User:Talibi Mohamed

SILENCE

Silence and what a silence is. In the old times they said that silence is wisdom and of course it was so. In today’s world and especially in our case silence is no more wisdom rather it becomes fear. “History maybe servitude, history maybe freedom” but it is never going to be silence or fear. We may hear of those who are silent and others who are silenced by history. Those are just cases of individuals who by time have overcome their silence. What is odd is when we talk about silence of whole nations. The huge question then is: Is it a silence out of fear or is it so because of their inability of doing something? What is happening now in Palestine and especially in Gaza, people are killed, houses are destroyed, some lost their parents and their families, others ceased to exist. We who we call ourselves the “Arab Nation” what have we done? A lot of Arab countries dictate in their constitutions that the fate of every single Arab country is related, a total relation with the fate of the Arab nation. More than that some countries made of the word “Arab” a part of their country name, which means I guess that whatever happens to an Arab country in a way or another should absolutely affect the whole Arab nation. What we observe nowadays is the total opposite; a whole nation is murdered and frustrated cold bloodily the irony is that no one moves. Some are under attack, homelessness and hunger, deprived from the least needs of life even they forget how a child smiles, others setting on their huge and old chairs inside their big gilded cages thinking that they are flying but a cage is only a cage. We as Arabs in our recent situation should live our everyday life in a shame this is because of what we made of ourselves. In the past we lost the Andalusia we lost our empire, what is worst now is that we are losing our dignity our history and our “old glory”. Our power started to vanish and theirs grew stronger then ever since the post colonial period. They were the imperial power and they still; they considered themselves as the centre and they are superior then us. They had created what it is called the metropolitan civilisation as a standard by which they can judge others who are us and we what have we done? Simply nothing, we kept silent even when we spoke and we will speak it is only silence broken by silence for our words are empty written on a running water and our actions and moves are handicapped. I am asking those who do not have the power to change, because it seems that those who have the power to act and to change have done nothing but kept silent, to pray for those who are bereft of their mothers, their parents, children and their lovers. To pray for the Palestinians who are making effective use of the oldest arm on earth to face the most atrocious recent arms of rationalism and imperialism, for stones speak better than words “empty words”. To pray for mankind wherever under torture and oppression.