Terror... innocent lives destroyed.. but on both sides, not just one. How do you think it feels? To have a loved one killed... to know that they were misguided to death.To know that everything you did for them, and everything you shared, all stands void... all for a lie.
Blind, unshakeable faith in any religion, be it Islam, Christianity, or Hinduism can be dangerous as all religions are subject to perception and allow space for one’s evil tendencies to thrive.
It is disturbing that oftentimes, people use the ambiguity of religion as a means to forward their own interests, and to instill and imbibe in others their twisted interpretations of religious teachings. It is excruciating in fact.
But when I hear a 'terror' suspect's mother saying "If my son is guilty of this crime, guilty of having taken so many lives, I will never forgive him... even if the excuse was Islam itself. Because I know for sure that my mazhab does not teach violence and causing pain!", I know that they do not deserve the humiliation and suspicion they always get.
I know that they do not deserve to be lynched and burnt because of the 'misguided few'.
I know that they do not deserve to hear from 'us' that they deserve what they got, for what 'they' did.
All they want of you is to be outraged at the suffering inflicted upon 'them' and 'us' alike, to demand accountability, to stand up and question, to ensure punishment for the hurt caused, to just be compassionate and empathise, to not say that they deserved what they got, to recognise that they too are human and to feel their pain and loss every time their religion is abused, and to respect how sorry they are that this happened! That they or their faith did not endorse causing misery, that they were but victims themselves.
I know that not just for their sake, but for the sake of mere existence itself.
Despite being an atheist, I say this for the sake of what every religion advocates, and I say this against the perverted, pychotic minds that misuse their religion against others.
