Moderate voices crushed

THE BRUTAL and deadly mosque attack in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, must be condemned by those who seek peace and tranquillity on this wartorn planet.

When carnage becomes a spectator sport, the media becomes the decisive theatre of operations. Intolerance has pitched the world into a vortex of unprecedented selective slaughter.

Bloody images have become a salient feature of the grotesque turn in world history.

The insane events are choreographed to send a chill down the world’s spine.

The horrors of internecine conflicts and unconventional warfare often go undocumented, sanitised out of reality and glossed over in news accounts that focus on casualties.

As the rhythm of war intensifies and the drums of war bleat out louder, there are those who continue to stoke the fires of hatred as innocent souls are disfigured and dismembered, incinerated by the fires of global intolerance.

Naked hatred consumes the lives of more than 100 people a day.

The polarisation of beliefs is so complete that all sides believe it is impossible to live together peacefully. Many astute observers of global politics blame the West for the gradual erosion of trust among the combatants of global conflicts.

The West’s intervention stands testament to the follies of military collusion, which ruptures diplomacy, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different paths.

Across the world rabid politicians are shrinking the scope for moderate voices. Religion has become the epicentre of many of today’s ferocious wars.

According to reliable statistics, 24 countries are involved in wars with a religious dimension. It is our sacred duty to resist ideologies that preach hatred and distrust.

Unless we change course and restore our sanity, we will be on the path to obliteration.

The constellation of global events will , without a shadow of a doubt, lead us to Armageddon and the certainty that mankind will cease to exist.