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لماذا ينتحرون….ولا يستشهدون؟

 

 

تكاثرت في الآونة الأخيرة حوادث الإنتحار في قطاع غزة على وجه الخصوص. بالأمس، قصتين لانتحارين مريبتين. الأولى لشاب عشريني تزوج قبل شهور معدودة وانتحر الآن. والأخرى لمعتقل سياسي كان على وشك الخروج ولكنه انتحر.

لن أحاول تكذيب قصة أمن حماس في الإدعاء أنه انتحر. سأتوقف عند الموضوع على انه حادث انتحار. فلا داعي لمحاولة معرفة ما يجري في معتقلات الأمن الفلسطيني بين أجهزته في فتح وحماس. فالحمدلله ..كلاهما في التعذيب والتنكيل بالمواطن المعترض سواسية!

سأحاول التركيز في سؤالي المحوري. لماذا يقدم الشباب على الانتحار ، في وقت يعرفون تماما أن هذا العمل يخرجهم من دائرة الآخرة بارتقاب جنة ، والعيش في نار لا تقل جحيما عن عيش الدنيا.

لماذا ينتحرون وأمامهم فرصة الشهادة؟ فقناصة الإحتلال على بعد أمتار عن السياج في مسيرات أسبوعية.

في مرحلة العمليات الإستشهادية قبل أكثر من عقد، خرجت مقولات أن الكثير من الشهداء يخرجون إلى العمليات بدل الإنتحار. قد تكون حسبة كاسبة لمن يريد الإنتحار ، يخرج بماء الوجه على الأقل في الدنيا كشهيد ، وأمر انتحاره يكون بين يدي خالقه.

ولكن الآن ، يبدو من الصعب استيعاب لجوء الشباب المتدين جدا في غزة ، والذي يخشى المطوعين في الأماكن العامة ويضبط تصرفاته لإحكامها نحو طريق الآخرة، للإنتحار.

ما الذي كفر به هؤلاء الشباب؟

في السابق كانت فكرة الإنتحار عن طريق الإستشهاد ،إذا ما كانت حقيقة ،مصاغة وأقرب إلى الفهم. فعندما تتساوى الحياة تحت الإحتلال بالموت ، يكون اختيار الموت من أجل آخرة يكون المرء فيها بمنزلة الشهداء، اختيار ذات منطق ، لمن يؤمن بأن الموت في سبيل الوطن شهادة تدخله الى الجنة.

ولكن ما الذي يجري الآن ، عندما يتنازل هذا الإنسان عن دنياه وآخرته بضربة مميتة ومهينة. يعاقب فيها نفسه وعائلته ووطنه ودينه؟

شباب غزة هؤلاء الذين يقفون بكل بسالة أمام اضطهاد الإحتلال وخنق الحصار ،بقوام مبتورة ليقولوا للعالم كلمة حق أمام باطل غاشم. لماذا ينتحر شبابهم وأمامهم فرصة الموت كشهداء أمام العالم؟

في الجهة المقابلة من الإضطهاد، عندما تعلن جهات الأمن في أجهزة حماس انتحار مقتقل لديها ، كيف تروج لهكذا ثقافة؟ ثقافة مكروهة ومرفوضة من قبل الديانات جميعها وتنبذها الطبيعة أمام ما وهبنا به من حياة.

هل بات الإنتحار لهذا المعتقل أهون من العيش أمام ما رآه في الإعتقال؟

عندما نرى تزايد الانتحار في غزة ، فالمؤشر الواضح نحو انفجار بدأ لا يحتاج إلى تحليل.

عندما يصل الشاب إلى مرحلة لا يهتم فيها لما سيحدث له بعد الموت ، لا بد أن هذا الشاب عاش جحيما لا يمكن تحمله، ونار جهنم بالكاد يكون فيها تغيير بالنسبة لجحيمه المعاش.

عندما يفقد الشاب انتماءه لدين تربى وعاش وآمن به وكان جزء لا يتجزأ من تكوينه .

عندما يفقد الشاب شعور الأسى لمن سيترك وراءه من أحبة سيعيشون في عار الانتحار.

عندما لا يأبه الشاب بجسده الهالك وعدم الصلاة عليه وإقامة الجنازة من أجل راحة روحه.

