A Mind of My Own

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Over the years, wars began and ended with both sides suffering devastating losses. Some wars began because of great beauties. Think Helen of Troy and Xiao Qiao from Red Cliff. These days, acts of terrorisms begin due to irreconcilable differences.

In the 21st century, kamikaze styled acts exist purely to drive home the fact that something is better. I am again reminded of the horrifying acts on Sept 11, 2001. The attack of the Twin Towers in USA. In order to drive home the fact, the terrorists made use of thousands of innocents to fly two commercial planes into the towers that the engineers took years to build.

All the planning and workarounds while building them gone in just minutes. Lives lost in just seconds and minutes. Singaporeans abroad have been spared the horrors of being terrorists victims until Ms Lo Hwei Yen. Watching all these acts, I wonder if we are animals or worse.

Ms Lo’s unfortunate short life was snuffed out in Mumbai due to the people who claimed they were doing it for Islam. As religion is such a sensitive topic, I have been avoiding talking about it online. You never know when those followers (I call them extremists) will just attack you when you least know it.

Animals attack each other for food and territory. They do it for survival. Humans attack other humans for? Some out of jealousy, others out of anger. Here, the acts of terrorism exist because of beliefs. Osama Bin Laden has never been caught due to his high intelligence in hiding.

Mas Selemat is still out there in the open probably laughing and plotting something up his sleeves. Many other terrorists are still out there, plotting something to haunt us for life. Something that will devastate the human race more than the predators; lions, tigers, alligators, sharks, owls, snakes, etc.

We are our own worst enemies. Not the animals. We don’t need to have wars between countries. Just the mindless killing of execution without any valid reason will simply wipe us out.