum and I was presenting my response to a comment on an issue on which I feel very strongly.
Should I have stayed shut? Thinking about it probably.Being a part of a forum is like being a part of a country as an individual it is important that once you become a citizen you adhere to laws and rules laid out for that land I guess the same logic applies for an internet forum, so yes making a political comments on a cricket related discussion is surely against the forum rules and I did tread on the unacceptable behavior territory but then as I said in the opening para when you go through a terrible ordeal you develop a strong opinion for certain things and you tend to not care or rationalize whether you are following the rules or not.
as for spoiling the forum atmosphere I do accept that I have been involved in verbal political duels with some other members and they have not been pleasant all the times will definitely try to keep them to minimum or nil in the future as most of the times they lead to just mud slinging.
regards, Zohaib
So, did my comments seemed harsh and spoiled the forum atmosphere? Yes
Were the comment wrong? This is a discussion forum and I was presenting my response to a comment on an issue on which I feel very strongly.
Should I have stayed shut? Thinking about it probably.Being a part of a forum is like being a part of a country as an individual it is important that once you become a citizen you adhere to laws and rules laid out for that land I guess the same logic applies for an internet forum, so yes making a political comments on a cricket related discussion is surely against the forum rules and I did tread on the unacceptable behavior territory but then as I said in the opening para when you go through a terrible ordeal you develop a strong opinion for certain things and you tend to not care or rationalize whether you are following the rules or not.
as for spoiling the forum atmosphere I do accept that I have been involved in verbal political duels with some other members and they have not been pleasant all the times will definitely try to keep them to minimum or nil in the future as most of the times they lead to just mud slinging.
regards, Zohaib