283. 9/11

A solitary fire-fighter stands amid 

the rubble and smoke in New York City

Photo Credits Wikipedia 

There are many moments from the past where man’s brutality can be seen at its worst, so much so that we wish to forget- but dare not-  unfortunately 9/11 has had to be inserted into that infamous list.

We must not forget so as to prevent those events happening again.

We must not forget the Holocaust, we must not forget the Tiananmen Massacre and all those revolutions that have ended in blood baths simply because people wanted freedom, in most cases, freedom from a tyrant.

We must not forget... but maybe we should also remember too, that, without giving up our own values and beliefs, we should all nevertheless open ourselves up to the fact that others have values and beliefs too which may have no bearing with our own, but which even so, are held as dear to them, as ours are to us.

We should ALL remember this, myself included... maybe this stepping into others shoes is the only weapon, we ordinary people have to stave off the hand of brutality.

The 9/11 attack and all other terrorist attacks, India, Britain, that have killed and caused suffering to innocent people are different from the attacks against regimes.  The 9/11 terrorists are not a regime and therefore alongside other such terrorists, they should be publically condemned by every individual on earth with every force within his/her body.

Yet how remarkably silent against such terrorists have their own people from whence these fanatical terrorists derive, have been.  The silence from that part of the world, from the world of their faiths, makes one more diffident against those countries; those people, those values, those beliefs.  When such people are silent it means approval and not condemnation of such terroristic attacks.

It is time these people showed their good will, set themselves apart from terrorism, if this in effect is the case, and stand up for their faith which as claimed is not one of violence, brutality but of love. 

If they don’t, how can anyone believe that deep down in their hearts they are not harbouring the viper of terrorism itself?  Because otherwise, frankly, their silence leads me to think this is what they want me to believe.