senseless acts

(photo taken from news.bbc.co.uk)

I am sad, sorry and boggled to hear the eight terror suspects are medical doctors and wife, a lab tech, in the recent attempted failed car bombings in Central London and Glasgow airport.

They are all in their 20s. Did these young people fall prey in the hands of the jihad group/s? Once in the organization, these young could not get out even when they found the group was not what it professed to be. Either they be killed by the group or be the terror act which represented allegiance.

I cannot imagine intelligent young people would carry out such terror in their right minds unless they’re brain-washed or forced to and without choice.

If these young people wanted to redeem their societies, surely they could use their professions or, vocation as medical doctors. They would have greater impact upon the society.

By committing such terror acts, they not only killed themselves but grieved their loved ones and carried along with them the innocent civilians which are ignoble acts!

Why the senseless acts? Surely these are not sacrifices to their gods.

I asked myself constantly what causes fights and quarrels. I kept returning to these words in the bible, James 4:1-3:

"Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

You want something but don't get it.

You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want.

You quarrel and fight.

You do not have, because you do not ask God.

When you ask, you do not receive,

because you asked with wrong motives,

that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

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If religion is pure, righteous and good, surely these suicide bombers killing indiscriminately are not what their Allah wants, and not what one believes!

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Whoever these leaders are, they are just evil!

strapped to an explosive vest

I felt sick to my bone when I heard the news yesterday.

Mr Alan Johnston, the only BBC international correspondent who lived in the Gaza Strip was kidnapped by a group called 'the army of Islam' on 12th March 2007. Yesterday a video clip on Mr Johnston strapped to an explosive vest was released to prevent forced entry to save him.

The group wanted the UK government to release Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-born Islamic cleric suspected of having close links with al-Qaeda in exchange.

According to sources Mr Johnston's reporting gave insightful and accurate reportings on the situation. Now that he has been kidnapped, are there good reportings coming out from the area?

What was in the mind of the leader of 'the army of Islam'? What does he or his group expect to resolve or achieve?

By calling themselves 'the army of Islam' -- have they not made a mockery or tainted the name of their Allah? Why come under the banner of religion? Is this the only way to recruit suicide bombers to do their dirty work by calling on the name of their god? Is this the way to gain sympathy from the masses?

Are the leaders so powerless that they resort to using kidnapped hostage to become human bomb?