Am not flaming any religious issue here, but when there is a need for a person to speak up, she has to speak up.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A church in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur was firebombed early on Friday, gutting the first storey of the building in a residential area, amid a row over the use of the word "Allah" for the Christian God.
What is the meaning of this so called freedom of religion when a person cant even worship God in His name? What is the meaning of human rights if a temple of worship can be burnt down because of selfish cause? What is the meaning of a peaceful religion when its believers acts like a bulldozer who not only commit the crime of trespassing but also terrorism.
Frankly, if the evil carnage which we witnessed in so many occasions were the profession of FAITH, i have no words to describe the religion except cult-ish. Am i the only person who is confused over the identity of the religion here or what? The name of the religion itself suggested 'peacefulness', but paradoxically the act of its extreme believers suggested nothing but evil and violence.
I do understand that the people we should condemn here are the fanatics and the extremist. Honestly its unfair to point the fingers to the religion or its devotees for the irresponsible act of the minorities. However, everytime i heard such news being wired on the tele, i cant help but to question: Is it something went wrong with the system itself? The extremists seem to believe that their evil acts were justified by their belief, and they can conveniently bombing churches, mass slaughtering for the sake of a futile reason- to emphasize the differences between religions. Honestly, its scary that there seems to be no stopping of the occurrence of such incidents.
I still remember the skin deep horror i felt the first time i saw the youtube video of the extremist decapitating the Korean fugitive. The gruesome image was imprinted in my mind but it was the shouting of "Allahu Akbar" before the act of decapitation haunted me for a long long time. It startled me that there are people who actually believes that by killing others they are showing that their God is the greatest of all.
Frankly, if the evil carnage which we witnessed in so many occasions were the profession of FAITH, i have no words to describe the religion except cult-ish. Am i the only person who is confused over the identity of the religion here or what? The name of the religion itself suggested 'peacefulness', but paradoxically the act of its extreme believers suggested nothing but evil and violence.
I do understand that the people we should condemn here are the fanatics and the extremist. Honestly its unfair to point the fingers to the religion or its devotees for the irresponsible act of the minorities. However, everytime i heard such news being wired on the tele, i cant help but to question: Is it something went wrong with the system itself? The extremists seem to believe that their evil acts were justified by their belief, and they can conveniently bombing churches, mass slaughtering for the sake of a futile reason- to emphasize the differences between religions. Honestly, its scary that there seems to be no stopping of the occurrence of such incidents.
I still remember the skin deep horror i felt the first time i saw the youtube video of the extremist decapitating the Korean fugitive. The gruesome image was imprinted in my mind but it was the shouting of "Allahu Akbar" before the act of decapitation haunted me for a long long time. It startled me that there are people who actually believes that by killing others they are showing that their God is the greatest of all.
Religion supposed to save life, not taking away life. However, religion is one of the major contributing factor of human mortality in the history of mankind. Holy wars and terrorist attacks killed billions of life and caused enormous suffering to the people.
And now, its taking place in Malaysia as well. Yesterday was the bombing of the church, i wonder whats awaiting for us tomorrow?
8 comments:
oh really??What a shocking news!! Malaysia is the last place i thougth this could happen. sad sad sad...
yeah it is a very scary yet awakening event for us to finally truly appreciate the under current of brewing extremism in our country
be careful what u write. our (in)capable IFP Mr Musang is trying to clamp down on blogs that comment on these. haha
erm,i meant IGP
Sad to hear this kind of news, and it's all because of that one word.. -.-
and now I didn't see any action taken by the PM at all!
Cult?
It's people like you who are not helping things at all.
Cult?
It's people like you who are not helping things at all.
Vincent,
What do you mean by people like her? There is nothing offensive in and of the word 'Cult'.
The context of it used does not even speak in any form of insult. It was an observation and also a general wonder of why must certain people who profess to come from a faith that is peaceful resort to disgusting acts.
Yes, I first and foremost agree that Islam is a loving and peaceful religion BUT I also know that every religion, not Islam alone, has their fanatics.
Do you take offense because you feel the act of bombing a house of worship is justified ?
It's sad. May God forgive those who act so ruthless against what they themselves know is wrong against what they thought to be only their own God and theirs only.
But then again, we're not so easily fooled are we?
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