I trionfi della finanza. - luca de mata ® 2010

Siamo da una manciata di anni nel Nuovo Millennio con un mondo, che ogni giorno cita i trionfi della finanza, od i suoi tonfi, con una cultura dell’opulenza che affrontando il problema dei paesi poveri, quando non parla di emergenza-povertà, li colpevolizza della loro incapacità a gestirsi: quasi che chi è povero meriti la sua povertà.

La povertà, oggi come ieri, la si usa… la si capitalizza… può servire a raffinate campagne pubblicitarie o folklore per depliants turistici… la realtà è che milioni di innocenti muoiono di stenti, vivono in schiavitù…siamo 6 miliardi a vivere su questo pianeta e certamente non è facile trovare una soluzione per riequilibrare le risorse. Perché  finalmente la Vita ritrovi piena dignità tra tutti noi. luca de mata ® 2010

Poverty, today as yesterday, using … it capitalizes on the … may serve to fine campaigns or folklore for tourist brochures … the reality is that millions of innocent people are dying of starvation, live in slavery … we are 6 billion to live on this planet and certainly not easy to find a solution to balance resources. Because finally found life full dignity of all no! – luca de mata ® 2010

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Le diversità non siano elementi di divisione. Non c’è libertà senza il rispetto dell’altro.
Se dovessi dare un titolo unico a tutte le mie inchieste per RaiUno potrei direi: “Pianeta: democrazia o dominio?”. Ed è questo! quello che in sostanza emerge con coralità da tutte le testimonianze che ho raccolto in tutto il mondo. Testimonianze di gente comune, e di chi ha responsabilità, ed è guida di religioni che rappresentano milioni di persone.
C’è una domanda cui è dovuta una risposta: perché la diversità diventa odio, ferocia?. Conobbi un’autista in Asia che mi disse: “Jihad non è uccidere il prossimo, ma combattere il male che è in noi stessi” ed i Talebani lo hanno sgozzato: l’autista!
Nelle mie inchieste vivo, cerco la speranze perché la “Verità”, o quella che io penso “verità”, vinca. So che questa è anche la vostra speranza. Ma ci sono anche tutte le mie paure. Che sono anche le vostre paure.
Noi. Tutti noi, non possiamo non domandarci: quale mondo per le prossime generazioni? E più probabilmente questo vale già per noi. Le mie inchieste sono la somma di anni di lavoro, collaborazioni, vicinanze, suggerimenti, fatica materiale di viaggi estenuanti. Lontani. Attraversando tensioni. Incognite. Il pericolo dell’imprevedibile. E tutto questo per trovare una risposta che oggi sempre più mi convinco dobbiamo cercarla dentro di noi. I nostri interessi egoistici, i nostri fanatismi, i nostri fantasmi veri nemici della pace tra i popoli, della tolleranza, della convivenza, del diritto alla libertà! Libertà! che per chi crede Dio ci ha dato! Libertà di credere o non credere in Lui, e non per questo nel Suo Nome o contro il Suo Nome qualcuno mi ammazzi, perché, Dio, Tu mi hai fatto a Tua somiglianza libera creatura nel Tuo Creato. luca de mata © 2010

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Today I was at a table. Thoughts crossed each other. Cultures and histories of ancient and different origins. Mutual respect. Women and men of the highest level: intellectual, spiritual, moral, agnostic and political. High reasoning.
I thought I was living the harmony of utopia in pursuit of mutual knowledge.
Do I know? Do we really know humanity in all its complexity? How can we find a space where different ways of thinking can meet, coexist and confront each other? I say that diversity is an asset, but then again, do I really accept that declaration? Many, many, many years ago, Rai entrusted me with the making of a program titled “Being a Woman, Being a Man”. Today, I might accept such a job with one condition: that it would simply be called “being.”

