By: Reem Elghonimi | Date: October 20, 2025 | Truehuman.substack.com
In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful
I remember the scene from the film The English Patient in which a North African/Arab nurse enters a German interrogation room. The prisoner of war is an American man. First, the officers acknowledge the torture they are performing violates the Geneva convention. But then we find out they won’t be the ones who cut off Caravaggio’s thumb. The nurse is assigned that task. We’re told that because she is a Muslim, she has no qualms about such a penalty if she thinks he is guilty of a crime. The Germans say he is. As the camera pans to her set, grim face, we learn that human rights abuses are the preserve of Islamic law.
