Perhaps some of us noticed the fierce attack that he was subjected to – Sheikh Othman Thursday, when he touched in an interview with the problems related to the issue of Gaza to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), criticizing its dealings with the Palestinian affairs, and warning of the need to separate our positions towards the Palestinian issue, as a issue that deserves our full support, and between our positions towards Hamas, which he described as a “deviant political group”, stressing, stressing On the necessity of not circulating these deviations to the Palestinian reality that is going on to itself.
And if we re -read what has been said, we find that this explicit proposition is not just a messenger to stir controversy, but rather a serious hadith whose goal is to disclose and openly, and seeks to address the roots of the crisis away from empty auctions and slogans, on the weighting of the best interest of the Palestinian people.
Unfortunately, the Sheikh did not escape the voices of booing and condemnation, which reached the point of atonement and deviation from the religion, which are the voices issued by the crowds of its awareness in that bleak gray area, where its residents adopt the methods of intimidation, promise and disavowing the confrontation of mistakes.
What is happening in such a situation is not a passing or emergency event whose clouds decrease with the low anger at a contrary opinion, but rather a problem that the Arab reality that is still under the influence of historical differences is suffering from the rows, in which you are either to be “with” this or “against” that, and the resulting successive crises that paralyze the civilized act, and make the collective awareness in a state of deadly intellectual stagnation.
The Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani described this phenomenon as one of the worst phenomena that are formed during periods of defeats. At a time when such circumstances require the emergence of conscious currents of the size of the risks and the existing problems, and have the ability to serious reviews to overcome the deterioration of conditions, in return highlights the high sounds of bidders and experienced of the game, the collapse of awareness, the death of will and the fall in the trap of surrender.
It is noteworthy in the analysis of Ghassan Kanafani – which Israel assassinated in an explosion that rocked the Arab mind and conscience in Beirut in 1972 – that it calls for a different mental programming that requires “a deep awareness of what deserves to be rejected and what he deserves to defend. It is not easier than absolute loyalty or absolute rejection during periods of defeats.
And blame here falls on the trick of the revival of the mind: education – culture – media, which is unable to save Arab consciousness from the crisis of reincarnation of “blind language”, as he called it Kanafani, a language that produces an ideology that adopts the tendency to abolish the other and conceal his voice, and is destroyed instead of building, which transforms its followers, without realization, into “useful enemies” in the service of the beneficiary.
This fact, in our opinion, is worthy of renewing interest in it to dismantle the puzzle of the integrity of thought, stressing opinion, and the poverty of the social and political awareness that the nation suffers from. The general climate at this stage of the life of the crisis needs a mature understanding of the path of history, the reality of society, and the requirements of the future, to overcome the logic of self -inflation with the superstitious and confused thought, which feeds to prevent any progress.
What does this mean in the end?
The continuation of such complex intellectual restrictions, which cause the absence of awareness and the neglect of the eligibility to sort the vinegar from the fat is considered the main reason for losing the compass of our escapes in times The face, at the very least.
Until then, Sheikh Othman will remain forced to clarify and defend his positions, while we continue to be in words and fake wars in which there is no victorious except those who wish our diaspora and disappearance.
*Member of the founder of the circuit of Muhammad Jaber Al -Ansari for thought and culture