عندما يختار الشاب أن ينتحر لا أن يستشهد في وقت الشهادة فيه سهلة ومتاحة…

فإن هذا أكثر هولا مما نتخيله.

ما يحاول هؤلاء إرساله لنا من رسائل..نحن معشر البشر القابعون خلف جدار الحصار ولا نفهم منه الا بعض الشعارات ، أن الموت بجحيمه الأكيد صار أرحم من الحياة.

لم يعد هؤلاء الشباب يشترون آخرة بسبعين حورية وجنات نعيم وأنهار من الخمور. لقد تركوا وعود الجنة مقابل شهادة متاحة في زمن يصدر فيها الحكام صكوك الغفران باسم الله.

لقد فقد الشباب هؤلاء ثقتهم بكل ما يمكن أن يربطهم بالدنيا والآخرة. يريدون قطعها نهائيا . كفروا بكل شيء .. حتى بعدل عاشوا حياتهم القصيرة ينتظرونه بآخرة.

ما يحدث مؤلم ، موجع ، مفجع….

حوادث الإنتحار هذه مصيبة أكبر من مصاب الحصار والاحتلال… الإنتحار يعكس حالة نذهب إليها ، بعضنا تداركها فانتحر… وبعضنا كفر فألحد… وبعضنا خرج عن دينه وإيمانه وأدمن على التريموديل والسموم.. وبعضنا هج ورحل… وبعضنا رمى نفسه في قوارب الموت عل البحر يكون فيه نجاة من هشيم حياة الحصار…. وبعضنا رمى طوبة الوطن وأغلق على نفسه بيته وتنسك بانتظار موت رحيم.

ما يحاول هؤلاء قوله…. أنهم كفروا بمن يديرون هذا الوطن ، وسيؤثرون على جحيم من رب البشر على استنزاف واستحواذهم لمماتهم كما استنزفوهم بحياتهم.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون.

فلتكن رحمة الله عليهم…

 

UK should cancel Donald Trump visit, says Jeremy Corbyn

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Labour leader says PM has ‘ample reasons’ to withdraw invitation to US president

Theresa May has “ample reasons” to cancel Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

The Labour leader said the escalating trade dispute between US and the EU, as well as the US treatment of child migrant detainees separated from their parents, were reasons enough to rescind the invitation to the US president.

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How did some of cinema’s greatest films end up in an Iowa shed?

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A heartwarming new documentary tells the story of the history teacher who stumbled upon the Brinton Collection, a unique archive of films from the earliest days of moving pictures

Michael Zahs thinks of himself as a saver. “I like to save things,” he says, “especially if it looks like they’re too far gone.” This retired history teacher from Iowa, now in his 70s, has amassed quite a collection over the years: stray animals, farm implements, even a church steeple. He can trace the lineage of the peach trees in his yard back to 1800. Nothing he has saved, however, has been quite as remarkable as the Brinton Collection – a mammoth set of films, lantern slides, posters and projection equipment from the first years of cinema, and even earlier. There are two exciting things about these artefacts. One is that during the more than three decades after Zahs took delivery of the collection and stored it on his property, he has been showing its treasures to local people and keeping the tradition of the travelling showman alive. The second is the discovery that the collection contains very rare material – films by the French cinema pioneer, George Méliès that were once thought to be lost.

Saving Brinton, an absorbing new documentary by Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, tells the story of Zahs and the collection he saved. Between 1895 and 1909,one Frank Brinton crossed the Midwest with his wife Indiana and his travelling show, welcoming locals for a ticket price of just a few cents. At first he showed magic lantern slides, some of which “dissolved” between two static images to create an illusion of movement. When moving pictures arrived, Brinton jumped aboard, ordering many films from distributors in France, one of the most prolific and creative producers in the early period. He also became the manager of the Graham Opera House in Washington, Iowa, which is now known as the State Theater and has been certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest continuously operated cinema in the world. Brinton’s programme included trick films such as those by Méliès, which used in-camera special effects to create fantastical spectacles, and many hand-coloured movies where the dye is applied directly to each frame. Projected in the dark, these vivid, bizarre images have lost none of their original impact.

