On the barbarous execution of Piotr Stańczak

Some time ago I wrote about the vampire infection spreading all over mankind. Traumatically experienced by bad people we become bad people ourselves. What I’m feeling at the moment is no good. I feel hopelessness and fury at the same time. The Polish geologist who worked in Pakistan, who was contributing to the development of that country, was ruthlessly slain by a gang of savages. I’m lost for words. I know, I know, representatives of other nations have been murdered in the same way and now we, the Polish people, have just joined the club of those whose kinsmen lost their lives in the cruel and barbarous way.

A friend of mine said that she couldn’t understand the culture of the murderers. It is so politically correct to say something about somebody’s ‘culture,’ its uniqueness and equality with any other culture in the world. In present circumstances this academic rubbish sounds so pathetic! If in Germany, Poland or America some groups kill each other, take people hostage or commit any other atrocities, the laws of these countries rightly treat them as criminals acting against any rules, including cultural, who should be arrested and punished. If the same happens somewhere else and the group of bloody butchers constitute a tribe, we, the Europeans, tend to call their inhuman ways just their ‘culture.’

A number of scholars, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries keep giving people crap telling them that there are no universal values and one culture has no right to intervene in the interior affairs of another. Wherever savages (yes, savages and barbarians) murder or mutilate women and young girls in the name of their ‘laws’, religion or tradition, I say DOWN with their tradition. Wherever barbarians kidnap an innocent person in the name of their ‘cause’ which usually means conflict with a third party, and slaughter him in the way taken straight from the Middle Ages, I say DOWN with their cause, however right they are.

I understand Pashtuns hating American soldiers, I understand them even hating our soldiers in Afghanistan. Nobody likes foreign armies on their territory. However what these psychopaths did in Pakistan was far from fighting enemy soldiers. They realized perfectly that the Polish geologist, Piotr Stańczak, was a totally neutral element in their war against the civilized world. He had arrived there to build their shitty country. Certainly, barbarians usually don’t need any technological advancements. The difference between the ‘culture’ of the barbarians and that of the civilized world lies in their approach to the life of every single individual. In the civilized world cruel murders happen, but those who commit them are condemned and called criminals. I know that the government of Pakistan officially expressed their sorrow for the killed Pole. I do doubt in the sincerity of a great number of its members. It’s not a secret that a great number of Pakistani officials support the Taliban. Let’s leave Pakistan and its government alone. Pakistan is just a state. What I’m more interested in is what’s the official position of the Pashtuns as the people, since the tribal affiliation is much more relevant than that expressed by states. A tribe, whatever some scholars claim, seems more organic an entity than artificially created states. Tribes, and not states, are real bearers of culture.

I wonder what the Pashtuns both in Pakistan and Afghanistan have to say to Piotr Stańczak’s family. I don’t know whether there is anything like an ancient and seemingly primary law of hospitality in their tradition. I don’t know what Islam says about killing innocent civilians. If they think that in their ‘holy war’ any methods are justified, including barbarous decapitations of their country’s guest, I don’t give a damn for their tradition and culture. The academics who claim the division the civilized-the barbarians is not valid any longer, should revise their opinions since what we have just seen in Pakistan is nothing but pure barbarity.

I hope in a few days’ time I’ll be able to approach this problem with more distance and reserve. Now I’m distressed, exasperated and miserable. I'm furious and 'turning a bloodthirsty vampire.'

Nothing can be done. A good guy was slain in cold blood by bearded psychopaths and no-one can return his life.