Pay it in advance

It’s been nearly three days now since that ugly, disgraceful, disgusting terroristic act of ‘Saints church’ in Alexandria, and although three days have passed more & more tragedies of innocent victims arise leaving deep, non-healing wounds in our hearts & souls. When watching these innocent victims, we feel pain taking over our hearts we feel torn apart, we feel that without thinking of their innocents’ nationalities, religion or even gender!! All we see is other humans in pain, all we hear is humans’ cries, screams & sufferings. And honestly, I see it so ironic that…. that we only remember we’re humans & we remember other humans only when we see them cut in pieces before our eyes & of course when I say “we”, I’m nowhere near including those brutal murderers who gave away their humanity the moment they pulled the trigger or pressed the “Explode” button to kill innocents & take them away from the people they love. When I say “We”, I mean everyone who’s deep inside still a genuine human who has the ability to love, to care, to help. This human who still believes in differences & accepts them.

Why am I saying all that?! Why now?! Because this drastic incident has opened my eye to something I haven’t been seeing before or maybe I was seeing it but I was overlooking it. What’s that thing?! It’s racism, racism that has been spreading in our world like a tumor spreading in a human body. Well, some of you would object to that. Some would say that even if racism has been dominating the whole world, it can never get to Egypt, to the Egyptians. Here, I’m gonna ask you a little question, has there ever been a time when you felt afraid or maybe at unease about someone just because he’s different from you?! Has there ever been a time when you had second thoughts or maybe retreated when it came to dealing or working with a person just because he’s different from you?! And this difference shouldn’t necessarily be a religious difference. It may be ideological, social or even age difference.

Now, let me ask you another question. When you feel afraid of someone just because he’s different, isn’t that racism?!!! So, racism isn’t just about blowing others or killing them or humiliating them, their beliefs & their ideologies. Racism is that psychological block that prevents you from accepting other people, other opinions or other beliefs than yours & this psychological block with that tendency to violence that has been taking over nearly 80% of the world’s population, this dangerous combination with maybe some rage can not only lead to killing others but to blowing the whole world.

I know that all of you would say that the “Saints church” incident wasn’t a racial act but was a part of a tight plan that aims at destroying the Egyptian community by planting the seed of hatred among its two main elements; Muslims & Christians. Well, there’s no question about that but doesn’t this plan need an executing hand?! And do you think this executing hand would be of one of the plan-setters?!!

So, whose executing hand is this?! In my opinion, this hand belongs to someone with racism tumor spreading all over his brain, maybe he was brain-washed or maybe not but what’s certain is that his racism is what driving him now.

To finalize, I wanna say to you one thing, it’s not a sin to feel hesitated about different people, because after all that’s human nature. But the true sin is to let this hesitation turn into rejection & then to racism. Try to love all people & accept them regardless of anything & when you have these hesitant thoughts, remind yourself that you also wanna be loved regardless of anything so, pay it in advance.