Friday, May 18, 2007

How human are we?

This rant is triggered by my last post, mainly this and the last few months that I've spent on digg. Comments on every single fucking article there always includes the following:
1. Atheists bashing non-atheists (and vice-versa)
2. Racism
3. Muslim hate
4. Blaming US for it's role in degrading Iraq

Coming back to my point, is believing or not believing in God that important to decide the measure of the crime? Terrorists, these bastards who killed Du'a are all extremists. I don't think extremism pertains to just a religion, caste etc. Every sect has it's set of senseless bastards who commit heinous crimes in name of their so called "religion" or "belief". Be it a socialist group or a weak political party, they are extremists.
So can we please just separate out these people. They are individuals. Charge them for what they did. There's no need to lash blame on an entire community. The Koran doesn't dictate mass murder nor does the Bible.
Hitler, Bin Laden, Mao, Du'a's killers, all they've done is in their own twisted ideology of what they believe in.

I hate it when an entire country, community is generalized and judged for one person's wrong doing. This is common sense and yet so uncommon

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