Thursday, September 10, 2009

Evil

Evil exists in the world, not as an independent entity but in the actions of some human beings.
For example, a woman in England stabs to death her two daughters, aged 17 and 13, because her husband left her for another woman. In Israel, a man murders his 3 year old child because he suspects his wife of having an affair with another man. In Netanya last night two yeshiva students murdered one of their classmates in a dispute over living space. In England, three youths were arrested for planning to blow up their school and kill their fellow students and teachers as a repetition of Columbine, USA. In Austria and Italy, fathers kept their own daughters imprisoned for years and raped them repeatedly. In the USA a man kidnapped a girl and kept her and her children by him imprisoned in a yard for years. How is one to understand this lack of human feeling and empathy?
One of the most heinous plans of mass murder ever was uncovered in time in England when a group of young Asians of British origin were arrested last year and were recently found guilty in court of planning to blow up seven airplanes in flight using liquid explosives. This was another "clever" plan of al Qaeda, in which liquid explosive was to be carried in innocuous looking bottles onto the plane, and would then be attached to a detonator in flight and exploded and thereby kill thousands of innocent people. This is why noone is now allowed to carry bottles of liquid thru the security into airports throughout the world.
And what was the reason for this intended massacre? As one of the guilty perpetrators said on his suicide video filmed in advance of the action, it was to show the world that Muslims will not allow themselves to be attacked by infidels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. The fact is that these Muslims had been born, grew up in and were quite comfortable in British society, and yet regarded their fellow-Brits as expendable infidels. They also hoped to kill many Americans since the airplanes were on trans-Atlantic flights from Heath Row. They specifically wanted to kill more than on 9/11, what is this some kind of macabre competition?
The fact is that this plot was invented and planned in Pakistan by al Qaeda leaders and these British Muslims were prepared to commit suicide in order to strike a blow for Islam against the hated West, from which they came. How is this possible? I grew up in London and experienced great anti-Semitism in my life, it affected me and alienated me (for more information on this see my upcoming book), but I and my fellow Jews would never have conceived of taking out vengeance on our fellow Brits in any way whatsoever. How can this "religion" of Islam and this limited degree of personal suffering be a justification for such mass murder. It is evil. May the guilty rot in prison.

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