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?
actually, i feel that all terrorists share one incorrect
thinking.
they conveniently blame the rest of the world for their own
poverty, hardship and sufferings, instead of reflecting
on themselves to find out the root causes and come out with more
constructive solutions to solve their problems.
if one is poor, he should think of ways of how to earn/make more
money using his own efforts and hard work.
if one is suffering, he should think of ways to overcome his
pains and hardship.
that should be the correct attitude. blaming everyone
else for his own poverty, hardship and sufferings will not make his
life any better, only worse.
and yet, these people choose to take the " destroy
oneself and destroy others" approach to make their point. that is
wrong.
they must realise that they are suffering because they have
always been living in constant conflict with their environment (
which includes the rest of the world). that they are unable to
harmonise with the rest of the bigger world, not the other way
round.
when a person cannot live in harmony with his own
environment, he can never be happy.
to add on to that, the false promises of numerous women, better
lives and/or paradise after their "noble" sacrifice enbolden
them to take such destructive and drastic measures.
this shows that nothing is more fearful than misguided
beliefs based on incorrect teachings that completely
disregard other human lives, and the law of causality.
that, i think, is how terrorism is born. when one's heart
is dishonest and always blames others, he is easily swayed to the
path of terrorism.
