When a Super Power Fails to Control One Crazy Man, More Crazy Men Will Act

The act is strongly deplorable. It can’t be justified by any reason whatsoever. This act doesn’t come due to rationalism; it rather comes out of crazy emotions. Such acts have to be controlled rather than protected under different pretexts. Writing on such a topic doesn’t come solely from rationalism either but out of emotions that have been flared up due to the provocation by such ill-expression of emotions by the crazy men who have gone wrong recently.

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The first of the horrible and equally deplorable acts was committed on the 20th of March by a stupid Christian Pastor Wayne Sapp in the presence of an equally crazy Pastor Terry Jones at a church in Florida, USA thousands of miles away from the place where even a more deplorable reaction has taken place today and where at least 8 UN staffers of foreign nationality have been killed by a mob of emotionally charged protesters in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. The protesters, who were protesting peacefully and marching towards the UN Headquarters in the city, were registering their protest against the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran, believed by the Muslims as the last message from Allah to man and the most sacred book in Islam. Suddenly a small group from the protesters hijacked the mob and attacked the UN guards by grabbing their weapons and starting to fire on them. As a result at least 8 UN staffers were confirmed dead. Two of them had been beheaded while the dead staffers include a woman too. Since it was Friday, holiday in Afghanistan, Afghan staffers were on holiday and only the foreign staffers were inside the UNAMA compound at the time of the attacks.

Similar protests took place in the western city of Herat. The day was named as “day of anger” by the protesters; however, no such incident has been reported from that city.

After the heinous crime committed by a mob of religiously motivated crazy crowd in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, every human’s heart must be crying but who should be held responsible? The stupid pastor who sparked such provocation in the Muslim world? The stupid cleric who raged the crowd by lying that hundreds of copies of the holy Quran had been burnt in the US? The US government for failing to control such a stupid act or the Afghan city’s police force for failing to provide enough security to such sensitive areas?

Even the most genuine answers can’t bring the lives of those 8 staffers of UNAMA who have been brutally murdered today in the name of a book that neither teaches violence on innocents nor demands such acts in its name. I guess this incident has left a very harsh lesson, and the lesson is if the US, being the sole superpower, can’t control a single stupid pastor from committing such a provocative act in the name of freedom of speech and freedom of expression by disgracing a community of 1 billion’s sacred book, how come Afghanistan, being the world’s most corrupt nation on earth and a failed state prevent thousands of crazy clerics from putting such a disgrace onto the face of humanity.

The unfortunate incident has also left another lesson behind. Social change is not something that you could impose on a population by force. If you do so, you run into another set of problems. And that stands true and well proven by today’s incidents. If you give cover to the stupid acts of your citizens with the pretexts of freedom of expression and freedom of speech, Afghan citizens can’t be stopped from committing reactionary acts that unfortunately usually come in the form of brutality against humanity in its most practical forms.