Omran’s thunderous silence

The image of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian child rescued from under the rubble in Aleppo, disturbed the Assad regime gangs in a way different from the way it disturbed the world. They simply hated to see the guts of that look on the child’s face. For them, it is another scandal that exposes their brutality, cruelty and inhumanity. That is why they were not silent towards it. They tried to discredit it by creating doubts about it saying that it is being fabricated by the opposition for manipulating world public opinion. 

The chief correspondent of Iran’s Alalam TV, Hussein Murtadha, tweeted: “This is a game; we see it performed once in Madaya, another in the sea and a third in Aleppo under the rubble."

In another tweet, he inquired in an exclamatory tone:  "Why was not he immediately taken to a hospital?"

And in a third one, he also exclaimed: “How could a child sit on a chair silently with blood all over without crying?" 

Murtadha concluded his comments by saying that "every now and then, they need a child to remind the world that it should sympathize with them."

As for the rubble and the sea, no human being would destroy a house over anybody, let alone his own child, nor anybody would drown his own child in the sea to get anybody’s sympathy or attention. Even those who resort to such Goebbelism would not do that to their children. As for why he was not immediately taken to a hospital, one wonders which hospital Omran would be taken to after the Putin and Assad jets left no hospital without demolishing it in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria. However, he was in an ambulance on his way to being hospitalized somewhere. 

Omran’s silence was his only response to the silent watching world and to Alalam correspondent’s Satanic mind. 

Murtadha could not tolerate Omran’s silence. To his eyes and ears, it was not silence; it was an eternal curse. To the world, it was an earthquake for a conscience that has been sleeping for five continuous years.

Perplexed Murtadha could not but resort to lying and undermining the suffering of Syrians. Such an approach to the issue doubled the crime of those he is trying to defend. 

Omran’s silence and the blood on his face defeated Murtadha’s gangs. His silence will be thunder in their ears forever.