Murderers will remain murderers; there is nothing that can be done about it. If they’re caught, they’ll end up being sentenced, or hanged, or if they have powerful connections, eventually released.
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By Saniya Ahmad | October 14, 2015
We’re living in a time when clothes, jewelry and shoes are more valuable than a human life. We’re living in times when blood, instead of water, flood the streets and rivers. We’re living in times when not only are the alive put through hell, their graves are too when they die.
I wonder when we became this inhumane. When did we let people kill other people so openly, so brutally, and feel proud about it? People like Mumtaz Qadri, who kill and are then congratulated all around the world for killing a “blasphemous infidel”. Militant organizations like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, who killed 141 children of the nation in cold blood and believe that this is what Islam taught them. Organizations like the ISIS who behead people and proudly upload videos of their cruelties. Industries like the media who shove their cameras not only into the bodies of the deceased and the injured, but also have the audacity to put sad Bollywood songs to make the incidents “more tragic”. People like us, who sit quietly and watch people get murdered and don’t feel outraged or dizzy at innocent blood being spilled all around the world, people like us, who end up making jokes about the dead.
Murderers will remain murderers; there is nothing that can be done about it. If they’re caught, they’ll end up being sentenced, or hanged, or if they have powerful connections, eventually released, but they’ll be punished in some way or the other – not only in this life but in the Hereafter as well. But what about people like us who have constantly been watching blood being spilled throughout the world, in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Pakistan, India, Turkey, and have watched quietly as people are tortured, raped, kidnapped and murdered. We scream and cry in agony for the lives lost, we tell the whole world how hurt we are, we raise our voices in protest of the brutality. And then what? We forget. It might take us a day to forget or a year, but we forget all the same. And that makes us, the “normal” human beings most inhumane. Because we forget the brutality and the cruelty that is inflicted upon innocent people, we forget and we keep on forgetting until the same brutality happens to someone close to us. And then there is no forgetting.
I believe murderers, rapists, kidnappers are very terrible people – actually I wouldn’t consider them people because that would mean they belong to the same species as I do – but I believe people who’re normal are just as terrible. Why? Because we stay quiet. Because we desensitize the whole situation by making fun about the situation. Because we allow these inhumane barbarians to do what they want to do with us. And most of all, because we forget. We remember the incidents, that’s for sure. But we forget what we’ve lost. We’ve forgotten the attack on the Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, we’ve forgotten the attacks on the Hazara community, we’ve forgotten the attacks on the church, we’ve forgotten the Christians that were burnt alive in the brick kiln, we’ve forgotten the 141 innocent souls of Peshawar, we’ve forgotten the 260 kids who were molested in Kasur, we’ve forgotten the rapes and gang-rapes that have been carried on through Pakistan. This is our crime, and this is what we should be punished for – forgetting.
The world is becoming a dark place and its people are becoming more barbaric with each passing day. I challenge you to turn on the news channel, pick up a newspaper on any given day and see if it brings along any happy news, see if it brings a news without any deaths, kidnappings, tortures or molestations. And if you see the news of something barbaric and inhumane happening in any part of the world, I challenge you not to forget. I challenge you to remember. Remember the souls who lose their lives because of their faith, ethnicity or just because they exist. Remember the souls who lose their lives just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Remember the souls who are no longer in this world just because some terrorist wanted to decide their fate and become God. Remember the souls. Remember. And never forget.
Saniya Ahmad tweets at @BubTheMinion
-- The Crime of Forgetting
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