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"Keep your baby-faced killer!"

The attack on Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand is first and foremost a crime against humanity; however bigoted and racist a Christian the perpetrator may be, it is first of all a crime committed against Christianity, but if only people knew this... The picture that emerged after the incident shows that people do not display a very hopeful situation in knowing, understanding and appreciating this.
We watch with astonishment as the media, which crudely uses the expression "Islamic terrorism" when the perpetrator of an incident is of Muslim origin, cannot even name this incident "terrorism." A "white boy" story has already gone into circulation, and attempts at empathetic typecasting of the killer have already been set in motion.
Khaled Beydoun, writing on Aljazeera, rightly writes "focus on the humanity of the victims, not the killer," and shares details about each of the 49 martyrs from his twitter account (@khaledbeydoun). Truly, each of them sketches an epic of a life. You are confronted with a personality and life story each of which makes you experience and see most strikingly how one who kills a single person kills all of humanity. Each of them holds a humanity within itself, with subtleties, elegances, depths, lessons.
To the Western media that dwells on the killer rather than the victims and all but engraves a hero from him in their subconscious, one must say, as Beydoun said:
We do not care about your killer; we know that from now on you will keep your whole projection on that killer's life with an attention amounting to harassment. You will shed light on the aspects of that life that are to be admired, perhaps even taken as an example and imitated. You will invite us to understand the killer. Keep your killer. What concerns us are the people he slaughtered savagely and vilely, each of whom was a hero of life and affection; they deserve more attention.
Presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın rightly asks: "Will those who marched for Charlie Hebdo march for New Zealand too?" and adds "those whose pain is truly shared can mourn together."
Three days have passed since the incident, and not only have we not heard a reaction, a shared sensitivity or a sign of shared mourning comparable even slightly to the Charlie Hebdo incident, we have heard more of the opposite. So there is a whole big world that does not feel New Zealand's pain in any way. If even this does not hurt, if even this savagery does not wake people up, what will?
Let us leave aside the Europeans, the Westerners, the world that is a captive of feelings such as xenophobia, hostility to immigrants, racism and Islamophobia, incited by their politicians in this regard, feelings that will ultimately consume and finish them. Since the hour of the incident I have been following the news to see what kind of reaction would come from the Islamic world to such an attack. Apart from very feeble, perfunctory messages of the kind that it would be shameful not to send, there is not a sound or a voice.
Once again only Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. From the very first moment of the incident, feeling the pain in his own heart, he contacted the New Zealand authorities and immediately dispatched a delegation including his Vice President and the Foreign Minister.
HOW CAN THE LEADERS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD, WHO HAVE MADE MUSLIM BLOOD CHEAPER THAN WASTEWATER, SPEAK UP FOR NEW ZEALAND?
Truly, and unfortunately, the question of why we should be surprised that no strong voice came from other Muslim countries, especially from the largest countries of the Islamic world, is a more correct question.
Which Islamic country's leader has a face with which to defend the rights of a Muslim when something happens to him anywhere in the world? Egypt's? The United Arab Emirates'? Saudi Arabia's? Syria's? Iran's? Are they not themselves the ones who, every day, either in their own countries or in the geographies in which they are involved, have made Muslim blood cheaper than wastewater?
Will those who disregard the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in the clutches of hunger every day because of the nonsensical war they wage in Yemen, those who keep in dungeons the Islamic scholars regarded as heirs of the prophets and who deem them worthy of torments that would not be seen even from the enemies of Islam, thereby disregarding all the values of Muslims, call to account for the Muslims slaughtered in New Zealand?
Those who paved the way for the coups and civil wars that brought down their whole countries upon the heads of Muslims in Egypt, in Yemen, in Syria, merely because they asked for a little more bread, a little more freedom, a little more dignified life and democracy?
Those who, in Egypt, one of the few most important countries of the Islamic world, impute fabricated crimes to people they have thrown unjustly into dungeons and slaughter them one after another, who dress these massacres up in a legal cloak: why, or with what face, will they call to account the unjust slaughter of a Muslim anywhere in the world?
Do these representatives of the Islamic world, from whom we expect a voice, not first have to give account for the Muslim blood they themselves have shed?
DO THEY KILL BECAUSE THEY FEAR, OR DO THEY FEAR BECAUSE THEY HAVE KILLED?
Meanwhile, even the evil called Islamic terrorism has as its primary targets and victims, all over the world, again Muslims. This fact never changes.
They fear Muslims and they make others fear, and then because of these fears they slaughter Muslims. In this cycle, who is it that should fear whom?
The slaughterer is them, and the fearful one is them. With their foolish and hateful fears they try to present killing others as justified and reasonable.
The organizations called Islamic terror in Syria are supported by non-Muslim centers, and with very few exceptions all their victims are the oppressed Muslim people of Syria.
In Myanmar the victims of terror are Muslims.
The victims of the DAEŞ terror in Iraq, and of the ABD, of Russia and of Iran, which make no distinction while fighting it, are Muslims.
In Yemen Muslims are being killed, in Libya, in Afghanistan, everywhere, even when it is called Islamic terror, the victims are only Muslims, but those who are feared and against whom war is declared are also again Muslims.
Who will see this strange cycle, who will know it, who will break it?