Today I write because there is something that
is burning deep inside my chest. It’s the recent terrorist attacks on Paris,
Nigeria and Mali. Men of flesh and bone are brutally slaughtered by other men
made of the same flesh and bone. The reasons behind such occurrences are very
complicated and self-contradictory. There are numerous terrorist or as I like
to call it Anti-Human groups out there with a sole purpose to kill people; God
knows what is that they want to achieve or prove. There may be many reasons for
these groups for getting formed, some reasons may be self-knit and some reasons
have been provided by some so called developed and civilized countries. I won’t
get deep into what terrorist groups do because that is something that we all
see on televisions and read in newspapers and also condemn it. My point here is
that how humanity should respond to such anti-human threats. Recently a
devastating threat on humanity was made when ISIS attacked the heart of France.
It was a demonic act of hatred on the innocent people of Paris who lost their
lives and their loved ones in the attacks. And how the people responded to the
situation was so heroic and heartwarming. The people stood as one against the
terrorist group giving them a strong message of Fearlessness. It was really the
best act of humanity.
I was really amazed by such a reaction from
the people. The people gave a really strong impression of their country. But
soon after all this France dropped missiles on the state of Syria; followed by
US and Russia. Some think that this was the correct step, it was justice. Well
I have disagreements here. This retaliation, I call it terrorism too. Hatred
can never be won with hatred. It may sound very philosophical but just imagine
for a minute. Paris was attacked and many innocent people died, now when France
blasted Syria what is the guarantee that only terrorists would have killed in
the detonations. A bomb does not choose between good and bad, it is just a
messenger of death which takes anyone who comes in its way. If you see,
innocent children, women and men were killed in Paris attacks but the same
happened when France attacked Syria. The same happened when US was on the quest
to root off terrorism from the world by blasting Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and
many more countries. They may have killed many terrorists but they also have
the blood of innocent men, women and children on their hands. Humanity cannot
be saved by killing a thousand terrorists for sure but humanity dies when an innocent
life is lost. I strongly believe that earth is not made up of nations but nations
are made inside earth. When we say our people, we mean the people of our
community, our country and our religion. We need to get out of this
narrow-mindedness. When we say our people, we should mean the entire human
race. If the same scenario continues and if we keep on killing innocents on the
name of retaliation and justice, we will end our species one day.
The world is made up of love and peace. We
should respect the fact and live by it. There are the normal people of Paris
who proved it on the night of the attacks. I read an open letter from a man to
ISIS which read that he won’t let the terrorists have his hatred because they
don’t deserve it. He wrote that that he’ll just ignore those inglorious rascals
and move on with his life and try to make the world a better place. Now this is
what I call a real man, not the ones who attacked Paris or not even the ones
who ordered bombings on Syria.
Mahatma Gandhi said that an Eye for an Eye
makes the whole world blind. Today I can totally relate to the fact. Where the
world on one side is moaning for Paris and supporting them, there are the
normal people of Syria who are deprived of basic human requirements and also
are being looked upon as a black mark on the society, as if a mother’s womb
gives birth to a terrorist. The world needs to change, change for the good,
change for the sake of humanity. And to achieve this we should get over the mindset
of being of a community. Above everything we should look upon ourselves as a
race, the human race. After all we are nothing but star dust in this vast
universe.
by Ambuj
