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The Basis of Isil

A criminal is sane by their own logic, 
You can look into their mind to count them wrong, 
They can be confronted for their psychologies, 
And told that their song is long. 

ISIL is based on the fundamentalist Koran, 
Which states that all non-muslims are going to hell, 
That all governments should be Islamic, 
And of Allah and Mohammed all should tell. 

You can challenge these beliefs at school, 
Where teens are pressured to choose, 
Islamic extremism, prayer and washing, 
Such that in the Koran themselves they do loose. 

Teachers should be prepared to read to them, 
The liberal Koran before they’ve settled on a way, 
Or the creed and principles of the humanist, 
To offer them and chance at a wiser say. 

Educational psychologists and RE teachers, 
Should redirect and ask teens to reconsider, 
What they’ve seen of Facebook, YouTube, 
And to delete their videos of extremist propaganda. 

There is a permanent way out, 
A long-term answer to this problem of terrorism, 
Which is to validate liberal religion, if any, at school,  
If the secular is rejected for exclusivism.  

Indeed, all schools should base themselves on humanism, 
On human values and people ethics for chat, 
In assembly where prayer should never place, 
Only introspection on life’s structures and bat. 

All people are of equal inherent worth, 
And since this is not a religious statement, 
The ethos of all schools should be humanist,  
Not of Christian, Islamic, Muslim sentiment.  

Your moral fibre is formed at school, 
And not just with your parents at home, 
So we should not be enabling or allowing, 
Kids in any religion to freely roam. 

You sow the seeds of kindness, 
In the nutritious soil of beliefs, 
So survey each teen for militia, 
Towards alternative sheafs. 

One world, one people, one universal body, 
We’re all the same at base so hear, 
That any belief should endorse pluralism, 
So that those different to us can be dear. 

Religion only causes hurt very ultimately, 
So we should analyse it and have a process, 
Because god is not sacred but has, like us, evolved,
So promote liberalism and advocate humanism’s dress.

Copyright © Dominique Webb | Year Posted 2016

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