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“In the face of mass atrocities, we stand in mass indifference rationalized by logic that sees us through the day.”

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“What is worse than indifference is when people’s nationalism allows for the conscious rationalisation of brutality as part of a political balance sheet. It is but a grave oversight when people shift their responsibility towards moral values for the duty to obey.”

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“Morality is man’s only trustworthy guiding tool and empathy is that natural instinct in which without it the world would be a much darker place to inhabit.”

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“Evil does not just arise from nothingness, most of the time it is nurtured by society’s failure to activate its moral standards”

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“As humanity progressed it built machines that can do away with its hands and now, it is building programs that eventually aim to do away with its brains, the one thing that no other species on this planet can challenge.”

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“Humanity is and must remain unconditional in the face of political, financial and personal gain.”

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“Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.”

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“Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.”

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“We are here, in an era of the strong, one that rewards a means to an end mentality, where qualities like empathy and compassion have been downgraded to attributes of weakness and gullibility.”

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“Humanity is fallible and every single one of us is capable of sin but if it were not for the hopes of one day being redeemed none of us will seek to understand our flaws and make the effort to rectify the damage our actions have made.”

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“If you are blessed with your health in these times, then embrace the feelings that you are faced with, try to deal with them for there is a blessing in every tragedy and we must find it in order to endure.”

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“The words have forasken us but we continue to write because the brave souls of Gaza continue to bleed. It is as if we are part of an endless funeral procession. The grief comes in waves, it ebbs and flows but mostly it crashes onto our hearts with great force and leaves us breathless. Helpless.”

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“Here lies the truth of this grave injustice. Those who survive are far more gone that those who perished.”

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“Wars survived leave lasting scars and genocides witnessed will never let you go.”

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“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.”

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“Eradicating ‘terrorism’ is one vague mission we have heard repeated in this region, yet history has shown that America and its Western allies have used this excuse to wage massive wars only to never actually achieve this so-called mission.”

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“Women’s rights remain a continuous battle around the globe; where education as a basic right is nothing but a dream and where possession of their own bodies is a debatable matter.”

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“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage and unabashed in its cruelty.”

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“Social psychologists have likened the effects of COVID-19 to that of the great World Wars for the characteristics are all there down to the sirens and curfews; it is after all a life-altering event that has blanketed the world with uncertainty and an unfathomable restriction on personal freedoms.”

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“The ambiguity shrouding this whole crisis makes it all the more difficult for the mind to adjust to, runners can only pace themselves if they know how far the finish line is and yet in this race our finish line is just a prediction, an educated guess.”

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“This traumatic episode in history is proving to be one twisted psychological experiment on a massive scale, a testing whose effects on the mind will be studied for years to come for we know that after trauma comes the post-traumatic episodes and the world needs to be ready to help those of us who will need to be mentally supported once the worst is behind us.”

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“Aloneness seems to be the greatest byproduct of this invisible enemy for whether or not a person has been infected the condition is one of separation, a self-imposed isolation. Be it out of fear or guilt you are expected to stop your life in its tracks and confine yourself willingly and against all natural instincts to the walls that house you.”

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“One dares to say that only a pandemic of this scale could have slowed down the rat race yet this too will prove beneficial to some of us and a sheer torture to others for the mirror that COVID-19 has forced us to look into is one that has no cracks, it reflects reality in its harshest form and unless we truly look, and come out the other side changed human beings, all this agony would have been for nothing.”

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“One sits at her desk as the world outside catches fire and cities continue to burn, people continue to run for their lives - refuge is unattainable but we cannot tell them that, for the cruelest thing a helpless person could do is to tell those in a tragedy that hope, although visits them, is a stingy guest who brings with it nothing else, no rescue or cure.”

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“George Floyd’s death may have compelled you to post a black image on your social-media accounts but what it should really have done is made you question yourself and find within you those dark places where intolerance might be hiding for who among us can stand tall and proclaim that they have never been prejudiced towards a certain ethnicity, gender, colour or faith?”

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“Pigmentation is not an indication for incarceration and because black or fifty shades of brown complexions can never be a justification for hate or injustice.”

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“We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.”

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“When the contradictions weigh on you, know that this has never been a war of rights and wrongs, of what is just and what is fair. Never has it been a war of political logic or historic sense. All it ever was and will ever be is a war of semantics that altered, redefined and constructed today’s reality and tomorrow’s path.”

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“The Moroccan football team has taught us a lot but the greatest lesson is; our mothers are everything”

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“Tragically, these witch hunts go unpunished because the law books in these countries do not view them as crimes. Basically, the law allows people to act as judge, jury and executioner and is prepared to cast a blind eye no matter how harsh their punishment might be.”

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Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“This is not about religion. This dilemma arises from the concept of shame. Sociology defines it as a family of emotions that arise from viewing the self negatively through the eyes of others. Therefore, it is this fear of judgement that pushes men to murder.”

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Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“This sense of shame is rooted in tribal cultures. Honour killings are one of the many tribal understandings that pre-date Islam and Christianity together. It is as ancient a concept as the crimes of female infanticides. While the former is now extinct, the latter has somehow managed surviving to this day.”

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Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“This gendercide must be tackled by a revision of all laws. Killing is killing and placing the word ‘honour’ in front of it should never be justification enough for allowing its escalation.”

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Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“It is the horrific crime that seems to be accepted among many Arab societies, conveniently coined ‘honour killing.’ This must be the most contradictory term I have ever come across for what is honourable about cold-blooded murder? Just like the heinous crime the term itself is gravely flawed.”

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Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“The road to redemption is a treacherous one that the accused must walk through in darkness but if we don’t shine the light then there is no hope for anyone finding their way to the other side.”

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“The journey into a colour-blind heart is a long one but it is one we must endure so as not to allow injustice to continue through our children and into the future.”

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“Young activists like Greta Thunberg are fighting for the Earth’s survival but what use is this planet if it continues to be nurtured by the blood of the innocent and prosper through others’ misfortunes? Save the trees, the oceans and the skies, save the planet but do not forget to save its soul.”

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“The world should be outraged by the man-made tragedies and this outrage must be translated to a global fight that involves activists, diplomats and civil society leaders. It must be articulated in words that set the unjust on fire, that light the way for those innocents being persecuted and maybe, just maybe, put an end to their suffering.”

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