How and when did we get here; a 15 year old girl heading off to the unknown in the name of fighting for a god that apparently sends even children to kill "in the name of Islam".
Lost souls, who leave behind a life that holds lots of promises for them to fight for nothing. Giving up everything, family, friends, education in the name of Allah the Almighty. Forgive me if I do not understand why an apparently so loving and all caring god will let a 15 year old girl so far from being a woman walk away from those that love her to practically "commit suicide". A place in heaven, no it is still so hard for me to understand.
But what really is the issue and how did I get to this subject? During a break from my studies in my kitchen this week there on the television was the 90 minute emission and the first reportage was about a 15 year old French college girl of Arab origin who had run away from home and headed to Syrie to join the Jihadist. She is now one of the few but fast increasing young girls and women opting to fight and kill in the name of religion, to have a first class ticket to heaven!
I was in shock, being a mother brings out emotions in you, you probably can never experience until you have born the pain of motherhood. I watched with sadness as this girl's mother cried and asked herself questions she will probably never have answers to. But then again I asked myself what is the real problem.
How could a 15 year old citizen of a country with one of the best social services not only in Europe but the world over have gotten to this place; how could her ranting on and on about the works of Jihadists and how she was in awe of what they did on a social platform, Facebook go unnoticed by so many? How could they not have caught on so early, how did it escape her teachers and the school psychologists yet even girls her own age testified to he sudden change and how she had become obsessed! How could someone not seem there was a problem when a girl who once dressed like a normal 15 year old adolescent started a Burqa covering her whole body save for her eyes?
But then again I remembered, how the reporter always brought into the reportage every time he could the fact that the young girl, was a French citizen but of Arab origin. Would things have been different had she been French, French really French of no other origin? Does it make a difference what origin she was? Does her origin make her less warranty of protection and certainty that she will be helped not to fall into the hands of Jihadists who now have turned to recruiting and planting seeds of hatred amongst even 15 year old?
Living in France and no where else has made me more conscience of the differences between origins, colour, ethnicity. Here is a country where the motto is Libereté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood). But where in fact the majority populations seems to be so far away from this liberty, equality and brotherhood. Which makes my stomach knot over; worrying about the future of my son and so many like him of mixed ethnicity. Will they also be put to test over their ethnicity and origin, because they had one French parent and the other foreign? Or will they live in a better world later on where origins will not count but the safety of everyone?
Lost souls, who leave behind a life that holds lots of promises for them to fight for nothing. Giving up everything, family, friends, education in the name of Allah the Almighty. Forgive me if I do not understand why an apparently so loving and all caring god will let a 15 year old girl so far from being a woman walk away from those that love her to practically "commit suicide". A place in heaven, no it is still so hard for me to understand.
But what really is the issue and how did I get to this subject? During a break from my studies in my kitchen this week there on the television was the 90 minute emission and the first reportage was about a 15 year old French college girl of Arab origin who had run away from home and headed to Syrie to join the Jihadist. She is now one of the few but fast increasing young girls and women opting to fight and kill in the name of religion, to have a first class ticket to heaven!
I was in shock, being a mother brings out emotions in you, you probably can never experience until you have born the pain of motherhood. I watched with sadness as this girl's mother cried and asked herself questions she will probably never have answers to. But then again I asked myself what is the real problem.
How could a 15 year old citizen of a country with one of the best social services not only in Europe but the world over have gotten to this place; how could her ranting on and on about the works of Jihadists and how she was in awe of what they did on a social platform, Facebook go unnoticed by so many? How could they not have caught on so early, how did it escape her teachers and the school psychologists yet even girls her own age testified to he sudden change and how she had become obsessed! How could someone not seem there was a problem when a girl who once dressed like a normal 15 year old adolescent started a Burqa covering her whole body save for her eyes?
But then again I remembered, how the reporter always brought into the reportage every time he could the fact that the young girl, was a French citizen but of Arab origin. Would things have been different had she been French, French really French of no other origin? Does it make a difference what origin she was? Does her origin make her less warranty of protection and certainty that she will be helped not to fall into the hands of Jihadists who now have turned to recruiting and planting seeds of hatred amongst even 15 year old?
Living in France and no where else has made me more conscience of the differences between origins, colour, ethnicity. Here is a country where the motto is Libereté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood). But where in fact the majority populations seems to be so far away from this liberty, equality and brotherhood. Which makes my stomach knot over; worrying about the future of my son and so many like him of mixed ethnicity. Will they also be put to test over their ethnicity and origin, because they had one French parent and the other foreign? Or will they live in a better world later on where origins will not count but the safety of everyone?
