It's still a thinking world.

8.8.2009.

It's an instantaneous world to-day, thanks to technology. Instant news, instant food-and-drink, even instant death (quite often related to both the previous two). But you don't have to buy anything that instantly. You may not be able to think instantly. You sure can still think. 

The case in point is the negative news on Muslims and all things Islam. The proverbial "spin" on Islam, if you like. I just read the story on the torture & murder of the Muslim boy by another suspected group of Muslims. The facts could be verified, of course, but the background to the incident could be more revealing. This is not an excuse for the terrible crime of murder, because nothing is more sacred to Islam than human life. Life is one of the maqasid of syari'ah. That is why the al Sunnah says the taker of a human life, for whatever reason he commits it, can be punished in this world, but will certainly be punished again in the Hereafter.

For this single case, uncountable similiar cases involving children of all religions happen at probably the same time. But it is this particular case that is newsworthy right now. You cannot profile murder to a particuar group of mankind. It's a human malaise, not a Muslim or Christian or Jewish one. You can no more say that a particular race is better at a particular sports than you can say that a particular country monopolises cruelty. That is untenable. In the millions of bits and bytes of news accessible to those who look for them, one particular instant does not define the human milieu.

Human history is not that long. Truth is not that elusive. The crimes of nations are not that far away from frail memory. The casting of the evil eye is not a forgotten art. God (as all religions give the name to the ultimate Creator) Gives us thought to differentiate us from other creations(makhluk). Think. 

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