As Karuna Parikh wrote in her moving and utterly succinct poem:
“It is not Paris we should pray for.
It is the world. It is a world in which Beirut, reeling from bombings two days ago before Paris,
is not covered in the press.
A world in which a bomb goes off at a funeral in Baghdad
and not one person’s status update say “Baghdad”,
because not one white people died in that fire.
Pray for the world
that blames a refugee crisis for a terrorist attack.
That does not pause to differentiate between the attacker and the person running from the very same thing you are.
Pray for a world
where people walking across countries for months,
their only belongings upon their backs,
are told they have no place to go.
Say a prayer for Paris by all means,
but pray more,
for the world that does not have a prayer
for those who no longer
have a home to defend.
For a world that is falling apart in all corners,
and not simply in the towers and cafes we find so familiar.”
THIS IS A QUESTION OF BOTH HUMANITY AND CONSISTENCY! CRY FOR PARIS, YES, DO IT, BUT ALSO CRY AND BE WITH ONE --- WITH ALL THE POOR PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!
A Call for Humanity
Our duty is to fight all forms, types and kinds of terrorism whether they are from the West or the East, from the Left, the Center or the Right, and whether they are “governments” or bunch of some bloody bastard maniacs and whackos!!!!
We must all stand up as One, for in truth and in fact, We are One!!!
#WEAREONE!!!
#FORHUMANITY!!!
“It is not Paris we should pray for.
It is the world. It is a world in which Beirut, reeling from bombings two days ago before Paris,
is not covered in the press.
A world in which a bomb goes off at a funeral in Baghdad
and not one person’s status update say “Baghdad”,
because not one white people died in that fire.
Pray for the world
that blames a refugee crisis for a terrorist attack.
That does not pause to differentiate between the attacker and the person running from the very same thing you are.
Pray for a world
where people walking across countries for months,
their only belongings upon their backs,
are told they have no place to go.
Say a prayer for Paris by all means,
but pray more,
for the world that does not have a prayer
for those who no longer
have a home to defend.
For a world that is falling apart in all corners,
and not simply in the towers and cafes we find so familiar.”
THIS IS A QUESTION OF BOTH HUMANITY AND CONSISTENCY! CRY FOR PARIS, YES, DO IT, BUT ALSO CRY AND BE WITH ONE --- WITH ALL THE POOR PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!
A Call for Humanity
Our duty is to fight all forms, types and kinds of terrorism whether they are from the West or the East, from the Left, the Center or the Right, and whether they are “governments” or bunch of some bloody bastard maniacs and whackos!!!!
We must all stand up as One, for in truth and in fact, We are One!!!
#WEAREONE!!!
#FORHUMANITY!!!