Dheyaa Alwakeel
After thirty years in prison and after breathing the scent of freedom, the great humble Nelson Mandela, while he had the power as the elected president of South Africa and own the call to forgive or revenge from his executioner, stood in front of the judge who – unjustly – put him in prison, the media, and the attending crowds, and he said to that judge (I forgive you), establishing with this word the philosophy of “Transitional Justice” that was adopted by the United Nations in treating the complex file of this country, and it succeeded in establishing the values of tolerance, conviviality, and restraining revenge and its deadly tendencies by clearing the causes of injustice and apartheid, concealing its dark page, and spreading the meaning of freedom, social ladder, and the state of law. And with that it saved South Africa from the deadly circle of violence and it now lives the comfort of security and stability with the most developed and evolved economy in Africa.
Tolerance is the most bold and smart humane decision in the past, present, and future. As it flips the battle’s results against the opponents and defeats them with the weapon of the human strength that refuse injustice, tyranny, and hate, and the will of peace-loving life that hold on to the values of freedom, justice and respecting human dignity, and those are the strongest most successful weapons. But that needs courageous and bold decisions which most of the politicians don’t like facing nor taking about.
Tolerance is a responsible humanitarian attitude, a wise invasion of the psychological obstacle, swimming against the mainstream, and an effective weapon against extremism.
Tolerance is a safe sailing towards peace, stability, and building a state of law, citizenship, justice and conviviality.
