Turki Al-Hamad tweet
despite my recent discontinuation with twitter, i have read many tweets, some smart and beautiful, others decadent and stupid, and good and offensive ones, but i have never read a tweet as absurd and stupid as the tweet of someone who is the saudi novelist turki al-hamad.
the story began when news spread about the refusal of some citizens coming from iran to the idea of placing them in the “quarantine” to make sure they are free of the deadly coronavirus, their attempt to pull wool over government attempts to contain the pestilence is a right that is characterized by a great degree of lack of understanding of the circumstances and the danger the disease poses to them and their loved ones and their families, before others.
the health authorities have the same right to reject the demands of these people and to use coercive force with them, if necessary, to impose quarantine on them, as public health is more important than the well-being of some individuals.
turki al-hamad heard the news and tweeted: “i don’t know… but is it not likely that the issue is mere stubbornness, and that they have iranian orders? i am not surprised anything can happen with the mullahs.”
although the tweet is blatant, disgusting and stupid, it may provoke sectarian strife in the society, and this is what we do not wish for.
this means that these people will go to their homes and wander in the streets and spread the disease among “iran’s enemies and its regime, and they and their families will be the first victims of the disease.”
not only that they cannot direct the virus to infect the sunnis, for example, and not the shiites and others. moreover, i don’t know of what benefit is it for iran to spread the epidemic in kuwait or elsewhere. are the iranians living on another planet other than ours?
what turki wrote or deduced reminded me of what saddam, the fool, had previously said that he would burn “half of israel’ if iraq was exposed to aggression, forgetting, that he was showing his ignorance because burning half of israel would mean he would burn millions of palestinians who also live in that country. unfortunately, no missile has yet been manufactured to identify and eliminate a particular community, for example, an arab or a jew. and the same can be said of the coronavirus.
we wish a well-known author like turki al-hamad to sail with us in the same boat and defend reasons and freedoms and fighting the forces of ignorance by confronting all underdeveloped religious systems and not provide them fuel to fan the flames of evil.
we are not in a hurry to comment on other ridiculous and low-grade tweets, the first of which demanded to ‘attack’ those who came from iran carrying the virus with them.
the second tweet demanded that the minister of interior detain the kuwaitis who came from iran and iraq and refuse to be quarantined and hand them over to the concerned authority and perhaps treat them as spies.
the question: is it worth dealing with the tragedies of the homeland and citizens in a manner that ensures us the green seat in the parliament?
