SILAS
ABAYOMI
MIDDLE EAST:
WORLD DESERVES BETTER GIFT THAN
THIS.
TERROR ORGANIZATIONS AND HUMANKIND-
WHAT THEY GIVE AS GIFTS:
Behind the veil they hide,
holding to a little understood
tenets, creeds, and dogma
to foment trouble;
like a crushed snake with
head intact, or a wounded lion,
they display rascality and
thuggery,
inflicting pains with long term
impacts, or permanent scars on
their victims.
Like a-let-loose-caged-animal,
they act always,
their freedom they carry beyond
social and legal limits;
with impunity they hurt, injure,
and
infringe upon rights-of-others,
because they chose to remain blind.
They attack everything attackable,
women they cease with force and
violate,
daily, children are orphaned
by their evil deeds,
adults and the innocent-
they conscript into-
soldiers of darkness.
Conscientious objectors,
they slaughter and spill their
blood on the streets in cities
across Arabian Peninsula and
the Gulf.
Christians and peoples of
other faiths they massacre,
without end they paint
their swords with the
blood of innocent souls;
minorities they turn to
game,
which they hunt down
anywhere found and
wherever seen.
Ancient glories that tell and
remind modern men-
about-superior-intellect-of-
men-of-yesterday,
these gangs and
mentally deranged-
enemies-of-light-
keep pulling down.
Artefacts with religious and
social messages of ancient
empires and kingdoms,
links between the past and
present,
this cancer-infected-mind
keep devoting to destruction.
Every day, centuries’
old civilization and culture
come under attack;
through their conduct,
human society is sliding
into anarchy by the day.
By their conduct,
mankind is continuously
disconnected from
social and political orders;
through their conduct,
mankind has begun-
a journey into dark ages,
journey now pursued with
vigor and intensity on a
supersonic speed.
In every corner of the earth-
they recruit disciples-
they brainwash innocent souls
into crimes against humanity,
believing-they are working-
for Allah.
They package and sell lies
like fake or bad products to
unwary,
they indoctrinate kids-
with messages of hate-
as they subject humankind to
real and imaginary fear.
From their headquarters in
cities across-Middle East and
Persian Gulf-
they operate into far flung
Maghreb, Europe, North and
South America, Australia,
Africa, and distant parts of
the earth.
Where their cancerous and
lethiferous warriors cannot
penetrate,
they home grow
soldiers of destruction,
through social media and
other instant message
delivery mass media.
Because of their strong and
cohesive brotherhood-
they operate a-less-visible,
but powerful network-of-evil,
elusive to security and
intelligence communities.
MIDDLE EAST LEADERS-
POWER BEHIND TERROR
ORGANIZATIONS OR NOT?
Not surprised by the monsters
they help created and nurtured,
but now scare of possible tsunami
ride-on-tiger may cause,
mankind should ask Middle East
leaders:
does humankind deserve the
Greek gift coming from them?
For decades they have oiled
terror machines,
with sleazy money from their
petro-dollar
to appear pious men-of-faith
at home;
through bi-lateral relations,
trades, and cooperation,
same leaders appear to be
friends of western world.
Everything western they love,
scientific, military weaponry,
technological inventions;
businesses, trades, and
investments they have
in all capitalist economies.
Everything that will
sustain and stabilize their
feudal and despotic regimes
at home they pursue with zeal,
avidity, and fervor;
still they are yet to come
to terms with western
democratic culture, values,
and what they like about west.
Before home audience-
west is presented as a
morally bankrupt society,
even as western nations
maintain presence in their
lands through military bases
and commerce;
dummies-they keep selling
to their western partners
for their political survival.
Their politics and double
standard behaviors are
quite manifest to
radical elements in their
various societies;
these loopholes-radical
elements-
are now maximizing
to the fullest.
How long will this
double standard game go?
How long will humankind
be subjected to and live in fear?
Temporary tool of intimidation
from this coward.
Is human culture and
civilization not on the verge
of extinction,
as waters of Mediterranean,
Persian Seas, and Gulf of Eden
now cover with innocent blood
every day?
YESTERDAY EMPIRES AND
KINGDOMS IN THE SAME
GEOGRAPHY-WHAT WE KNOW
ABOUT THEM:
Mesopotamia-
the un-usual land-
land between two,
great historic rivers,
Euphrates and Tigris is
groaning and bleeding;
who will would save her
water source from drying up?
Anatolia is hemorrhaging,
Asia Minor is sick again,
a reminiscent of Crimean War;
theater and surgical room-
fate of once “sick-man-of-Europe”
determined and sealed decades ago.
Who delivers Anatolia?
Who protects Istanbul or
Constantinople,
once a great and historic
city of Constantine?
