A case of too many terrors
March 29 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
Abiodun Giwa
The Easter Sunday's attack in Pakistan, by the Taliban, that killed about 70 people and wounded over 200 people mostly Muslims, in an attack targeted against Christians, left many people around the world wondering about what may have become the world.
Just as people wonder about the state of the world and the lack of safety, another news came about the release of a man the Belgium Police had arrested, but whom the police later discovered was not the guy they had sought to nab. This was followed by another news about a hijacker with fake suicide belt in Cyprus.
We discuss Belgium attacks, we discuss Pakistan attacks and the prior attacks in Paris and other places that have been attacked by terrorists are not left out. In these discussions, you discover that these attacks are targeted at humans, and that these demented fellows who target innocent souls to kill don't target empty spaces, but spaces filled with people. Someone said that they are blood suckers, who would not detonate suicide belts and take their own lives for nothing.
Another person said they are worse than blood suckers, but that they are ignorant fellows on errands from people who considers themselves as leaders without decent followers. We wonder how people will embark on killing fellow humans as if the people they are killing are rats and that in decent human societies no one kill rats anyhow these days, if the rats are not to be cooked for food.
They (the terrorists) are believed to have their dragnets everywhere. Therefore people are saying no one knows where next they would strike and kill innocent people. They have struck in the United States on more than one occasion. They have struck in France. They have in the United Kingdom. They strike in some parts of Africa, where they seek to take over power and plant their Caliphate. They belong to different organizations: Al-Queda, the ISIS and the Taliban and all these organizations have other smaller organizations under their umbrellas. They attack and kill innocent people and they are pursued and are killed, but the killings on either side has become unending episode, sending fears into people that in this situation anyone can become a victim. Gone are the days, when the news is about the army of two different armies confronting one another in a war. It is all you have in various books in school about wars.
No one who have read about wars and its decimation of human lives would want anything to do with wars. Even those who think there are gains from wars like "In Mother Courage" a play by Bertolt Brecht also lose most of what belong to them to wars. A novel by Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms" best describes the evil of war and the need to avoid it. But just as writers who have interest in humanity write about the need to avoid wars, the more are some leaders find reasons to engage in wars. And some wars that began with just fighting wars have got infused with terror war, making wars more dangerous than ever.
The war in Iraq and Syria have been infused with terror. Libya has been turned into a no man's land. Wars as terror on their own have now got additional terror, turning into a case of two terrors. Some of us had thought that by allowing refugees from war affected areas to come and live with people in areas not affected by war that humanity will be helped. But the result has turned out to be that the current wars that refugees are running away from are different from conventional wars, where refugees are innocent and seeking a place to begin life again.
But in the case of wars that are already terrors and mixed with additional terror, bringing in refugees is like telling terror leaders to also import some of their errand boys in a case of many terrors. The police paid for managing local terrors also have additional problem added to their already heavy problem.
Just as people wonder about the state of the world and the lack of safety, another news came about the release of a man the Belgium Police had arrested, but whom the police later discovered was not the guy they had sought to nab. This was followed by another news about a hijacker with fake suicide belt in Cyprus.
We discuss Belgium attacks, we discuss Pakistan attacks and the prior attacks in Paris and other places that have been attacked by terrorists are not left out. In these discussions, you discover that these attacks are targeted at humans, and that these demented fellows who target innocent souls to kill don't target empty spaces, but spaces filled with people. Someone said that they are blood suckers, who would not detonate suicide belts and take their own lives for nothing.
Another person said they are worse than blood suckers, but that they are ignorant fellows on errands from people who considers themselves as leaders without decent followers. We wonder how people will embark on killing fellow humans as if the people they are killing are rats and that in decent human societies no one kill rats anyhow these days, if the rats are not to be cooked for food.
They (the terrorists) are believed to have their dragnets everywhere. Therefore people are saying no one knows where next they would strike and kill innocent people. They have struck in the United States on more than one occasion. They have struck in France. They have in the United Kingdom. They strike in some parts of Africa, where they seek to take over power and plant their Caliphate. They belong to different organizations: Al-Queda, the ISIS and the Taliban and all these organizations have other smaller organizations under their umbrellas. They attack and kill innocent people and they are pursued and are killed, but the killings on either side has become unending episode, sending fears into people that in this situation anyone can become a victim. Gone are the days, when the news is about the army of two different armies confronting one another in a war. It is all you have in various books in school about wars.
No one who have read about wars and its decimation of human lives would want anything to do with wars. Even those who think there are gains from wars like "In Mother Courage" a play by Bertolt Brecht also lose most of what belong to them to wars. A novel by Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms" best describes the evil of war and the need to avoid it. But just as writers who have interest in humanity write about the need to avoid wars, the more are some leaders find reasons to engage in wars. And some wars that began with just fighting wars have got infused with terror war, making wars more dangerous than ever.
The war in Iraq and Syria have been infused with terror. Libya has been turned into a no man's land. Wars as terror on their own have now got additional terror, turning into a case of two terrors. Some of us had thought that by allowing refugees from war affected areas to come and live with people in areas not affected by war that humanity will be helped. But the result has turned out to be that the current wars that refugees are running away from are different from conventional wars, where refugees are innocent and seeking a place to begin life again.
But in the case of wars that are already terrors and mixed with additional terror, bringing in refugees is like telling terror leaders to also import some of their errand boys in a case of many terrors. The police paid for managing local terrors also have additional problem added to their already heavy problem.