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In one of my trips to Asia I have arrived to a large Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong, where all day long men women children light incense, give offerings, pray and ask incessantly, as in any other Church, Mosque, Synagogue, Temple or in the intimacy of non-religiousness, for a response of peace and of coexistence in mutual love to their anxieties and their expectations…

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During a trip to Africa the head of an association of women’s rights who welcomes girls victims of forced marriages, said to me:
“I am responsible of the program against this abuse! Abuse against women and against all the commandments, and mainly against the commandment Honor thy father and mother. Under the guise of local traditions marriages are arranged without the consent of the women. In exchange of a basket of cola, a drug that is chewed or a goat. Or just because a tribal chief wants to have a good relationship with another leader he gives a girl as a bride… and so a girl of 12 years is given to a man of 60. Do you understand?! How can this little girl honor her father and mother who sell her, exchange her for a goat, and who give her to an old man. They even go against the commandment you shall not steal… because forcing them into marriage they steal their sexuality. The girls are tied! They tie them because these girls want to escape from the horror into which they are forced … Honor your father and mother who want to enslave you to a stranger … they escape and come here looking for the affection and parental love they were denied. It is very probable that their mothers were also victims of such horrors. Our laws punish these practices … but in reality it’s difficult to enforce them. It is a slavery against which we must all fight, for the emancipation not only of women but also of our nation and of Africa. ”

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On this blog, in which we narrate our inquest “European Muslims” for RaiUno, we have excerpted a phrase by a woman who has responsibility in the Muslim community. This phrase should make you reflect, free of the usual schemes that divide rather than unite. For now we choose to leave it anonymous, it would be wrong to label before properly understanding the mining of these few lines. Each and every one of you should feel free to respond; your arguments might be agreed or disagreed with. This is the freedom of democracy: to challenge each other in order to understand and build peace and harmony: “in its complexity Islam is more a doctrine than a religion, a philosophy of life, for both men and women and has never been incompatible with Western values. The problem does not lie within the religion itself, but in its interpretation, in fanatic speeches that sometimes tend to distort the religious content according to personal ideas. We must work to increase awareness, to promote a tolerant Islam that fits its self to the western lifestyle, this should benefit Muslims and whoever practices a different religion: Christians or Jews.

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L'Islam una preghiera per la misericordia

Dear friends I created this group as part of an inquest I’ve been working on for two years. I would like to open a debate free of any logical or xenophobic prejudice, in the search for possible paths of dialogue and coexistence with what is now the reality of the “European Muslims”.
Your contributions and ideas will be useful me as I hope they will be useful for everyone, to get closer and want to understand the diversities.
The concept of secularism and freedom in European societies has been a long and complex path that took centuries to evolve. All of us, today, have the right to change our opinion, live in freedom in respect for others. Equality between the sexes is a value that was difficult to understand, but today it is a reality of essential justice that will increasingly permeate our lives if we wish for the word civilization along with all of its values to be part our behavior. The West is increasingly becoming multiracial and multi religious, this formidable resource should become a heritage, not cause mistrust and fear on both sides.
In this group we might encounter a variety and polarity of opinions, but if we wish to become more aware and broaden our dialectic capacities, that should not scare us.
Thank you for your time, yours always with affection and esteem Luca De Mata

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When I was there at that prison in Rwanda, surrounded by forced labor camps and finally, with the authorization to take pictures, I stayed a long while. Without moving. My thoughts were stronger than the work of documentation that I was supposed to do. Each one of those people I was looking at had probably ruthlessly killed one, ten, or a hundred like themselves. Ethnic hatred? I looked at them and they looked at me. That’s all fine. In their eyes there was no trace of the blood they had sent gushing from the skulls they had smashed, from the heads they had cut off, from the bodies they had torn open. In their ears, there was no trace of the word “Mercy” shouted by those whom they had killed. That’s all fine. All that was in them was the will to survive. That’s all fine. I wonder if you can kill, and then let life just continue on as if nothing had happened, and indeed, believe that you can be understood, justified? That’s all fine. No! This is not fine! Even if the person who kills out of hatred, bigotry, or ideology, would like to see us give them a pat on the back saying: “Don’t worry, that’s fine.”