More ISIS and Taliban bombings in the news, killing more children. My question for those groups is this: What have the children done to offend your god? I ask, too, Is your concept of Allah that of a supreme being who wants you to cause suffering and death to children who have no power or say over who they are, where they live, or what the adults around them do?
My Muslim friends are as horrified as I am.
Why kill children? I know the Taliban wanted revenge and they believe they’re fighting a holy war. What god might they be following who would approve of going room-to-room in a school to kill children of senior military officials and any other students who got in the way? Certainly not the peace-loving Allah! What did the youngsters, aged 6-18, do “wrong,” except be born into military families? If the bombers and gunmen made their “point,” why continue to endanger others by taking hostages and planting explosives around the perimeter of the school? Yes, those IEDs did prevent outside help from Pakistani police and soldiers from coming to the rescue of the children; but how many more people will stumble on them and be killed? That must be their plan.
What kind of people are these killers of more than a hundred innocents? And how do we revoke their membership in the human race?
Background: Muslims believe in a single God. The Taliban is out to destroy others who don’t believe in what they think is the same single God. Now ISIS, an extra-ruthless faction of the Taliban, is taking their holy war to extremes, assassinating innocent people who get in the way of their steamrolling campaign to establish the One True God.
I find it ironic that they’e adopted the name ISIS. Yes, it’s short for what they’re after–an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But Isis is an Egyptian GODDESS! It doesn’t seem right for them to add a god(ess) into their midst, even via their name.
Here’s another irony: Isis was the goddess of love, marriage, and health. She represented the ideal mother and wife and was a protector of nature. She was the friend of the little guy, the vulnerable and downtrodden. Basically, she was the goddess of rebirth and life.
When it gets down to it, Isis represented everything the terrorist group ISIS is bent on destroying! But I don’t think they’d even understand the irony.
Let’s look at value. There’s much controversy over the prisoner trade to get Bowe Bergdahl back home after spending five years in Taliban captivity. Of course, there would be less brouhaha if elections weren’t coming up. But let’s set aside the politics, the “what-ifs,” and “should-haves” for awhile and ask what I think is an important question: How many Taliban members does it take to equal one American? The answer, obviously, is five, making a single American pretty valuable.
Take that, Taliban!