True. The terrorists are just mercenaries and murderers.. poor, illiterate people who have been brain washed, blackmailed, given incentives which actually the state should have provided.... So the terrorists are a mixed races... borne out of the orgy of narrow minded fanatics within certain religions + inept government...
The extremist fractions within the religion, fill up the vacuum created by decades of war and absence of basic facilities like security, education, food. By providing short term incentives (money, food, heaven) and false promises and references, they induce hatred within the minds of illiterate and poor people - who form the majority of the population in failed and war ridden countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan!
The solution lies in understanding this and providing good education, security and basic amenities to the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The moment they are educated and provided good governance, they will realize how they have been misled by the fanatics like Taliban - they will stop listening to the fanatic extremist religious heads.
Think about it ....
We should stop being in denial ... stop bickering about the religion and start targeting the roots and origin of terrorism... in all religions.. may it be Hindu/ muslim// sikh/ christian etc.
The same issues lie within naxalism... and the solution is also the same!!
the govt should stop beating around the bush and tackle the problem head on.. grab the bull by its horns and subdue it with strictness on one hand, and providing REAL development and opportunities with other... so that no longer the poor and under developed feel the need of picking up arms.
On a similar note.... movies often help us understand a lot of issues and Lone Survivor is one such movie, based on a true story, which definitely proves that, indeed, it is not right to generalize all the people of
the movie tells us about a true incidence in which an American soldier fighting in Afghanistan is first ruthlessly pursued by terrorists/ extremists of a particular religion who even kill people of their own religion in the name of God.... the soldier (Mark Wahlberg) would have been killed had the locals of a village nearby (and belonging to the same religion as the terrorists) had not saved him. And they saved him at the cost of their own lives! Who does such an act of kindness in this world...
The locals, we come to know, believed in age old law of honor, 'Pashtunwali' under which they protect anyone who seeks asylum, even with their own lives!
This must make us think again, that it is not wise to write off any particular religion as a whole as an extremist... For every extremist there are ample innocent and liberal minded people like you and me within it, who actually are just caught in the middle of this man-made storm...
One must also know that the US itself has given birth to the extremist group - Taliban, whose off springs are other extremist gtoups like LeT and Al Queda... It trained the Talibans and provided them with arms and ammunition so in the 1980s to defeat it's cold war enemy Russia when the latter tried to conquer Afghanistan. Refer - "Osama Bin Laden created by US" -Washington Post
You can also watch the Tom Hank's movie, Charlie Wilson's War,
Let's make this world a better place to live in, and tit-for-tat isn't going to solve it... that's for sure.
Lastly, the idea of Islam started very differently than what is protrayed by the extremists! the extremists mislead the people by false interpretations of Quran....
The followers of Islam were ruthlessly persecuted by the then rulers (just as Jesus Christ was!) during it's formative years. And the prophet merely told his people to fight against these unjust rulers - and thus was born the concept of Jihad... an ideology which has been ruthlessly twisted by the extremist groups of Islam to mislead people and justify the act of heinous crimes!
This all has been depicted very clearly in the old classic - The Message ( a movie which incidentally has been filmed by a Christian).
P.S. -
Equally extremist were the Nazis in ruthlessly killing and acting moth barbaric against the Jews !! And they were Christians!!
After the death of Jesus, the Christian kings regularly attacked Jerusalem and other Jewish settlements in Europe and Middle East, killing thousands over the centuries!!....
These atrocities by Christians over the centuries dwarf the Muslim extremism, which is less than 50 years old!!
TO SUMMARIZE
BLIND FAITH IN PSYCHOTIC AND VILLAINOUS RELIGIOUS/ POLITICAL LEADERS BY THE ILLITERATE MAJORITY OF A POPULATION IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL EXTREMISM...
THIS CAN BE STEMMED ONLY BY PROVIDING THE FUTURE GENERATION OF THE WORLD AN EDUCATION THAT TRAINS THEM TO THINK LOGICALLY, HUMANELY AND USES REASONING AND COMMON SENSE FOR MAKING DECISIONS!!!
THIS SINGLE PARTICULAR STEP, SHALL ERADICATE TERRORISM, WAR, RIOTS, POVERTY, CORRUPTION, DISEASES AND MAKE HUMAN EXISTENCE MUCH MORE WORTH WHILE!
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