They flee the infamously corrupt and
oppressive regimes where tribal and
sectarian violence and ancient traditions
of honour compel clans to carry forward
vengeance from generation to generation.
Lands of oil sheikdoms, kingdoms and
theocracies dedicated to the preservation of
tyrants and warmongers where the populace
must comply for the barest whisper of
discontent or public display of brazen
defiance results in wholesale slaughter.
Seeking refuge they arrive as refugees or
migrants, emigrating to lands of freedom
to speak as they will, live as they wish
relishing the liberty to worship and to
express their rejection of elements of the
new social contract. As their numbers
increase diluting the influence of the
indigenous to the country, emboldened
they yearn for their religion and their
inherited values of yore to dominate. Time
and patience, allied with the impetus of
fervour and righteousness in the precepts
they deem sacred elevates their influence
even as they proselytize and gain adherents
while the pendulum swings heavily toward
a distortion of justice, equality and values
balancing social mores to the detriment of
those viewed by the avowedly racist horde
as enemies of their culture, their religion
their social structure and primal antipathies.
The progression from refuge to dominant
violence singling out victims and persecutors
ring in the new reality as the bell tolls for thee.
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