Many believed that poverty and lack of opportunities is the root
of terrorism. It is a mistaken belief. Ideology is the cause of
terrorists acts. The influencing or diversion of minds since birth
towards an anti-humanity direction in life.
For 40 or more years, the world had tolerated the fundamental
Islamic faith or its deviants. Despite their excesses, of preaching
'justified killings' of indifidels - meaning the rest of us who do
not share their religious ideologies - , we had not been vocal or
sought retribution even when we saw our loved ones cut down by
them.
We still pleaded with them to be moderate instead of wiping them
out even though we have the numbers, the technologies and the
intelligences to do so, for we considered ourselves civilised and
not barbarians.
Some of them listened, but what their public proclaminations of
peaceful intent is not congruent with what they say and practise in
private.
They have continued to persist in feudal living, narrow
mindedly, as we share this planet, and criticised our way of life
daily. All this while of claiming peace, they had continued to
train and educate its people to mass murder innocent men, women and
children.
They DO make attempts to seperate their kind living amongst us
while killing others, but more often then not, they claim
expediency in murdering them as well, but ensuring first their own
families, friends and mullahs are not amongst us at the time of
murders.
Why should one ethnic group be kept safe, and in their safety,
find comfort to proclaim peace or keep apathetic distance, with a
higher survival rate, while the rest of us humanity be mercilessly
cut down piecemeal?
The world is sickened. 40 years and more of patience, education
and pleadings had not done anything good to tame terrorism. The
latest Mumbai attacks and senseless killings of our loved ones had
crossed the line of patience, goodwill amongst men and sanity.
I have no fear of my multicultural fellow citizens here in
Spore, because our efforts to promote peaceful living had been
largely successful.
I have no fear that we this generation may have to pay the price
for our mistake in not tackling fundamentalistic or
deviant religious ideologies seriously and effectively.
I only fear that the next generation, whom are innocent, be the
ones to suffer for our inactivity and apathy, and they will have to
pay the price of being mercilessly cut down.
Perhaps S. Huddington's 'Clash of Civilisation' is in the end -
inevitable?
The guy's name is Samuel Huntington lah.
You might want to look at some of Francis Fukuyama's writings
too. 