I was reading today an interview of an under-training jehadi. Both his brothers are dead fighting the holy war, he has a sick, incapacitated father, an ailing mother, and a very young sister. Upon asked who would take care of his family when he is dead, he said Allah takes care of everybody in His own way. He also added that his father will get a special spot in heaven for sacrificing all his sons for the cause. He too, he thinks, will go straight to heaven if he dies for the cause.
How can people have such a grotesquely vulgar image of heaven, and how does it get propagated in such a twisted fashion? When I think of heaven, if at all there is such a place, I think of a place of eternal peace. There is no misery, there is no sickness, there are no dangers lurking in dark corners because there are no dark corners, there are no explosive thoughts of revenge. Nobody harms anybody in heaven, there is no hatred and no lust and no greed. Everybody lives in perfect harmony and people don’t feel insecure. And of course, there are no fanatics in heaven and there are no jehadis. How can people think of going to heaven after disseminating so much pain and destruction in the name of religion and god? How can you orchestrate hell to go to heaven?
Frankly, jehad is never going to cease, no matter to what extent these people go. This is due to an inveterate nature of their ideology, and this ideology is to drag the entire world back to the dark ages of religious fundamentalism. I don’t mean to point fingers at some particular religion because I don’t think religion in general propagates hatred and proselytization.
Sadly, most jehadis originate from Islam these days and this community does very little to curtail their activities. It?s very easy to hate people and very difficult to love.
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