No matter how dearly you hold your views, you'd always be wiser to hear the other party. Otherwise, you'd be justifying it when the other party does not listen to your dearly held viewpoint. High level reasoning demands that we always give a little room of possibility that we are wrong and the other party is right in every area of life including religion, morals, politics, sports teams and more. Based on this, I am opening up a window of interactive field research for us to probe into the bold existence both of homosexuality and terrorism in our world today.
But, Why Associating Terrorism With Homosexuality?
So far, personally, I am able to relate with anyone's viewpoint (I at least try to understand why the person may hold that - to me - strange viewpoint). However, there are yet two points of view I am yet unable to tolerate even in the deepest part of me: they are terrorism and homosexuality. Yet, do I know there are real individuals who hold these - again, to me - strange worldviews so strongly that they can even give their lives to further them. This makes me think, may be, there are reasons, may be even good enough reasons people not only hold these views but also practice them. Being unable to resolve this on my own, I have come here to present my argument and to seek your own absolutely clear and honest views on them.
My Points of Departure
I began to really wonder if there could be
understandable reason(s) real humans become terrorist after reading a media
report of a lady (yes, a lady) raised as a Christian (yes, a Christian)
in the middle of the Great Britain (yes, Britain of all places) suddenly
turning a radical islamist to the point of swapping 'her comfortable
life in Britain...for the horror of Syria', suddenly turning a staunch member of ISIS, diligently and creatively indoctrinating her own six-year-old son to become a child soldier for ISIS, proudly photographing the child in military fatigues and wielding AK47 for ISIS as recently reported by Daily Mail of UK. The report goes ahead to quote the lady in question, Grace Khadija Dare, as bragging that she would be the first woman to kill a westerner taken hostage by ISIS. Then, she goes ahead to urge other muslims all over the world to 'stop being so selfish...focusing on your families or studies' and implores them to join her in Syria and join the holy war. If this report reveals how dearly the lady holds this view, the following photos might reveal even more, how very comfortable and happy she seems to be - together with her son - in her new life (Photo credits all go to Daily Mail Online):
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| Isa Dare (dubbed "Jihadi John Junior"), Grace Khadija Dare's 6-year-old ISIS child soldier in a military fatigue |
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| "Jihadi John Junior" photographed by his own mother proudly and happily brandishing an AK47 |
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| "Jihadi John Junior" paying a glowing tribute to ISIS |
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| Grace Khadija Dare is quoted to have urged other Muslims to 'stop being so selfish...focusing on your families or studies' and implores them to join her in Syria and join the holy war' |
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| Grace Khadija Dare caught in a video footage out there in an ISIS enclave in Syria seriously preparing to make good her promise of being the first woman to kill a Westerner taken hostage by ISIS. |
Then, I also began to wonder if there could be valid reasons for the existence of homosexuality when it was reported recently that Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa - one of those whose views on issues I often find myself agreeing with - obviously in approval - attended a lesbian wedding of his daughter, a reverend (!), Reverend Mpho Tutu in Netherlands. If the report was revealing, the photos, even more (Photo credit all go to Lindaikejisblog):
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| The father and daughter Tutus seem particularly fulfilled on this lesbian wedding picture |
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| Is that the husband or the wife in the lesbian wedding having a tete-a-tete with the radical South African Archbishop, Desmond Mpilo Tutu: totally a new specie of in-laws? |
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| Obviously happily wedded or just a cover-up? |
My Argument Against Terrorism and Homosexuality.
What is terrorism? "There is neither an academic nor an accurate legal consensus regarding the definition of terrorism" says a Wikipedia article. Neither am I going to give a one-size-fits-all definition of terrorism here. Instead, I'd describe terrorism in accordance to how it affects us all generally on the Planet today. In this light therefore, I know terrorism to be the human principle and practice of using unauthorized violence against other human beings as an expression of an unknown or almost unknown grievance against them. Terrorists seem all out to attack, maim, kill and displace anyone whatsoever - babies, pregnant mothers, governments, anyone including even themselves (when they go on suicide missions) - without obvious provocation.
