Today is another day of apoplectic speech by cretins abandoned by the lexicon of reason.
This is a shameful day for the so-called religion of the bombers, for their morality, and for their claim to a common humanity. Today some men – women even – will sit down to a meal with their families, having denied other innocents of their kin. They will cradle their own children, having murdered the children of others. They will even kneel down to prayers, having damnified their souls many times over. As proximate countrymen queue up in Abuja’s hospitals to donate blood, those of us far away stand near in spirit, guarding our common humanity against the mongrel dogs of war that salver in our midst.
Condolences, one and all.
You can’t help but wonder at the psychology of a suicide bomber, at his motivations, at the innocent lives which must be extinguished for his expression to be made.
Indeed Ovo,
interesting how comfortably the late Al Quaeda chief lived in the lap of wives and children, while daily disdaining the paradise to which he dispatched his armies.
It just amazing what some humans can do to their fellow humans. God save our souls
That He will, Nancy, but just now the Devil appears to be making hay with a lot of our bodies. (sigh)
Of which he was later dispatched to. Reminds one of a certain Asif…
You have a looong memory, Ovo
I can only sit very quietly on my stool and look the other way.. because after answering the question…what did I do or am doing to prevent such unspeakable and terrifying ordeals faced by humanity …”Screams from Abuja” I am afraid like Cordelia in Shakespeare’s King Lear..I can only speak by saying ‘Nothing’.
The point is well made from the above..So many of us break bread in our comfort zone saying ‘nothing’ about the consequences to humankind of the loss of the spiritual self as well as the individual self. As the song suggested ‘wake up everybody no more sleeping in bed’.. peace and love my bro
Carlton, it is interesting you talk of ‘breaking bread in our comfort zone’… reminds me of Requiem for Rage which I presented at a special BBC programme on Democracy a couple of years ago with these lines, among others:
As you said, it is time for everyone everywhere to wake up. There are no more Islands of Ease.