Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that

Ashocking and degrading incident was captured on video in the US. A young Muslim woman was stripped and searched when she was passing through airport security. She was humiliated because she wore a scarf, a normal Muslim attire. A mother of three and a Harvard graduate, she was demonised because of naked religious prejudice.

The US is enveloped in religious and racial hatred, it continues to demonise people of other races.

Hatred has enveloped the globe on a massive scale. After disease, mankind’s deadliest scourge has always been hate. Hate has killed hundreds of millions in thousands of conflicts, for the past 2,000 years. It knows no season and no limit. It is immensely irrational and is a deadly phenomenon. It is in us all. And it will forever, unless we choose to confront and expunge it from our lives.

It was Martin Luther King who said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” In a world awash with hate, vengeance and brutal competition, there is a need for radical generation of compassionate and principled people.

There is a need for those who are going to live lives driven by the kind of love which circumvents self-centred conventions of our world.

Racial hatred has enveloped many sections of the globe. Religion because it penetrates so deeply into the being of its adherents, has the capacity to inspire great love and devotion or great hatred, sometimes one transforming itself into another.

Of all the wars spawned in recorded human history, hatred was the catalyst that set this planet ablaze in two world wars. It is the greatest evil that will ultimately destroy this planet.

Hatred neither lives in the land of its own nor the house of its own. It is both hereditary and acquired. Hate means a progrom. All hatred is that it evolves from one form of violence. Mankind shows no sign of tolerance, we are moving on a path of self-destruction from which there is no escape from naked racial and religious hatred. —