To those looking for the 2-billion-strong Islamic world while Gaza burns

The genocidal, murderous Israel, in the frenzy it has launched before the eyes of the world and with the unlimited support of the United States, is trying new records with each passing day.

If we say before the eyes of the world, let us in fact say in spite of all the protests, revolts and condemnations of the peoples of the world, so as not to wrong humanity. In truth, no one can say any longer that humanity has remained silent in the face of this savagery. Protests unseen until now, in universities, on avenues, in streets, in concert venues, all over the world, bear witness to this savagery as well. In this sense there is nothing to complain of regarding any hopelessness about the conscience of the world's peoples. Indeed, these massacres, with all their horror, savagery and baseness, revive and nourish even more our hopes about humanity as a whole.

Even so, all these protests, revolts and condemnations are not enough to stop this raging power. Everyone knows by now what would be enough. There is a very great distance between the peoples who represent the protests and the administrations of the states. This situation also shows what an illusion so-called democracy is in the world. Many different governments brought to power by their peoples are ultimately under a mortgage that has ensured they do not raise their voices against Israel's war crimes of such magnitude.

Everyone knows that the only thing that will stop Israel is force. But as long as the unlimited support of the United States, the world's superpower, stands behind it, it does not seem possible for a force of that effectiveness to be set in motion. Friends of Gaza, who now watch what is happening every day and every hour out of their minds, and whose cries of protest and revolt have reached their peak, are seeking a refuge to take shelter in as long as this insolent and raging aggression of Israel continues.

Israel's rage also targeted the tents in the refugee camps in Rafah, formed after several displacements. There the whole world watched people, children and women burn live on air. Children's bodies torn to pieces, and then burned as well, presented a new scene in savagery.

Whichever normal country did this would be regarded as a crime against humanity of such baseness and horror that it would stir the whole world to its feet and become the target of every kind of sanction. But Israel has not even yet questioned the approach that sees these crimes, this baseness, this criminality as a right in itself. Because neither the United States nor the European countries see such baseness as a problem that would set sanctions in motion.

The revolt of Gaza's friends against Israel's rage, while rebelling against this inhuman genocide machine from the beginning, also targets the United States, which gives it unlimited support. But what we have said from the beginning is that the support for Israel's rage comes not only from the United States, but also from the unlimited silence of the leaders of the Arab-Islamic world. They say silence comes from consent. So far no strong voice against Israel has come especially from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Yet every bomb that falls on Gaza falls on the honour and dignity of the whole Arab world and the Islamic world. It is not that they are making noise in vain because they lack power. If they made a little noise, everything could be very different. Above all, if they came together and acted with Turkey, perhaps the only country whose voice comes out loud, neither could the United States risk such unlimited support for Israel, nor could Israel act so recklessly and spoiled without the unlimited support of the United States.

When no solid voice comes from the Islamic world, the question "Is there really an Islamic world?" inevitably occurs to everyone. There certainly is an Islamic world, represented by its peoples. But this world has no head. Our valued friend Vahdettin İnce, in a mood of revolt, asks a question whose answer he actually knows very well: "What has happened to the Arabs' fervour, to the Muslims' justice, to people's conscience?"

Without a head, what does it matter whether the Muslims number 2 billion or 10 billion? The rulers at their head are nothing but guards tasked with controlling their peoples and keeping them in an open-air prison, instead of representing them. Far from rushing to Gaza's aid, they are waiting eagerly for the terrorist state of Israel to destroy Hamas as soon as possible. When Israel is rid of Hamas, it is really these rulers who will be rid of Hamas and of the threat of the Islamic movement.

Otherwise, today there is a Gaza, there is a Hamas, which represents both the Arabs' fervour and the Muslims' justice and people's conscience. There is no point in cursing the Islamic world in return. One needs to look to making Muslims a political union in some way and organising the power of 2 billion in such a way that it becomes a real power.

Those who bring up the Islamic world for this helplessness, by trying to kill hope in the idea of an Islamic world, are making another attempt at a massacre. Yet we must act without ever forgetting that the political processes, initiatives and alliances that left the Islamic world headless are the very same initiatives and alliances that established Israel.

And sooner or later this Islamic world will awaken in the face of precisely these aggressions, and perhaps because of them, and will call to account those who killed it and buried it alive.