As if killing all of humanity many times every day

Whoever kills one person is as if he has killed all of humanity. Both because of the horror of killing a person unjustly and because of cutting off, in potential, the path of that person's later generations. After all, when Cain killed Abel in the first murder committed in human history, he completely dried up one of the two channels through which humanity could later multiply. A generation later the children of Adam became the children of Cain. Abel's children were not even granted the chance to exist in this world. It would not have been necessary for all the descendants of Abel to resemble Abel, to have the same disposition and character as he. Just as not all of Cain's living children resembled Cain. From Cain's sons came good people too, prophets too, righteous people too.

The first murder occurred because of man's envy. While carrying out the command to offer a sacrifice to God, Cain fell into the delusion that he could deceive God, could outwit Him. He seemed tired of God's interfering in all matters, even worldly ones. Secularism is not, as supposed, a feeling that emerged in the stages of humanity's development, or a mental-institutional development, an advanced model of human relations; it is an ignorant feeling that recurred with the first man. Cain responded to God's command to sacrifice, which he did not much care about anyway, reluctantly and unwillingly, and tried to brush the matter off by offering the most worthless things he had. When he was informed that his sacrifice had not been accepted, he envied Abel, whose sacrifice had been accepted, grew angry, set out to take revenge on him and killed him. There were only two of them in the world anyway, and he killed one; he killed another humanity as well. He killed another humanity that could have come from Abel's line.

But shortly after killing, Cain regretted it. The one who made him feel this regret and taught him his lesson was a raven scratching the earth: "Woe to me! Am I unable to be even like this raven and cover my brother's corpse?" (Al-Ma'ida, 31).

In all murders there is a gravity, a crime, a horror, as if one had killed the whole of humanity. And every day, hundreds, thousands of these massacres of humanity are taking place in the world. Those who slaughtered little Narin are as if they killed all of humanity too, there is no doubt about it. The more the details of the murder are dwelt upon, the more they are talked about, the more distinct becomes the horror and repulsiveness of the murder and the degree of the human debasement within it. How much further can man sink than the level of daring to take the life of an innocent child?

So what is it that makes the Narin murder different from other murders, so that it has been on the agenda as the number one topic of the whole country for nearly a month? Is Narin the first victim on whom humanity displayed this baseness, in this world, in this country, or even in Diyarbakır? She is not.

In Diyarbakır, mothers whose children were taken from their hands by force, by trickery, by confusing their minds have been trying for months to make their voices heard by the world. Each is a Narin, each has a story. The treatment some of them suffered in the mountains, whichever of the murders you focus on in detail, could create an agenda lasting a month. But none of them creates such an agenda.

I am not saying anything about whether Narin deserves such an agenda or not. On the contrary, every single murder, every single oppressed person deserves to be this much of an agenda. It is worth stoking whatever embers remain in our hands of all our humanity. Perhaps humane sensibilities will increase, our anger at criminals will swell, and we will keep our shared sensitivities alive, together, against such incidents happening again.

But today we do not see a sensitivity that would require us to hold such optimism about Narin being on the agenda in this way. Unfortunately, interest in the details of the incident does not go beyond people's cheap media curiosity for a little more gossip, a little more human debasement. That every detail of the incident is treated as a separate story and a separate subject of score-settling shows that Narin's innocent body has long since become a complete arena of score-settling.

The DEM women or politicians, for example, at what point did they bring the subject to the government, to HÜDA-PAR, to Qur'an courses; did anyone understand? A Qur'an course appears in Narin's story; it has no importance in the causal chain of the incident. In the same story there is also school, in fact, and home, and father, and mother, and world.

Someone else has gone on to make analyses and causal connections through the village's political leanings. Of course he does. Everyone sets about everything. If the incident turns in this way into an invitation for everyone to empty the stones in their skirts, everyone will set about trampling on Narin's innocent body.

Yet there is a murder here, that is, something like killing all of humanity, and it is not the only murder taking place in this world. Every murder must be accounted for, every criminal must be punished.

In fact, the way the incident has been covered in the media has come very close to the way such murder news was covered that I first witnessed in the American media. There too, sometimes a murder or any page-3 news item stays in the media for days, even weeks. Again all the details of the incident and the people involved are dwelt upon. As far as I know, in the US, which has among the highest crime rates in the world, I had thought it an injustice to the other incidents that a single murder should take up so much space in the media. If so much is made of one incident, this is in fact done to distract attention from other incidents.

Or an impression like this is given: human life is so important, and we care about it so much, that we make a person's suffering of an injustice the issue of the whole country for days. But on the other hand, American streets continue to overflow with homeless people, with women and people who fall victim to unjust murder. And through the US, human life is worth no more than a fly anywhere in the world. Massacres, genocides are not even a matter of statistics.

Today we can try to focus on the life of each of the hundreds of children unjustly slaughtered every day by the Children of Israel, to whom precisely this command of God (whoever kills a person...) was written, each of the thousands of children of Narin's age or younger than Narin. What savageries, what murders, what debasements you would see, each gradually reduced to just a number, left to be forgotten in the wide blind spots of a closed-off media.

What shall we say of the deliberate killing, by Zionist beasts, with a shot to the head, of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, in whose story, when you finally focus on it, a magnificent quality of humanity, innocence, honor and heroism can be seen?

May God accept Eygi among the martyrs, and make us witnesses too.