Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Suicide vs Terrorism

It was his prized possession, his to have
and to hold until its weight convinced him
to surrender it, of his own free will for he
knew who coveted what he no longer prized
and prepared to gift it to that dread entity
called Malak Al Mawt. Dread only in the sense
of that angel's supreme power over all living
organisms, for the Angel of Death held no
dread in his mind. And so it was that pilot
Zaharie Ahmad Shah conspired to generously
confer upon that angel not only his own but
the lives of 239 unaware others  who would 
never know that booking flight on Malaysia 
Airlines Flight MH370 was their passage to
the feared unknown, that bleak, brief and
harrowing route to darkness and oblivion.
Passengers imbued with the faith of the
expected not the unexpected but sharing a
faith with the suicidist so generously disposing
of their existence perhaps wanting company
on his way to martyrdom bringing a gift 
comprised of so many souls anticipating the
praise that would greet him as a purveyor
of souls to worship at the feet of the Almighty.
In the controversy over elements of the assumed
trajectory of events leading to the disappearance
of a jetliner soaring high above the clouds
and the vast isolated reaches of the Indian
Ocean that proved so tragic to a network of
grieving families traumatized by their
unspeakable loss, have authorities yet
determined this was an act of terrorism?



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