What´s the TRUTH behind the 9/11? What´s the real purpose of this “war against terrorism”? And how am I supposed to react when mr. Bush says he is in the White House “because God wanted” or even worse, when after a 5 year war that he started with a fake purpose (weapons of mass destruction…«Why did God put our oil in the middle east?» asks John Stewart, the comedian on the Daily Show) he comes out saying he would do it again? Knowing all the lives that were lost and all the money the US spent, the bad image “the west” now has in the world and worse, after spreading instability in a delicate part of the globe, he not only says he doesn’t regret the war he started but also that he would do it again. What excuse now “enlighted” Mr. President?
And what to say of the “suggestive” (picturesque!) expressions “New World Order”, “Axis of Evil”, “Crusade against terrorism" (just picking some)? Are we being manipulated to believe that the Muslims are responsible for the supposed, “marketed” idea that the world is an “unsafe place” and that the US is the only country capable of defending us? Why must Islam play the “Evil”? What makes west think he is the “Good”? Is Islam really a threat and if yes, what’s the real scale of the threat? What if the main source of the problem is the excess of attention we’ve been “forced”, naively induced, to give to the isolated attacks perpetrated by a small group of fanatics? How fair, how clear, how impartial is our judgement? Should we judge at all? How realistic is our Fear? And who should we fear, East or West?
“The West?!” you may ask me. Assuming the 911 was indeed perpetrated by Islamic fundamentalists, west found appropriate to start a “war on terrorism”. The solution seems to me, though, paradoxical: a complete contradiction in terms. The way to end violence is to use even more violence?! Basic 1st grade physics explains: if you feed the fire he won’t stop. Some Muslims are ignorant. Fanatics are a specific kind of ignorant: they are dangerous ignorant. But this inferior human condition is not restricted to Muslims; it’s a “democratic” illness that can be found all over the world even in the so-called “developed” and “civilized” western countries. Many westerns are ignorant and fanatic too, but not because they are illiterate (like most fanatic Muslims) but because of 2 reasons:
- They are unable or unwilling to think by themselves (despite having all the information available!!) and mostly
- Are morally corrupted.
Ignorant are everywhere. But now, should we kill the ignorant? Or harm them, make them suffer? Does a war seem a reasonable approach to the problem? Should we slaughter them, bomb them in an attempt to “clean” the world and to fully eradicate this poisonous seeds once and for all? Is this the “final solution”? (Sounds familiar?)
“What if they harm us, how should we react?” you may ask again.
Go back some 2000 years in History and you’ll find a very reasonable and wise answer to this question. With this I’m not saying you should be Christian: Jesus was just a common human being like each one of us, the thing is that he distinguished clearly right from wrong (in his words, because his Father guided his actions, telling him what to do); having God whispering on his hear or not the fact is Jesus was an inspirational human being who conquered a bright place in world History. What made Jesus so different, so “avant-garde”, so inspirational, so revealing and seductive, so influent, so special was His huge spiritual development, His morally strong behaviour, His believe that man can be genuinely good, he can overcome his bestiality through the elevation of the spirit. There is no miracle on this; no supra-natural powers are needed yet seems so hard (almost impossible) to achieve among us! Our “crusade” (this word is hateful, I shouldn’t even use it!) should be one of self-development, should be about spreading love and understanding and compassion. We should have learned already how to deal with hate; we had examples, living examples, great spiritual leaders, philosophers, writers, and artists from the most diverse areas and from the most diverse places on earth who taught us how to heal the wounds of
We have come to a level of complexity such we must be very careful with the “leaders” we put on the command of our lives.
Develop a Global Partnership for Development
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