Killed in Cradle
Have you ever experienced the loss of someone too close? What about the clown of the house? I have one and I know what it means to have a toddler in the house. It brings the joy, the happiness and many many beautiful moments each day to our house. Every thing it does, every gesture, every word- we feel like recording for good.Then again, what if.... what if.... such a toddler is killed in its cradle.... not by any disease, but a missile... what was the sin of this innocent toddler that it was killed??
OH YES, it was born in a Muslim Family!!
I just came through this heart-breaking article, and I couldn't stop my tears. Not that they are too cheap, but I just couldn't help them. I couldn't, check if you can-
Killed in Cradle
By Ola Attallah
Mohamed was killed in an Israeli raid in Gaza. The mother put him kindly in his cradle. The father bent over to kiss the chubby cheek of the five-month toddler. "Come on! Grow up sweat heart," whispered the father Naser tenderly in the ears of Mohammad. "Our baby will grow up, play hide and seek and marry the prettiest of the girls."
"We will always love you and get you the best of clothes and toys," added his wife Eman as they kept looking at the sleeping angel.With his innocent look and broad smile, Mohammad came to this life after five long years of patience and impotency endured by his parents. They wanted nothing but a baby who brings joy to a life growing mundane and gives purpose to it under a paralyzing Israeli punishment and a crippling blockade. Mohammad will not grow up; he will not smile any longer neither will he play hide and seek. "The bastards killed him," shouted tearful Naser.
Mohammad was killed Wednesday, February 27, in one of the deadly Israeli missile attacks on Gaza."I ran like crazy to Mohammad's cradle. He was motionless," the bereaved father recalled the heart-wrenching scene.Naser rushed his bleeding baby to the hospital in the immediate vicinity but it was too late."He was already dead. The Israelis killed this helpless innocent toddler," said Naser with a tinge of bitterness in his voice.
All Targeted
In killing a toddler, Naser says Israel is targeting all Palestinians.
"Why on earth did they kill our joy?" cried Naser."Why did they deprive me of the love of my life? Why did they kill him?" At least 32 Palestinians, a third of whom were children, were killed in two days of unabated Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. Four children, aged eight, nine, 11 and 12, were killed Thursday, February 28, in an Israeli raid as they played football in the northern town of Jabaliya. Another 12-year-old boy died of wounds sustained in a Gaza raid the previous day.The chief of Israel's internal security service (Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, drew fire last month after considering children and civilians killed in indiscriminate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the past two years as "terrorists."At Mohammad's cradle, the mother was still in a state of shock that she could not speak.
The grandmother was sitting nearby kissing a mobile photo Naser took of Mohammad minutes before his passing away."God damn this world as it stands idly while Israel kills a toddler?" Umm Naser fumed."What if Mohammad was Israeli not Palestinian?"
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Why is this world so cruel? Don't we have anything to do to save these inhumane actions? Why do we always have to be victim, while they go away unnoticed, untrialed.
I have nothing to tell this berieved family, but just to quote from the Qur'an:
"Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allah's Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) and the Qur'an. And who is truer to his covenant then Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded.That is the supreme success."- (Surah Tauba, Ayah 111)
Rejoice, dear family of Muhammad, rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded. What can be a success more supreme than this??
And I sit here, blogging, with teary eyes and a heart filled with envy for you. How successful trade you have accomplished!!!
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