Last Saturday, Cairo had its first taste of suicide bombings. A young man, misled by the extremist company he was keeping, exploded into bits while being chased by the police. A short while later, his sister and fiancee, killed themselves after firing at buses carrying some tourists.
What is it that drives these youngsters to adopt a fiery way of leaving this world? A promised short-cut ticket to the Heavens? Anger against the West? Imbecility? Total outright idiocy? Brain matter deficiency? Misguided by the masterminds? But plain stupidity should rank the highest - the cunning ringleaders of such human pyrotechnic displays zero in on to gullible teens who then believe every single word they are told. If they had studied their holy books well enough, they would have known that God is not in the habit of issuing express tickets to his abode and nor does he tolerate or allow killing of innocents. And not once, did He assign rights to charlatan radicals for deciding as to who will go up or down. That prerogative belongs rightly to God and not to a mere mortal.
What has these deaths achieve? A few days of mention in the world press? Some mayhem? Quaking-with-fear tourists? Maybe some of these for a few days but soon the suiciders will be forgotten. And life in Cairo will return to normalcy. Look at Indonesia - it had been shaken badly by 3 big bomb blasts - but each time it picked up and carried on resolutely and refusing to give in to the gutless terrorists.
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