Religion is one of most powerful and influential entity in human civilization.It has immensely contributed in directing human civilization , contributing in social system , inducing moral values . Human civilization is indebted to religion for taking human race to current position.
But as religion has played important role in positive terms ,it has also being responsible for many blood sheds , murders,looting and division among human race.
People in dream of getting heaven or protecting their religious identity quiet often forget the very base of being human. People forget that logic , compassion , love , hope makes us human .People forget that our ancestors have worked really hard to take us where we are and in over zeal of religion people tend to get back to roots and that is jungle from where we all started at first place.
West bengal’s deganga is seeing riots . Trinamool Congress MP Haji Nurul Islam is alleged to be leading disillusioned mob and the mob is doing what mob can do the best. That is killing of innocent ,looting shops and destroying worship place. Since mob is of fanatic muslims , the people at receiving hands are hindus.
Ironically Hindus being in majority , Indian media didnt find it too exciting to cover the news like it did in Gujarat riot case. There is no sabse tej , no name calling and no ngos rushing to save Hindus. Gujarat riots cannot be justified of course. It saw deganga reversed and slaughter of Muslims . All in name of god..
Another incident which is shocking and worth condemning is chopping of hands of christian professor in kerala by some Islamic fanatic. Professor’s crime was that he is alleged of insulting Muhammad. Now what professor did was hurting religious sentiment and what is civilized way of bringing professor to justice?. Launch a police complain and get the professor arrested. Did these fanatic do that?. Well no. They used ways which are obsolete , violent and worth condemning as human ,irrespective of whether one is hindu or Muslim or christian or Sikh or anything . They simply chopped his hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If chopping hands or slaughter of hindus in deganga or gujarat riots is shocking , well a church in Florida has decided to burn qurans on 9/11/2001. Now how does burning quran help?. Only this church can answer but Islamic center near ground zero is said to have created anti Islam drive in usa and many are actually supporting the burning.
Fanatics of every religion view world in very narrow prism. World for them is we v/s they. Those who believe in their book or prophet or god come in category of “We” ,while those who dont they fall in category of “They”. “WE” too has lot of divisions but “They” is what these fanatics either want to convert or eliminate. In the process of dividing world into we v/s they , what these fanatics forget is religion is for humans and not animals and killing anyone or destroying their cherished places in not being human. What ever god they worship cannot be happy seeing people getting killed and there cannot be any heaven for murders.
Religion is lethal if misunderstood and can bring animal out of humans. Riots , killings,murders,demolishing worship places. That is not religion .
As world is becoming more and more smaller place , the interaction between people with different regional identity , different faith and different nationality would increase. Human race is neither hindu or muslim or christian or sikh or parsi. It is human race. Deep within we all are same , beneath the layers of hindus or muslims or christians is a human being who loves ,hopes,desires ,dreams. This human is universal and this human needs to evolve and brought into daily life.
Whether I call almighty as allah or god or shiv or jesus is my personal matter and it should be the case. When any human being walks out of his house,he is just representative of human race.
