this is a photo collage i put together yesterday and posted on my fb profile in memory of these 6 females... and many many more...
i haven't met any of them and there are so many difference between them, not only in age or nationality, but also religion and inside religion they belong to different sects, but i see them as one, they are all the same, they all belong to me and i belong to them, we're humans, we're females who have the right to grow up, grow old, get married, have daughters of our own, choose whatever path of life, LIFE, live safely, LIVE... just be ALIVE... which is no longer an option or a right for any of these 6 females...
the top right photo is Jesse, a 10-year-old girl who was shot to death as she left church last Tuesday around 7pm with her Sunday School teacher after they finished the summer Bible school in Cairo, she's an only child and her mother was dressed in white during her funeral. i know her mother's brother who is an Evangelical Presbyterian pastor in Egypt, so she's a Christian...
the bottom right photo is Walaa, she was in her 20's a pharmacy student at university stabbed to death at her home last Saturday with her parents and 2 sisters in Damascus-Syria her 4-year-old brother ran away and survived, most probably she's a Muslim, not sure if she's a Sunni or Shiite Muslim...
the 4 other photos are female victims of a suicide bombing that took place this very last Tuesday also at around 7pm targeting the Christian community in a neighborhood in Damascus-Syria the young women (Hend and Raghad from right to left) are most probably Christians from either the Catholic or Orthodox church and the two children (Reem and Kinda, from right to left) are Muslims judging by their family names one is an Alawite Muslim and the other is a Druze Muslim, the 18 people killed in that bombing include two young boys, one Christian and one Muslim in addition to a mother with her little son and many other males and females, young and old...
there were hundreds and hundreds of innocent victims killed in Syria before these 5 females and there will be others killed after them, it's a "sample" of the variety in sects and religions living -used to live- in harmony of a beautiful blend in Syria, this blend has other beautiful colors of Armenians, Kurds, and many others...
has this become an ordinary thing in my country/countries? humans turn into numbers at the end of each day "total casualties" the news call them... terrorism knows no religion, no sect, no color, no gender, no nationality... in the name of WHAT do people get killed daily and arrested daily and tortured in unknown prisons daily?...
do i still believe in God's mercy? my faith is growing ever faint... yet it's the only thing i can turn to and hold on to in this world and time that lacks logic or humanity...
please pray for peace in Syria and safety in Egypt...
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