Sometimes it is important to comment a bit outside the usual topics, because the heart feels the pain and the necessity to give some thoughts to a problem long lingering and touching on all spheres of life including health care. Yesterday employees of Charlie Hebdo were killed in an attack as well as two police officers in Paris. And it is amazing how quick politics reacts and troublesome words are used to describe and decry the deed of presumably men of Moslem faith.
Let’s get our vocabulary right: This has nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with Islam – we also should be careful with the word “terrorism” as the West has unfortunately linked it to Islam without differentiation – what we see is crime on the highest scale, disrespect for human life in the highest form and the try to cover this up with bloodstain the word “Allah”.
We have to invite Islam to completely distance their faith with such acts, but for this to happen we must give them a chance to abolish the “Bush invented” interlinks between “war on terrorism = war on Islam”. Mindsets must change on all sides to come together in this. And for this text: there is no radical Islam as there is no fundamentalist Christianity.. as soon as a religion is fundamentalist or radical, it loses every connection to its core…
This “war on terror” as well as all the implications, assassinations, torture,extra-legal killings, land occupations, streams of refugees, mass manipulations, violence, abuse of religion has disturbed the lives of millions of people in multiple ways – and health is only one of them. How many people are not able to get proper treatment, die before their time just because some crazy politicians and fundamentalists have decided to play “the war on terror” on all levels of society? Time to take a step back, identify the looming and not spelled out fears and the hidden agendas and start a healing process before it destroys more lives and hopes. And to bring those to justice who have triggered all these events starting on the highest levels. There is a chain of causualities and to rectify the situation one has to identify this chain.
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