Do you know what this acronym means, WCNSF?
No, it's not an international organization. It's not a new AI technology.
It means Wounded Child, No Surviving Family. In Gaza genocide, children regain consciousness in hospitals to find out that they have no one left.
In Gaza, children lose their parents, siblings and limbs. Imagine how this child's life would be in years to come!
If this child decides to revenge when they're a grown-up, do we have the right to blame them? In our communities, we would call them a fighter, or a martyr if they died while in the West, they would call them a terrorist.
Who's the terrorist? The one who invades, kills, kicks people out of their homes or the one who fights back? The one who breaks out war and enforces sanctions on ordinary people or the one who sends medical crews to nations in crisis although they themselves are in crisis?
When will all of that come to an end? Would wars ever become extinct one day as dinosaurs did? Would peace find its way in our world before it's too late?
I will keep praying for Zobayda, all the Iranian people, and those in Gaza, Cuba, Congo, Sudan and more. I will do all I can through volunteering, speaking up and writing about all this craziness.
Please pray for peace and liberation!
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I know peace will come one day. I know the one who brings peace. I pray that all may know him and accept his forgiveness and to be forgiving rather than taking revenge. Taking revenge just creates more violence.
Thank you for speaking up about this!
Thanks for sharing. Your voice needs to be heard more. Ever since Donald Trump became president of the USA, I have felt ashamed of being an American citizen. There was a time when I believed in a convenient myth that the USA stood for democracy, human rights, and the rule of rule. Now that myth has been completed shattered. To me, the USA seems no different from any greedy empire ruled by a corrupt plutocracy. Donald Trump belongs to the same ilk as Putin, Xi, or Erdoğan.
They call them terrorist because that's exactly what they become. They spread terror and panic. What happens is that the people around the child leverage their loss to indoctrinate them and make them vengeful and convince them that if they die while performing an act of terrorism, taking innocent lives indiscriminately, they'll ascend into paradise as a martyr.
I have to agree with Simo — terrorists are made, not born. If you tell a vulnerable child that if he commits an act of terrorism, he's a fighter, and that if he dies in the process, he'll be a martyr and ascend into paradise where countless delights await him, you're effectively creating a terrorist.
On another note, I have to wonder if Journaly is the right forum to voice these political, religiously charged themes. It is, after all, a language forum, and it doesn't seem like you're posting them to improve your English. Wouldn't they be more useful on a site where these discussions can have more of an impact?
Thanks for correcting and commenting, @T-Newfields! I hope more people, especially Americans, will wake up and see that myth.
@Simone-, ah so you consider both sides (the oppressor and the oppressed) terrorists? Or only the oppressed because they are “unofficial resistance groups”? So those who resisted and fought against fascism, Nazism, and the Black Panther and Ukrainian fighters were terrorists as well? I believe the perspective would be different from a person to another depending on what terrorism and resistance means to them and how they apply the term.
You mentioned revenge, and then—I'm paraphrasing—said that the West would consider those acts to be terrorist acts.
What constitutes an act of revenge for you? If you kill innocent civilians, you're a terrorist. Period. There's nothing noble or vengeful about that. In my view, revenge would entail targeting specific individuals. I'm not condoning it. I'm just saying that's how I interpret revenge.
Resistance consists of an organized, armed civilian response. That's okay. You have the right to defend your homeland.
The partizans never targeted innocent civilians. They specifically targeted soldiers or political figures. Their goal was to weaken the enemy. Even then, the resistance against Nazi-fascism consisted of different groups, such as, the Catholic Church, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, anarchists, and republicans, among others. They all wanted different things.
I don't know what you mean by "Ukrainian fighters." Are you referring to civilians who joined the regular army? In any case, I think Russia's drone attacks could be well considered terrorist acts. Attacking civilian infrastructure isn't part of the war; it's terrorism. You mentioned Ukraine. I haven't seen Ukraine bombing hospitals or schools. As far as I'm concerned, they're not doing anything borderline.