Absent An Absolute Tyrant
There are many precedents in history, to the present time. Take a Stalin, a Tito, a Mao, a Saddam, a Gadhafi, and historical, traditional, vicious animosities between ethnicity, religion, sects, tribes and clans are suddenly released. The tyrants' iron fist that subjugated and oppressed their people and bound disparate and resentful groups together in a binding, stifling joint purpose, to satisfy the assumed whim of the ruler, ensured compliance through stark fear.Liberate those multitudes, the various countries that made up the Soviet Union, the blended Yugoslavia, China, Iraq, and Libya, and tribal, ethnic, clan and religious antipathies that had simmered for so long under the taut grip of the tyrant's determination that all he ruled be complicit and engaged in his longevity, does a slow blaze of hatred and vengeance upon release from bondage.
In the Arab and Muslim countries the lines of tribal offence intersect with those of sectarian hatred where gruesome attacks take place by Shia upon Sunni and Sunni upon Shia as each takes the initiative in turn to prove the other degenerate in their view of the legitimacy of their own kind of authentic Islam. One the grotesque forgery, the other the true way, and neither willing to accept the other as a manifestation of surrender to the one true God.
Both assign the level of apostate and infidel to other branches of Islam, like the Ahmadi and Ismaili branches truly peaceful, who suffer the contempt of Sunni and Shia. Sectarian violence in Iraq reached civil war proportions after the invasion of the United States and its allies, once the clenched fist of Saddam Hussein was removed, allowing Sunni and Shia to mount atrocities on one another, while the Kurds maintained civility.
The world religion of peace, harmony and good fellowship, which traditionally extended those virtues of human relations to other Muslims, withholding them from infidels and Jews with whom they were cautioned to remain distant lest they be contaminated by contact, is unable to see others within the world of Islam clinging to sects not recognized as divinely inspired as apostates whom the world would be better rid of.
In Pakistan, as in Afghanistan, as in Saudi Arabia, and Iran, Bahrain, Syria, the superior in numbers oppresses their minority. And then simmering hostility increases and atrocities of mass slaughter take place, where mosques are bombed, and public markets, and government institutions and bodies are splayed everywhere in a gesture of universal love and understanding between and within the religious devout.
Labels: Human Relations, Human Rights, Political Realities, Realities, Religion
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, December 07, 2011
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