Syria the Levant,
the land of rising sun
is sick,
who heals her?
The lands of ancient
Assur and Nineveh are
crying,
who will relieve or stop her
from crying?
The lands of ancient
Mitanni and
Hittite are bleeding-
bleeding profusely-
who will stop the
evisceration?
A sad tale,
in fact, a sad tale;
the geographical region-
that gave humankind-
three great world powers:
Assyria, Babylon, and
Media-Persia in succession;
region that contributed
pre-eminently to world
civilization-
same region now destroying
civilization it once created;
who will help turn its light on,
once again?
Oh! The land of cylindrical
cuneiform, harbinger of
Greco-Phoenician-letters;
from her: mathematics,
astronomy, irrigation, science of
domestication, hanging garden,
social stratification emanated.
The home of “ideologies of
progress and supremacism,
monumental architecture,
taxation,” and of a complex
social system is turning cruel
and savagery,
Who delivers her from current
self-destructive behavior?
Will the world fold its arms
to allow preventable calamity?
Time is ticking, time is ticking,
and
time is ticking very fast;
World must save Middle East to
save itself.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE-
HOW IT
BEGAN IN CHRISTENDOM:
For over nine centuries
Christianity and Islam have
been at each other’s
throats;
it began with crusade,
but continued as European
military efforts against
non-Christians for another
two centuries.
To crusaders-the soldiers
and sponsors-
messages were:
retake the city of Jerusalem,
check the spread of Islam,
conquer pagan states,
recapture lost territories,
open eastern frontier for
Europe economic prosperity;
assignments soldiers of faith
were to accomplish for
Catholic Europe.
Crusade-yes, became a
double edge sword-
a side to clear the weeds-
other side to inflict harm.
Crusade-a weapon-
combination of benefits as
it brought wealth through
trades to European lords,
nobles, and the Church;
sorrow and horror
for its cruelty by means of
violent spread of Christianity
in distant lands.
Within Christendom
was a home or crusade,
then in Europe-show dissension-
you were excommunicated-
apostatize-you were banished,
become a freethinker-you were
anathematized.
A little non-conformist spirit
you were ostracized,
hold a heretic view,
you were boycotted;
Church became enraged,
punished individuals holding
contrary opinions to its doctrines.
Inquisitions Church instituted-
ecclesiastical tribunals to-
witch hunt real and imaginary
enemies,
a pretext to try heretics
overtook Europe.
Donatism and persecution
by martyrdom,
repression, abuse,
outlaw, arson,
forbidden bible translation
from Latin to common
languages became
major weapons in
Catholic Europe.
Everywhere you turned
there were cries, wailings,
weeping, and lamentation
from Cathars to Waldensians,
Franciscans, Husites, Beguines,
intellectuals, and the reformists;
as the three main inquisitors:
Roman, Spanish, and Portuguese
tormented mankind from Europe
to India.
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
A GOOD LEARNER AND A
PERFECT MASTER OF A NEW
CRUSADE-THE JIHAD:
With the expulsion of Latin
Christians from Syria in 1291,
a new crusade instituted,
as soon as new regime
took charge in eastern
Roman Empire in Constantinople,
jihad-more fiery and deadly
replaced the old crusade.
Sunni Islamic caliphate-
under Ottoman spread
quickly and spared nothing
on it paths,
from Anatolia to Maghreb,
and to Europe,
it was “Allahu Akbar” or
nothing else.
Latin religions-Roman Catholic,
Maronite Church, Ukrainian
Greek Church, Syro-Malabar
and Orthodox came under
attack.
Warriors of faith without
passion carried their battles
to Mongolia, Mesopotamia,
Arabian Peninsula, North Africa,
and Europe recruiting
proselytes for Ottoman and
for Islam.
Mujahedeen and janissaries
became soul winning tools
used separately,
in different circumstances,
but for a common goal.
Even when janissaries
declined,
mujahedeen remained and
rose meteorically;
from 18th century onward
its spiritual value among
the mullahs and their
followers know no bounds.
JIHAD IN 20TH
CENTURY AND BEYOND:
Holy wars have continued
in Islamic world even with
the fall Ottoman Empire.
More than ever,
jihadist movement within Islam
has continued to create
Arab consciousness
and revival of Arabism,
oneness brotherhood
espousing cultural and
political unity among Arabs.
Following 1943 Damascus Ba’ath
Party formation that spread
to Arab nations,
pan-Arab ideology of oneness,
and jihad,
faith-based injunction to all
shahadah;
the three-in-one concept-
individuals with charisma-
have exploited in a
loose political system
in Islam to their advantage;
advantages mostly carried
beyond social and legal limits.
Silas Abayomi
NIGERIA
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