Once again the sun rises to news of a terrorist attack in France. As I am writing this, at least 120 people are estimated dead, a hostage situation and as expected there is the usual hounding of Muslims/Islam.
A comment in the one of the dailies Facebook page said, 'The Muslims we accommodate, return our hospitality with bullets, we give them food and they put bullets in our heads.'
What these people don’t realise is that the people doing this are not Muslims. Yes they may profess the faith but what they do is not Islamic.
Islam does not condone killing innocent lives or forcing religions onto an individual. These sociopaths use the wrongs done in their home countries and/or in other Islamic countries to fuel their blood lust.
But what most, if not all fail to see is that this has very little to do with the refugees coming in from the Middle East. These are the same people those refugees are running away from. It is the terror that we see today that is an everyday part of life in Iraq and Syria.
It pains me that an innocent man lost two of his children crossing the high seas, his wife having been blown up a month ago in Raqqa, then on getting to France where he sees a dash of hope and a glimpse of a brighter future, a terror attack dims all that for him and his only surviving child, the last of his generation.
These people have ravaged their countries and now preyed upon hospitality from the Europeans thus ruining everything for everyone in dire need of a helping hand.
As the world unites with France to mourn one of the worst acts of terror it has come to face since world WW II, I pray that the assistance that Europe has been providing the refugees in need does not stop or change because they have nowhere else to turn to.
No sane person would take his children into the water, not unless it was the only place that is safer than land. Let our hearts not harden just because of some mindless terrorists who want to eliminate a whole community, a tribe, an entire way of life, all in the name of avenging wrongs that they know little about. Let us also not forget the victims of domestic terror in Burundi, where people get mowed down all in the name of trying to legitimise an election that never was.
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