I read an article about the alarming situation in Cuba. The U.S. administration’s seizure of Venezuela’s oil deprived Cuba of it, making the economic crisis even more severe. Yet South American countries did not remain idle: Mexico sent in-kind aid to the island and is studying ways to deliver oil to the Cuban people away from U.S. sanctions. Chile has also declared its readiness to help, even if it does not support the Cuban regime; it will not stand by and watch the Cuban people suffer.
And it was precisely then that I thought of Gaza, which, in truth, never leaves my mind. We have done nothing to stop the genocide, nothing to lift the siege on the Strip, and we have taken no action of real weight on the ground to ease the suffering of our people in Gaza; while governments and peoples in South America refuse to see the Cuban people punished—people who are paying the price for Cuba’s closed system and for the logic of American hegemony.
What a strange world this is! We Muslims neglect our doctrinal duties, while non-Muslims show solidarity and mutual support, refusing injustice and oppression for themselves or for one another. And our forfeiting of our rights has only increased the enemy’s arrogance and insolence; yet we still bow down, make concessions, and magnify the status of the “masters,” then speak to our peoples in wooden, empty rhetoric… I will stop here.
