Alyan Kurdi, Whom to Blame? by: Mohamed S. Kamel

Alyan Kurdi, Whom to Blame?

By: Mohamed S. Kamel*

October 4^th, 2015

(Updated from the previously issued on September 6, 2015)

A month later, after Alyan Kurdi tragic death, Europe still divided and Stephan Harper as all right-wing politician spreading fear that these refugees, calling them migrant, will bring terrorist and instability.

While Harper speeding fear, as election tactic, Liberal and NDP are computing in spelling out the number of refugee they will bring to Canada if win.

Known as the Syrian Refugees crisis, but it is not.  It is the crisis of the silence on the atrocities taking place in the third world countries, all over Africa and Asia, and especially in the Middle East.

A long story of the Western occupation, and the Western supported dictatorships, then the exploitation of the Arab Spring to achieve their ultimate goal in controlling the entire area and redirect the ambition of the people to another wave of atrocities that pervade the region from the middle east to the far south Asia.

Without digging in the history, let us just look at Alyan Kurdi's photo.  A photo that brought the spot back on the real story as the ‘napalm girl’, Kim Phuc’s photo, did 43 years ago when it turned the Vietnam war into a nightmare that changed the Western relation with that region forever.

Aylan as Kim were not the first or the last, but Aylan and Kim represented a symbol and a wake-up call to the entire world. As Kim represented the wishes of the US in controlling the Southeast Asia, Aylan represented the same story that is going on for decades.

As was the case in the Vietnam War, let us blame somebody but not us. As soon as we saw Aylan’s photo the Western leaders started to speak about the importance of fighting ISIL and how we should send our heavy machine to destroy ISIL and save the minorities. Not a strange language, this shows the real goal from delaying the aid for the refugees for four years and in delaying the fall of Assad until Sisi comes to join forces against the will of the people, than exploiting the refugees crisis that push countries to fight alongside Assad to defeat ISIL.

Again, we will blame ISIL, but not Assad, and we will blame Islamist but not Sisi, we will blame the people but not the real killer of all dictators.

Alyan's photo will make it or break it, but for sure will surface the truth and will write a new chapter in the history of that region and will draw a line between human and inhuman.  

The entire world will change, and Canada will have a new Prime Minster, but Alyan and all others will not come back again.

Mohamed S. Kamel

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder, Secretary General and a spokesperson of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD), Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM). He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel