Terrorism has a religion. The terrorists identified the religion of victims in Kashmir before shooting them to death yesterday. The terrorists in Manipur, India targeted the people of a particular religion to kill them and burn down their houses and places of their worship. The terrorists in the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh did the same recently and attacked people while they were worshipping according to their religion. The terrorists in Israel and Gaza are fighting in the name of their religion. The terrorists in Europe and UK have a religion.
In this modern age, religion is becoming a curse to humanity in many parts of the world. Gods are silent, blind and deaf when their followers are killing the followers of other religions. Humanity appears to be tracking backward in civilisation. People do not have spiritual values; they only uphold religious fundamentalism, rubrics and rituals which are external to the core of a religious belief. The political leaders bank on religions to come to power, protect fanatics in their religion, and do nothing to stamp out religious extremism. They protect the followers of their religion to protect their own interests. As long as religion and politics are in the same bed, they can only breed extremism.
Heartfelt condolences to the innocent victims of the terror attack in Kashmir valley yesterday.
Johnson Punneliparambil