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Written by M. Ali Abu Saelik
The tragedy that Turkey and Syria were subjected to, despite its enormity, did not succeed in creating the human side in the French state. At a time when human values are transcendent and all other considerations are set aside due to the horror of the afflicted, the newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" came out with a cartoon mocking Turkey, and revealing the extent of racism. And the hatred that fills the chests of those who drew it and allowed its publication, and the debate opens again about the concept of freedom of expression invoked by France and Western countries.
The killing of thousands of civilians, most of them children, women and the elderly, as a result of an earthquake is a catastrophic and painful event that results in an automatic state of pain and sympathy on the part of all those who have a human sense, and is permeated with disregard for many political considerations and rivalries. Of human beings, psychology can determine their type and classify them, from which we know at least racism and hidden hatred.
The issue of humanity may be controversial, for example, the Zionists occupying the land of Palestine, including soldiers and settlers, and each has a role in practicing the occupation, all of them are in a state of constant war with the Palestinian people who have the right, and therefore it is not possible to sympathize with them under any circumstances. They will be targeted as long as the occupation of the land of Palestine continues only, and when the occupation ends one day, and they return to their original homelands, then the character of war with them ceases, and therefore sympathy for their calamities such as earthquakes that annihilate them, for example, becomes a human duty.
We are not here to talk about the colonial history of France and the extent of the crimes it committed throughout its black history, but there is talk from time to time about the glorification of human values in Western countries among a segment of Arab intellectuals, from which France and other countries obtained Arab defense lawyers without salaries to whitewash Its ugly face. Do some people still have reasons to defend these racist countries?
Whoever can legislate the rights of animals and homosexuals is not unable to pass legislation that protects other religions from intellectually homosexuals, and prevents gloating over the misfortunes of other peoples, but their failure to do so is the real reason for their hostility to Muslim countries.
The renaissance that Turkey witnessed was not a happy event for the Western world and France in particular, and they took it as an enemy, and this was evident in many official positions between the two countries, the most recent of which was the obscenity of "Charlie Hebdo".
We do not doubt for a moment that Turkey will rise again, and despite the huge scale of the calamity, the Turkish people and leadership are able to rise again, because it is a free country, and also because they possess all the human and natural resources capable of returning and standing again at the forefront of nations.
The Turkish president was clear about the position of the Turkish state towards the afflicted, as his speech transmitted great positive energy that heralds the ability of his country to lead the next stage well, which will not be easy and requires patience and sacrifice until everyone recovers, with the will of God Almighty and concerted efforts.
The same is the case in Syria, whose people are subjected to the harshest inhumane conditions. Is it possible that the unjust siege of “Caesar” on Syria continues despite this disaster? Any other crossing, which caused the delay in the arrival of the support mechanisms to save those who could have been saved, is a crime that history will not erase.
Humanity has fallen shamefully so far in dealing with the afflicted Syrians, and not dealing with them in the next stage at the same level in which the afflicted will be dealt with in Turkey and providing life conditions for them again is a continuation of the crime that contradicts all human values, and the responsibility for that is shared between Islamic countries and the world western.
Sometimes opportunities come from where we do not count, and the earthquake in Turkey and Syria was a great opportunity for the countries of the Western world to whiten their image and open new pages, if not with the leaders, then they are with the people, but France refused, along with Sweden and others, and even persisted in consolidating its hostile colonial reality Specifically towards the countries of the Islamic world, and therefore it would not be strange for that hostility to be met with a corresponding hostility that may be more severe one day, and the circle will turn one day.
Jordanian writer
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