Fathi Al-Daw
The heinous crime that occurred the day before yesterday in one of the villages of the island and which was broadcast in a short video on social media requires us to take a firm stance, because it represents a sharp deviation in the course of the war, foretelling the possibility of developments that could have ominous consequences. In that video, shocking scenes were shown of soldiers mutilating the body of a war victim, where one of them skinned him like a sheep, while the other was busy digging his stomach to extract his entrails, which he waved in the air, applauding and magnifying in an unsurprising way. He concluded the scene by chewing his liver with pleasure and ecstasy. It was a sad, melodramatic show, the likes of which you will only find in the nature of animals and cannibals.
It is noteworthy that this event was taking place under three striking appearances. First: The scenario was implemented in front of a group of citizens who were watching these scenes with wandering eyes, and perhaps with dry hearts trembling with fear and alarm. Second: It is the most painful scene, the presence of a number of children who were watching what was happening in eloquent silence, and in reality one does not know their true feelings at that disgusting moment, just as one does not know what their feelings will be tomorrow when they grow up, knowing that these scenes will reside in their subconscious minds. All their lives.
Although more than one thousand and four hundred years have passed, what Hind bint Utbah did is still visible in the archives of history books as if it happened yesterday. It ripped open the stomach of Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib and ate his liver, and that is a fact that the normal human soul still deplores and disgusts with. And since thing for thing is mentioned, as they say, in our present time, those with sensitive hearts are still suffering between what is in our imagination and what is supposed to be in our reality. One of my surgeon friends, who had spent a lifetime in his profession, called me and told me that even though he had spent more than forty years in it, during which he continued to open patients’ stomachs and run his scalpel over all their organs, he was unable to look at the scenes of that disastrous crime for long.
In fact, we should not look at this heinous crime in isolation from the circumstances that produced it. It is the harvest of what the Islamists sowed in the lean thirty years in which they made the country a utter ruin. We must admit that we were very reluctant to expose this phenomenon of religious obsession, because some of us were negligent and others treated it with some indifference until it stretched, yawned, and collapsed completely on our chests. Neither the nail that was driven into the skull of the human doctor Ali Fadl, nor the stake that was inserted into the anus of the teacher Ahmed Al-Khair, nor the groaning of those who were buried alive on the slopes of Mount Karari, woke us up. This is a black book of many sins. If we had devoted ourselves to counting their crimes, we would not have been able to count them.
But because they are in love with the love of power, their lust for power still controls their sick souls, as if that bleak period, despite its darkness, was just a picnic. They practiced corruption, gave it a tongue and lips, and sank into tyranny until it almost became a religion to be worshiped. In order to avoid the abyss toward which the nation is heading, we must act urgently to prevent it from falling. Let this heinous crime be our starting point. It should not only be a source of denunciation and denunciation, but rather it should be a focal point for diligent work aimed at forming a broad national front that brings together all loyal patriotic Sudanese to stop the war of fools.
In my opinion, this event represents a dividing line between two times: a time that mourns the Sudan that was and a time that fears the birth of the Sudan that will be. If there is someone among us who still believes that pre-war Sudan will return to what it was, then he must remove these illusions from his thinking and be realistic in evaluating events in a rational and logical manner. Perhaps this means that the next Sudan will not necessarily carry the same distortions that have split the beautiful picture that we have always cherished.
But, gentlemen, ISIS did not descend on us from the sky while people were asleep!
The last words: There must be accountability and democracy, even if the journey is long!
faldaw@hotmil.com
