Between child labor in Asia and baby boxes in Europe, some Arabs are earning the reputation of child murderers and exterminators, after they had been the advocators of tolerance and the callers for dialogue. Who can elude the curse of the slaughtering and burning of children? While it is useless to summon further causes for pessimism at the level of the Balkanization volcano in the region during the Arab spring - in which the scene is controlled by Jihadist suicide-bombers, suicidal regimes and the monopolization of the street following overwhelming revolutions - the question is reemerging in regard to the course of modern Arab history. Indeed, this history is “moving on" from the culture of fighting oppression via dialogue, to the culture of Takfir, killing and the mutilation of doctrines to promote total annihilation and genocide! Is this an old question? The inferiority complex felt towards advanced states might be due to numerous reasons, the most prominent of which being the description of Arab modern history as paralyzed, thus continuously marching backward. It accompanied the spring since the Jasmine Revolution for the first time following the hegemony imposed by the heroes of the revolution against colonialism over people's spirits and minds, their spread of corruption and their destruction of the Arabs' human dignity. Consequently, the region's history featured costs which are so far heralding terror instead of hope. A few stops in our historical course shifted that of global history, ever since Iraq became governed by retaliation and oppression in the post-Saddam phase, as though there were a thousand Saddams with hundreds of explosions and massacres. In Libya, the tribes are attacking the institutions and humanitarian organizations, and the arms instinct is prevailing over the hopes surrounding a revolution that is about to collapse due to the petulance of the tribes, instead of enabling it to erase decades of isolation under the Colonel's rule. In Egypt, in light of the Muslim Brotherhood's insistence on monopolizing power, the revolution is oscillating over non-immune legitimacies, with the youth being eclipsed behind the ambitions of the group that will face the difficult test following the presidential elections. And until the post-test stage, the question remains: What justifies the Muslim Brotherhood's insistence on leading Egypt's history backward by upholding monopolization, one which is always accompanied by tyranny and against which the Egyptians have rebelled? In that same context, some in Tunisia are insisting on stripping their citizens of the window of rationality which was not closed by Ben Ali's era - despite its despotism – despite the fact that this rationality was mainly owed to Bourguiba. All of a sudden, some emerged and dubbed themselves the protectors of religion, while from religion to sabotage, the road features the undermining of all values. We are going backward when we rebel against silence, then resort to foreigners to topple the dictator, rush to the palaces of the republics of decadence whenever he falls, detonate funerals and carry out decapitation as the seekers of freedoms or protectors of the nation and the countries of deceiving plurality, ones that are used by the generals and their likes in the era of independence to silence the intellectuals and thinkers and restrain the journalists. The general – who is misleading the “parish" – has gone too far in brandishing the sword of plurality as though it was a gift from him to achieve equality, along with the sword of the greater battle to liberate Palestine. Today, after decades of tyranny practiced by those who hijacked independence in our name, we are counting the dead and the wounded, including children whom we have recruited, tortured and dismembered to eradicate “terrorism"! We were callers of tolerance, and have now become exterminators. Why are we proceeding toward the highest levels of human decadence? Let us admit for once that we became partners in the crime, ever since we believed the generals of oppression as they led us along the road to Palestine. We have all become partners in the crime ever since we relinquished freedom for a loaf of bread and made so many concessions that air became government property and was distributed to the beneficiaries and the subdued. There is no freedom, no bread, and no life as well, after the generals engaged in confrontation with the street and shed the blood of children whenever threatened at the level of their palaces and medals to protect the republics of illusion and blood. Would the number of funerals and mass graves not have been lesser had we summoned the spring forty or fifty years ago? We are all partners in the crime of silence while our children are the heroes. They have defeated our weakness and lack of awareness, which we thought was a private property that could be concealed from the eyes of the rulers to acquit us from the crime.
