Terrorism & War - Places I have been.

I have been on mini breaks with my daughter to Barcelona, Paris, Berlin & London. I have also been to Madrid & Brussels myself. My daughter did her degree in Manchester.

I have travelled to Istanbul twice. I have been to Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Israel & Palestine in the Middle East. Also to Morocco, Libya, Egypt & Tunisia in North Africa.

I've travelled extensively in America. I have to say that the USA is a country at war with itself & they have the "right to bear arms", which makes them dangerous.They are also a target for many disaffected people in the world because of their disastrous & ignorant foreign policy.

All of these places have been hit hard by terrorism or war. So much has been destroyed. So many lives have been lost & families split apart by unbelievable suffering. Sensible people would think twice before travelling to so much of the world now. You do have to wonder whether some places are going to become "No go areas" for years to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism_in_Europe_(2014%E2%80%93present)

The destruction wreaked by man is incalculable, both on innocent civilians, property & historic sites. We are dealing, fairly inadequately, with the mass migration of populations. People who are forced to live for years in refugee camps, having lost almost everything. Just take a minute or two to really try to imagine what that must be like from the comfort of your own home, surrounded by all your posessions.

We are allowing generations of children to grow up with total uncertainty, when we know that the one thing children need is security. Goodness knows how many have lost parents, siblings & relatives, when we know that a loving family sets children on the path to healthy adulthood.

Shame on the perpetrators of this mess & shame on us for not doing more to deal with it effectively.

Shame on the so called holy men who peddle a doctrine of hate to susceptible, disaffected, young people, which bears no relationship to the religions they purport to espouse. I'm not just referring to Islam - To my mind any fundamentalist belief has no place in a rational & caring world.

Is it surprising that we have a generation of angry, disposessed, jobless, rootless, young men looking for something & finding it in a disfunctional brotherhood? Anarchy rules - powerless people think this is their opportunity for power & martyrdom.

 

Where is God - Any God - in all of this?