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Iranian Women Allowed to Watch Football in a Stadium for the First Time in 40 Years

By Nisha Susan

First published on June 20, 2013, updated

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Five years ago, a few weeks after we launched The Ladies Finger, we wrote complaining that Iranian women were not allowed to watch football to cheer their own team. Five years to the day, this World Cup, women fans entered the Azadi stadium in Tehran to watch Iran play Spain. As we said then, honk if you are an Iranian woman and you love football.

Backstory. Since 1979 only men have been allowed to five years ago, a few weeks after we launched The Ladies Finger, we wrote complaining that Iranian women were not allowed to watch football to cheer their own team, enter the celebrations at the hello, hilarious name, Azadi stadium. Last time around, the Football Federation announced in advance: “In this ceremony, only men are allowed to be present and the women who like the national team are asked to avoid coming to the Azadi Stadium.”

Women had not been allowed to watch football in Iran since 1979. Iranian women have registered their protests in hordes over the years, every time Iran’s had a major international victory — by honking their car horns, taking off their veils and breaking into the stadium. Lots of grave foreign policy sorts have been writing about football as the barometer, canary in the coal mine and other such metaphor for gauging the true state of Iranian politics.

Iranian soccer team after they were disqualified from the London Olympics

On the other hand, the Iranian women’s team was disqualified from the London Olympics for wearing hijabs on the field. Jolly multiculturalism.

In solidarity with football loving Iranian ladies then, let us watch a little Offside, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s 2006 film. In Offside, a group of young Iranian women wear boys’ clothes to get into Azadi stadium to watch a World Cup match — one between Iran and Bahrain. In one of those cool Iranian filmmaker moves, the film was half-shot during the actual match.

Panahi himself has been under house arrest under charges of “assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic”. He has been a prisoner since 2010 and is also under a 20-year ban from making films. Again in an amazingly subversive move in 2011, while under house-arrest, he shot a film about his situation, partly on a phone and then had it smuggled out of Iran on a USB thumb drive hidden inside a cake. (Since then Panahi 2018 has won the Cannes film festival Award for Best Screenplay. Since he was able to leave Iran to attend the festival, his daughter, Solmaz Panahi, received the award on his behalf.)

In a case of life imitating art, five women snuck into the stadium this May wearing beards and moustaches. Even this Wednesday, after it was announced that women would be allowed to enter the stadium, Iranian security dudes made up some story about infrastructure and were turning away. But all is well that ends in a good goal or some other truism we have just made up filled with Messi feelings.

امیدوارم همیشه امکان شادی دسته جمعی زنان و مردان ایرانی فراهم شود. جامعه بیش از هر زمانی به شادمانی نیاز دارد و چه بهتر که در #ورزشگاه_آزادی به تماشای بازی فوتبال ایران و اسپانیا بنشینیم

به امید پیروزی تیم ملی ایران pic.twitter.com/taxsDglzh3

— طیبه سیاوشی (@TayebehSiavash) June 20, 2018


Here is a tweet from the Reformist MP Tayyebeh Siavashi at the match. She says that women and men should be allowed to be happy together.

The post Iranian Women Allowed to Watch Football in a Stadium for the First Time in 40 Years appeared first on The Ladies Finger.

Inspired by Trump, the world could be heading back to the 1930s | Jonathan Freedland

The US president tears children from parents, and in Europe his imitators dehumanise migrants. We know where such hatred leads

You’ll remember Godwin’s law, which holds that the longer an online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will mention Hitler or the Nazis. It was an amusing observation and one that served a useful purpose, guarding against hyperbole and fatuous comparison. Except last August, as the American far right staged a torchlight parade in Charlottesville, Mike Godwin suspended his own law. “By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis,” he tweeted. “Again and again. I’m with you.”

Related: I saw a 5-month-old baby in detention. The harm to him cannot be undone | Lauren Dass

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The US withdrawal from the UNHCR is a gift to Xi Jinping and China | Frances Eve

It appears the last holdout in the resistance to ‘human rights with Chinese characteristics’ has collapsed

The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is a gift to China’s leader Xi Jinping.

Quitting the UNHRC won’t make it disappear. It opens a leadership vacancy that China is happy to fill. The Trump administration has stepped back to allow China the space to dominate the council unchallenged and advance its agenda to redefine human rights after the “China model.”

Related: US quits UN human rights council – ‘a cesspool of political bias’

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