Maryam Amir – When Hell is a mercy God protect us

			Like, why would a merciful God
even create something as intense
		

			as *? And I want to tell you
the moment it clicked for me was
		

			in a biology class in college. The
professor started speaking about
		

			this man who every single month,
once a month, he would ask his
		

			family to leave the house and his
wife was transcribed to say that
		

			he was so sweet he would clean the
entire house from top to bottom
		

			and like, bleach everything. At
the same time as this is going on
		

			in her life, there were a set of
serial killings where they were so
		

			gruesome, the murders were so
gruesome, and because they were so
		

			horrific, they would always have a
closed casket ceremony so people
		

			wouldn't actually see the body in
the casket, but one family
		

			actually decided that they wanted
to see their daughter, so they
		

			opened the casket, and they found
that she didn't have her body
		

			there. This led to them starting
to look at the cases that were in
		

			that city. Finally, they convicted
this husband who had cleaned the
		

			entire home, and they found that
the reason why he would send his
		

			family away once a month was
because that would be when he
		

			would bring in the body of the
victim and he would eat it.
		

			That was so horrifying for me to
hear. And in that moment, I was
		

			like, This is why * exists,
because there is no level of jail
		

			time or the death sentence that
could possibly give justice back
		

			to all of those victims and their
families, and I think about that
		

			every single day, looking at the
genocide, ethnic cleansing and
		

			horrific commutilation of
Palestinian premature babies,
		

			of children of an entire
population believing in *
		

			is a mercy, a.