Root of Terror Justifies Terrorism ?

World must confront root of terror ? Really ?

“The fight against international terrorism will not succeed unless the world confronts the factors that draw people to take up arms” - said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The Prime Minister said difficult decisions were necessary and this would require political courage. “As long as we continue to deny or confuse the issues in order to avert attention from the real ones, insurgency and terrorism will persist. They may even grow.” May 10 2006, The Star.

This is really interesting ! What are we trying to imply ? Now tell me what are the root causes, issues, and factors of terrorisms ? Let's be honest about it and let us not be in self denial mood. Let me put forward to you this point blank observation. As far as I can observed, the real roots causes of terrorism is INTOLERANCES of one religion against another, one race against another, and one culture against another, and one political belief against another.

Yes INTOLERANCES ! We believe in what we want to believe and we refuse to accept what other don't believe. We refuse to accept the cultural heritage of others because they are against our beliefs. We think it is okay to rob the wealth of hard working people because we believe they deny us our wealth. Etc.

Talking about the elusive political courage, do the existing political leaders of the world has the political courage to admit that the people they represent are guilty of intolerances ? Do they have the political courage to carry out the followings :

• Secularism in Government administration.
• Allow the freedom to practice and conversion of religion.
• Openly declare the equal status and fair treatments of all religions.
• Accept equality of races irregardless of whether they are the majority or minority.
• Equal support, preservation, and promotion of all cultures and ways of life.
• Allow the freedom and adoption of all political beliefs and speech by its citizens.
• Eliminate racisms, discriminations, and favoritisms in all government administration matters.

Let us not missed the points. As long as political leaders are blinded with biased preferences, terrorism will continue to be develop into sophisticated crime on fertile bed with indirect moral backing from misguided people. Terrorism is a crime against humanity. A crime is a crime. Let us not be so stupid to indulge ourself with misguided false beliefs to indirectly promote terrorisms. Let us refrained from giving pathetic excuses that eventually end-up encouraging more terrorisms.

If a bank robber or murderer committed crimes. Should we apply pressure to encourage the judge to be more lenient to the criminal because he is poor, uneducated, or whatever reasons ? With biased preferences, should we go around influencing others to make the criminal look like Robin Hoods and romanticized his criminal misadventure ?

A terrorist is a sophisticated criminal. This is a fact. Let us be fair to all humanity by not giving excuse to terrorists to gain moral support. If we continue to seek to influence others into believing non geniune root causes of terrorisms, then we are the most guilty in the promotion of terrorisms.

I guess the most honourable way to project ourself as genuine in combating terrorisms is to practice what we preached and be honest about the root causes.