Wednesday, February 9, 2011

What's your take on that?

Ironically most of us believe that it is pitiful to kill anybody, but in reality execute no justice in response to it. Homicide is an inevitable disease since the beginning of time but conclusively controllable. A ton of ink has already been exploited on this issue over the years. This has resulted in far civilized society retaining values and ethics at peak. Today, we are living in the 21st century, a time where the world is most accessible, thanks to the advancements of education and technology; a world where everyone is connected, understanding each other more then ever before. Yet, we have done something extremely poorly or thoughtlessly in the past that we have failed to control atrocious, merciless and barbaric killings.

Where is the civilized world standing today? I can only speak for myself. I found that my intellectual development brought me to a stage where I could not resist raising my voice against another heinous act of violence occurred in Cikeusik, south of Banten in Indonesia on 6th February 2011. Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world that proclaims to accept the freedom of religious beliefs. On the contrary, a mob has attacked members of Ahmadiyyia Muslim community viciously killing three people and severely wounding many in public. That was not it, The Jakarta Globe Reports: The crowd then dragged the bodies along the road. Others were filmed attacking the corpses.

Mourning is the least one can do in support of those killed and wounded in preplanned attack. Hundreds of thousand years ago, this had been the least gesture of a Stone Age man in such situations. My question to you is, are we still in the Stone Age?