Terrorism? How would you solve it?

We are in the times when terrorists lurk where and when we don't know when they will strike again.

It cast fear on all of us. That's what we are human as we are. To be alive and to continue living without interruption is what we desire. We don't like to die. So it makes all people united in combatting this trouble that beset us.  All countries have set in their own place and premises, all the means needed to counteract such atrocity.  

It is a law in nature that every action has a counter reaction. The reaction is equal to the action to even it out. So if someone tries to kill us our tendency is to retaliate by killing him too.

So in counteracting and solving the problem of this terrorism, the most common feeling is to eliminate those terrorists by killing them.

What will happen then? It will evoke a counter reaction. It may increase more their number with their intent to terrorise, or the intensity of their action will increase. More people would die.

But as we have said earlier, to live and continue living is the natural desire that we would like to happen. So such solution as most people feel is not the way to go to solve it.

To solve such problem, the reaction to such action should be one of greater power or force than terrorism itself.

Terrorism involves two elements which cause us trouble: that of casting fear on us and making us dead.

What reaction could much greater than the elements of terrorism, but the power that makes us live, and the force that casts away fear?

Such power cannot come but from the Creator Himself from whom all good that are, have come to be. All life and living substances including us that are good could not have come from nowhere but from Someone greater than us.

If we look into ourselves, the only purpose why we live and do what we do has but one purpose, for us to be happy. What is to be happy? To be in the possession of all that is really good.   

Such purpose in us could not have been there unless the Prime Giver who shared it to us doesn’t have quality. Because the attribute of being happy is to share, to multiply itself. That is the very reason why we exist and we live.

A few days before the terrorist stroke in Paris, there was similar terrorist attack that happened in Beirut.  To foil the intent of one of the terrorist to kill more people, a man heedless of danger to himself, plunged himself into the terrorist to stop him, ending his own life.

What could have motivated such heroic act of that man? His care for saving more lives has been has been greater than the fear for saving his own. Such reaction is an example of a greater power and force than terrorism itself.

Such reaction comes from our inner desire for happiness, to be in the possession of the greatest Good, who is God Himself, who is the author of life; who can raise a dead man back to life.

We call such action as love. Love is the tendency of our will to what is good, being enamoured of it. Love for a greater good impels one to do heroic act, a force much greater than the element of terrorism itself, because of that innate longing in us to be happy.  “For you to be happy is to be full of love. … the greatest loss and cause of sadness is the absence of love because it would mean that one doesn’t feel worth anything. To be happy is the opposite.”(Elijah Mcleon; New Light, New Life, New You; Amazon Kindle edition, Sept. 3, 2015, location 388.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014W4NVLO?*Version*=1&*entries*=0)

To solve the problem of terrorism is to love the terrorists. To convert the terrorist into what they are supposed to be, to be what God has created them to be, which is to be happy.

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make friends out of them?” is a quotation by Abraham Lincoln which expresses similar idea that I have written in the previous paragraph.

Many people reckon that those terrorists are Muslims.  But many Muslims decry that Muslim religion is for promoting peace and denounce killing other people as evil. What they lament is that many of their members are uneducated. Most of the agents that do the killing do so by blind faith in obedience to their misguided or vicious leaders.

This being the case, loving them (the followers) would mean sharing to them the enlightenment and education one needs to have to attain the purpose of life which is to be happy.

Loving the leaders of the terrorists, would mean treating them as human as we are. Because they are ‘us’ in them with the same love that God has shared to them in giving them life, and creating them to be happy as we are.  

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