Șȇx Said – “I can live without bread, but cannot live without freedom”
So I scroll through Facebook, flicker
through the channels on TV, turn the pages of the newspapers, and I’m greeted
by the ever-so wonderful faces of George Galloway and Russell Brand. To my
left, I have Mr. Galloway raging about turning Bradford into an “Israeli
free-zone”… as of course, tourists thrive in Bradford. To my right, I have the
controversial and meticulous Mr.
Brand who hauls hefty phrases at those who don’t tickle his fancy.
The Times – “William signs
up for heir ambulance”
The Independent – “Sarah
Palin follows launch of her new TV news channel by calling fellow ex-governor
Jesse Ventura a 'jackass'”
Fox News – “Texas teen
faces life in jail for making pot brownies”
Would you ever believe Iraq is in the midst of genocide?
It doesn’t surprise me nor you that the
world we live in is slowly but most certainly spiralling in a dooming
direction. Africa is on its hands and knees, as if to say the Ebola virus that’s
shook them wasn’t enough; Europe is on the brink of a catastrophic war – the
people are a hungry herd, awaiting the thick meat that feeds them on occasion…
we forget that this meat is what we crave, it represents freedom that at every
sight we see, our famished mouths salivate. My initial plans on this blog were
to refrain from diving into political analysis, though I’m limiting it, some
events that happen are too tragic to bypass. The subject of ‘freedom’ is a
subject that is much closer to home and heart – home and heart being Kurdistan,
those who have “no friends but the mountains”, those who have been
exterminated, prosecuted, massacred and butchered at the hands of the world’s
most empowering empires and yet today are only a milestone away from
independence.
Yezidism is the last existing religion that
is an offspring, if you may, of the
ancient Zoroastrianism. Considered a branch of Sunni Islam, Yezidi’s worship the
‘fallen angel’, notably known as Melek Taus – though a small population, they
solidify the Kurds existence. All this and for what? Their survival is
endangered by a bunch of monomaniacal cavemen whose brains have been so warped
they would shed their mothers blood in the name of religion. Oh, joyous
diversity. The data as far show that 50,000 Yezidi’s are cornered in Sinjar as
well as 500 children and women being used as concubines as fighting rages near
Shingal by ISIS and Pȇshmerga. Whilst the world’s eyes zoom on Israel and
Palestine, countless lives end as though they are statistics.
Talking honestly here, as politics does,
the U.S. could wipe ISIS in the blink of an eye. Who are we kidding though? Do
you want to be told a superpower will side-track its agenda for a life, or two,
or a couple thousand? Nonetheless as a nation blossoming from the concrete, it
also works in our interest to not necessarily abide, but support a hegemon with the likes of the U.S. and Israel to gain significance in a dirty game of
politics. We can be an ally or simply an oily-valuable asset, Kurdistan is weak
on her knees…
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with
slavery” – Jean Jacques Rousseau
A trait that every Kurd has: stubbornness. History
repeats itself and more often than not we learn from it. Do Kurds? No. No, we
do not. Stubborn okay, but also warm-hearted. Tony Blair, envoy to the Middle East,
is conspicuous in his absence and as we fall head first into wars we ask of no
help from Republicans or ‘TeaBaggies’ who babble about the cost of war and how
they can’t nanny the world blah blah blah…
The ongoing collective attempts to eradicate the Yezidi
people are going unnoticed as the world becomes distracted by Bieber’s current
feuds and Putin’s peculiar personality. Survival of this age-old religion is
crucial to remind enemies “hey! We were there too, you know!” Retaliation is
what we are good at, and for every starving child and thirsty elder so ISIS
will fall; perhaps what we are seeing is the unfortunate death of a religion,
but certainly the birth of a long-awaited dream.
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