In my humble opinion, it is far wiser to let someone say it best than to try to make my own words on the topic. This man gets it right regularly and without vulgarity or callous assumptions.
Thank you again John for saying what I cannot eloquently find a way to say. Peace for one, peace for all.
I despise bullies. I always have.
As a young boy, when I scanned the hallways at school my eyes instinctively sought out the underdog and the marginalized. I pushed back against those who brokered in intimidation.
Into adulthood I’ve retained the same burden for those who are being victimized by individuals and groups and structures and systems, and I’ve tried to speak boldly into those places of injustice.
That’s why I hate terrorism.
Terrorists are simply bullies with more experience, bigger weapons, and a greater capacity to damage.
Wherever and whenever they surface, the terrorists’ M.O. is always the same: inject fear into the hearts of their victims with a swift and brutal violence designed to disrupt their routines, alter their behavior, and wound their psyches. The terrorist purposefully creates chaos and then exploits the confusion in its unsuspecting targets caught in the middle.
Yes, what we’ve witnessed in the streets of Paris certainly qualifies as terrorism, and we as a global community…
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MY LIFE IN MY WORDS( By Dr.B.R.Ambedkar)
1. BIOGRAPHY, BY THE GREATEST SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY.
Foreigners of course know of the existence of untouchability. But not being next door to it, so to say they are unable to realize how oppressive it is in its actuality. It is difficult for them to understand how it is possible for a few untouchables to live on the edge of a village consisting of a large number of Hindus, go through the village daily to free it from the most disagreeable of its errands of all the sundry, collect food at the doors of the Hindus, by spices and oil at the shops of the Hindu Banias from a distance, regard the village in every way as their home, and yet never touch nor be touched by any one belonging to the village. The problem is how best to give an idea of the way the untouchables are treated by the caste Hindus. A general description or a record of cases of the treatment accorded to them is the two methods by which this purpose could be achieved. I have felt that the later would be more effective than the former. In choosing these illustrations I have drawn partly upon my experience and partly upon the experience of others. I begin with events that have happened to me in my own life.
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37. The sun shines only in the day and the moon makes bright the night. The warrior shines when he is in his armor. And the Brahmin when he is meditating. But the Buddha shines over all by day as well as by night by his own glory.
38. There isn’t anything new in the Gospel of Mohammed who is the least original of the Prophet. His Koran is a compromise between Judaism and Christianity. Few gospel from Koran is as below:
Quran says that all those who disbelieve in Islam go to hell (Q. 5:10 ),
They are najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9:28 ),
And orders us to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2:193 ).
It prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer is the father or the brother of that Muslim (Q. 9:23 ),(Q.3:28 ).
It says that the “non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water” (Q. 14:17 ).
It asks the Muslims to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have great punishment in the world hereafter” (Q. 5:34 ).
And tells us that “for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods” (Q. 22:19-22 )
and that they not only will have “disgrace in this life, on the Day of Judgment He shall make them taste the Penalty of burning (Fire)” ( 22:9 )
Muslims alone are responsible for the disgraceful and un-Islamic state of personal law in respect of marriage, divorce etc.
As the Koran says:
“Verily God does not change the state of a people until they change the state of their own lives.” (13:11)
“…The only religion in the sight of God is Islam…” (Quran 3:19)
In another verse of the Holy Quran, God states:
“If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter, he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (their selves in the Hellfire).” (Quran 3:85)
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