MONSTERS In History & In The Present Time

Although God has created human beings in the best form, has honored and preferred them above other creations, yet we see in history and in the present time, people, rulers or non rulers who humiliate others.

There are persons who attack human dignity as individuals or as a group of people, or a nation’s integrity and its sense of identity.

In the Qur’an we find a record about what the Pharaoh (in the time of Prophet Moses) did in Egypt, as follows: “Truly, Pharaoh had exalted himself in the land and had divided its inhabitants into sects, abasing one party of them, slaughtering their sons, and sparing their women; indeed he was of the workers of corruption. And We desired to bestow Our favour upon those that were abased in the land, and to make them the inheritors” (28:4-5).

In 1944, the Soviet government (on the order of Joseph Stalin) evicted the Crimean Tatars from Crimea. A total of 238'000 people were deported in two days. More than 32,000 Soviet troops participated in this action. The forced deportees were only given 30 minutes to gather personal belongings, after which they were loaded onto cattle trains and moved out of Crimea to Uzbekistan, Mari, Kazakhstan, and to various oblast (= province) of Russia. Nearly 200'000 of the deportees perished while they were in the way. And most of the Crimean Tatar men who were fighting in the ranks of the Red Army were demobilized and sent into forced labor camps in Siberia and in the Ural mountain region. From May to November 1944, more than 10'000 Crimean Tatars died of starvation in Uzbekistan; 30'000 died in exile during the following year. Between July 1944 and January 1947 about 101'000 Crimean Tatars of the deportees died due to starvation and disease.

On August 6th, 1945 the USA dropped an atomic bomb (called “Little Boy”) on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb (called “Fat Man”) was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

Estimates of total deaths in Hiroshima ranged between 100'000 and 180'000 out of a population of 350'000. About 63% of the buildings in Hiroshima were completely destroyed and nearly 92% of the structures in the city had been destroyed or damaged. Estimates of casualties from Nagasaki ranged between 50'000 and 100'000 persons.

Many reasons were given as to why the US administration (under the presidency of Harry S. Truman) decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example: The US wanted to force Japan’s surrender as quickly as possible to minimize American casualties. Another arrogant reason was to use the atomic bomb before the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan, to establish US dominance there afterwards.

Yet people in the West only talk about the cruelty and notoriousness of Hitler, who of course has done a lot of inhuman persecution and humiliated a part of the population (the Jews). He put them in concentration and extermination camps to persecute and kill them systemically by gassing.  But it is also unfair to ignore the cruelty of Harry S. Truman and his politician colleagues who did all these cruel deeds in Japan and who supported boldly the creation of a Zionist State called “Israel” in Palestine, by evicting two thirds of Palestinians from their homes and their country, and by putting that planted “state” like a cancer germ inside the Arab World.

Nor people in the West talk about the cruelty of George Bush (the father) and George Bush (the son) while Presidents of the USA, killed a lot of innocents and blindly destroyed their homes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

International media does not blame President Barak Obama who followed his predecessors in his crazy wars. Instead of blaming him, an esteemed organization has even given him the Nobel Prize for Peace, in advance! (when he first took office).

We cannot either forget Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) who ruled Egypt from 1954 until his death. He treated his political opponents with such cruelty. Prisons were full of members of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization. Persecution in prisons was famous for its severe torture.

Of course there is also the cruelty of Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (1937-2006) who ruled Iraq (1979-2003) and killed and tortured thousands of people.

Then there is also Hafez Al-Asad (1930-2000) who ruled Syria (1970-2000) and dared to destroy half of the city of Hamah and killed around 20'000 human beings and surely as many animals and agriculture.

And his cruelty was inherited by his son Bashar Al-Asad who took power after his father, and while writing this article this monster is still bombing most cities and villages of Syria and killing and torturing innocent people who want to live with freedom and dignity.

There are so many other monsters in this world, we cannot mention all of them in an article like this, but last and not least we have to mention the great monster of Libya, Gaddafi, who had made a lot of harm to the people of Libya, before they revolted. But even after the Revolution, his harm is still continuing.

There are also terrorists unfortunately bearing the “Islamic” slogan (ISIS), with their obvious cruelty and humiliation of human beings.

According to the Qur’an, all human beings belong to one human family, without any inherent superiority of one over another. So each one should respect and safeguard the other’s dignity, rather than to humiliate him or her:

“O mankind, We have indeed created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know each. Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you. Truly God is Knower, Aware” (49:13).

“And do not think that God is unaware of what the evildoers are doing; He is only postponing them until when eyes shall stare wide-open; as they come hastening with their heads turned upwards, their gaze returning not to them, and their hearts shall be hollow. And warn the people of a day when punishment will come upon them, and the wrongdoers will say: Our Lord, give us  respite for a short term, and we will respond to Your call and will follow the messengers; is it not that you had sworn oaths earlier that you would suffer no decline?” (14:42-44).