A thief among us

About three years ago I was writing in Tishreen newspaper about proceedings happening in Syria, one day I wrote about a thief who stole from sheepfold some cattle, but the police caught him, that day I’ve mentioned the name of the village, you know what happened? a person from that village contact me by telephone and said: I am the mayor of the village you spoke about, we are very honest people, there is no thief among us, you are wrong, the thief came from outside the village, I want you to write in the same newspaper an apology to our village, or all the people in the village will come to your editor-in-chief, to complain about you, we are very good people you want to slander our reputation, I apologized and did what they asked me to do.

 I am mentioning that story, just to say that Syrian people do not accept a thief among them, so how can they accept terrorists among them? No they don’t, we see now in Syria just foreigners, who mislead some Syrians to be terrorists, these days we see inhuman brutal strangers in Syria, did you hear what happened yesterday???, Terrorists exploded a booby-trapped car in al-Sabee Bahrat area in the capital, with reports of many casualties. Yes many casualties, and deaths, I saw them, they were all civilians, among them many children, oh my God I can’t express my feeling, it was awful, my God help me, my God help those who lost the lives of their beloved.

 We also can’t forget when they killed the head of the Islamic scholars in the Levant, Mohamed Said Ramadan al- Bouti , by a suicide bomber inside al-Iman Mosque, and fifty of his students, no one can believe that, this savagery is happening in Syria, strange, don’t you think so?. it was a shock to all Syrians, they killed them inside the mosque, strange, don’t you think so?.Also they killed students inside the university….they killed and killed and still killing, but why?

A thief among us was very strange, but now what???  terrorists killing children women, civilians, in schools, hospitals, universities, mosques, I am wondering how can we accept that? Terrorism is strange to the Syrian ears? We have no extremists, those who kill are from outside, Israel is training them to come to Syria, when we defend those militants, we are defending terrorists against a legitimate and progressive power, We all know that the goal is  to install chaos in the region, a chaos that the west wants to use, just for the benefit of Israel.

US, Israel, west and puppets-backed terrorists in Syria have no immorality limit, but we Syrians have, and will have forever, we have hope, we have love ,and belief in God, tomorrow will be better, God will save us, say Amen.

Butheina Alnounou