By Abdennasser Badda
Agadir - The Black Day, Floods of Blood in Paris, Massacre in Paris, the War in Paris…these are some of the titles on the front pages of many newspapers published in France after what the Paris terrorist attacks.
Over 130 people were killed, many cried (including our leaders), but why should we cry? Should we cry for the deaths of humans? Or because what happened in Paris threatens our national interest? Or because it is the first time we see video of the attacks on television? So why should we cry?
One can stand speechless after any terrorist act that results in the deaths of many people regardless of their origin or religion. Some powerful countries made some serious statements condemning the attack, which raises some very fundamental questions in my mind, pushing me to believe in Napoleon’s statement: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal.”
As such, I realize that non-European people are less equal. So, no need to cry over less equal people.
in 1917, the United Kingdom Minister of Foreign Affairs promised the Jewish people to establish a country for them in the Promised Land without contemplating the consequences of his promise. The Zionists, blessed by the United States and the United Kingdom, invaded Palestine and started building settlements at the expense of the voiceless people.
From then until now, about 800,000 people have been killed. Thousands of children have been murdered and their houses turned into ashes. Jamal Doura died in his father’s embrace. Did anyone cry?
In the last week, barbarous Israeli soldiers broke into hospitals in Palestine, killing and arresting the patients in one of the most heinous scenes of cruelty that humanity has ever witnessed.
Some of those patients were killed on the spot. Others were arrested. The voiceless doctors in Palestine organized a symbolic pause against the unbearably cruel actions of the savage soldiers in vain. Neither America nor any other powerful country released any statement condemning the Zionist’s brutality.
Neither have we changed our profile pictures to the Palestinian flag. So why have some people changed their profile pictures to the French flag? Is it because France has more of a reputation than Palestine? Or is it because the lives of those people in Paris are worth more than the people in Palestine and Syria?
The US invaded Iraq claiming that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The war continued for many years. Millions of of people were killed and displaced. Saddam was executed in the early morning of Aid Al-Adha. The oblivious Arab leaders went into a hibernation so as not to see or hear anything. In other words, they were afraid that they could be the next sheep to be sacrificed.
America said that invading Iraq was a mistake. Sorry America, can your words rebuild Iraq, give a second life to the victims, heal the deeply injured patients, bring ashes into life? Or were people in Iraq inhuman and their lives worth nothing? Did anyone cry? Or change his profile picture?
The poor Muslims in France will suffer again from racism and will be marginalized in every part of their daily lives. It will start with people not sitting next to them on buses. This point should be stressed and be well explained to the whole world.
The stereotype that the West holds towards Muslims will be fed again, and a huge war will be waged against Muslims, pushing its flames to burn anyone in the surrounding areas. Henceforth, I recall the basics of relationships between people in Islam regardless of the religious backgrounds that people might have. It is stated clearly in the Holy Quran that killing innocent people is condemned.
“On that account: we ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person- unless it for murder or for spreading mischief in the land- it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people…” {Al Maida: 32}
The above-mentioned Quran verse stresses the sacredness of human being. Islam treats the lives of people on the same basis. No one is more or less human, and there are none more worthy of life. All people are equal and should be treated on this basis. No one has the right to end anyone’s life.
If an American loses a member of their family, I should feel empathy and present my sincere condolences. If a person dies in Lebanon, I should feel sorry and present my sincere condolences. If anyone dies wherever they might happen to be, I should feel sorry. All people are equal, and no ethnicity is more prestigious than any other. Being Moroccan, Algerian, Palestinian, American, European…whoever you might be doesn’t give you more value over your brothers and sisters, but it gives a different name with a different coloured flag.
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