Imagine for a second what the reaction would be if an Iranian missile had hit an elementary school in Philadelphia and killed 165 little girls and school staff. After all, the Sandy Hook shooting killed 20 children at an elementary school, which prompted national mourning and was front-page news for weeks.
So 81 dead American children would be a cataclysmic event, doubtless resulting in widespread horror and hatred of the monstrous regime that launched the missile that killed them. But, apparently, if those little girls happen to be living in Iran, their violent, painful and senseless deaths are one of those unfortunate things that just happens. Oops.
The news about the US/Israeli strike on Shajare Tayyebe girls’ school in Minab, Southern Iran, broke early on Saturday, with five girls confirmed dead soon afterward, though that number quickly skyrocketed.
Iran’s schools are in session from Saturday to Wednesday, so these pupils had arrived to begin a normal week at school. Moments after they’d sat at their desks and opened their textbooks, many of them were dead after a missile apparently intended to strike a nearby military base instead hit their school.
“Students were crushed beneath this rubble”
Those who died instantly were the lucky ones, as nightmarish footage shared on social media shows multiple little girls partially crushed under rubble, their families’ screaming as they frantically tried to save them.
As reported by The Telegraph, a shellshocked witness held up blood-stained schoolbooks and said:
“Students were crushed beneath this rubble. They were not military personnel. They came here this morning to study. Look at their books – they’re covered in blood. It was a school.”
But wait, it somehow gets worse. The survivors of the massacre were rushed to a clinic for emergency treatment, only for that then to be struck by a missile as well.
Comments underneath the story only underline the heartlessness that has apparently gripped large parts of America. Video and photographs prove this happened, though many simply shrug and dismiss it as “fake news”. But even that ignorance isn’t as bad as those who outright rejoice in the slaughter of children, saying the dead little girls had it coming for the crime of being born in Iran and going to school.
It makes you want to desperately hope that God is real, if only so those who have lost their humanity have to face some accountability in the afterlife. Think you’re getting into heaven? Maybe when St Peter taps his iPad to show you that one time you cackled over the deaths of innocent children, you might regret the hate in your heart.
