As the whole world reels and grieves in the face of yet another horrific, cowardly and brutal radical Muslim jihadist attack on innocents, civilization, free speech and decency by a “small” part of Muslims, I am left to wonder: where is the voice and where is the outrage of the clerics, leaders, scholars and supporters of the supposedly nonviolent Quran who are in the vast majority of this religion? Why don’t I see or hear them on the news, in the papers and the media decrying this distortion of their “faith” and denouncing the obviously twisted and sick perpetrators of this disgusting and violent madness?
There are also those of us who rely on reality, feelings, the heart, compassion and an inner moral compass to guide us in life rather than gods, invisible “deities,” prophets, messiahs, gurus, popes, Bibles, Qurans and “holy” books. I have never read an account of agnostic or atheist or humanist slaughter and mass murder in the name of our beliefs.
Can we start to address the underlying root causes and insanity of “religious” wars, crusades and mental illness?
Robert Van den Akker
Monroe
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