{"id":11132,"date":"2021-06-08T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2021-06-08T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:06:31","slug":"honouring-the-afzaals-why-do-some-feel-the-urge-to-use-human-tragedies-to-score-political-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/honouring-the-afzaals-why-do-some-feel-the-urge-to-use-human-tragedies-to-score-political-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring the Afzaals: Why do some feel the urge to use human tragedies to score political points?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Like everyone in Canada, Bambi\u2019 heart is shocked and deeply sad because of the tragedy in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no word to describe this horrific crime!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young man, apparently blinded by hate, drove his truck on them and… killed them!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that there was one survivor: The boy in the picture below. Injured, he is an inpatient who does not know the fate of the rest of his beautiful family yet. Can you imagine :(?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May the rest of the Afzaal family members rest in peace. May everyone\u2019s memory be eternal…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Afzaals… How sad! How shocking! <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bambi’s post is partly to hounour the Afzaals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other reason behind this post is another (indirect) way of honouring them by refusing the use of their death to score any political point (regardless of the point).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exploitation of innocent people, for political or ideological reasons, was common during the Lebanese civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How sad to observe a similar phenomenon here in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, and with all due respect for her, it seems that a Globe and Mail <\/em>columnist was fast to jump on this human tragedy to score a political point about Qu\u00e9bec\u2019 Bill 21 on secularism. Bambi learned about it from a tweet of Dr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9, another columnist in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this make any sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To conclude this post on a sad yet beautiful musical note, if Bambi may, she would like to dedicate a French song entitled “Left before having said everythin<\/em>g” (by Mr. Pierre Bachelet) to the Afzaals and to their loved ones surviving them in both Canada and Pakistan (their birth country). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May the Afzaals rest in peace and may God knows how to comfort the heart of the only young survivor of this beautiful Canadian family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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