With reference to the news report, “Israel crushes Al Aqsa protesters” (Oct. 6), the question is, how long would it invade and how many thousands people would it kill to secure the future of the chosen people. Given a chance to kill these many people and do as much destruction, with as much available force it has at its disposal, anyone just needs to sit and assess the damage that has never been done in human history to impose a system, irrespective of its being right or wrong.
We have given enough chance to faithless systems for running human affairs and addressing their needs. We have experienced inhumane, merciless, totalitarian political dominations. Whether it was communism or the ongoing secularism, the life of the spirit and the inquiring intellect has been equally denounced, harassed and propagandized.
Let us give faith a chance. Only by the resurrection of religious faith can mankind be kept from total destruction. The material order rests upon the spiritual order. With the weakening of faith and the moral order, things fall apart; mere anarchy is posed upon the world.
We must realize that something horrible is in store for the world in which starving half a million of children to death is a valid price but calling Israel an illegitimate and racist state has become the most serious crime. — Israrul Haque, Jeddah
Give faith a chance
