In our retinas and above all in our hearts is the sadness and anguish that is suffered after each terrorist attack, many do not understand how anyone can commit such atrocities against others, yet today we want to talk about the other side of terrorism.
We feel hatred, thirst for vengeance and spite. We judge the terrorists, we want them to rot in hell, and we believe they are more than psychopaths, who are true murderers full of evil against the West.
- The reality is very different.
- No one was born with the desire to annihilate another people.
- No one feels such a hatred.
- Man is good by nature.
- Or at least he has a chance to be.
- When he is born.
- He is just a child whose mission is to play and play.
- Be happy.
- But over the years and through the world we create.
- The child cannot learn certain ways of thinking and behaving.
- That’s when he becomes a monster.
- Although he’s actually just another victim.
If we don’t understand the other side of terrorism, where it comes from, we can hardly stop it. It’s not the terrorists who deserve our understanding, but it’s the problem that our intelligence needs to solve them.
Today, an indispensable story comes to mind for the moment we are going through. Its title is The Horses of God, by Moroccan author Mahi Binebine. This is the way of calling these children who sacrifice themselves by doing what the imam (title of Muhammad’s successors, guides or spiritual leaders of an Islamic community) tells them to do. Moreover, the name refers to how, when they are faithful, they will reach paradise at a gallop, like horses, and will be surrounded by beautiful virgins.
Binebine’s novel is a terrifying realism. It tells the stark reality of children living in a marginalized neighborhood of Morocco, who were born into unstructured families, who are aware that they will never reach the future they really want, and who know that all that awaits them, as for your grandfather and father, is misery and misfortune.
They dream of being football stars and train every day in the neighborhood to make this dream come true. Many kids in the novel could do it because they have skills for football and other things. But they’ll never realize this dream, they know it won’t happen because to get it, you need a chance first.
According to the reader, what about the self-esteem of these children who have no hope? obviously it is destroyed, for no reason to stand, they are aware that all they can expect is to sell oranges on the street every day. and pray that the income is enough to have something to eat.
It is at this moment that hope, light, this person finally promises meaning to life, the magnet, in a pleasant and welcoming way, makes available to these children, or at least makes them see that it is within reach, the opportunity to get out of poverty. This promise not only promises you dreamed hopes through beautiful words that enhance everyone’s self-esteem, but also guarantees you paradise, with everything this place understands. He convinces them that they can be useful and do something. important, that the end justifies the means.
And this is where the great paradox arises: to make sense of my existence, I must put an end to it, and so I will have hope.
A matter of low intelligence? No, not much less. They are certainly intelligent children who, if they had received a formal education, would have gone far. The problem is that education and culture are characterized by their absence and needs have meant nothing to those who have held power for a long time.
When the human being feels desperate, he is able to hold on to everything, even if this desperate situation can condemn him in the same way he prefers now, the magnet is able to seduce these children until they end their lives and sembren. Terror.
From what we have said, it seems clear that the solution to these barbarities committed in both the East and the West is to promote the integration of these children, invest time, effort and money in their education, so that I do not have to go through so much despair and end up becoming easy prey to magnets.
The long-term solution is not to improve safety in some areas and ignore the essence of the problem. The more we invest in safety, the more horses we’ll raise. It will be easier for radicals to convince these children that we are in a difficult situation. war in which they have no choice but to fight, than the only act of bravery they can do is commit suicide to take down their “enemies. “
We must act at the root, in the cause, in the absence of opportunities, and in this way it will be much more complicated that this recruitment occurs, it is necessary to give and facilitate the cultivation, open a window of opportunity instead. to lower the curtain to cover the little light coming in, so they’re the ones who say no.
If people feel satisfied and happy with their lives, it wouldn’t make sense to wait for someone else to come and give them security and certainty because they don’t need them.
How many times did it cross our minds, on a smaller scale, that we feel so despondent that we get carried away with emotions and end up making the worst decisions we could have made?If we understood the other side of terrorism, if we could all put ourselves in the shoes of those children we judge proudly, we would be closer to finding a solution to what is going on.
Editorial Note: We must remember that psychology has shown that circumstances have enormous power, that innocent students can become true tyrants, like what happened during the Stanford prison experience or the Milgram experience.
On the other hand, the intention of this article is to raise a reflection on the eye-to-eye messages that currently circulate on social networks, understandable by the emotional impact of the moment, but far from a possible solution that will definitely succeed. put an end to these kinds of attacks.