Few tragedies in the world expose everything so vividly: sheer hypocrisy of the intellectuals and academics; indifference and slackness of the bourgeoisie; power of the story embedded in big capital and consumerism; and sheepishness of the Global South states.

The crisis in Gaza reveals the true nature of the world which the people blind by eye can see but people blind by heart cannot decipher. After the end of colonisation, the flag of Western imperialism gazing over the disempowered was never so naked and brutal. In this situation, the reaction of the Muslim world is not a story of silence but a story of psychotic and neurotic hollow reactions that allow the space for Western capitalism to starkly anchor it as the dominant ideology that can govern ‘behaviours’. When Muslim men are painted as ‘medieval losers’ while Muslim women and children are lured into the ‘panopticon’ of Western capitalism under various ‘academic’ discourses, the only ray of hope comes from the moral clarity and resistance of the people of Gaza.

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