I know that many stories had been written and many words had been said while many documentaries had been made about this historical dark history of our times, I just wanted to say that I was too stumped for words even though it has been a decade since it happened. Tonight, as I watched the documentary on historical dark decade of our humanistic existence in this world on Nat Geo channel, my heart was filled with great sorrow and one indescribable sadness over the death of almost 3,000 people on two acts of insane monstrosity of cowardly act supposedly championed one's fanatic religious beliefs.
It is just so sickening sad that a father, a mother, a son, a husband, a wife and every human relationship applicable lost someone that fateful morning on September 11, 2001. What man , woman or child could bear that heavy human loss on that fateful morning? That is why we, as citizens of our country must bear witness and stand up to assure that our country do not turn into the breeding ground for terrorism , terrorist cells, training grounds for terrorist or even cultist of every level. It is important that we understand this need to eradicate religious fanaticism or even terrorist sympathizers just because of our religious blind inclination. Let's us be constantly reminded of the Al-Maunah case which brought so much pain and unwanted deaths. Just as the 9/11 incident and our own Al-Maunah case, it is never about a Muslim died or a non-Muslim died . It is simply the death of a thousand deaths of innocent lives ; be it a Malay, Chinese, Indian, Sikh, Eurasian , Iban or even a Kadazan. Lives are more precious than some dangerous, failed and wayward ideology. It is important for us to recognise the fact that what can killing innocent lives, blowing up buildings, killing innocent women & children or even blowing up public amenities help in their selfish religious group. As I see it, it is not about defending their religious stand but a genocide of human beings of the highest level and that's called pure evilness and treachery. I greatly condemned such acts of terrorism and I find it a convenient excuse by such evil people to intimidate the innocent people. I am greatly grieved too as I looked into the Waco Texas debacle , the senseless Oklahoma bombing, Madrid bombing, Japan subway gas attack, London subway bombings, Mumbai bombings and massacre and many other senseless so-called religious cause attacks! I asked again, what is achieved by killing innocent lives? I appealed to sane thinking individuals to wake up from their slumber of such lies and insane individual worshipping of religious leaders or even morally corrupt leaders. Taking the life of another person doesn't win you points in your freedom fight or make you gained any respect. It just makes the statistics of widows, widower, orphans grow dramatically higher! Think of the lives that are senselessly altered altogether when one losses one's loved ones or even the massive re-building of lives one has to go through. I know that sense of loss - believe me. I "celebrated" my dad's death anniversary two days ago in my own quiet ways and I still feel his loss even though it was through illness and after more than 10 years now. It is a real loss to me and it is difficult every time that date comes around each year. What more for someone who lost their loved ones through such cowardice act of suicide bombings. I can't imagine what they have to go through to re-build their lives - could you?
The 9/11 event is a tragic grim reminder to us that religious fanaticsm has no place in our society and must be weeded out. STOP harboring such religious fanatics, terrorist cells and even questionable individuals of undesirable elements under their belts. Don't ever allow such religious goons to even try to con us into taking up arms and saying it is for a good cause because taking up arms meant certain death. It is death to logic, death to authority and death to society. BTW, it doesn't make our religion attractive if we keep taking up arms to defend our religious beliefs and say it is okay because that would make us martyr , isn't it? We have to constantly check these motives in our everyday walk with God. It doesn't make sense if God wants us to kill people just because they don't want to join us, right? After all, God is love. That's what my Bible says. Yunno, the greatest and simplest wisdom God ever gave us is our common sense. I just wish that some people would just use them daily and life would be much simpler minus all the complexity.
As I reflect on those lives which were loss on that fateful day of 9/11, I could only say a prayer and pray that God is watching over them up there. Let healing takes place and let us all love life and our neighbours as we should irrespective of race, color or creed.
God bless you all!
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