Terrorism & 'War on terror- A Wrong Choice and its Worst Reaction.

Human race on the face of earth is at least 2,50,000 years old now. Violence in difference forms were present in human history right from the very beginning, when we started to enjoy possession of things like fertile land, valuables, and other pleasures. It left numerous scars in human history in a number of ways. Violence in the form of war is still the ugliest face of it. It inflicts pain and suffering en masse to mankind.

Basically the reasons of violence and war vary from greed, self-pride, economic factors, ect. People wage war for authority, material wealth, and they wear the mask of virtue, and righteous. Now the perpetrators of violence and suffering on humanity have two different faces;
(i) the so called ‘terrorists’ and
(ii)the modern imperialists who orchestrates the so called ‘war-on-terror’. Both are equally guilty of inflicting pain and suffering to humanity.

Terrorism, includes terrorizing a particular group of people or a country by so called terrorists who themselves proclaim to be messiah’s of a group of people or country who suffer great hardships and injustices (mostly unimaginable in developed countries) in their day to day life. Terrorists rise from countries whose people have a long history of suffering. They born in pain and live in great sufferings, like poverty, injustice, illiteracy, unemployment, diseases and face death many times over in their daily life until they actually face it in most painful circumstances.

Terrorism which rises in a country in the pretext of saving that country from its hardships is like making a hole in the ship to drain the storm water. And when another country tries to ‘liberate’ that country from terrorists by attacking that country is like a snake biting a man who has just got a hit by a thunder- strike.

How terrorism grow.

Terrorism or a terrorist group has many faces. In the initial phases they show concern and sympathy to the basic genuine problems of a country or a group of people who suffer some kind of hardships from within the country; from government or a section of the public, or from outside the country; from other countries. These terrorist group, may be a handful of people in the initial stages (in whose brains these misguided ideas first arises), will try to associate itself with a larger cause or much widely respected ideas, beliefs or personalities; like an idea of a prosperous nation, a great religion, ect.

Even though it has roused by genuine aspirations of a concerned, patriotic citizen for a peaceful, developed nation, but choosing of terrorism as its means is the most foolish, and selfish decision one can make. It is foolish because it increases the hardships of the people they are acting as saviors. It is selfish because they don’t consider the trauma of the victims and their loved ones and scars of a violent terrorist attack can bring to a society, and ‘War on Terror’ is no less a ‘Terror’ to mankind than Terrorism itself.

This highlights the urgent need of practicing the principles of Ahimsa (non-violence), which is more powerful than any weapon and more productive than any war.
Dated 8/14/08 9:40 AM