Monday, September 18, 2006

The Religion of Terrorism

The real causative agents of the terror in our society are the same people who live among us, born in our or neighbor’s families, would have been childhood friends, raised amongst us, do anyone wonders what would have compelled them to take such a path of destruction, pain and terror? May be some inherited this trait from their families; some are derived from external factors like financial gains or just to the point of being famous. Other factors being poverty, ignorance, corruption, political oppression and ‘power’ seems to be the dominant reasons of all. But how do they do it? So easily… how are they able to easily adulterate the minds? By using the pretext of most of the strongest beliefs of human kind – “Religion”

Religion prevails as long as the universe and as everyone who is willingly or unwillingly associated to it. The people who can be really affected by this pretext are extremists by nature, if not, they are molded to become one, in religious context. These days we fear to tread on the road, in the air, in the water, nothing is less than dangerous; every element is breached by terrorism. The most of who participate in this religious vandalism are unfortunately Islamic. The world’s most wanted terrorist is a Muslim and he tries to propel the factor – ‘Save Islam by following the road of martyrdom’; which is actually a road of massacre, which never leads to heaven but always ends up to hell. No religion preaches to kill the fellow human. They do it all in the name of God. Nothing can be more disgraceful to preach terrorism in the name of God. They’re not glorifying their religion but only demeaning it in every possible way.

Some nations harbor and support terrorism and act as a backbone of the terrorism. Do the leaders of these nations ever give a genuine thought to the aftermaths? They’re too busy puffing up their Swiss accounts. Do they ever bother to think what are repercussions of such heinous crimes? No, not only they’re earning a tarnished image in the world but also they denigrate the image of their citizens. Those Islamic terrorist claiming to be the ardent follower of Islam, do they ever realize what are they earning for their own Islamic citizens? Nobody these days is ready to mingle with a Muslim person, nobody wishes to employ them or rent them a house, the future will bring more difficulties to survive, making it impossible for them to earn a living, particularly in non-Islamic countries. Everybody will doubt the integrity of a Muslim by the mere fact that the person is an Islamic follower. Is it what they wish for? This is what they want out of their so-called ‘Movements’! They claim to be Anti-Christian, they want to kill all Hindus of the world but do they ever bother about the fate of the Muslims? Who in the world will trust a Muslim or befriend them or even talk to them in the near future. This is the fate they have chosen for their fellow Muslims, the path of dejection and hatred. Do they deserve it all? Why are they becoming mere puppets in the hands of those ravagers? They jeopardize the whole Muslim community and the leader faintly realizes it or more to say ignores it.

People who disperse fear, pain, bitterness, grief, agonize and torment the lives of many; cannot be the follower of any religion. Their claim is a mere hoax to deceive weak-minded and realize their own egocentric objective of ‘Ruling the World’. They least bother about the devastating effects of terrorism, tangible or intangible, on Muslims or anybody, they’re busy fulfilling their own unscrupulous motives.

Don’t the Muslims suffer in bombings and wars? Do bombs spare Muslims? No, none of the fact in the world defies that religion can be the basis of terrorism. Terrorism in no way advocates religion it only implies agony, grief, malaise, hatred and death.

No matter how much the death rate has dropped since past centuries, certainly this is not the way we ever choose to die. It’s always better to die from terminal disease, than to be a victim of terrorism.

It remains a choice of those minds that still succumb to such follies under the veil of religion. Its up to those who can easily endanger or rather save the human existence, so that every day brightens with light of peace and love; so that every flower that blooms is not under the shadow of thorns but blooms above thorns; so that dark clouds only bring rains and not the dusty fumes of suffering.