Did Antoun Sehnaoui Pass His Anger Management Course?
Antoun Sehnaoui Trapped in A Society Of Rumors
The "Culture Of Honor" At Play Between Antoun Sehnaoui and Mazen el-Zein
Antoun Sehnaoui Had Three Point Five Seconds Before The Bling, Blink, Bang
Anger killing me every minute!
Although anger has often been classified as a biologically grounded, universal emotion, it is clear that anger is interpreted, managed, and regulated differently in different social contexts. What is known is that in Arab circle and culture, demeaning expressions targeted toward individuals of high status constitute a challenge to their manhood. Hence, the mean and hostile aggression directed toward Antoun Sehnaoui, CEO of one of the leading banks in town, wasn't going to pass without retaliation. Indeed, the wild outburst of violence through
fisted and belittling gestures and wordings was clearly a confrontational call that drove fury to take stage on the Maison Blanche opened-ring. As a matter of fact, a clear affront was offered to Sehanoui and his bodyguards as soon as the young reputed and successful entrepreneur walked into the White House on that Saturday night (Feb. 25, 2010).
What seems to have actually happened is that Mazen & Co. did all they can to fuel Antoun and his bodyguards to encourage them to be
aggressive. Such a behavior is known as "instrumental aggression"
involving an intention to hurt another as a means to some goal.
And it's nothing but the availability of guns that made the bullying face off and war of words take a different route; however, the fight was unavoidable, point blank. Did any of the provocative and angry men expect Antoun Sehnaoui to flee the night club with his men like a bunch of sissies, rather than stand their ground in fights, summoning up courage toward the aggressiveness that emerged upon their arrival to Maison Blanche? Or were Antoun's opponents giving him an angry management course?
Have the men not been armed, would have violence been lowered? Not
certain! It could have been worse! How many times have we heard about late night fights where people stabbed have ended on a hospital bed with serious wounds? How many times, have we heard about alcohol bottles used as lethal weapons with fight ending even more lethally than what happened at Maison Blanche?
What we should condemn here is not how Antoun Sehnaoui's bodyguards
dealt with their aggressive impulses; but how the opposite clan provided stimulus to unhealthy emotions defying men who are paid to protect someone from any potential threat and have an inborn tendency to respond to certain provocative stimuli by striking out against the perpetrator. Think about it?
