"This article was written originally in arabic, and below is an automated translation".
It is said that one of the kings had been cruel to his entourage, so they decided to get rid of him and instruct his brother and his crown prince to kill him and install him as king on the throne. Finally, revenge for his brother and implement the sentence of retribution for the traitorous informers, and execute them in the city square, so the people rejoiced and called him at that time “the just king who took revenge for his brother”, although the truth says: He is the one who killed his brother, not them!
History has taught us not to look into its details from one angle, and not to suffice with one or two sources to draw whatever ideas we want. Randomly to insert himself among the pioneers of history, literature, poetry, philosophy, and others.
The Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, for example, we find him in a number of history books, the Muslim caliph who invades a year and performs Hajj a year, and we see him in the stories of “A Thousand and One Nights” the corrupt caliph who gets drunk one day and sleeps with women another day, and some modest features remain common to the two novels, the most important of which are: his name, his title, and the age in which he lived, and nothing else important.
The same situation applies today, and the strangest thing is that it is with sound, image, evidence and through various media stations, with deep analysis, dialogues and discussions, and witnesses who swear by God on what they say, so that the concerned person himself thinks that the truth is different from what he lived through, questioning the soundness of his mind and his competence and even the level of his strength of view. As for the one who did not live it, he has no other choice but to believe what is said if he is interested in it. He is at least more fortunate than the one who lived through its facts, and is forced to believe others.
The existence of contradictions in the media’s handling of events may be considered a media “democracy” sometimes, and at other times, a healthy phenomenon that enables the recipient to reflect on what is going on around him, even if it includes differences in dealing with the same facts and figures, but it may also lead him into a spiral of contradictory data that It makes it difficult for him to obtain real, useful information that he may need to know, and he does not know where to find it.
And with the advent of social media as one of the means of transmitting information, which is known for its ease of creation and speed of access to the public, it has become clear that the number of news platforms has multiplied and their contents have expanded, which means publishing millions of news, stories and information in one minute and in all available languages, without the need for most of them to review or verify their authenticity. As for its publisher, it is not the victor who usually writes history, as it was said, but rather a person lying on his bed who wanted to enrich an event in the world, with information that he had in his pocket!
Returning to the story of our just king, the story mentions that the details of his killing of his brother began to spread among the people in the kingdom, and it became the preferred topic in most of its councils, which the new king feared would lead him to the death of his brother, so he decided to resort to a new misleading media plan, by executing one of the sentenced prisoners. They must be imprisoned for life, in that square in the middle of the city again, claiming that he is a magician who had controlled him and blinded his insight and directed him to kill his brother, the king, so that he could obtain a royal pardon that enables him to get out of prison, by agreement on the entourage that was punished! Let the people believe him with more conviction this time, and exclaim the name of their just King forever.
It was said: How can we believe history when the present is visiting before us!
The article was published in the Emirati newspaper Al-Ruya: News link
