What happened at the Hammoud Church in Karak is not a pain that concerns Christians alone, but the pain of every Jordanian who believes that this country is a home for all. Whoever tries to confine the crime within a narrow sectarian framework, or exploit it in malicious ways, overlooks the fact that terrorism does not recognize religion nor respect the sacred, and that its goal is far beyond its victims; it wants to strike our trust in one another and strip away our stability, which has become a source of concern for the hateful.
Was Muath al-Kasasbeh not a Muslim Jordanian? And were Muath al-Dulamani, Rashid al-Zyoud, Saed al-Maayta, and other martyrs not sons of this homeland? Were the martyrs of the Amman hotel bombings not victims of an ideology that sees in a human being nothing but a target for killing? Much Jordanian blood has been shed at the hands of terrorism, and today, when our Christian brothers are targeted, we are facing the same enemy, even if the faces of the victims differ.