Angel Gabriel and Muhammed
We are in war. And as a little of it leaks onto our doorsteps there is utter disbelief at the outrage. What is our supposed sanctity? Our taken for granted right to total freedom ? We maintain one rule for us in the enlightenment west, with its freedoms of expression, and another for those on the margins.
Are we not all living on one world? In the west we still live in the pale. On the other side, beyond the precipice, is beyond the pale. War beyond the pale can never be won if it isn't recognised that there is a fine fuzzy line between here and there. One world, one war, one suffering, a common humanity.
Why the surprised outrage? That this horror dared cross that line into our prosperous and self righteous enclave. Is there a division between our supposed paradise of sophomoric consumerism, our moronic inferno of Disney, and that hell out there of lunacy and carnage ?
In the Calvinist concept we are preparing the new Jerusalem for Christ's return by toil of the protestant work ethic.
What else explains this huge conceit of innocence?
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