Mass Slaughter in Schools

 

Every terror attack seems to have one objective, that is to demoralize.  The attack on innocent school kids in Peshawar jolted us at several levels.  First, this one was too close home.  Schools have been attacked earlier.  In Beslan, Russia a school was attacked  in 2004 and 1100 people were held hostage, which included school children.  It resulted in 385 dead.  

Malala and her school mates were shot by terrorists.

Kids are not safe.  Women are and will remain the prime target of terrorists, but kids are also targeted.

Why so?

These guys are following a warrior religion, I feel.  Women are property to them, and by attacking women, they are getting to the men who “own” the women.  And the kids … the most sacred thing to all humanity is our children, our babies.  Killing the women and babies will boost their morale and lower the morale of the nation being targeted.  It is the defiling or rape of a nation. It is as simple as that.

We are unprepared.  Our security is inadequate.  Most of it is guarding our VVIPs at the tax payer’s expense.  Our police is not sensitized.  No, I am not talking about India.  This is a global malaise.  The first recorded attack on a school was in 1927.  The next recorded one was in 1959. The first was in Bath, second in Michigan, USA.  Both were criminal attacks, not terrorism.

By the sixties, the terror attacks became more frequent and the criminal attacks went down.  Terror took over and went global.  Not surprising.  Any loon or psychopath joins these groups.  A person may not be born Islamic, he/she becomes one and joins these groups to act out their violent impulses.  That is the sad truth of our times.

They are shrewd.  They want economy disrupted, they want people to be uneducated.  They want nations to have scarred and miamed kids, or dead kids.

They carry out this act of carnage.  Parents in Gaza, Baghdad, Peshawar, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, Boston, Mingora, Beslan, Siem Reap, Sri Lanka, China suffer because of it.

We condemn, we weep.

It works to their advantage.  They want this to happen.

Who are these people?

They are not religious.  They are not blind followers of faith.  They are the dregs of humanity, socio-paths, psychopaths.

ISIS actually steals and smuggles oil through out the middle east.  It is a lucrative crime.  They pretend to be followers of religion.  It gives them the legitimacy to rape and pillage.

Other terror groups have similar mercenary aims.  As perks they get to murder, to rape.

It is time we saw them for what they are.