The world was never peaceful the day man came to rule. Since ages, man craved for more, and more brutality. Man never was satiated what he got, his greed made him destroy the peace, the peace of mankind, the world. God, in any way, never wanted him to harm any living being or destroy the peace. To end his selfish needs, he did always destroy. He is a born sadist, a masochist, a psychopath, literally. However, some men never wanted to fight or to hurt anyone. Did that matter? No! They were slain by the ones who wanted to rule, and to spread terror in their innocent hearts. This made them fight back, once again, the fight. Either for a good cause, or whatever, in the end man became the slayer, and is a slayer by slaying the other.
Religion became a crucial subject today, and man is fighting by tagging his selfish war as "Religion or Religious War or Jihad". Today, Jihad became a synonym for terror, and Muslims became the suspects all over. Well, this is not because of anything but because of the ones who wage war against peace. Who are they? Guess some frustrated people who did not achieve anything in life and now want to do something and doing it by tagging as religious war. When they could not do anything in life, when they could not become really religious, when they could not obey what God wanted them to be; they became this__ Bloody slayers, killing only innocent people, who never ever harmed anyone, to prove that they are religious. Are they?
Many centuries ago when Islam came into existence, it was necessary to fight against non-Muslims because Islam was in danger. Some people did not want this new religion (then) to flourish. So Muslims had to fight back in order to protect their religion and this is a long, past tale. Islam teaches peace, brotherhood, and love. Today, some people take quotes out of context and pick those things and then fight for God knows what reason. There were crusades between Christians and Muslims in the past, no matter what; both sides had to suffer the ferocious realities_ the death, the pain, the sorrow, almost every agonized thing. There were religious battles all over the world, no one can deny that. Everyone everywhere fought to protect their identity. People fought to protect their families; they fought to protect their kingdoms, their religions, their dignity, and their everything. No kingdom ever survived without fighting, but that was centuries ago, and not today.
Today, everyone has power and liberty to live, to eat, to survive and roam peacefully. But no! They do not want this, they want more. They want their name, and they want to degrade the religion. They never are satisfied; they want more blood, more innocent souls leaving bodies for no reason. The ones who slay for no reason are not the ones who boast they are religious; they are just mere sadists, releasing their frustration on helpless people, or rather fanatical coward freaks.
India, our India, became a hub for terrorism because of the people who live on some land given to them some years ago to survive when they were not happy in this peaceful country. And now, they only come and hit us instead of bowing down forever for the favor that our country did to them some time ago. No, they want more from India; they come and hit us right on our face. It is not only the ones who come to India and stay here like frustrated beggars, but they spread terror. And also, some Indians who mingle with them and become betrayals of their own country without realizing that they have been provided with food, shelter, and freedom by India.
There was a time when riots took place and yes, minority has suffered, but it is irrelevant to open the closed chapter again and spread terror. Even the majority suffered. Both ends, innocent Hindus and innocent Muslims died and faced unexplainable terror. Whatever happened decades ago happened and almost equally happened. If the corrupt Government takes years to solve issues, then it is not necessary for them to take revenge in this manner by killing innocent people, mostly women and children. If they want to do something, then they must understand their own religion first. They must respect the country's laws and then try to change things into better, than making more critical.
India has witnessed worst communal riots in the past and unfortunately, our Indians, common men are so dumb that they did not realize that it was all related with politics. Politics or whatever, it is past. Nothing can undo the past, and nothing in this whole world can bring the past time back because God only gives time and takes away every second. Other than forgetting, they create more grisly memories. Babri Masjid riots, Godhra riots, or whatever riots, all is past. One cannot sit and plan all his life by wailing and weeping for whatever happened. It only makes things damned, and more damned. It disturbs one's mentality and social harmony.
Indians know very well that the system is not in rhythm and almost all are corrupt and hungry for bribes and all. If there were no loop holes, then there was no question of these terrorists entering in our arena and striking right in our hearts by piercing our souls. There is always some or the other goof ups in our security. Either they take money and let them enter or they keep fake encounters alive by tagging some innocent people as terrorists. The ego is all what they have. To tag someone or the other person to hide their faces from media and people, or to take bribes.
India is now wounded, literally. Almost every major state has suffered the terrible loss. Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Malegaon, etc. What else now? Even after these deadly blasts, still we live in fear or maybe waiting for our turn in the next one. The worst part is that the dead, mostly, are just the ones who never saw life. Many innocent kids died, hardly 9-year-old or 10, 11... many helpless women died, many men died. How could the people, who claim to be our security, did not take more measures to prevent more blasts or terror? We just know how to blame the British for ruling India for centuries. We made them run long way back, we cannot just blame one another for the things that go wrong right under our own roof, under our own house.
We pay taxes, and where do they go? Elections? Orgies of politicians? Where? We pay taxes for our safety and betterment and no one has guts to question them. And the ones who do, they suffer. All are scared of this or the other thing. In fact, we are used to this; we made our habit to live like this and to adjust with everything. They could provide more security or they could just eliminate all terrorists by taking smart moves, but no, they would not. They boast, just do boast by chewing pan_masalas and spitting on the walls, provided them by people's money. Else, like shameless animals, demand money by spreading their filthy hands under the desk. And we, the people, follow them by chewing more of it and spitting anywhere we feel like. How does it matter? All do, and it is our duty to do so, right?
Today, people live in terror. They do not know what will happen next. I can feel their fear, trying to hide behind those hopeless, helpless eyes because their fear is same like mine when I go out. When I am in train, I just do not know what will happen next. I admit, I get suspicious when I find any person wearing cap, or traditional kurta or have beard. I cannot deny my feelings that I suspect him to be a fanatical fundamentalist who came here to sacrifice his life in the name of religion. I am scared of my own identity, people from my own religion. I can hide my fears and feelings from the world but cannot hide when I sleep. The restlessness of waking up in the morning, the hope of reaching office safely, the prayers for everyone's safety, this is all what became life now. I guess not for me, but for every Indian.
I just happen to see some enticing captions like- "Help us to help you or Alert Mumbai (whatever), or check the bags in your local train, etc. Is this our responsibility to check things? They cannot expect us to check every bag in packed locals of Mumbai. We can never precisely judge anyone or any bag that is carrying the explosives. When we could not even notice the minor LPG gas explosives being carried in locals recently, then how could we, the common man, speculate that something dangerous is lying inside some black bag or whatever? We are common people and we cannot every time stare at things when we are filled with stress and tension of day"s work. We get tired when we catch locals after work, our minds do not work at that time... we wish to get down from train and reach home safely... we feel like soldiers out to fight with no weapons, no armor, but just with some unknown hope, a hopeful prayer, and self-doubting will power... and then suddenly we hear some boom... we feel something piercing our ears...shrill, loud something... the heat melting the body, something rushing inside with unimaginable, inevitable speed... then the sensation of body being ripped apart and that is the last thing we hear other than a phone's ring from our family member.... We open our eyes just to find our bodies lying somewhere, completely mutilated, out of soul...and then we cannot get back into that body because we are through.... Thanks to our security!
- Syed Amaan Ahmad