Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. RIP
By Iqbal Latif
When a human being is mercilessly killed, hope is killed, perfection is eliminated!
Everyone is a unique individual ‘human is finale, zenith and the peak’ of the 14.7 billion years from The Big Bang; let’s not waste unique 'evolution' of our beginning by ignoring pain and misery of man. It is for this, I always keep repeating that lets love beyond religion and dogma everyone.
Criminal death through terror, injustice and famine is not a death of an individual it’s the ‘death of entire humanity's conscience!’ We need to transcend onto the unique 'Human level' there is no escape from this, if we need to survive, belief in whatever you want but respect the life of everyone here. And look upon this earth as an astronaut, border-less and one.
Any belief that encourages death over life is a-thesis of our progress. We are so unique but we are so indifferent to each other, we are indifferent to pain of each other; we think pain has a colour, or a religion or belief; famine and lack of opportunity is our collective failure as a 'unique collection of trillion upon trillion of star dust remnants' that epitomise The Big Bang.
For me that 'universal pain' is important to register, let’s not forget we as a part of 'singularity and remnant of star dust' are part of each other. If one of our part is subject to unfairness we should condemn it instead of looking at it indifferently.
Every Friday sermon from the pulpit is scrutinised in fundamentalist Iran as well as puritan Saudi Arabia. There are selective measures to combat extremist ideology, including close government scrutiny of Friday sermons, and encouraging concord. Pulpits purportedly exist to dispense 'Gods love and adore of his children' that should be the only order of the day.' Pulpits should not turn into the 'satanic dwellings of revulsion and abhorrence.'
The Imams and the pulpits need to change the colour and tone of their language. The change needs to come by making certain that 'love' the language of god and not 'hate' the speech of devil is dispensed from the pulpits. It is the 'message from the pulpits' that needs to be looked at and possibly monitored.
Someone needs to address the blooming hate message; we need message of harmony, unity, concord, accord and love instead. That is what is needed to be delivered from the pulpits. If pulpits continue to disseminate malice and message of revulsion instead of concord and love, we shall continue to see mushrooming of this self-hating tumour through brainwashed deviant individuals.
Listen you terminators; little I am but let me tell you 'not in my name!' I condemn your every action; I find every word you speak is hate and drivel.
Hate and abhorrence has no place in a society that revels on its freedom of expression. Take your 'tent' of hatred and plant it somewhere in scorched plains where such irrational degeneracy and decadence will only nurture only excruciating cactus. There is no chance of any fruitful outcome for mankind in your disgusting seeds.
The paradox that mankind faces today is that this rising tentacles of malice, poison and contaminated minds is on the rise in an age where human history is witnessing violence going downhill by dramatic degrees. In this exceptional age of information; the message of abhorrence and disgust is an attempt to haul mankind back in to the age of ignorance and antiquated practices.
This malignancy stems and flourishes within a community that refuses to deal with challenge of terror with comprehensible precision, intelligibility and outright condemnatory denunciation.
It is double standards of sermons from the pulpits where 'radical bloodhounds of terror' are given a leash of life and a breathing space. Moral equivalence are drawn for terror actions.
Legitimacy and warrant to slay to even the score of the 'lost glory of Islam' is the gist of this clarion call. Restoration of galloping old glory on horseback is such an unflattering relentless campaign of jihad.
There is a reason why even the most liberal will be the most hardened ideologue when it comes to outright condemnation. Condemn it; say loudly to be heard by every one of them 'not in my name.' Don't be indifferent, don't be mute, this will come to haunt your next of kin's. Silent majority doesn't mind supremacy of Islam and regaining of the paradise lost of the Caliphate where Islam reigned supreme.
It is dreams of rediscovering the history of Islam's golden age and the re-conquest of the world, like old Spain, that propels many lunatics to impose the 'will of Allah' on the unwilling. This is not about terror; rather this is about imposing a way of life through a 'regime of terror'. Try living in Kandahar and Kabul amidst the Talebins, if you like it so much! Stop pontificating venom from pulpits here.
Instead let’s nurture understanding of different cultures and creeds. People have to understand that they need to come out of this self-imposed ignorance and stop the prevalent culture of blaming others for their own backwardness.
I just don’t see why should millions of other young men suffer for mental depravity of one demented thought, many others have dreams too; there are those who want an education in these universities and want to be faithful and reliable. Such act of treachery, betrayal, fickleness and infidelity closes the doors to everyone?
Living in the 21st century is living with all and sundry; no exclusion can be possible on the basis of a radical agenda of revulsion.
The rank and file instead of drawing moral equivalences of these sickening acts, should detach from all this butchery and denounce it clearly and utter loudly ''Not In Our Name Please.'' Islam needs to be detached from this madness. It is in your hand! There are no 'horseback invasions' possible and this ambivalence of behaviour is obliterating your future generations with unfounded dreams of reinstituting grandiosity of a greatness that was once there.
''If you choose to adopt western values and civilization, your minds need to change; you cannot live with archaic 1400 years-old principles and enjoy the freedom that internet and global connectivity offers. The mixing of culture and minds is oneness of mankind; we cannot have tribalism and botulism as the cornerstone in an age of micro-processors. This is the age of knowledge; you either are a part of the system or a defunct Stone Age man i.e. the Talibani, or the man in Qom, who has destroyed the fabric of the society by taking Iran back by 200 years in less than 40 years of revolution. It is not an accident that it is freedom that innovates and ideological fixation that degenerates. Hence 1.4 billion of faithful at the lowest rung of Human Development is not an accident of nature but the result of mass hypocrisy that has all but shut the avenues of renaissance within nations of the crescent.''