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Jan 10, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
What is inside the mind of a man, 31 years of age that he can get annoyed with a person double his age over a disagreement on religion and walk into the sixty-year-old gentleman’s office and shoot him with a machine gun? Such a person cannot be human.
So couldn’t he slap the elderly man (the method of some members of the ruling Guyanese cabal)? He could have destroyed the printing equipment. He could have called him out for a fight knowing that he was physically superior. He had to shoot him at his desk?
For Muslim terrorists to run into a media house and shoot 12 unarmed media workers and in doing so recite the name of Prophet Mohamed, meaning they acknowledged that they were doing so in the name of God can only mean one thing, and that is the one thing civilization must always be aware of and act accordingly – the line that separates humans from vicious lower animals is extremely thin and getting thinner.
Civilization is thousands of years old. Buddha, an enlightened human, lived more than three thousand years ago. Yet three thousand years after Buddha, a man in Norway, takes a gun, goes to a youth camp and shoots to death some 69 teenagers after he had murdered eight persons before. But that is not all. The rest of this story in Norway tells a tragic tale of the loss of the meaning of life somewhere along the line as civilization grew older over those thousands of years.
This man was sentenced to 21 years after a plea of guilty for killing 77 people. That number actually came out of the mouth of a judge. In prison he has applied to university and got accepted. Recently this man wrote a letter to some of the most respected media houses in the world, and to some of the most important international institutions in Europe complaining about mistreatment in prison.
A mass murderer who killed seventy-seven people actually knows the difference between wrong and right and has complained to the world about mistreatment. He can recognize mistreatment but not murder. There is more about this man and his country that makes you want to think that 21st century civilization may be in trouble.
In that letter he expresses no remorse for killing seventy-seven people. And the prison officials actually sent off his letter. Soon after the mass murder, Norway had a general election, and the party the 69 teenagers came from lost. The mass murderer’s action was against that particular party that was in government at the time of the shooting. Some of the survivors were candidates in the poll yet no sympathy was shown to them, they lost.
Amazingly, Norway is listed as one of the world’s best countries to live in. Why would one want to live in a country where survivors of a mass shooting could be rejected at the polls and the mass murderer is allowed to do university studies? The vice-chancellor of the university defended the murderer’s right to seek education. In my opinion, civilization has left Norway. I don’t want to even hear about that country.
Muslim terrorists murdered 12 innocent media personnel in France and have done so in the name of religion. Where is civilization in the 21st century going? One of the great values in studying philosophy is that it gives you enormous insights into understanding the fault lines of the Human Condition. The work of Arthur Koestler on this subject is very instructive.
When you read Koestler then you know the Holocaust can happen again. The Holocaust happened four times since Nazi Germany was defeated – Cambodia, 1978; West Pakistan, 1972; and in Bosnia and Rwanda. Who would have thought that after the genocides of slavery, the Holocaust and the Armenians in the World War One that we would have had four occasions of genocide?
The rise of terrorism in ISIS and Muslim fanatics like the men who murdered twelve media workers at a French magazine are dangerous signals that the fault lines of the Human Condition are showing their faces and threatening the very existence of civilization.
How does one account for the rise of ISIS and these Muslim fanatics? It is not that these people are advancing a cause. It is that they are glorifying barbarism. These people see the worst form of cruelty as a religious duty. The most worrying aspect of the rise of this global insanity is its infected wings. The ISIS morbidity is spreading.
Trinidad has produced some of them. Can Guyana follow suit? Time for Guyana to be on its guard.
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