Take a step back towards the uncivilized world. Back then, all the funky gizmos that we have now just didn't exist. In the age of dinosaurs (as Malays would say...'zaman dinosor'), humans lived WITHOUT half the things that we are depending on to go through our daily lives today. By that, I mean mobile phones, cars, internet, computer, electricity yada yada yada. Of course, me myself am amazed at any cool gadgets that is invented. However, what troubles me most is....within the hype of discovering new things, humans became less educated, less aware, less interested, and less concern about the subject of...humanity...which is what made us called humans in the first place, if i were to put it directly.
How is it that a girl is raped back in an alley somewhere? How is it that mass murders were conducted because the others belonged to another religion? How is it that a group of people decided to hijack planes and bang them into a tower? How is it that a suicide bomber killed himself and sacrificed others around him in the good name of a religion? How is it that a country decided to wreck a whole nation just to find a man who was believed to have weapons of mass destructions(and oh, they still couldn't find the so-called weapons even after the man served his death-sentence? How is it that a man decided to have a shooting spree at a school? How is it that a man fathers his own daughter's children? How? How is it that these people DID NOT have an ounce of humanity in them, to go about in this world and toyed with lives?
As a Muslim, I am going to touch on the basics of Islam. Islam itself means 'peace'. It saddens me that some people tarnished the name of Islam. How could suicide bombings create peace? Yes, we are allowed to defend ourselves when situations arise. But that's the end of it. Full stop. To roam around bombing and killing innocent people is not the right path to peace.
News of this and that, here and there, just puzzled me on why such things had taken place. The fact is, we are eating ourselves away. Civilization is just a mirage after all. We want to believe that we are civilized, but how could we, when unimaginable things are occurring right in front of us. Could it be that the more we seek, the less we become? If that's the case, I dread the future. Because by then, most people are not worth the term human-beings anymore. And that's a recipe for disaster for this world.
How is it that a girl is raped back in an alley somewhere? How is it that mass murders were conducted because the others belonged to another religion? How is it that a group of people decided to hijack planes and bang them into a tower? How is it that a suicide bomber killed himself and sacrificed others around him in the good name of a religion? How is it that a country decided to wreck a whole nation just to find a man who was believed to have weapons of mass destructions(and oh, they still couldn't find the so-called weapons even after the man served his death-sentence? How is it that a man decided to have a shooting spree at a school? How is it that a man fathers his own daughter's children? How? How is it that these people DID NOT have an ounce of humanity in them, to go about in this world and toyed with lives?
As a Muslim, I am going to touch on the basics of Islam. Islam itself means 'peace'. It saddens me that some people tarnished the name of Islam. How could suicide bombings create peace? Yes, we are allowed to defend ourselves when situations arise. But that's the end of it. Full stop. To roam around bombing and killing innocent people is not the right path to peace.
News of this and that, here and there, just puzzled me on why such things had taken place. The fact is, we are eating ourselves away. Civilization is just a mirage after all. We want to believe that we are civilized, but how could we, when unimaginable things are occurring right in front of us. Could it be that the more we seek, the less we become? If that's the case, I dread the future. Because by then, most people are not worth the term human-beings anymore. And that's a recipe for disaster for this world.
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