Psychopathic Religious Confliction
You've got to wonder. Why can't we be left alone? In the larger sphere, that is. Why must one group of people harbour such dark feelings against another group? We've been constructed and hard-wired in a manner to have feelings of suspicion against strangers in our midst, against those whose social mores, cultures and traditions don't match our own since time immemorial, as a simple expedient of nature, to assist us in our basic organic need of self-preservation.But it's been a very long time since furtive forays of one hunting band against its neighbours took place to ensure that their territories weren't breached and with it their food stocks depleted. Wouldn't, one wonders, our superior brains, since we are, after all, "Man the Wise" dictate reason to smooth over our ungovernable emotions of distrust in all those millennia since mankind hunted and foraged for territorial and existential advantage?
One of the first emotional ingredients for disaster recognized and set aside by ancient philosophers and religious leaders was that of envy. The Ten Commandments, emulating much earlier injunctions brought forward in early societies seeking to infuse their populations with a sense of right and wrong so that all might live together in harmony, warned against envy and greed. Man the wise, it appears on the record of our long and sad history of abuse one against the other is not all that wise.
Take the most recent aggressive attacks against the West by fanatical Islamists who despise our less rigid, more accepting, social-democratic codes of living for our populations, where diversity is respected and egalitarianism is honoured as a right between human beings. Our societies have evolved where generally speaking people of varied backgrounds are able to live in some semblance of harmony, goodwill and peace. Religion has taken a back step to secular democracy as a governing tool. As a result people are far less rigidly doctrinaire in their religious observances, as well as in their broader acceptance of what is socially acceptable in behaviour and lifestyles.
There are times when this results in a society less concerned about true values, more concentrated on the trite and cosmetic appurtenances of life. Morals and ethics become diluted to the point of 'relativism'. This is the exchange between rigid observance of forbidden behaviours usually related to religious proscriptions, and the freedom of expression, the tolerance of others that Western societies have succumbed to, for the betterment of society at large.
Yet many among the most rabidly jihadist Islamists seem to prefer to deliver their messages of hate and condemnation in the very seat of those societies they so abhore. They have no interest, it would seem, in living within the confines of the repressive societies which their hate-speech exemplifies, much preferring the freedoms that participatory-democracies provide them to express their right to free speech, that very society they condemn. Fundamental extremists who incite against the West and its culture prefer to live within the safe confines of that very culture.
When some of these hate-mongerers are deported from the countries which have given them safe refuge because of their virulently harmful activities they do everything in their power to return to that country which sought to expunge them. Somehow the countries to which they have been deported and from which they originally came lack appeal, fraught as they are with socially repressive laws and religious demands for behaviour beyond their true wish to practise. In the same breath that they inhale the freedom of the West, they exhale the dark terror of the baleful societies they've left behind.
When authorities in the West finally determine that their presence is too troublingly incendiary and potentially harmful to the population at large and take measures to expel them from the country, these hate-mongers plea that on return they may be subject to imprisonment or torture in their home countries whose virtues they had previously expounded upon. Some even threaten to use the laws of the free country to sue the governments seeking to expel them.
Islamist extremists incite against the West while spewing their hatred and contempt, domiciled there in safety and protection for their families. They embrace the protection afforded them by the despised countries' laws, while decrying the loose social mores that so offend them in a secular society which offers refuge to those who practise their various religions without persecution.
These malcontents adeptly learn all the advantageous ways in which they can manipulate laws enacted to ensure freedom, safety and equality within the population at large to their devious advantage.
Labels: Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, March 24, 2007
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