Killing In Allahs Name

Killing in Allah’s Name… … Pieces of burnt flesh, splattered, in a school, a market-place, a temple, a synagogue, a mosque, a church, a man, a woman, a child, charred hands, smouldering corpses, fractured bodies, torn limbs, dismembered human beings, just human beings, dead, murdered, in Allah’s name… …A 4 year old boy, 11 year old girl, 78 year old man, 40 year old mother of six, killed, murdered, in Allah’s name… …Gandhi said ‘an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind’… … Complicit by my silence, I stand in shame, of the bigotry, racism, sectarianism,communalism, religious fanaticism, wars of aggression, invasions of distant countries, jingoism, flag-waving ‘my country right or wrong’, extremism, blind nationalism, perpetrated in my name… …I refuse to be silent, to be complicit, while the slaughter continues, each day, in the name of god, of country, of creed, of sexual-orientation, of caste, I refuse to be cowed, to be complicit by my silence, as the killing, murdering, slaughtering continues… …You who kill innocents, you who shroud your slaughter in scripture, you who drape your aggression in flags, you who cloak your hate in anthems, you who veil your intolerance in finely-tuned semantics, you who bomb school-buses, playgrounds, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, libraries, shopping-malls, market-places, have lost. …You may sow terror, you may pound cities from afar, you may wreak havoc, yet you have lost, as, you cannot kill us all! We shall always be many, many more! _________ “…all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing…” – Edmund Burke