Communism came into this planet in 1917 by spilling blood and finally ended in blood only which we have seen in our own eyes. Blood begets blood. Pakistan came into existence by shedding the blood and since 1947 the flow of blood is not halted in Pakistan. See how fanatics are killing their own people, they are not only ashamed of their crimes but they are not even afraid of God’s wrath and on top of it they invoke the name of Allah while killing the innocent people. Allah will never forgive such bloody acts. No power on earth or no individual is authorised to kill others. Taking life of people is in the hands of God and he alone can snatch life from one’s body.
In Iraq anti-Christians are targeting Christians and their places of worship as if Christians are naturalised Iraqi citizens. In fact Iraqi Christians are more Iraqis since they were the first religious entity in Iraq much before Islam came into being and much before Muslims. The roots of Iraqi Christians in Iraq are much deeper than the roots of Muslims in Iraq. Since time immemorial, Chrsitians lived in Iraq peacefully along with their Muslim brothers and sisters. Iraqi Christians were the messengers of peace. By using dirty tactics the enemies of Christians in Iraq are trying to force them out of Iraq but it will never happen though Iraqi Christians will have to suffer a lot to preserve their faith. As a matter of fact Christianity means suffering no matter where you reside but these sufferings will be temporary.
While Christians are ruthlessly massacred in Iraq, on New Year Eve Christians in Egypt were mercilessly killed in a bomb blasted by the suicide bomber. Many Christians were killed and many were injured. Who killed the innocent Coptic Christians? The killers had no religion of their own. These killers are a disgrace on humanity. It looks they were the hired agents of destructive Jews or some destructive power. By taking the human law into their own hands they break the devine law and on top of it they and their mentors hailed these killings of innocent Church goers as heroics. There is no heroism in this brutality. The killers are calling themselves and their organisations as Holy warriors. The religion that they propagate does not permit such brutalities and massacres. Actually their religion teaches peace, love, compassion and forgiveness. There lies the greatness of their religion which they wrongly ignore. This is the tragedy of the whole situation. Egyptian society is very much secular compared to others in this region. In Egypt Muslims and Chritians are very close to one another. When they have such a close bond, how can one community members kill other community members? Here again it looks that some foreign hand is playing the dirty trick to devide the Egyptian society on communal lines. Yesterday’s big demonstration in Egypt by the Egyptian Christians showed the anger of the Christian people there. But carrying Bible, Cross and Jesus’ picture by the demonstrators I feel goes againt the principle of Chritianity. Organising rallies and demonstrations to raise human rights issue is o.k. but carrying Christian relics and shouting slogans in the name of Jesus and Christianity is not proper. Christianity forbids retaliation because as Jesu Himself has said “Sword beget Sword”. Eye for an eye and tooth for tooth is not the law of Jesus Christ but it was the law of Hammurabi the ancient king of ancient Mesopotamia.
Meanwhile I strongly condemn the killings of Christians in Iraq and in Egypt.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
