Mission Mass Dementia

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim men from the Iranian-backed group Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag during a parade marking the annual Quds Day. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Mission Mass Dementia

Beyond puzzling. It is an incontrovertible
reality that humankind is biologically
anchored in a shared sense of morality.
Yet events occur persuasive of an
opinion that it is possible that
irrationality and hatred can conceivably
be transmittable, that entire swaths
of populations imagining themselves
to be infused with an inherent set of
values honouring justness and fairness
can allow themselves to be tainted by a
pathology of morbid hatred in defence
of an ideology claiming itself to be
victimized when it is held responsible
for inciting to terrorism. These fallible
dupes cling to a belief of themselves in
support of helpless victims who are in
point of fact religion-driven fanatics of
a revolution inspired by an ayatollah who
scorned their hapless commitment, spitting
out a curse they are unable to divine through
these words: Those who know nothing of Islam
pretend that Islam councils against war. Those 
[who say this] are witless. Islam says: kill the 
unbelievers just as they would kill you all!...
Islam says: kill them, put them to the sword!...
Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who 
may want to kill you!... Yet though the mission
is clear the interpretation is faulty and
that leader of the Islamic Revolution who
inaugurated al Quds Day now sees ardent
support in London, Paris, New York, Toronto
Berlin, Canberra, Islamabad, Jordan where
marches in support of the concept of
eradicating the presence of Jewish Israel
find enthusiastic support among those
proud to hoist aloft the flags of Jihad.