A video posted on social media in mid-June appeared on news websites:
In Netherlands, a 15-year-old boy brutally beat a schoolgirl of the same age in the street.
In the incident that took place in Rotterdam, the young girl tripped from behind and fell to the ground. The young girl, who gets up from the ground, gives a kick in self-defense. The young man who attacked her again brutally beats the young girl in the street. Images of the incident have been trending on social media.
Rotterdam Police Spokesperson Tinet De Jong, who made a statement on the reactions of public, said that young people sometimes get involved in such acts of violence to show off each other. Noting that after the beating video was published on Facebook, the citizens reported the identity and address of the beating male to them, De Jong thanked the sensitive citizens.*
I know you felt a pang of sorrow in your heart for the girl when you watched the video. If the same thing happens to your child or wife on the street, it would be hard not to go crazy because of this murder, right?
In fact, the situation in the Islamic world after the Ottoman Empire was destroyed is much worse than the girl who was beaten while walking in the park in Netherlands. Muslim blood flows everywhere, from Asia to Europe, from Africa to the Middle East
Today in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, the situation is like the girl who has been face is smashed in the park… When Islamic countries want to walk innocently in the park on their own, they are always subjected to dirty interventions by the same figure, but by using a different actor each time. It has been beaten hard and whenever it tries to get up it has been pushed back to the ground again. People around us do not go beyond just looking bitterly and saying “oh, what a pity!”.
The situation does not seem to be resolved in the near future, as the Islamic Countries are left without a leader and cannot organize the necessary organization to gather under a common will.
Muslim youths, who are uncomfortable with their inability to do nothing in the face of this painful image, fall into another trap. In addition, by falling into the net of organizations such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram, with the dream of establishing an Islamic State, they are serving the whole world with the images that non-Muslims exactly want by leading the works that will prepare the ground for the Sunni-Shiite conflict, by creating ridiculous atrocities…
Although everyone knows that the weakness of Muslims is not the order of Islam and that insolvency is not caused by Islam, the reason is directed at Islam with black propaganda carried out both in Islamic countries and non-Muslim countries.
Let us put an end with the warnings of our Lord;
Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not dispute with one another, or you would be discouraged and weakened. Persevere! Surely Allah is with those who persevere.” (Surah Al-Anfal, 46)
“As for the disbelievers, they are guardians of one another. And unless you ˹believers˺ act likewise, there will be great oppression and corruption in the land.” (Surah Al-Anfal, 73)
As long as the Islamic Countries do not gather under a common will, the weakness pointed out in these verses will continue and it will not be possible to get out of the current environment of corruption and oppression in the world. ASSAM conducts studies on exactly this issue with its long-term plans and programs.
Melih TANRIVERDİ
ASSAM Secretary General
