And In Summation
Surely it represents a gross perversion
of language, sensibility and intelligence
to refer to a religion spread by the
sword intent on worldly conquest and
the spoils of war to refer to itself as the
religion of peace insofar as Islam views
itself as the home of peace while all
others religions become perforce regions
of war. To bend to coercion, threats
intimidation, persecution is the Islamic
path to divine salvation. Little wonder
the world of thinkers of rational beings
look askance and with no little skepticism
at the overwhelming pervasiveness of
thuggishness in an all-consuming ideology
professing to sacred adherence to the
word of its god that sends its faithful out
into the world to wreak havoc, sow terror
commit bloodshed in a time-dishonoured
tradition of mayhem, massively disrupting
the rhythms of ordinary life for unassuming
people themselves innocently paying due
homage to the Messenger and obeisance
to his luminous master finding themselves
vilified, attacked and massacred for an
insufficiently devoted grasp of Islam. As
for all others not yet declaring their
undiluted loyalty, accursed, deserving
of death, those who balk at 'submission'
to a pathological concept of a higher
being of malice aforethought, to them
go out fatwas inciting heroic warriors of
Islam to their targets and their rewards.
Friday, May 17, 2019
Labels:
Poetry
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