Who's the Fanatic Now? (Satis Shroff)

WHO’S THE FANATIC NOW? (Satis Shroff)

‘So who’s the fanatic now?’

Was Hanif Kureishi’s question

Raised by a son to his Pakistani taxi-driver father.

A rhetorical question asked by many parents today.

The identification with western society that’s missing,

The opportunities to climb the social ladder simply blocked,

The mainstream is the dominant cultural power,

Leaving the underdogs to reject

The imperialistic demeanour of the bourgeois.

The Muslim son asks his father:

‘So who’s the fanatic now?’

In this chaos Baden-Württemberg

Has given shelter and food to 100,000 refugees.

A humanitarian duty only to be fulfilled

With Europe’s absent solidarity.

Will the refugees be distributed equally in the EU?

They fled because of tyranny, injustice and intolerance.

But geopolitical reasoning forces unholy alliances to be made,

With Saudis, Egyptians, Turks and Russians.

The Muslim son asks his father:

‘So who’s the fanatic now?’

Thousands of victims of the IS, al-Nasra and Assad

Have fled to Turkey and Europe.

Are the Europeans safe?

Is Europe really an invincible fortress?

After Paris we have serious doubts.

On the one hand the caliphate

In the minds of young Muslims,

Who dream of an invisible religious ideology.

The foreign legionnaires of the caliphate

Are recruited from 86 nations,

Forming an army of 31,000 fighters.

Over 5,000 of them were born in Europe.

Radical youth of Europe return home to roost.

The Muslim son asks his father:

‘So who’s the fanatic now?

Who is filled with excessive and mistaken enthusiasm?’

Iran dominantes as the Shiite power in the Middle-east. Dollar-rich Saudi Arabia is the other Sunni country, But they are loggerheads. They’re battling by proxy backing Yemen and Syria. The Saudis killed a well-known Shiite cleric named al-Nimr and 46 others. Saudi Arabia arrested al-Nimr with a terrorism charge. His execution didn't find consent with Shiites in the Middleeast. The Saudi king still thinks his western biz partners will help him. The Muslim son asks his father: ‘So who’s the fanatic now? Iran’s Supreme leader promised a divine revenge on Saudi Arabia. The Saudis cut off diplomatic relations. The leaders in Moscow and Ankara, Two alpha-wolves are not in talking terms. The Muslim son asks his father: ‘So who’s the fanatic now?