Dr. World, what’s wrong with Johnny?

“Ma, my stomach hurts” were the first words she heard when she entered his bedroom to awaken him for school. Those dreaded words that send all parents into a state of controlled panic. Words just as painful as you imagine the stomach ache to be. You know the sounds of your son.

She didn’t say it hurts because you are a Christian, Muslin or Jew. She didn’t say “If you were a Christian, it would hurt this way” or “If you were a Muslin, it would hurt that-a- way” or other specific for being a Jew, etc.,

Johnny had never complained about his stomach before. Not like he said it hurt that morning. ‘Ma’ took that consideration very seriously.

And so it was early one morning in December, Tunisia awakened with a stomach ache. The morning after that it was Cairo, and soon afterwards, it was Alexander. There had to be answers and cures. The stomach aches were viewed by many as a paradox, a dilemma, a mere nuisance from a people not to be taken seriously.

Western media has tried to diagnose the problem and apply a cure with one theory after another to no avail. Its pseudo Omnipresence once again exposed. Its many Schools of Journalism put to shame. Its competence questioned for the umpteenth time on the world stage.

Dr. World (the people) will render the correct diagnoses and prescribe the appropriate cure. Who will hear? Who will listen? Once again we witness “The times, they are a-changin'!”

As always,
BB