The Nation as a Suicide Bomber

Dissent has always been a part of society; indeed, universal conformity would not lead to any progress. Witness the degeneration of the once mighty Soviet Union, as an example – initiative was discouraged; allegiance and submission to the Communist ideology was encouraged. Dissent in any form led to exile in the icy Siberian wastelands.

Fictional accounts like Huxley’s Brave New World, 1984 by Orwell and Anthem by Ayn Rand corroborate the fact that nonconformity and rebellion, rather than blind obedience and orthodoxy, lead to evolution of human society, instead of decrepitude.

Dissent in views from another person or group of persons can be expressed in many ways – through debate, books and other forms of the written word, films, art, civil disobedience, demonstrations, rioting and, as a last resort, murder, genocide or war.

Added to this list of different forms of dissension is the muslim suicide bomber. Brainwashed by rabid clerics, who promise celestial glory on being ‘martyred’, these sado-masochists range from lone-wolf militants and explosive laden trucks to commandeered aircraft forcibly crashing into iconic buildings.

Alas, this form of indoctrination has led innocent preteens being inveigled into strapping explosives onto their bodies and blowing themselves up amongst unsuspecting crowds.

One can consider the Japanese Kamikazi pilots as the earliest forms of suicide bombers.

Now we have a country that has donned the garb of a suicide bomber – Pakistan.

The goal of the suicide bomber is to cause death and destruction of his/her object of hate. His/her own death is immaterial since he awaits sensual delights in his afterlife (what does the female suicide bomber look forward to – an eternity in a burqa or 72 gigolos?)

Pakistan is travelling this path – just damage India with no thought of the consequences to its people or the integrity of its nationhood. That the world may be plunged into a nuclear holocaust has no place in the strategic thinking of the leaders of this misbegotten country.