Many parents in western societies struggle daily with
children who are habitual drug takers. I know from personal experience, having
a nephew who has battled drug addiction for many years just how powerless
parents can be. Many of these kids come from good homes, have great parents but
they have an addiction that is more powerful.
This got me thinking about the parents of kids and young
men who are seduced by radical Islam. They also often have no control over the
lives of their kids. They aren't necessarily all bad parents, but their
children are seduced by a different drug, the drug of hate. The drug of
religious ideology. Like drug addicts, hate often takes time to fully take
hold, but once you are conditioned breaking away is almost impossible.
Jafar "Jeff" Siddiqui is an American Muslim
blogger. He wrote an article recently From Kuffar To Slaughters where he
mentioned the science of something known as Yield Point. After a certain amount
of stress is applied to an object, it loses the resilience to return to its
original shape and becomes more and more deformed on a permanent basis.
He goes on to say this is true for the environment as
well and for communities of people too. I would add, individuals to the mix as
well.
This theory is particularly interesting when applied to
the 'brainwashing' or the changing of Muslim youth by the teachings of hatred
by radical Muslim imams.
I have posted the link to this article here. It's a very interesting read and it's a
message that I hope many; Muslim parents and us non-Muslims read.
For that reason I'm not so swift to just automatically
brand everyone whose families are impacted by their children becoming
radicalised. As we found out recently
from a couple of incidents in the UK, the parents had no idea their sons were
off fighting in the ME. Just like parents of drug users often have no idea
where their children are. Sadly, both a
very likely to receive a knock on the door at some time with the news their
children have been killed or indeed harmed others.
Lastly we have those on social media who openly state we
should kill all Muslims. They are suggesting we wipe out 23% of the world's
population; every man, woman and child. That
is 1.6billion people. Unbelievable.
So yes to condemn is easy but to control is at times
very, very hard, if not impossible. By
all means we should be alarmed over what we see happening. And certainly over
what we see happening on our own doorstep. But let's be fair. Let's not brand
everyone. I believe to hate everyone based on the behaviour of some makes us no
better than those we criticise. Perhaps it signifies we also have surpassed our own Yield Point. I do hope not.
