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An Uncommon Hero

by Jeffrey James Higgins

 

Mohammed Habib is a hero.

Mohammed retired last year after valiantly serving his country for 35 years. For over three decades, he displayed physical courage when threatened, moral courage when offered bribes, and uncommon courage putting his values into practice. Mohammad’s actions saved the lives of many children and made the world a better place. Mohammad was not a famous politician. He was not a decorated combat veteran. He was not a police officer capturing criminals or a firefighter running into burning buildings.

Mohammed was a security guard at the BBC International School in Cairo.

The girl was an eight-year-old student at the school where Mohammed kept order, earning a meager security guard’s wages. The girl’s father was a wealthy and politically powerful man with a sociopathic personality. The father divorced the girl’s mother and tried many times to abduct the girl. He stalked and hunted the girl and her family around the city, forcing them to flee time after time. She evaded him, but school was the one place this evil man knew he could find her.

One day, the girl’s father arrived at the school ready to take what he knew was rightly his to take. The girl was his property to possess, humiliate, and torture. He walked up the school entrance and was stopped by Mohammed. The girl’s father demanded that Mohammed bring the girl to him. The girl’s father was famous and very influential. He got whatever he wanted. He stared into Mohammed’s eyes, his posture and bearing signaling his superior intelligence, wealth, and social standing. In a place where justice is earned by the contents of a wallet and political influence is the difference between life and death, the girl’s father held all the cards. He hovered over Mohammed commanding Mohammed to bring the girl out of the school.

“She does not attend this school,” Mohammed responded flatly. The lie was obvious and hung in the air between them.

Unable to comprehend Mohammed’s defiance, the girl’s father repeated his command. “Bring me my daughter.”

“She is not here,” Mohammed replied. His gaze slowly rose up until he stared directly into the man eyes. “Perhaps I should call the police now,” Mohammed said. It was an empty bluff. The police were corrupt and both Mohammed and the man knew the police would do the man’s bidding. The problem was that the father wasn’t dealing with the police. He was facing Mohammed, who stood before him, filled with the unrelenting moral courage of a man willing to die to protect the children under his care.

When the girl’s mother first brought her to school, she told the administrators about the horrible violence the girl’s father had wrought upon them. The administrators passed the responsibility to Mohammed, the lowest paid employee at the school. Mohammed accepted this responsibility knowing the nature of the hard thing he agreed to do. He met the girl and told her, “As long as I am alive and you are inside the walls of this school, no one will ever hurt you.”

The girl found peace, safety, and security inside that school, thanks only to Mohammed. The girl’s father returned many times to steal his daughter from the safety of her sanctuary, only to encounter Mohammed staring back at him in front of the school’s entrance. Every time. Mohammed was impervious to threats and unreceptive to bribes. For the first time in her life, the girl knew she would not have to look over her shoulder. The unthinkable, sadistic fantasies of her sociopathic father would not be realized under the protection of Mohammed. She was safe.

Mohammed risked his life, but he didn’t do it for glory, riches, or gratitude. In all the years Mohammed protected the girl, he never once told her about it. He never mentioned it as he stood beside her on the steps of the school every afternoon, waiting for her mother to pick her up. The girl only learned what Mohammed had done from others who witnessed the confrontations with her father. Mohammed never told the girl’s mother about it, in the hopes of receiving a reward. He never asked for thanks or respect. He never bragged to his coworkers about his courage.

He protected the girl, because it was his job, his responsibility. He did it because he gave his word to protect all of the children at the school. Mostly, Mohammed did it because it was the right thing to do.

Mohammed is an example of a man living a virtuous life. He took pride in working to sustain himself, instead of living off the charity of others. When parents tried to give him gifts of thanks, he refused to accept them. He did his job because it was his to do. Mohammed expressed the meaning of honor with every action he took in that school. He took pride in being responsible for the safety of the children and pride in fulfilling his promise. Words like honor and courage represent great virtues, but they are only promises of what can be. Mohammed honored them every day with his actions.

Mohammed protected all of the children in that school for decades. Some required more care than others, but every child lived under the shield of Mohammed’s unyielding integrity. Thanks to him, thousands of children were educated and grew up without a worry for their safety. For many children, like the girl, this was the only time they felt safe. It’s impossible to know many children went on to live productive and happy lives because of Mohammed. The ripple effect from Mohammed’s courage and virtue can never be calculated.

Last year, Mohammed quietly informed his employers that he would retire. There were no grand celebrations or any celebratory parades. Those honors are reserved for politicians, actors, and others who show their worth on the public stage. Those accolades are not for men who express their virtue, dedication, responsibility, and courage during the quiet anonymity of their everyday lives. Mohammed was comfortable with that. His reward was the pride of knowing he did his job well. Knowing he lived a just life.

Word of Mohammed’s retirement quickly spread from student to student, in person. One student started a fund raising drive on the school’s Facebook page and over 5,000 former students responded sharing stories of what Mohammed meant to them. Notes of thanks and expressions of love poured into the site. An informal collection was set up to buy Mohammed a retirement gift. The people formerly under his care, many of who were living in poverty, sent in donations. They quickly raised over 10,000 Egyptian pounds.

Seeing the outpouring of affection, the school created a fund to recognize employees who made a difference in students lives, so they could have financial help when they were ill or when tragedy struck. The students bought a trophy for Mohammed and presented it to him. He wept when he received it, overcome with emotion. The children knew what Mohammed had done for them and now, Mohammed knew it too.

