Terrorism Is Blind to Race and Religion in Claiming its Victims

The latest terrorist attack on the Roudah Mosque in Bir Al-Abd in Sinai, Egypt that claimed the lives of more than 305 including 27 children and wounded more than 128 people, proved beyond any doubt that terrorism is blind to race and religion when it comes to targeting its unsuspected innocent victims.

It doesn't choose its victims according to their nationality, religion, gender or age. Terrorists with their distorted logic randomly destroy the lives of families in multiple nations in every continent.

Those Muslim Egyptian victims whose lives were cut short, were attempting to connect with their creator through their Friday prayer, which is an important event for Muslims everywhere including Egyptian ones. They had no idea that they were on their way to stand before the supreme being in Afterlife.

As an Egyptian Canadian, I am mou
ing their death with anger, frustration and the feeling of helplessness. Most Egyptians along with their peers everywhere share my sentiment of fury blended with despair and despondency for the loss of so many lives.

We, all, are dealing with the almost impossible dilemma of trying to find an answer to the persistent question:
"Is there a glimpse of hope that one day, we will see an end to the human insanity of slaughtering each other due to differences in beliefs or race?"

Our souls, minds and hearts are aching to find a persuasive yet rational answer to that rhetorical yet reasonable question.

Human beings were able to resolve the mystery of invading space yet they stand helpless in finding appropriate means to transcend their religious differences peacefully without spilling the blood of innocent people.

It is a well-known fact that no one is safe regardless of location as long as those insane fanatic terrorists are roaming the earth beyond the powerful arms of the law.
Their partners in crime are those who are aware of their despicable actions of murder, chaos and turmoil yet they stand idle without acquiring sufficient courage to inform the authorities of their identities and whereabouts.

The human decency dictates that everyone regardless of his/her racial or religious background must fulfill his/her social responsibility by exposing their terrorist neighbors, friends or acquaintances.

Only then, humanity will have any hope of reclaiming its rightful moral and decent attributes of being tolerant, empathetic and sympathetic toward one another.

One has no other option but to lose faith in the rationality of the human race watching one terrorist attack after another taking place and attracting a widespread coverage for a week or so then vanishing into thin air due to human tendency of getting caught in task of surviving the hardships of life.

"Why can't we get rid of terrorism? Why can't we abolish the cancer of modern life that is called fanaticism?"
With all the resources that we possess, we let minority of religious fanatics hold us hostage to their distorted views regarding our beliefs and lifestyles.

Our major flaw is that we are caught in chasing scandals of our pitiful political and racial differences to ignore the danger that looms on our horizon, which is represented in the form of the international terrorism.

After a tragic occurrence of a terrorist attack, all world leaders extend their condolences and condemnation of the attack. That is the extent of their pathetic roles. After few days, their lives go on as if nothing has happened.
We all starting from the common individual to the powerful leaders must unite to fight terrorism or to be precise to rid our planet of the cancer that could spread fast enough to lead us to the dreadful fate of extinction.
The fundamental question is:

"What can we do to deal with terrorism in an effective manner"

An international conference must be held to deal with terrorism. During that conference, the world leaders must agree to form an international force from all nations regardless of their racial or religious backgrounds. All resources should be available at its disposal to fight terrorism.

The superpowers could render our planet a noble favor by leading other nations in promoting such a conference.
Is that possible? Logic tends to shatter our hopes by stating that human beings are incapable of transcending all their differences to unite for such a noble cause yet a fundamental task.

Being optimistic by nature, I will fight fiercely all forms of cynicism to acquire a glimpse of hope to believe that our tendency to be survivals will guide us toward forgetting all our differences to unite in order to fight all violent actions especially terrorism.

Finally, regardless of your religious beliefs join me in offering a prayer for the souls of all victims of pervious and current terrorist attacks everywhere.