I am probabl;y going to post some hateful things, please understand that this is not my typical view, this was in the moment, as it happened. I will explain my view later on.
When I heard about the attacks in Paris, I felt numb, terror attacks are a despicable form, because they do just that. They invoke fear upon those ordinary citizens of a country.In the heat of the moment, my first thought after hearing "Syrian passport found, used to gain access through greece" was well bet the germans are kicking themselves now. Whats dificult in these times is that our hate gets misguided. My hate is aimed at Isis, not syrian refugees, not Syria, but those who have orchestrated attacks upon civilians. A song came to mind in light of these attacks by Linkin Park called Hands Held High. One line strikes so true. "When the rich wage war its the poor who die"
We as people have little choice in the way our countries move, yet is our people who pay most dearly. Not the politicians who sit safely in their iron towers. Our men, our women, our children and parents, our friends our neighbours. Our People.
I do not hate muslims, I do not hate christians. I hate extremists. I hate those who consider themselves above the rules of common decency. In every religion there will be extremists, yet it is that of Islam and muslims that we hear so much of. We do not hear of extremist chrisytians attacking places with suicide bombers... Perhaps because we airbrush our assaults. We declare it in retaliation to what was first wrought upon. France orchestrated a bombing of Raqqa in Syria. They declared no civilians were hurt... yet what do they deem to be a civilian?
We cannot keep living a life like this. We will forever be at war with one group or another. When one is oppressed another emerges, and then another. It will be a never ending cycle in this lifetime, and in many more to come.
When I heard about the attacks in Paris, I felt numb, terror attacks are a despicable form, because they do just that. They invoke fear upon those ordinary citizens of a country.In the heat of the moment, my first thought after hearing "Syrian passport found, used to gain access through greece" was well bet the germans are kicking themselves now. Whats dificult in these times is that our hate gets misguided. My hate is aimed at Isis, not syrian refugees, not Syria, but those who have orchestrated attacks upon civilians. A song came to mind in light of these attacks by Linkin Park called Hands Held High. One line strikes so true. "When the rich wage war its the poor who die"
We as people have little choice in the way our countries move, yet is our people who pay most dearly. Not the politicians who sit safely in their iron towers. Our men, our women, our children and parents, our friends our neighbours. Our People.
I do not hate muslims, I do not hate christians. I hate extremists. I hate those who consider themselves above the rules of common decency. In every religion there will be extremists, yet it is that of Islam and muslims that we hear so much of. We do not hear of extremist chrisytians attacking places with suicide bombers... Perhaps because we airbrush our assaults. We declare it in retaliation to what was first wrought upon. France orchestrated a bombing of Raqqa in Syria. They declared no civilians were hurt... yet what do they deem to be a civilian?
We cannot keep living a life like this. We will forever be at war with one group or another. When one is oppressed another emerges, and then another. It will be a never ending cycle in this lifetime, and in many more to come.