Like many others, I've been keeping track of the Arab Spring as it has spread from Tunisia to Egypt and beyond. Now that the rebels have seemingly taken control of Libya from Gaddafi, the situation in Syria becomes all the more pressing. I came across this story on CNN of a famous Syrian cartoonist abducted by thugs, beaten to a pulp (with a focus on his hands to prevent him from ever drawing again) and then thrown in the ditch of a Syrian city. Some fellow countrymen found him and brought him to the hospital.
While this horrific story has been repeated all too often in far too many countries, it made me realize what a poignant and interesting twist it is to the Good Samaritan story. What if the robbers who leave the man for dead weren't just thugs looking for an easy steal... but were in fact agents of an oppressive state? In occupied ancient (or modern, for that matter) Palestine, it's not too far-fetched.
Often people must come together to do what is right when the will of the people has been hijacked by a secretive state. Sedition has many forms. So does freedom. Let freedom ring, not just in Syria but wherever the oppressed are beaten to a pulp for exercising their right to freedom of speech.
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