Politics Built Walls Between People


Politics Built Walls Between People

When a child is killed in Europe, the world mourns. The media report on it for days, politicians issue statements, and public opinion is stirred. But when thousands of children lose their lives beneath the rubble of war in the Middle East, Africa, or other predominantly Muslim countries, a disappointing silence prevails across large parts of the world—as if some human lives carry greater news value than others.

This difference raises a profound question before the conscience of humanity: Are all human lives equal in value, or does politics determine their worth?

I do not believe that ordinary people are enemies of one another. Hostility is fueled by politics and governments. For years, political powers have used the language of fear, war, propaganda, and double standards to build walls between nations. Time and again, they have taught people to fear one another instead of getting to know each other.

When someone commits a crime in the name of Islam, millions of Muslims are forced to answer for something they never did. They are immediately branded with the insulting label of “terrorist.” Yet when a crime is committed by a government, an army, a superpower, or even a non-Muslim individual, the same principle is not applied, and responsibility is limited to that political structure or that individual. Justice is justice. It cannot be defined one way for one side and changed for another.

I reject anti-Muslim sentiment, antisemitism, hatred toward Christians, and hostility toward any other nation. People are not the builders of these walls. These walls are erected in centers of power, where political interests are sometimes valued more highly than human lives.

As long as politics measures the value of a person by nationality, religion, passport, or geopolitical interests, justice will remain an empty phrase. Either we are all human, or none of us is. No law can justify mourning one victim while burying another in silence.


Author: Gouya Roshan


 

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