I was meant to write about the wild-sweeping topic of
publicly confessing infidelity which of recent has seen individuals invite the
whole world into their 'bedrooms', but that will be for another Drinking Pot
sitting.
In the wake of the Sept 21/13 siege of the upscale Westgate
Mall in Nairobi,Kenya, i was moved to also comment on the tragedy and pillars
that seem to have given it, its current bearing! Unfortunately the perpetuators
of the siege are said to have direct links to the Islamist terror group Al
Shabaab and the wider network of the Al Qaeda militants.
The constants between these two groups is the 'brutal' ride
on the Islamic faith as a peddle slab to spread what they view as religiously
and politically correct new world-order norms!
The continued use of terror behind the shield of Islam has
cast a dark cloud over the Islamic faith with most people questioning whether
it's an out-right faith of extremism that teaches the use of terror to draw
attention and force religious conversion!
However use of extremism has not been limited to the Islamic
faith or a first in the religious setting, believe it or not all religions were
built on pillars of faith extremism and terror, and such undertakings are still
existent in all our different religious sects.
When the 'protestant' sect broke away from the main-stream Church-file, they were labeled (or called them selves) protestors against what they viewed as religiously incorrect practices in the main-stream church. What ensued were verbal and out-right brutal religious wars
against each other. A catholic priest in Kanungu District bundled over 1000
followers and burnt them alive on pretext of fast tracking their journey to
heaven!
Before the 1787 French Revolution the Church (clergy) had
become eternally intertwined with the French Royal family and it was always
upon the 'wise counsel' of the men of God that the monarchy stamped one of the
most brutal reigns in European history! They divided the French populace into
classes and owned rights to a privileged life or a life of peasantry!
Up to now the Catholic Church does not allow it's leaders to
either marry, get married or have kids, yet they counsel the laity on marriage
problems and how to make it work! It never gets any extreme or hypocritical than
this!
Today church leaders are sub-consciously preaching hatred towards other
'rival' faith sects labeling them as evil and 'un-Godly' without bothering
about the end-points of their sermons.
We have had countless cases of
traditional spiritual leaders sacrificing human lives in effort to enable their
clients to have good luck, wealth or dispel curses.
We still have age-old
cultural practices that view albinos, disabled kids and baby girls as curses
and shouldn’t be given a chance at life.
This was way before the Arab merchants
taught Arabic and Islam, way before the white missionaries preached Christianity
to traditional kings and their subjects.
Therefore to single out one faith as root perpetuators of extremism
is very unfortunate, we might differ in methods that we use to push our causes
to the fore, but that doesn’t make us any lesser of terrorists!
@Gyezimania
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