For any society and for the whole of humanity,
the treatment of minorities is not a matter like many others; It is, along with
the treatment of women, the elderly and children, one of the most revealing
data ethical progress or retrogression. A world that respects every day human
diversity, where everyone can express themselves in the language they prefer,
profess in peace their creeds and quietly assume their origins without exposing
themselves to hostility and vilification or the authorities or of the majority
population. That would be a world that would be advanced, that would progress
and that he must go flying. On the contrary, when situations clenched in
relation to identities, as currently happening in the vast majority of
countries, both north and south and east and west and West and East prevail,
when it every day a little more difficult to be quiet about us and use our
language or practice our beliefs in freedom, ¿How Not to mention that the society is
declining?
Many years ago, in 1948, the proclamation ofhuman rights took place. In its second article says: "Everyone has all the
rights and freedoms proclaimed in this Declaration, without distinction of
race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or
social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction
shall be made based on a political, legal or international status of the
country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it is an independent
country, as a territory under trusteeship, not autonomous or under any other
limitation or sovereignty." This statement has been signed by all UN
members: countries, minorities or any other member of the organization.
In one of the best books I have read about the
ongoing conflict between two very old and secular societies like the Christian
and Muslim, "The mismatch of the world" Amin Maalouf, the author
writes: "My criticism currently the Arabic world is the poverty of their
ethical conscience what I blame the West is that it has propensity to turn
their ethical awareness in domain tool l ...... in the words of the first would
be futile search for traces of a concern ethics or references to universal
values, in the words of the latter is a pervasiveness of these concerns and
those references, but they are used selectively and continuously molded to make
them available to certain policy".
It can be assumed that the behavior of the West
with Muslim countries in general and the Gulf in particular has not only been
edifying but has contributed to an exacerbated has sparked violence between
different factions. It can also admit that certain companies or sectors have
benefited from the bloodshed and destruction that has been caused in countries
like Iraq, Syria or Lebanon, but when some Sunni militants gets behind the
wheel of a bomb truck or they have attached a belt pump the chest to blow up a
market that come Shiite families or a restaurant where breakfast Christians and
some preachers would call the murderer like a hero, martyr and also say they will
reach paradise, is the Arabic world itself which must self-examination and
thinking. No doubt these facts should be an embarrassment to those Muslims who
are aware of their history and their heritage. For these reasons, should form
some sort of commission to be able to educate and explain to all parts it is a
problem of respect and coexistence and the commission should try to integrate
and not separate ..
But this is not an isolated case between
Muslims and Christians. In Burma, a Buddhist monk (?) incites violence and make
statements like: "You can be full of goodness and love but can not sleep
next to a rabid dog" and boasts of being known as the Bin Laden Buddhist
and incite to kill infidels. In the same package could cite the kidnapping and
murder of Mohamed Abu Khudeir by radical Jews in Jerusalem in revenge for the
kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, which even led to some rabbi
to be ashamed of being Jewish. One can also cite the slaughter of Srebrenica,
where 8,000 Muslims were killed. These are just three examples, but the number
of cases is endless and come in all colors. In such cases all beliefs are
involved. But if all these events were well reviewed, really they kill for a
religious cause ?. Bob Dylan wrote about it years ago and many artists have
sung, we should listen the wind:
