Every year's end, peace loving people of all races and religion naively hope that the next year will be the year that they finally achieve the peace they so greatly need and anarchists are also awaiting the same season, not to share in the serenity but to spread more anarchy and chaos. A lot of youth have resolved not to follow the news anymore because all they hear is war, death and hate and who knows, maybe if they don't hear about it then it didn't happen. The December/January festive season was once filled with the agonizing news of delayed and cancelled flights and most people pray for the timw when that frustration was 'the worst to come' back but sadly that time is almost completely lost to us. Now, not only do you have to wait for your flight that might only come 2 days later, but you have to wonder if an 'underwear bomber' is sharing a flight with you.
It is becoming a new practice to ruin peoples festivity by taking the lives of the innocent and no longer is it isolated to one country or cause. On the 24th December 2010, almost as if orchestrated by the same people, bombs went off in Jos and Borno both in Nigeria, killing an uncertain amount of innocent people and injuring even much more and then on the 31st another set of bombings occurred this time in a military barracks located in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, the ancient city of Alexandria in Egypt, and several small towns in Iraq! All of these attacks except the one in the military barracks of Abuja, targeted worshiping and celebrating Christians.
The various governments are trying to maintain calm and presumably doing all they can to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of these dastardly acts but we all know how things digress from here. History has proven that once that door of terrorism has been open, it is almost impossible to shut. A caliber of violence that was once reserved for the warring Iraq and Afghanistan has spread to other countries both in the West, Middle-East, Europe and now Africa. I unfortunately do not see an immediate improvement, only escalations.
Where is all this anger coming from and is it unique to only a people or culture? It is only a matter of time before retaliation happens and retaliation only breeds more retaliation; so will we ever find peace? One day we might learn to live with each other, respecting the other man's choice of religion, and space, we might even no longer see color and race but that year is not this year.
Expect another year of much violence and hate and pray (if you are a praying person) that you and your family are safe from the disasters of these random locations!
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