A shocking revelation of Muslim thoughts, a beautified way to transcend an entity that was behind the rise of every nation in the Arab World, an Al-Qabas article written by a Muslim pen and driven by a Muslim hand, fills the mind of any reader with thoughts ever so wise that better be published for their usefulness and the “art of coexistence” that it calls for in a less than conventional way. Below are the words of Ahmad Al-Sarraf:
Christians of Damascus, Yabroud, Maaloula depart our nation. Christians of Mosul, Nineveh and Baghdad depart our countries. Christians of Lebanon depart our mountains and valleys. Christians of Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula depart our coasts and soil, crawl out from under our skin, leave, all of you, for we abhor you and want you not among us.
Leave, for we are sick of progress, civilization, openness, tolerance, love, brotherhood, coexistence and forgiveness! Depart so that we could slaughter each other; get out for we are no kin, leave for we are sick of you being indigenously originate from Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Palestine. Go away, so that we do not feel embarrassed when your inquisitive eyes meet ours.
Depart and leave us to our afflictions for you are welcome elsewhere and we shall remain here, away from you, away from your claims, your competencies, your science and experiences.
Leave us to our intolerance and hatred. Get out, we are sick and tired of your alleged civility, for with your departure we shall endeavor to obliterate it, wipe its traces, tear down what your ancestors had left of idols, freaks and remnants of stone, prose and literature.
Leave, for Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Palestine, Jordan and ever so stunning North Africa, along with all those who had lived among us before you of gypsies, Jews and stone will never need you.
Depart and take your mercy, for the Nusra Front, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the rest of the Brotherhood gangs with their latest inventions, do neither need mercy nor compassion. Blood shall be shed, brutality shall spread, hearts stabbed, livers eaten, tongues cut, necks broken, knees ruptured and we shall return to ancient medicine, herbal remedies, reading ancient scriptures and sand divination on the coast searching for good fortune.
Depart Christians and take remnants of Gibran Khalil Gibran, Sargon Boulos, Badawi al-Jabal, Anastas the Carmelite, Joseph Sayegh, Saadi al-Maleh, Taqla’s offspring, Yaziji, Boustani and al-Akhtal al-Saghir. Take your universities, hospitals, your missions. Take also Mikhail Neaymeh, him we need not. Do not forget May Zyadeh, Maalouf brothers, Sarouf, as well as many others, for they are no kin of ours.
Depart, for we seek to return to our deserts as we have missed our swords, our sands and our beasts. We neither need you, your civilization, nor your linguistic and poetic contributions, for our gangs and murderers obviate you.
Depart Christians with your culture, for we have traded it with that of death.
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