Conformity Vs Genocide
Loyalty to Self versus Conformity in the Rwandan Genocide & Cypriot Liberation
Remember that life is made up of loyalty: loyalty to your friends; loyalty to things beautiful and good; loyalty to the country in which you live; loyalty to your King; and above all, for this holds all other loyalties together, loyalty to God.
-Queen Mary, Buckingham Palace, March 23, 1923
On that day in history, Queen Mary had reminded her people to be loyal to their values during a time of savagery. The people who served under Queen Mary turned into savages. Later in history, in the mid-1950s in Cyprus, Greece, a liberation movement broke out, dividing the people into Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, seeking annexation from the British, and fighting against …show more content…
With the previous statement in mind, as the years progress, Immaculée Ilibigiza was a young Tutsi woman who was caught amidst the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. In an excerpt from her autobiography Left to Tell, Immaculée describes how she huddled with five other women in the 3-by-4 -foot bathroom of her pastor’s home, silently praying and clinging to her rosary beads as she heard Hutus shouting her name outside the door, full of bloodlust and ready to kill every single living being in that home. A pastor’s duty is to follow the word of God and harbor those who wish to seek Him. He is to also love and respect every living being as if they were his family. Although the man who hid her was a Hutu, he went against conformity to the slaughter of Tutsis, and instead hid these young girls and took a chance in his faith. Ilibigiza had him push a dresser in front of the bathroom door the second time a Hutu group came to search the house, and they lived through her stroke of faith in God, and his taking chance in a girls faith. “It was as if with crystal clarity that I saw the dresser in my mind, and I got down on the floor and begged, “Please, push the dresser in front of the door. It is tall enough to cover it, and it will be as if they were blind” (Ilibigiza 251). Initially, Murinzi is blind with his faith as well, hesitating to cover the door of the girls. However, through the same act of God and faith that defines his morality, he allowed the girls to live, and this story to be told. He was displayed as a character that allowed his morality to define him as he was strengthened by the newfound faith of
Remember that life is made up of loyalty: loyalty to your friends; loyalty to things beautiful and good; loyalty to the country in which you live; loyalty to your King; and above all, for this holds all other loyalties together, loyalty to God.
-Queen Mary, Buckingham Palace, March 23, 1923
On that day in history, Queen Mary had reminded her people to be loyal to their values during a time of savagery. The people who served under Queen Mary turned into savages. Later in history, in the mid-1950s in Cyprus, Greece, a liberation movement broke out, dividing the people into Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, seeking annexation from the British, and fighting against …show more content…
With the previous statement in mind, as the years progress, Immaculée Ilibigiza was a young Tutsi woman who was caught amidst the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. In an excerpt from her autobiography Left to Tell, Immaculée describes how she huddled with five other women in the 3-by-4 -foot bathroom of her pastor’s home, silently praying and clinging to her rosary beads as she heard Hutus shouting her name outside the door, full of bloodlust and ready to kill every single living being in that home. A pastor’s duty is to follow the word of God and harbor those who wish to seek Him. He is to also love and respect every living being as if they were his family. Although the man who hid her was a Hutu, he went against conformity to the slaughter of Tutsis, and instead hid these young girls and took a chance in his faith. Ilibigiza had him push a dresser in front of the bathroom door the second time a Hutu group came to search the house, and they lived through her stroke of faith in God, and his taking chance in a girls faith. “It was as if with crystal clarity that I saw the dresser in my mind, and I got down on the floor and begged, “Please, push the dresser in front of the door. It is tall enough to cover it, and it will be as if they were blind” (Ilibigiza 251). Initially, Murinzi is blind with his faith as well, hesitating to cover the door of the girls. However, through the same act of God and faith that defines his morality, he allowed the girls to live, and this story to be told. He was displayed as a character that allowed his morality to define him as he was strengthened by the newfound faith of