The Holy Month of Ramadan
This is the manner in which ferociously revenant Islamists celebrate Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and the Koran. Islam too, celebrates a trinity.Terrorists claim to do the bidding of Allah. And that Great Spirit demands no less of aspirants to His grace than that they dedicate their corporeal essences to His spiritual need. While it's true most readers of Islam's holy scriptures inhale the injunctions to love one another, the Taliban and al-Qaeda interpret those same passages quite differently.
And so it is that they carefully lay their plans, and select Ramadan, that most holy of times in the Muslim calendar of remembrance and honour to assail their fellow Muslims. For they are not true believers. To truly believe and respond as a Muslim one must eschew un-Islamic mores.
To believe what has been written one must apply oneself to the injunction to jihad. This is truly submission. Life is but a fleeting affair during which time one prepares for final absolution. To aspire to sainthood is the highest claim to the Islamic ideal.
Journey to Mecca is but an inspiration for the final aspiration. To leave this mortal coil is no sacrifice, it is a celebration of Allah's will. The Taliban, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas are not loath to practise their fundamental connectedness to Islam and Allah. Nor do they hesitate to sing their praises of these actions in the ears of future generations. As God gives and takes away, so do they. And what better time to demonstrate their twisted fanaticism than during Ramadan?
Which is why, in the rampaging, murderous assault upon other Muslims, they leave true confusion in their wake. Millions upon millions of Muslims who defy belief in the reality of their actions; refusing adamantly to believe that Muslims could conceivably visit such horrors upon other Muslims. And so, they close their eyes and their ears to such eerily phantasmagorical horrors.
Some, however, face the reality and their anguish is palpable, if ineffective. Like President Hamid Karzai pleading with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to put a halt to the unspeakable carnage. The latest celebration of Ramadan took a mere 30 lives in Kabul; not quite to be compared with the ongoing hurricane of death visited upon Muslims in Iraq.
Were he to face the Taliban leader and the rabidly murderous warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, he would attempt to sue for peace; not at any price, but a negotiated, hoped-for clemency from death through some form of co-operative agreement to get along with one another.
As though it were possible. He would ask of them: "Esteemed mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?"
Because they would. They are but responding to the will of Allah.
Labels: Political Realities, Religion, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, September 30, 2007
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