Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Embassy Fire; An Old Lesson In History
Why do I feel like the saying "what goes around comes around" is being applied literally into our world of actualities, and that we are beginning to convince small parts of ourselves that the reaction has far better results than the action.
By the 'conversation', if you can even call it that, on S'CAN-IRANIC's post between Vazraka and I, it would seem that the logical solution to the struggles of the world is, I quote from Vazraka;
By the 'conversation', if you can even call it that, on S'CAN-IRANIC's post between Vazraka and I, it would seem that the logical solution to the struggles of the world is, I quote from Vazraka;
The idea is attractive in itself, because his language speaks to the fire in the youthful mind, it reaches out to the trigger-happy generation or individual that feels actions speak louder than words, that a KO on the political dancefloor would show the world who's boss and let everyone know how powerful the ol' King Kong really is. If you've seen the movie, you may understand how 'powerful' King Kong really was and understand why even King Kong can be softened by the shapely curves of a banana.
However much there is this urgency to justify the actions of the burning of the embassies, the facts point to the evils of violence and destruction. The Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were horrendous in their death tolls and the destruction they wreaked, and the end result was in all probability the end of the war, but it seems that their is no justification for such an act. However we cannot condemn those who acted upon that, because they are long gone, but we can resist the urge to commit those crimes again by dialogue and mutual relationships.
Where does the bombings of the Embassy fit in here? The bombings of the Embassy were assumed in retaliation for the cartoon depicting Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, to some mischievous ends, but the fact of the matter is that those who committed these crimes are no better than the Christian fanatics who bombed the abortion clinics. The cartoon may undermine the Muslims idea of his Prophet, it may be horrible and disconcerting to a faithful man or woman, but it isn't supposed to lead to burning or savagery. This act should lead to the opposite, the peace and the respect between religions and countries; the newspaper that chose to print such a comic should be punished, as a principle of inciting the anger of a great number of religious groups and as a double-standard for its strict rules against comedy on Jesus but slackness in the Islamic view. Seeing this punishment, the Muslims must know that they have to be patient, is that not the Prophet's ruling? Patience? Because I sure as hell remember being told that in high school. Or, was it jihad-like war constitutes a higher status than patience and civility?
When the history of civilizations shows that humans have been fighting over land and sea for thousands of years, who is to say that we should stop now? How can we stop the tide of human savagery and blood-thirst? Their pride? Their power struggles? If there is no definitive answer like 'heaven on earth', will that mean we must resort to the option of violence over peaceful resistance?