On the girl’s last day of school, she stood on the front steps of the building and saw Mohammed standing there. She walked up to him and looked into his eyes. “I love you Mr. Mohammed,” she told him. They hugged for a long time, then the girl, like thousands of students before and after her, walked away from school and began the rest of her life. Mohammed watched her go then took his place at the front door.

 

 

 

BIO

Jeffrey James Higgins is a former reporter and a retired supervisory special agent, who now writes creative nonfiction, essays, and novels. He recently completed The Narco-Terrorist, a nonfiction book about the first narco-terrorism investigation. Jeffrey is represented by Inkwell Management and is currently writing his first thriller. Jeffrey has appeared on CNN Newsroom, Discovery ID, CNN Declassified, and other television programs, radio shows, and podcasts. He has been published in the Adelaide Literary Journal, American Conservative, Trail Runner Magazine, The Washington Times, American Thinker, Police Magazine, and other publications. His recent articles and media appearances can be found at JeffreyJamesHiggins.com.

 

 

 

 

 

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    Claire Tollefsrud
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    WINTER 2013-14

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    Mercedes Lucero
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    Gray Tolhurst
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    INTERVIEW
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    FALL 2013

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    SPRING 2013

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    Lisa J. Cihlar
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    Orlin Oroschakoff
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    Tetman Callis

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    Joseph Bowman
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    The Beautiful World of Pieter Nooten

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    Joel Cox

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      Don’t Judge a Book by Its Happily Ever After
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      Sometimes it Takes Fifty Years to Repair a Friendship
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      Minor League Authors
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      Deconstructing Gertrude Stein by Stephen Abney The Peshaman Fragments by Greg Sendi
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      The Wild Child
      Catherine Filloux
      Forged for Strength
      Jean McDonough
      Beautiful Things
      William T. Vandegrift, Jr.
       
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      Make It Go Away: Love, Loss and What I was Reading
      Joan Frank
      A Prequel to My Sister’s
      Donna Talarico 
      Thrice
      Emilio Williams 
       
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      Jamie Good
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      Ruth Heilgeist 
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      How to Break and Mend Your Mother’s Heart
      JoAnne E. Lehman
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      Anita Kestin
      Guide to the Ruins
      Eve Müller 
      Review: Dust Bowl Venus
      Linda Scheller 
      Marked
      Deborah A. Lott

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      Lourdes Dolores Follins

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      Let He Who Is Without Sin Hurl The First Haggis
      James W. Morris 

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      Wonderful Vacation – J L Higgs 

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      A Survival Guide to
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      Rachel Belth
      Save Me and I
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      Riley Winchester
      Rejuvenation in
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      Jennifer Worrell

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      I’M NOT AFRAID ANYMORE by Mira Martin-Parker

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      The Y Factor: “Deep Nasal Passage” Reveals Pre-Launch Secrets of The X-Files – Paul Garson

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      An excellent group of writers with some great new work.
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      Interview with Writer and Architect, Alan Hess

      Michael Filas – Galileo’s Wake

      Denis Mulroony – Sucking Air: Above-Ground Pool Chronicles

      Kyle Mustain – The Opposite of Suicide II

      John Spencer Walters – The Importance of Casket Readiness

      Fall – Nonfiction 2015

      We hope you’re ready for some excellent new work from this gifted group of writers.
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      Interview with Writer and Musician, Tara Vanflower

      Tad Bartlett – Head Space

      Sarah Parris – NaNoWriMo

      Liz Gilmore Williams – The Blitz

      Summer – Creative Nonfiction 2015

      Some exceptional new work from a great group of writers.
      We hope you take the time to read each and every one.

      Interview with Poet and Playwright, Dimitris Lyacos

      L.D. Zane – Kintsugi

      Audrey Iredale – What They Don’t Tell You About Cancer

      Sarah Sarai – My Month in Marijuana Sales

      Paul Garson – The Twice Fought War: Ethiopia 1935-1945

      Spring – Creative Nonfiction 2015

      Some of the best new work from a great group of writers.
      We hope you read each and every one.

      Mary A. van Balgooy – Designer of the Dream: Cliff May and the California Ranch House

      Susan Petersen Avitzour – Phil Och’s Guitar

      Laura Wang – Synesthesia/Synesthete

      Paul Garson – I Spy Cameras

      WINTER – CREATIVE NONFICTION 2014-15

      Featuring some of the best creative nonfiction from a talented group of writers.
      We hope you take the time to read each and every piece.

      Kyle R. Mustain – The Opposite of Suicide

      Eddie Argauer – The Two Faces of Janus

      Larena Nawrocki – Stomping on Spiders

      Paul Garson – Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War

      Karl Wills – Interview

      FALL NONFICTION 2014

      Featuring some of the best nonfiction work from an amazing group of writers.
      We hope you take the time to read each and every piece.

      J.J. Anselmi – Entering the Moment

      Daniel Carbone – In the Details

      Paula Panich – What God Hath Intended

      Melissa Palmer – Breaking the Silence

      Eric Vasallo – Interview with Graffiti Artist, Zamar

      SUMMER NONFICTION 2014

      Featuring some excellent new contributions from a talented group of artists and writers. We hope you spend some time with each and every piece.

      Simon Larbalestier – Interview (Photographer)

      David Rose – Interview (Writer)

      Keicha KempseyDos Trensas/Two Braids

      Ruth Gila Berger – Rumplestiltskin-Rumplestiltskin-Rumplestiltskin.

      Jacob Reecher – In the Care of Professionals

      Melissa Grunow – Shelter/ed

      Chris Casey – Legendary Filmmaker Seijun Suzuki

      Paul Garson – The Great Kantu Earthquake

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