Omar Al-Mukhtar

Last Friday, I saw an old movie which I hoped to see long time ago. It was Omar Al-Mukhtar, the Libyan man who fought the Italian occupancy on his land. I heard about this movie from my Dad, he really liked Omar’s story.

This movie was not made by Arab though the story is about an Arabian man. The actor is Antony Queen, unfortunately he is died. I liked the way he acted; it was like he was the real Al-Mukhtar. This movie touched my heart deeply! Especially when the Italian where about to hang Omar’s neck… Omar wore his glasses and read some of the Holy Quran. And when they put the robe around his neck, my heart started to beat fast and then in a second he was dead…and all the people who witness his death were happy for him because he was “Shaheed”.

The sentence which stock in my mind was, when he said to the Italian General “You have to fight the next generation and the generation after, and about me I think that my life will be longer than the one who will be hanged after me”