The continued killing of opponents is a deep moral crisis

Last week, the Bahraini community in Britain was devastated by the death of a lawyer of Bahraini origin in a traffic accident in Holborn, in the heart of London.

Shatha Hassan Ibrahim Ali was riding her bicycle when she was hit by a large truck, which led to her death instantly, and she wrote many tweets and articles about the incident and criticized the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Boris Johnson government for failing to regulate traffic, especially after the spread of bicycles at unprecedented rates, with narrow The streets of London are crowded. Many were saddened by the loss of the deceased, whose father works as a psychiatrist.

The loss of one person was a reason for the dominance of sadness and anger over the souls of many, which reveals the value and importance of human life to family and friends, and how its absence from the stage of life is enough to cause this level of sadness. So what if there is a mass death of men, women and children, as happens in the wars waged by rulers and the victims of which go to the common people.

More than 3,000 people have died in the Ukrainian war, including women and children. And the soul-harvesting machine continues its tireless work, how many families grieve daily? Why? And for how long?

As for Egypt, it witnessed executions against dozens of opponents, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood, among whom was a man in his eighties. On June 14, the Egyptian Court of Cassation issued a final verdict in the “Rabaa al-Adawiya” sit-in case, supporting the execution of 12 imprisoned leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who are Abd al-Rahman al-Barr, Safwat Hegazy, Muhammad al-Beltagy, Osama Yassin, Ahmed Aref, Muhammad al-Farmawi, Mustafa al-Farmawi, Ahmed Farouk and Haitham. Al-Arabi, Muhammad Al-Zanati, Abdel-Rahman Attia and Ihab Wagdy.

A week ago, the Israeli occupation forces claimed the lives of three Palestinian youths in one day (Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa, 19 years old, Abdullah Al-Husari, 22 years old, and Shadi Khaled Najm, 18 years old), in a noticeable escalation of the killings committed by the occupation forces daily. Do these victims have families, friends and family?

How many hearts are broken and agonized by the loss of a human being's soul in the prime of youth? How does someone who pulls the trigger, targeting a young man, sleep, expressing his anger by protesting, knowing that every shot is enough to kill an innocent life?

Where are humanity, conscience, morals and feelings? Do these murderers not have children or relatives who make them feel the depth of the murders, especially if this murder was premeditated and premeditated? Nevertheless, it is rare for these killers to be sued, as if the souls of human beings that God has honored are not worth anything in the dictionary of the leaders of the age. Russia's forces are taking Ukrainian lives without reckoning, and the Kremlin's rulers do not fear a moral deterrent or a conscientious objection. It is certain that more people lost their lives at the hands of the Americans than the Russians. How many of the people of Iraq were killed by American bombs and missiles? How many citizens of Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya lost his life? What about the Yemenis, who have fallen more than a quarter of a million casualties as a result of the absurd war, which this month completes its seventh year? What is the justification for that? Why do rockets and bombs fall on Sana'a, Ma'rib and Saada without reckoning?

The worrying thing in general is the killing of human beings, especially by rulers who see the just demands of their people as a threat to their influence. The last century, especially its second half, witnessed a rise in the phenomenon of human souls being extracted. Despite the campaigns carried out by some human rights organizations against the death sentences, including the “Reprieve” organization, the number of those whose lives are taken because of their political or ideological positions is steadily rising, and with it the number of political detainees who are being persecuted by governments.

It is necessary to have a judicial system that deters the commission of crimes, but within the limits of morals and values, far from the spirit of cure and the desire to “measure the saa’in” in the relationship with citizens. There is no place in the present era for the mentality of healing and revenge that was expressed by Ziyad bin Abih, the governor of Muawiyah over Basra and then Kufa in his sermon known as “Petra” which he began without mentioning God, and he promised people saying: And I swear by God, I will take the guardian with the guardian, the resident with the defaulter, and the future With the mastermind, the obedient with the disobedient, and the one who is right among you in himself is sick, until a man among you meets his brother, and says: Save Sa’d, for Happy has perished, or your channel will be upright for me.”

This is the policy of those who bite the judgment by the teeth and reject the principles of consensus, advice and advice. While justice requires the treatment of the different other in accordance with humane regulations previously legislated by Islam and regulated in the modern era by the United Nations laws in the field of human rights. When the punishment in its severity exceeds the size of the guilt, this is not consistent with justice in anything.