Humanity

I was just on youtube watching a video about SRK and I stumbled on a debate (Pakistan vs India). These people were on the extreme ends of a scale. Pretty much if your in Pakistan you are a Muslim and if you are in India, you are a Hindu.

Depending on the country they were from, all believed one was better than the other in term of religion.

One went on to say Muslims would rule India again and make Hindus the servants and make it into heaven as it use to be, another went on to say send SRK to Pakistan for saying a Pakistani player should be allowed to be picked (IPL SAGA).

I was so shocked at these opinions, I believe in humanity... There are good in every one's religion and bad. Taliban have claimed the 9/11 attacks. This does not mean every Muslim is bad.

In 1984 when the Golden Temple was attacked and in Retaliation Indra Gandhi was murdered, Hindu's started burning Sikhs in the streets, beating them, rape and so forth however there were also Hindu's who helped Sikhs hide, escape and feed them.

It is beyond my understanding how some people can be filled with so much hatred that they think EVERY SINGLE person from a certain religion/country is the same as the rest.

No wonder, there is no peace... so as long as people have this hatred based on events that is out of the majorities control, the rest have to suffer. Past is being carried into the present and therefore affecting the future.

Can we all believe in Humanity?

Most people are good and nice.

I think the problem is too globally attacked in the first place. Picking out bits and pieces, and solving them first, would be a better idea! I am Hindu, proud to be one, but that can NOT, should NOT be my reason for 'hating' a Muslim, or a person from ANY other religion for that matter of fact. I cannot condemn a Muslim just because he lives in Pakistan and some extremists groups there attacked my country. Where are we going to land up with bloodshed anyway? Win a greater piece of land? Then? Stay on it alone? 😕

No I do not support terrorism. Yes I condone the people and the government authorities in favor of it, but that does not give me the right to judge them anyway.


For the whole SRK issue, I personally believe that:

At the end of the day, the normal person tends to forget that neither Shah Rukh Khan nor the Shiv Senas/ Taliban (extremists) are in view of a social cause of any type! They BOTH work for their own profit, one of retaining fame and success and the other of maintaining power and supremacy. Basing our opinions on their actions, or people condemning them is not going to lead us anywhere but in further mud-slinging of the subject in question. Both are to be blamed equally!


My reason for liking the movie Karan Johar made [who happens to be an Indian by the way] is because of the simplicity it has shown. One does not need to be a Hindu or a Muslim to fight terrorism. One needs to be a good person. One does not need to a Shah Rukh Khan or a Barack Obama to make a difference, one needs to start at the basic values taught in society. One does not need huge weapons or pre-prepared plans for destroying misconceptions, one needs the attitude of "repairing almost anything". I cannot condemn Karan Johar just because his movie was on a Muslim man and I am a Hindu. All I can do is appreciate his guts to show meaningful and intelligent cinema, without forgetting the exaggeration shown in many parts of the movie, but let's get realistic, which movie does not depict exaggeration? Which director makes a movie for a social cause? They ALL work for profits, and only fools would believe otherwise!


All I can think of to end up is: It's high time we start differentiating between who we are and what we must be. It's not because I am a Hindu that I am proud. It's because I am proud of being what I am, a Hindu, a Mauritian, but above all, a human! Some would say what about those who don't think similarly? I would say, it's because I am not like them that I am proud.


What I mean by all of this is that humanity is one, but it is almost always subdivided into 'parts', not two, not three, but poly. Too many parts to assemble back again. There are too many social, economical and religious strata today so that any human being can believe in the concept called humanity. And then of course, for every differing individual, the whole concept of humanity varies in time and space! 😉