The Holy War

On an earlier occasion I wrote that I pity those human beings who believe in the power of God, but still think they need to help the God.
Recently, I came across the movie "Fitna".
Now first I have to swear that I do not hold any one's religion / caste / color or nationality against anyone and will be ready to fight for the right of each human being to be respected as one regardless of the above criteria.
I must also state that in the history of all religions, there was a time when someone thought it fit to spread the religion by force whether it was Christian /Hindu or other.
However, the pictures depicted by this particular movie is so shocking that any reasonably civilised person would want to condemn it. Then how come these few people get the support? I believe rather than support, what they get is a silent submission from the majority of good people simply because they are mortally afraid of the few and the destruction they can cause.
I believe all religions are established on good principles and meant to deliver good. Therefore, even while condemning the violence as depicted in "Fitna" and "Submission" (the first movie in this genre - its director was assassinated), I am not ready to fault the religion as the root cause. It is the misinterpretation of the religion and the destructive power of a few supported by vested interests that causes such violence. Therefore the cure is certainly not to accuse the religion and cause many more to join the violent cause, but encourage the better elemnets in that religion to join the mainstream. In many countries they already do. A vast majority of educated Muslims in India or even in pakistan are not fanatic. I even have friends who do not even attend the mosques.
Let us not give more followers to the terrorists by accusing the religion as evil. Let us realise that there are a few black sheep in a good religion and encourage others to denounce the terrorists.
Love thy neighbour!

Contradictions

Ayn Rand wrote: If you see contradictions, check your premises.
1. We need to stop rising prices. So we stop exports of rice. Some one points out that the Non resident Mallus will die of hunger, farmers in Kerala will not get good prices if they cannot export! We do not have enough rice production in Kerala. We depend on TN and AP. So how do we export???
2. Rising prices: We remove import duties for vegetable oils. So, coconut farmers will commit suicide. What next? Let us start agitation!
3. Rise farmers cannot harvest the ripe fields due to absence of farm workers, unions not allowing the harvesting machines. We allow the paddy fields go to hell and then what our politicians do? Fight TV wars! How could we ever increase production without the workers and not using machinery???
4. When one party commissions a toll bridge, the other party blocks the road. Now when the pther party come to power and they declare that no more bridges without toll!
6. You call a nation wide bandh and make crores of Rupees loss of production when the fuel price is increased marginally, then impose additional state levies to increase the prices further!
7. You accuse the others of selling public land and when you get the chance you do the same in larger scale!
8. You call the others Mafia and then take crores in black money as contribution.
9. YOU KILL HUMAN BEINGS AS IF THEY ARE LIFELESS OBJECTS AND CELEBRATE WHEN YOUR OWN KILLERS GET BAIL OR GET FREED BY SOME LOOP HOLES IN THE LAW. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND OUR POLITICIANS? THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE. A TERRORIST IS READY TO DIE IN BATTLE, BUT IN POLITICS, THEY HAVE THE CADRES TO DIE FOR THEM!
Dear Ms. Ayn Rand, I am tired of checking my premises, but contradictions abound....
Will I ever find a ray of hope somewhere???