The strongest thing in Yaqoub's text is neither what they shout, nor what he answers them. It is his daughter's small hand, squeezing his, and her voice saying Baba, I am scared.
I do not know Yaqoub personally.
But I know that scene.
It takes place every day somewhere in DENMARK, and almost no one dares say out loud what it actually is.
A father who must stand between his daughter and a mentality that believes it has the right to assert itself right there, in front of his children, because it has learned until now that it is allowed to.
Let me nevertheless assure you of something.
There will come a day when Yaqoub can walk down the same street with his children's hands in his, and no one shouts. Where the daughter does not have to be afraid. Where the son does not have to learn anger so early.
I have seen that day.
And now we walk peacefully, undaunted, without hesitation, directly toward it.
For what is at stake here is not an opinion. Not a position in a debate. It is a little girl's hand, squeezing tight around her father's, because she is no longer certain of her own pavement, in her own city, in DENMARK.
There is no civilisation that survives that. NONE.
A society that cannot guarantee that a father walks safely with his daughter down his own street has overturned its first duty. Everything else we talk about - freedom, welfare, culture, community - stands and falls with that one simple thing - that children can walk hand in hand with those who love them, without fear of what is shouted at them.
That right is not up for negotiation. Not a millimetre of the Western order shall yield to that form of dominance. We take back every metre - quietly, persistently, without anger, but without a single step backward.
That is it.
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