Terrorism, Puzzle and Hope

The world is going through a very unrest time in recent days. Specially last week after the attack in Paris the question marks are coming in bold letters. To tell the truth I personally feel that the world is progressing and the total peace of the world is increasing day by day despite some unwanted happenings. There is nothing to be worry about other than solving some small problems. 

If we analyse the history of human civilization the Arabian peninsula and the Middle east was always in unrest situation. I don't know why is it so, probably due to the geographic influence of harsh conditions. They never could settle down in certain place due to lack of agriculture and they used to move from place to place. In contrast the subcontinent and south east Asian people having good monsoon rain and fertile land never liked travel and the life was easy for them. In ancient times the migratory nature of middle east people forced them to be good fighter. Because they had to posses others land and cattle for survival. This active nature become deep rooted in their blood. If you read the bible or Koran you can see lots of blood taking battles. Doesn't matter who won or who defeated the war still counts. However in the same time up to medieval era battles continued in the other parts of the earth also. But there was a distinctive difference between the war in the middle east and in the other parts of the world. While in other parts of the world war for occupation of others land is more common where as in the middle east the war in the name of GOD and religion is more common. Specially intolerance to the other religions and gods become highest after starting of Islam. The world have seen several crusades in the name of GOD. Due to the monotheistic nature of Islam its very difficult for them to tolerate other religions. But still with time the social structures of any place become tolerant when different religion people started living together. At least in the modern era.

Coming to the present situation. Without any doubt after 9/11 and consecutive days (pairs attack is just a milestone in this) the whole world is experiencing a new word "Islamophobia". People are getting confused how to react on it. They saw a peaceful Muslim neighbor beside them but when ever people are getting killed in front of the gun point in majority case the gun holder is a Muslim. Strange situation. The questions will not die, after each explosion it is coming back with thousand times power. A common disbelieve is eclipsing against the Muslims.

Specially the situation of Indian people become very confusing. How to react with it. Fact is India is not at all the victim of global terrorism. The Pakistan and Kashmir issue is totally a local political issue and not at all related to al quada or ISIS. Recently one more issue shook India. Socio-religious issue of eating beef.  In Hinduism beef is not preferably eaten by common persons (though there is a controversy that in Hindu scriptures it is written that in ancient time Hindus used to eat beef).

 The other day a strange facebook conversation happened with one of my friend. He posted something about against beef eating in India. When i replied by saying it is not an important matter and can be solved by the tolerance by both the religion, he replied " matter is not cow or pork.. the main fact is that if you deserve respect from others,you have to respect them... respect your country... it is time to save our country from IS..every act of terrorism is bad.. don't compare which is worst.. Paris or Iraq or Syria... but the culprit is same ....IS." Strange reply. Where is the relation eating beef and terrorism and IS? 

The conversation continued.  I want to copy the exact conversation here. It was a nice conversation.

Me :  I think IS is not at all a threat for India. It is just media propaganda. The name itself says Islamic state of Syria and Iraq. Why they bother to think about others? In Syria the political situation is very bad now. There are not only one group which is very active. There are at least 4 groups including president Basar al Ashad who are trying to gain their ground. Now like all other time US made the situation worse for everybody. Some other countries joined with that. 

Tell me what will happen if France just do bombardment on hospitals, schools and other civilians (they did the same thing yesterday). Taking innocent life in revenge of innocent life will not solve the problem.

Friend : In war civilians are worst sufferers... I think France did the right job.. in our country Pak based militants killed our brother and sisters. We never gave them proper treatment .. it is not time to show them sympathy.. just destroy them...

Me : Ha ha.. You are mixing all points and making khichdi here. All the points are different and have different solution. 

1. The eating of beef or communal harmony.

2. ISIS

3. India Pakistan relationship.

I think you have to first understand these three are totally different problems. You cannot paint in one brush. So when discuss discuss one by one.

Friend : IS ,al quiada,pak based terrorist goup all are islamic extrimist terror out fit.. they are inter connected.. if you want to stop these terror outfit,you have to destroy them.. it is only solution.. other wise they killed innocent civillians and want to take control your country... for your information IS already spread its wing out side iraq and siriya.. like lebanon,turkey.....

Me:  For your information IS already cut their relation with al quada. As per my best of knowledge Pakistan have no relation with IS. They themselves are the victim of terror from al qaida. So there is no common thread between them. So what will you want to destroy? You want to delete the countries out of world map? 

The thing is war and terrorism follows a very complicated pathway depending on mainly political and social and socio-economical situation. Brushing them with the same paint is not only lack of knowledge but dangerous also.

As I told before all problems should be solved individually.

The conversation ends here. And I think here is the real danger. The strategy of terrorist become successful. We become so terrified that we stop thinking and become panic. We are just becoming angry and helpless. We are running without knowing where to go. We just want to do something but we dont know what to do. Specially we are jumbling with all topics. 

And in the mean time a thick layer of distrust spreading among us. Specially on Muslim community.

War was there from the begging of human civilization, and when in recent years we experienced two world wars I dont think the situation can me more worse than that. I am always hopeful person and hope that these small problems will be solved very quickly. The major problem for us is not terrorism, it is the development, education and food which is needed urgently to the world. 

We need to change the direction from making weapon to making food, dropping bombs to dropping book, firing gun to firing knowledge. Let peace be there.