Everyone is commenting on Paris' dark night, offering comfort and I have no words.
Everyone of us who has lived through violence knows the numbing sense of unreality and violation; the destruction of confidence in ourselves, and in the safety we took for granted as our right.
There are no words, and no comfort to offer.
This is why there are moments of silence, to echo that frightening void that opens inside us at the loss of light.
A few years ago, the Basque Nation sent ETTA a clear message. They marched in the streets in their hundreds of thousands in absolute silence carrying placards that read "BASTA JA!"
ENOUGH!
We need to see the Islamic communities of Europe on the streets, marching in silence with the words they cannot speak held high: ENOUGH!
We need that so we can continue to believe that those other words the French gifted the world - liberté, égalité, fraternité - really do apply to every man, woman and child, of all nations, races and creeds.
We beg you, cry out ENOUGH! or we shall.
How sad.
It seems I did have words after all.
But none of them of comfort.
Manuela Cardiga
Everyone of us who has lived through violence knows the numbing sense of unreality and violation; the destruction of confidence in ourselves, and in the safety we took for granted as our right.
There are no words, and no comfort to offer.
This is why there are moments of silence, to echo that frightening void that opens inside us at the loss of light.
A few years ago, the Basque Nation sent ETTA a clear message. They marched in the streets in their hundreds of thousands in absolute silence carrying placards that read "BASTA JA!"
ENOUGH!
We need to see the Islamic communities of Europe on the streets, marching in silence with the words they cannot speak held high: ENOUGH!
We need that so we can continue to believe that those other words the French gifted the world - liberté, égalité, fraternité - really do apply to every man, woman and child, of all nations, races and creeds.
We beg you, cry out ENOUGH! or we shall.
How sad.
It seems I did have words after all.
But none of them of comfort.
Manuela Cardiga
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