Then, according to the Merriam Webster's English Dictionary, homosexuality is "the quality or state of being homosexual" and homosexual is defined as "of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex".
My first point of argument against terrorism as well as homosexuality is from nature which we are all members of. Unlike religions and political parties or professions where we are all free to choose where to belong, we are all equally members of Mother Nature as some people call this pan-existence membership system. The instinct of self-preservation is a built-in software every living thing comes packaged with. Naturally, no life wants to be lost. No human being was ever born wanting to die or to kill. Both murder and suicide are tendencies that human beings acquire only later on in life. Moreover, neither killing without obvious reason (such as for food or for self-protection) and/or provocation or self-killing is manifested by any other life that do not have the will to decide to steer themselves against the natural current. Only human beings endowed with the power of will, decide to use this power against its giver (Nature). This is clearly a case of rebellion which has to be followed with dire consequences for the rebellious will in question. So, no matter the religious doctrine that may be used as a prop for murder or suicide, it should be wiser to consider something more objective than that which is the position of Nature, of which everyone was a member from the womb - far before anyone became a member of a religion. O yes, we are primarily, members of Nature, and only secondarily members of society, aspects of which are religion, politics, profession and more. So, it would be totally contradictory to let any of our positions in these, override the apparent position of Nature. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would say, "the best thing we can do when it's raining is to let it rain" referring to the fundamental obligation we have to comply with what Nature requires of us. But since humans, of all nature, is endowed with the power of will - allowing him to choose to agree or disagree with Nature's positions - they may choose to comply or not with Nature with commensurate inalienable consequences. It is like knowing that gasoline by nature would turn a flame into a blaze and you still go ahead to pour gasoline on yourself and strike a match. Of course, we all know what the commensurate and inalienable consequence would be here. Thus, the American scientist E. O. Wilson would write that "nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction". To think you could be fulfilled on the Earth living against the positions of Nature is like thinking you could be comfortable in the US living against the provisions of the United States Constitution.
As the above argument applies in relation to terrorism, it applies in relation to homosexuality also. We can be sure that homosexuality is anti-Nature from this: The basic natural function of sexuality - the function that serves Nature itself - is for the preservation of the specie. Pleasure, as greatly important as it may be, is only a secondary function of sexuality - the function that favors the individual members of a specie (a kind of an incentive Nature gives us to encourage us to serve its interest). But homosexuality clearly stands things on their head by emphasizing the secondary over the primary function of sexuality. It adds up to being unfair to Nature by selfishly taking the part that favors us while disregarding the part that favors Nature itself. To further show how anti-Nature homosexuality must be deemed to be, we can observe uncensored Nature: no other life - besides humans - is known to practice homosexuality.
My second point of argument against terrorism and homosexuality is basic philosophy of fairness. In his theory of Categorical Imperative, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant makes a simple proposition to guide everyone's life: before you do anything, ask yourself "if everyone was doing this, would the world be better off or worse off?" If your answer is "better off" go ahead. If "worse off" you don't have to go ahead as your very life becomes a contradiction. So, I ask the terrorists and their sympathizers first: you are ever ready to destroy, kill and maim everyone for not immediately agreeing with you, what happens if everyone decides to kill everyone who does not immediately agree with them. Let's suppose you are right, so what do you think could have happened if someone killed you before you had the opportunity of realizing the truth? Now, how fair would it be for you now to kill others before they have an opportunity of coming to know your brand of truth?
To the homosexuals I say: imagine that tomorrow, we all decide - in word and indeed - that you are right and the rest of us wrong, and that we are all becoming homosexuals with you, would you be comfortable with that? And, what if the world had come to this consensus before you ever had the opportunity of being born? Could you have been born? These are rhetorical questions.
Tentative Conclusion
As I noted at the beginning, I don't mean to hand out lectures here. Instead, I mean to go into a profound interactive research on possible valid reasons behind these - it has to be admitted - unpopular ways of certain humanity. So, come up with your honest views. Make them as comment below.
I'd be right back.
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