We were reflecting on recent events and trying hopelessly to find the positive within any aspect of what occurred down in Orlando. Our first reaction was that there was simply none. To cheapen such a horrid event by trivializing it into a sunny hallmark card by saying how much it brings people together seemed like a cop-out of enormous proportions. Nothing comes from such a senseless horrific waste of human life.
Reflecting further we contemplated possible motives. If it was pure Islamic extremists expression what is the response? Our thought was that Allah doesn’t need the help of anyone to do His work, so such deluded terrorists are in shirk - taking themselves as partners of Allah, suggesting He needs their actions. It is not humanity’s place to judge the innocent. It was not the place of this person to decide, condemn and punish. His and our community and family failed him and the people of Orlando by not teaching him to accept others as they are and mind is own god damn business.
If the motive arose out of a struggle with frustrated sexual repression, as has been suggested, then what is the response to this? Where was his family, friends and community? Who told him to not speak of it, to bury it, to be ashamed of it? Why did he confront others about it and not his own self? Why did others have to pay the price for his cowardliness? Where was the love?
If his motive was anger out of how America is bombing other countries, as also has been demonstrated by recordings from his call to 911, then what is the response to this? How do the American people not know that by policing the world, by bombing other people, other nations, that people will react? Eventually people from these place or with families will bomb back? How do we not know this? If it was the other way around what would you do? Why do we not think?
This leads us to question our own culpability. What actions do we do that affects others? How do our words create more hate, more fear, more isolation? What can we do to turn this around? This is the positivity, the realization of our own failures. We have to see our failures and change our ways for this to stop.
Reflecting further we contemplated possible motives. If it was pure Islamic extremists expression what is the response? Our thought was that Allah doesn’t need the help of anyone to do His work, so such deluded terrorists are in shirk - taking themselves as partners of Allah, suggesting He needs their actions. It is not humanity’s place to judge the innocent. It was not the place of this person to decide, condemn and punish. His and our community and family failed him and the people of Orlando by not teaching him to accept others as they are and mind is own god damn business.
If the motive arose out of a struggle with frustrated sexual repression, as has been suggested, then what is the response to this? Where was his family, friends and community? Who told him to not speak of it, to bury it, to be ashamed of it? Why did he confront others about it and not his own self? Why did others have to pay the price for his cowardliness? Where was the love?
If his motive was anger out of how America is bombing other countries, as also has been demonstrated by recordings from his call to 911, then what is the response to this? How do the American people not know that by policing the world, by bombing other people, other nations, that people will react? Eventually people from these place or with families will bomb back? How do we not know this? If it was the other way around what would you do? Why do we not think?
This leads us to question our own culpability. What actions do we do that affects others? How do our words create more hate, more fear, more isolation? What can we do to turn this around? This is the positivity, the realization of our own failures. We have to see our failures and change our ways for this to stop.