Terrorism – A Prelude to

What a piece of work is man! How noble is reason! How infinite in faculty! In form in moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!

Hamlet – Shakespeare
Above passage is not an empty panegyric on human attributes. “God created man in his own image, “and let him” have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”

Genesis – Bible
This planet that we call earth was divided only in land, sea and sky. God left these and theirs to human care. Lo and Behold! With the passage of time, this raw and rough start transformed into a replica of Garden of Eden, from where man was expelled on account of his principal offence of disobedience to his creator.

Here, on this earth, man became the second creator. History of his onward journey stretches from striking of fire to invention of the wheel, which is carrying the cart of his success and achievements to an ever receding destination. The child asked for stars and moon and he got it.

God decked Adam with all godly attributes but as punishment against his offence, encumbered him with mortality. Some demoniac tendencies, besides ailments, were implanted in human life and nature to prevent him from attaining immortality. These demoniac forces contribute to divert Adam of his celestial qualities. In some individuals the divine tendencies overpower the demon inside and add to his creative power but those who are otherwise prone to destruction. All kinds of pernicious tendencies – avarice, anger, jealousy, etc, spring from the devil that lurks in human mind and whose aim is to maim and mutilate a thing of beauty which “is joy for ever”.

His motto is: “to do ought good never will be our task, but ever to do ill our sole delight” Paradise Lost – Hilton

As the saying goes, birds of same feather flock together, people having common propensity always tend to confluent and work together to achieve a common goal. Mortals sharing same profane design get together and play the devil with anything that is good for humanity. This vicious circle has no caste or creed. It is a clan by itself and the only religion followed by it is destruction, annihilation, blood and massacre. These sadists cannot live in peace.

History is nothing but a chronological record of human and satanic achievements, of course there have been conflicts for good causes also – but these are better termed as revolution, i.e. The French Revolution, India’s Revolution for Independence, Bolshevik Revolution etc. Meliorism is the goal of all revolutions. But genocide of the Jews in Germany, persecution of Protestants under Louis XIV and many such episodes of violence and bloodshed that tar the pages of history, tell the story of triumph of devil over divine. Over the period, the satanic forces have been fulfilling their obnoxious designs because the opponents were unorganized due to segregation of interest.

With passage of time man has accelerated his onward journey in one hand and on the other, the demoniac forces have consolidated into a new form to foil all human efforts to bring forth the celestial. Its quenchless thirst for blood is creating palsy and panic in human life. Anarchy is its sole motive and terror is the means. The name by which this new for is recognized is “Terrorism”. And hence we can conclude that “terrorism” is an age old existence and not a new term.

Linus Orakles
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