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The Djazair-Belgium Network - Documents

Silence of the Lambs

by Farida Sellami

In French


Algeria is dying. Its children are being slaughtered by fanatics who want to impose their beliefs. They have chosen a terrifying God, but deep down they know they're in the wrong. They don't respect human life anymore. They don't do it because "it's written" (in a holy book), because it's NOT, but simply because they are power hungry bloody
monsters.

Members of the governing body close a complacent eye because they're still thirsty for material things. Money is their only goal, and as long as they keep the power, they're able to pile up as much of it as possible.

The people are lethargic. They look at murder almost with indifference. France, who exploited Algeria for 130 years, closed its doors in order not to hear the screams of those being slaughtered. An entire population is being annihilated, and the rest of the world keeps ignoring the genocide perpetrated beyond their borders.

Yesterday I learned about the violent death of a young 16 year-old girl* who did not obey the given orders: she went to school without wearing the "hijab." She was taken from her classroom, pulled by her hair to the middle of the school yard, and had her throat slit in public. Not one person intervened to protect her. Are the Algerians so terrorized that they do nothing to stop these atrocities or are they insensitive?

I prayed God, the merciful God that my parents taught me to love, to wake up the Algerians, at least those who still have in them some respect for human life, and not let the cowards who distorted the true meaning of Islam and highjacked God's commandments (i.e. You Shall Not Kill) in order to carry on their atrocities without any feeling of a culpability complex. Killing for them is now a fact of life. They don't have any conscience. They are no longer Humans, and keep on stampeding those who have fought for freedom.

The Christian world should not close its eyes under the pretense that the ones being assassinated are not theirs. They are Human Beings. It has happened in Germany when the Jewish people was assassinated, and the world intervened only after 6 millions Jews perished in concentration camps. Should we wait until this number is reached in Algeria before stopping the massacre?

* It should be noted that not all sympathizers or supporters of Islamist groups sympathize with armed groups, especially those involved with the massacres of civilians. The FIS, itself, has condemned the killings, and its armed wing, the AIS, has insisted that in the past (it has recognized a cease fire since 1997), it has only targeted the government. FIS members and sympathizers themselves have been a target of the armed groups (GIA), per their own admission.


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