Age of documented crimes: ISIS-like Columbus
In the era in which we live, many people often consider what they see on TV as one of the ugliest and most shocking disasters throughout history.
All this mass killing, genocide and lack of humanity which we witness day and night has become unbearable considering the modern human values with which human beings are trying to commit themselves and their societies to through social and humanitarian contracts which govern and organize humanitarian work.
Some have reached the extent of describing brutality and lack of humanity by coining words to refer to these acts such as “ISIS-like”, “practicing resistance” and other cynical terms to express indecent acts against humanity.
But, what did Columbus do in and with that land when he reached it?
October 12th is marked as Columbus Day, celebrated in Northern and Southern America under several names: Discovery Day, Americans Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, and even Spain – from which Columbus began his journey – and Italy – where he was born – celebrate this day as a National Day.
Had there been back then an effective way to document, record or photograph what Columbus did when he reached the shores of the continent on that day in 1492, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leaders of the alliance of resistance would have been given the Nobel Prize for peace.
The intensity of the crimes and genocide carried out by the Europeans as of the arrival of Columbus on that day outweigh any description of extermination in history. The indigenous people were killed, dragged, beheaded, crucified, raped, trafficked and kidnapped. Their freedom was taken away and their cities burned out. In addition, the Europeans deliberately spread epidemics once they got tired of personally seeking to exterminate the indigenous people; they scattered across the continent carcasses of sheep and pigs infected with viruses (smallpox, cholera and other diseases) that spread like wildfire since the bodies of the indigenous people were not immune to such diseases.
Those crimes were executed under the pretext of spreading civilization, colonizing and evangelizing religion. The Europeans treated millions of the indigenous people of the new North and South continents – which they then named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci – as hierarchically extremely inferior in regards to civilization.
Since the beginnings of the modern American state, its administrations have deliberately imposed the celebration of a special day named after the name of the occupier/explorer, Columbus, in a new contemporary violation of the indigenous people of whom only few thousands survived the genocide in the United States out of 50 million.
It is a long and bitter history of genocide which is being repeated in the Middle East, starting from the Palestinian territories reaching Aleppo, Homs, Darayya, Qudsaya, Baghdad, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. There are killing, starvation and dismemberment and then displacement, replacement and demographic change of the original population, all under the major labels of spreading civilization and "civilizing" the people of paganism, reaching the fight against terrorism and the war on extremist groups or those who want to establish a Caliphate.
All this happened and is still happening under the eyes of historians and scholars from major countries. It is no wonder why today after almost four hundred and fifty years since Columbus’ trip, mass demonstrations took to the streets across the American continent demanding to change the name of this holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day, Genocide Day or Remembering Native People Day.
Meanwhile, the same countries still insist on exercising or allowing the exercise of the same acts on the peoples of the Middle East and this time, with documentation, recording and filming of each and every episode, but in vain, still there is no reaction.
So who will protect the indigenous peoples of the Middle East from facing the same fate as that of the Native People and Mayan and Apache tribes as long as there is a new Columbus wandering in the Middle East called Qasem Soleimani?
All this mass killing, genocide and lack of humanity which we witness day and night has become unbearable considering the modern human values with which human beings are trying to commit themselves and their societies to through social and humanitarian contracts which govern and organize humanitarian work.
Some have reached the extent of describing brutality and lack of humanity by coining words to refer to these acts such as “ISIS-like”, “practicing resistance” and other cynical terms to express indecent acts against humanity.
But, what did Columbus do in and with that land when he reached it?
October 12th is marked as Columbus Day, celebrated in Northern and Southern America under several names: Discovery Day, Americans Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, and even Spain – from which Columbus began his journey – and Italy – where he was born – celebrate this day as a National Day.
Had there been back then an effective way to document, record or photograph what Columbus did when he reached the shores of the continent on that day in 1492, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leaders of the alliance of resistance would have been given the Nobel Prize for peace.
The intensity of the crimes and genocide carried out by the Europeans as of the arrival of Columbus on that day outweigh any description of extermination in history. The indigenous people were killed, dragged, beheaded, crucified, raped, trafficked and kidnapped. Their freedom was taken away and their cities burned out. In addition, the Europeans deliberately spread epidemics once they got tired of personally seeking to exterminate the indigenous people; they scattered across the continent carcasses of sheep and pigs infected with viruses (smallpox, cholera and other diseases) that spread like wildfire since the bodies of the indigenous people were not immune to such diseases.
Those crimes were executed under the pretext of spreading civilization, colonizing and evangelizing religion. The Europeans treated millions of the indigenous people of the new North and South continents – which they then named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci – as hierarchically extremely inferior in regards to civilization.
Since the beginnings of the modern American state, its administrations have deliberately imposed the celebration of a special day named after the name of the occupier/explorer, Columbus, in a new contemporary violation of the indigenous people of whom only few thousands survived the genocide in the United States out of 50 million.
It is a long and bitter history of genocide which is being repeated in the Middle East, starting from the Palestinian territories reaching Aleppo, Homs, Darayya, Qudsaya, Baghdad, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. There are killing, starvation and dismemberment and then displacement, replacement and demographic change of the original population, all under the major labels of spreading civilization and "civilizing" the people of paganism, reaching the fight against terrorism and the war on extremist groups or those who want to establish a Caliphate.
All this happened and is still happening under the eyes of historians and scholars from major countries. It is no wonder why today after almost four hundred and fifty years since Columbus’ trip, mass demonstrations took to the streets across the American continent demanding to change the name of this holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day, Genocide Day or Remembering Native People Day.
Meanwhile, the same countries still insist on exercising or allowing the exercise of the same acts on the peoples of the Middle East and this time, with documentation, recording and filming of each and every episode, but in vain, still there is no reaction.
So who will protect the indigenous peoples of the Middle East from facing the same fate as that of the Native People and Mayan and Apache tribes as long as there is a new Columbus wandering in the Middle East called Qasem Soleimani?
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