This afternoon I attempted to understand the ideology behind al-Qaeda’s radical Islam mumbo jumbo, and I found myself scrawling through pages of Wikipedia, reading on the differences between Shiite and Sunnis, Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran love triangle, the US gift of land to Israel that keeps on giving, etc. It is all tangled, headachy and ridiculous.
This reading only scraped the surface of the whole clutter. Looking for the right and wrong side here is impossible. The roots of these centuries-old conflicts are impossible to find. One thing is for sure, nobody is willing to turn the other cheek. The whole conflict is based on vengence for vengence for vengence.
Possibly it started when some caveman killed another caveman’s pet lizard. The first caveman proceeded to stone the lizard’s murderer. The grieving family of the killed caveman laid a cast of cement on the legs of the murderer and dropped him in the prehistoric ocean to the amusement of the prehistoric sharks. Of course, the newly-drowned caveman’s family had to retaliate by sending their Uncle Vini to the enemy’s family-owned Italian restaurant with a shot gun. And so on, and so forth…
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