After Paris: To My Moderate Friends

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"Indeed you have been ordered to fight the infidel wherever you find him - what are you waiting for? There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit,"

-Abu Maryam, IS militant

To my moderate friends who is trying to soothe the embarrassment by saying that your religion never teach you to commit those horrible acts, that it is only about peace and respect, and how you grew up in it only knowing of love and compassion; you do not have my sympathy. How many more blood do you need before you decide to open those eyes of yours? I am thankful that you are brought up in a loving family and they taught you to love and care, but that says nothing of the horrible idea that is in the belief. Know this, no one can break down a bad idea better than those who breaks the shackles itself. And you can, you're smart enough to realize there's something wrong with your faith, all you have to do is question it. You guys are the best hope humanity has for a change, yet you decide to turn blind eyes for the sake of the belief instead of the truth, like an ostrich buries its head pretending nothing's happened. This is not about you, nor the 1.6 billion muslim population who are mostly peaceful. This is about bad ideas, and how we can end it.

After 9/11, Charlie Hebdo, Boko Haram, and almost all the bloodshed in the record of history, somehow all that failed to lift your head off the earth. I'm afraid that once again we will lose this battle of idea, that tomorrow this will be forgotten, and the same tragedy will repeat again, because the very people who actually got the brains to end this refuse to use it.