The streets of Nazism are paved with good intentions

10/01/15

After three days of clamor, France concludes a nightmare with a balance of 20 deaths. It would be easy to win consensus simply by condemning the attack and joining the many "Je suis Charlie". Unfortunately I'm not a politician, I can't do it.

I do not want to diminish the gravity of what happened beyond the Alps, for that everyone has the right to his own free opinion, I just want to remember something else.

There are places where much worse massacres take place every day, which at most tears a paragraph in the newspapers. The most obvious in recent years is the conflict in Syria but we can add Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Libya and many others.

Since the start of the war in Syria, there have been over two hundred thousand victims. This count means on average 10 times the budget that has shocked the first pages of the European news of the last days, the difference is that it happens every day and for almost four years.

The war in Syria, like the one that reduced Libya to anarchy, was triggered and is still fueled today (also) by civilized, tolerant, integral and "cultured" Western countries.

In Europe, no one took to the streets for the 40, 80, 130 car bomb victims who were blowing up in Iraq well before ISIS arrived.

What's the reason?

I fear it's because it was simply about Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans, Nigerians, Afghans.

Does not death have the same effect on people?

Does the loss of a child, a relative, a friend or a partner cause a different pain depending on the latitude of belonging?

No, unless we are dealing with untermenschen, "inferior peoples" as the Nazis called "non-Aryans".

The message that one day will draw from the study of today's history will be: in the 2015, 70 years after the defeat, Nazism had never been so strong?

On youtube you can find hundreds of videos uploaded by the actors of the ongoing conflicts. It shocks me how many, in which defenseless citizens are slaughtered (uncensored!) Have very few views. Often victims are simply "guilty" of being "Christian" or family members of a soldier. The testimonies of these atrocities are frequent but without echo in public opinion.

I fear in these terms, however unpopular it is to write it, to feel closer to the Jewish victims of Paris: non-activity ree that, when unacceptable, have provoked a reaction but simply an identity.

As long as the 2.000 dead murdered in Nigeria at the same time will not provoke the same reaction among the Europeans of the French 20 killed in these days we can not rightly condemn, without feeling hypocritical, every "ism".

Andrea Cucco