Somebody's trying very hard to sow discord among Muslims and Christians in Malaysia. Making a big fuss because Christians too want to address their God as Allah, burning churches (although careful not to burn down the whole church) and when the Christians did not respond with violence, resorting to throwing pig heads into a mosque (wrapped up and tied with a rope, I read?).Something good has come out of all these incidences, believe it or not. Ordinary, peace-loving Malaysians, both Christians and Muslims alike, have refused to be baited into violence. Ordinary citizens like me and my Muslim colleagues are still working together amicably and reading the news without getting in the least bit agitated. Anybody can see that a rabble rouser is trying so very vainlessly hard to stir up disharmony. This is a perfect example of love and tolerance overcoming evil. If we have stopped tolerating there might have been another May 13 incident.
I do not understand senseless killings. I do not understand wars. When I see humans slaughtering each other I ask myself - why don't you just go till the land or fish if you have so much energy? Please do that, really, be productive, not destructive. If every country spends 90% of all they have on agriculture, everyone will have enough to eat. I hope that the future will not be a hollywood scenario of 2012 or planet of the apes or some other depressing end to the human species. I hope that in the future everyone will treat the earth with great care so that it will give us bountiful returns. I hope that no one will be without familiy and friends but everyone will be without enemies. Let us work towards that vision. There's nothing to lose and the whole world to gain.
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