The price of Mohammed Katta's coffee

A young coffee seller in Syria has been tortured and murdered.

The murderers made a pretence of (Sharia) legalism, accusing the boy of blasphemy. But which court was he tried before? What witnesses were called? Only his accusers.

Witness accounts are given here:- http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/english-transcripts-of-witnesses.html

I wouldn't really recommend reading. It makes me angry and depressed. I doubt anyone can enjoy it.

Three Islamist fighters (at least two probably foreign) demanded free coffee (or coffee on credit) from a fourteen year old boy. He refused. His refusal mentioned the name Mohammed. They took him away, tortured him, brought him back and murdered him.

A crowd of three or four hundred men looked on, they did nothing.

Look at what this tells us about Syria.

What kind of men try to bully a 14 ear old boy to take away the coffee? Out numbering him three to one? Why did no grown man challenge them? How wounded was their fragile, infantile pride at the refusal of a fourteen year old boy to bow before their bullying?

We are told that the way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.

Poor Mohammed did this. He paid with his life.

Western media portray him as some sort of liberal atheist. He was nothing of the sort. Just a normal fourteen year old boy, trying hard to earn a bit of extra money in tough times. Anxious to learn to be a man.

He knew more of being a man than the three sick murderers that took his life, or the three or four hundred that looked on.

The murder of this boy achieves a similar result for the opposition that the murder of Hamza al Khateeb did for the regime.

How is it that a crowd of men can look on while a young boy has his coffee stolen by three immature bullies? Let alone see a child murdered? Is the opposition so feared? So little respected, not a single man would even ask for justice? Surely these people will welcome the regime soldiers that are making their way to Aleppo as we speak. They may not love them, but they will not stand up to them.

May God judge these murderers by the same standard they judged young Mohammed by.

May the three or four hundred men of Aleppo who looked on burn with shame until they stand up to such bullies, whichever side they fight for.