Terror and war against terror have become dominating headlines of our life in modern world. Without our consent and knowledge we have stepped into a culture of violence, terror and fear. Radical Islamists/Islamic terrorists are the prominent face of the terrorism that is spreading around the globe like some wild fire. But there are many shadows lurking behind this face.
Definitely they are out to settle scores with Western world and all allies of western world and with all other nations where they feel their faith and community has suffered injustice over centuries. But then what do they achieve by all this? They are earning more hatred for their community and creating millions of reasons for more wars and assaults.
We live in a world riddled with some very old historic unresolved crisis; be it Kashmir or Palestine issue or the Afghanistan and Iraq war or continuing conflicts in small countries in Africa. Lack of political will, tug of war for hegemony and control over region or resources, immense development and growth of big and developing nations against back drop of abject poverty of section of population has lead to this present state of the world. We need to evolve towards a more egalitarian and humane world. Politics of hatred will lead to much bigger disaster or maybe another world war.
Only last month world has seen America putting behind racism and electing Barrack Obama as their future leader. This fight of black Americans against slavery for equal rights was fought for decades. May be there was hatred and massacre at the root of it. But this fight was won only through civil liberty and human rights movements, by creating awareness through proper education. Hope world chooses the path that leads to solutions, knowledge and tolerance instead of the one that leads to more problems, death of imagination and darkness.
Via Guardian
