"Pure Hatred"
Perhaps a man, stateless, seeking refuge in a country not his familiar own, left to his own devices, unemployed and socially distanced from the population that surrounds him and suffering from depression, is a seriously ill human being. That being acknowledged, such individuals who answer to the above may become disgruntled by society and their place within it, so that they develop a distinctive grudge against any who seem to cause them personal offence.Their distance from society as a whole, feeds a psychopathy that may make them extremely dangerous. Their state of mind is diseased, and they can find little empathy for others, simply because they feel no one has any for them.
They become pathetic survivors in a society that has little time or inclination to play a fostering role, too busy making a life for themselves in the ordinary way that people are focused on their own lives. Resentment festers in those outside the mainstream of society, and they become potential lethal weapons in their proclivity to strike out at those whom they perceive as threatening to them.
None of which character diagnosis will be of any help to a young Muslim woman, mother of a young child, and expecting her second, who was murdered in a German court of law as she was expecting to testify against a young man who had defamed and insulted her in a public venue. That venue was a park in Dresden, where, in the playground, a 28-year-old Alex Wiens, sat smoking, on a playground swing.
When Marwa al-Sherbini - veiled, thus reflecting her religion - asked Mr. Wiens to vacate the swing so she could place her two-year-old son Mustafa on it, she was rewarded with an anti-Islamic tirade. She responded by pressing charges for defamation, and Mr. Wiens was fined in a Dresden court for $1,240.
Obviously, no one anticipated what came next, as Mr. Wiens extracted a knife he had hidden and stabbed the pregnant al-Sherbini sixteen times in the space of three minutes. Where court security was, how guards were deployed, the manner in which a response was mounted to halt the attack is a question that most certainly should be answered. Despite that no one might anticipate a relatively 'minor' offence to elicit such a harsh response.
Her then-3-1/2-year-old child witnessed his mother bleeding to death. And her husband, attempting to come to her aid, himself being stabbed by the same man, a like number of times. In the confusion of the ensuing melee, a court guard shot Mrs. al-Sherbini's husband in the leg while he was struggling with his attacker. Egyptian geneticist, Elwy Okaz, husband of Marwa al-Sherbini, may never again walk without crutches.
He has left Germany with his child, to live with his family in Egypt, once again. But was present at the new trial for his wife's murderer. The government prosecutor described the attack on Mr. Okaz's wife as being inspired "...out of pure hatred of non-Europeans and Muslims. He wanted to annihilate them." That may or may not be true. But this demented man is most certainly guilty of murdering a woman and her unborn child.
The sad story and the trial has elicited anti-German protests in Egypt and Iran. While in Dresden, thousands of people rallied, to respect Marwa al-Sherbini's memory.
Labels: Human Relations, Religion, Societal Failures
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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