Muhammet Esiroğlu: "Wars and consciences"

Muhammet Esiroğlu: "Wars and consciences"
Date: 13.3.2022 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Muhammet Esiroğlu writes on wars and consciences. Here is the full article.

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If they wanted a summary of today's world, our answer is obvious. A world where war, occupation, blood, tears, cruelty, hunger and poverty are experienced in the most severe way. It is well known that racist imperialism holds power thanks to science and technology. In the system established by the powerful for their own benefit, humanity is tried to be enslaved in the hands of a handful of minorities. In other words, all the wheels of the current system serve the interests of racist imperialism.
 
Today, the vast majority of people are unable to meet even their most basic needs. Humanity is busy consuming its life in this exploitation wheel. What happens is done for the comfort and benefit of a handful of minorities. Other than this minority, they are struggling to bring supplies to their kitchen. Of course, they do not want to give up such a world. For this, they can easily resort to coups, assassinations, embargoes, invasions and wars when necessary.
 
In an environment where those who object are silenced, people caught in conflicts of interest are intimidated, persecuted and killed, those with a conscience have a lot of responsibilities. To be the conscience of humanity, it is important to keep the scope of conscience as broad as possible. Otherwise, what is seen as conscience can turn into a means of satisfying desires. We need to take a good look at what some reactions that seem conscientious actually correspond to.
 
The difference in the reactions of the Europeans to the Ukraine War and the Bosnian War, which happened next to them, is the best example of this. Even this example itself is important in terms of understanding the phenomenon that Western rulers accept as humanity. For the Western world, which obtains the welfare they provide for themselves by usurping the rights of others, it is of course normal for the wars and events to be classified in terms of their own interests.
 
Ethnic, national or regional arrogance is the only thing that a mind that tries to understand all humanity by putting Europe at the center will produce. Since the events are evaluated from the point of view of this arrogance, it cannot be imagined that the reaction to the persecution in Palestine and the reaction to the events in Ukraine are the same. Based on these examples, it would not be very healthy to see the current reaction of the Westerners, who remained silent and even contributed to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as a conscientious stance.
 
Well, we should also express what we see when we turn the camera towards us. Ethnic, sectarian and national interest-themed conflicts exist in a region where a religion whose root means peace, which is based on justice and mercy, which values ​​right and what is right above all else, and which is sensitive enough to say don't go to sleep when your neighbor is hungry, even when we keep outside interventions aside, The normalization of corruption and poverty is also significant. Sectarian conflicts, civil wars, persecution, violations of rights, lawlessness, poverty and hunger are not the fate of this geography, but have become the reality of the people living there.
 
We see the same grave situation not only in what happened, but also in the stances in the reactions to them. The Muslim world, who shed tears in Syria and said goodbye to Yemen, determines the severity of the pain of children who died or was victimized by national borders, considers their own nation as the center and approaches others from its perspective, should also question its own conscience.

YEREL HABERLER

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