The French people have received tremendous global support in the face of such audacious attacks, the chief being from President Obama who has termed the attack as an act not just against the French people but against humanity as a whole. All countries, rich or poor, small or big have voiced their support and solidarity with the French in this hour of grief.
The international outcry over the heinous crime got me thinking, however.
How valuable is a human life? Does its value depend on what continent you reside, what country you are from , what skin color you have or what nationality possess? To answer the question of, “Should It?”, of course it shouldn’t. All religions and beliefs teach us that all lives are sacred and that all are equal in the eye of God. So, then, why does an act of terror on European/American Soil produce global outrage whereas the acts of terror in the remaining parts of the world doesn’t even manage to produce a tiny fraction of that outrage and solidarity? Doesn’t this seem wrong? Doesn’t this clearly say that the life of the innocent kid that was killed by terrorists in France was worth more than that of the kid killed in the attack by Al-Qaeda or the American drone strikes in Pakistan?
According to the studies conducted by Brookings Institution, for every militant killed by the drone strikes in Pakistan, 10 civilians are killed. Each year, hundreds of innocent people are killed as a result of an act that they were no way connected to. When the bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan by the Americans, run by Médecins Sans Frontières, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, could not elicit a clear apology, what chance could the people have who live under constant threat of the Taliban/Al-Qaeda/ISIS and the American drones?
I’d like to further discuss about the swift and strong
response from the American President, Mr. Obama. Yes, Mr. President, I agree with
your statements entirely. However, Sorry to say this but you do not possess the
moral mettle to speak about the act of war against humanity. America has
historically been the largest exporter of violence and terror. There are
documentary evidence of how the CIA created Al-Qaeda, how they have time and
again used various terrorist groups and how they have supported dictatorial and
extremist regimes as long as the American interest in the Natural resources and
other Geo-political threats are addressed. Mr. President, please lecture the
world on humanity when you have acted on the plight of millions of Palestinians
living under the world’s largest open air prison, when the kids in Pakistan and
Syria are not afraid to venture out in warm sunny days because they are afraid
of the drones that you are using to kill “terrorists” and when the Indian Government can no longer block the
supply of daily necessities into Nepal.
In what has turned out to be almost a yearly process,
an act of terrorism takes place in a Western country and the whole world comes
together to condemn violence. However, the whole world either doesn’t care
enough or is too scared to talk about the violence that those very countries
are propagating. It’s ironic how in the name of the war on terror, by killing
innocent civilians around the world, the Western countries are themselves
creating the very thing they later have to fight. It’s a hellish circle of death and destruction
that is only fueled by the death of civilians, be it in the posh neighborhood
of Paris or the dusty backyard of Damascus.
So, while strongly condemning the terrorist activities
and the loss of lives in Paris, I would also like to condemn the blockade by
India over Nepal, the act of terror unleashed by the “Democratic” western
countries, the American policy of arming various militant groups for temporary
gains, the inhumane blockade imposed upon Gaza and Palestine, the indiscriminate
use of drones in Yemen, Syria, Pakistan et al.
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