Bali bombing II

Again with the murder of innocents!

Thirty-two people dead and over a hundred wounded following three bomb blasts in Bali; and just days before the third anniversary of the last one that killed a hundred or so people

I'd like to know how such actions further the cause of Islam. Is it riding Indonesia of infidel westerners? No. Is it destroying the livelihoods of the locals? Absolutely. What greater good is there?

I know these fundamentalist groups blame western civilisation for their woes, for their poverty, for the undermining of the islamic faith, but they are wrong. It isn't the west who is to blame for this attitude, but the individual agendas of the clerics who manipulate the Koran and provoke emotionally unstable teenagers to blow themselves up. Martyrs for the cause? What a load of unmitigated bullshit! It causes grief, it causes anger and, worst of all, it feeds the egos of the so-called clerics with their display of wretched and twisted power.

The Koran doesn't say 'go out and slaughter innocence and your reward shall be great'. It doesn't say 'it is your duty to rid the world of unbelievers'. It doesn't say that 'every infidel is worthless and you shouldn't worry about the blood on your hands'. And it certainly doesn't authorise indiscriminate jihads. A jihad can only be called by a council of clerics, and only if the holy land is in peril.

Those days are long past when the Moors battled the Crusaders. At least then, both sides had a code of honour they stuck by. At least then, neither the Bible, nor the Koran, nor, indeed the Torah, were corrupted by power-seeking religious fanatics.

The strong are supposed to protect the weak, not the weak-minded minority kill and maim the stronger majority. But then, if a vote doesn't go your way, slaughter as many of the 'wrong-headed' community as you can and maybe they'll come around to your way of thinking. And what's wrong with this picture?

It's the civilians who suffer. These fanatics' only approval comes from the sick leaders they support.

It's time for a re-evaluation of the way young moslems are educated. It's time for some proactive bravery from moslem leaders. It's time for suicide bombers to face up to their own problems and not blame anyone but themselves for the ills of the world. Different religious beliefs should not be an excuse to kill people in job lots, and yet, more people have been killed because that same difference than any other cause of wars you care to name put together.

And maybe that's the way it's always going to be. We live in a much more dangerous world where nothing is sacred anymore, where human life has no value, where petulant bullies kill indiscriminately because they can.

Doesn't bode well for the human race, does it.