This past week in geopolitics showed something we keep forgetting.
Governments make decisions.
Policies create consequences.
Leaders escalate conflicts.
But ordinary people—on all sides—pay the price.
Yet online, millions of us spend our time attacking strangers from other countries as if they personally wrote the policies we’re angry about.
The lesson this modern world needs:
Direct your anger toward systems and decisions, not toward people who were born under them.
Justice isn’t achieved by hating entire populations.
As the saying goes:
“Let not the hatred of a people cause you to act unjustly. Act justly.”
The quote comes directly from the Qur’an, specifically Qur’an 5:8.
Arabic (original):
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ لِلَّهِ شُهَدَاءَ بِالْقِسْطِ ۖ وَلَا يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَىٰ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا ۚ اعْدِلُوا هُوَ أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
Common English translation:
“O you who believe! Stand firm for Allah as witnesses in justice. And do not let the hatred of a people cause you to be unjust. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is aware of what you do.”
Reference:
Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:8)
This verse is often cited to emphasize that justice must be maintained even toward those you dislike or oppose.
I was smeared as an anti-Semite and “Holocaust denier” for even broaching this topic.
Turns out I was onto something…..
“Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision.”
https://t.co/mL6H1v5jk0
Trump is an extreme narcissist, he’s going to nuke Iran because his ego can’t handle that he’s losing the war and his lies will be exposed.
25th amendment.
@markericthered@TRobinsonNewEra You’re asking me why your government accepts immigrants? Perhaps reading a book on economics for dummies would be a better use of your time.