One of the strange things of the dual thinking in our Arab culture is that there are concepts which we apply in our individual lives, but they are not reflected on our collective lives and their practices as human, social or political units. An example of this is the concept of looking for a good aspect in calamity, on the basis that this calamity is a test through which we discover our latent abilities in terms of determination and endurance, and we also discover the strength of our “religious” belief. It is a brilliant attitude, which arouses reserves of strength in our souls and our bodies transforms us from people who merely suffer calamity into resisters against it, and victors over its negative effects, with noble positive effects in most cases of calamity