THE PROMISE OF PARADISE AND THE PRICE TO BE PAID

THE PROMISE OF PARADISE AND THE PRICE TO BE PAID 

This promise of Paradise as reward for martyrdom in war waged against the kafir is a most dangerous proposition. For when zeal and superstition join hands, they form an explosive mix, a detonating mixture causing havoc to civilisation. And history bears ample testimony to it. Civilisations have been rent apart, cultures wiped out, women en masse molested, to put it in allieterated milder terms, men murdered by the hundreds of millions, boys castrated and enslaved to bear watch over captive women cast in harems or sold in the slave markets of Arabia, entire nations converted and reduced to desert culture, places of worship desecrated and destroyed, libraries burnt and heritage obliterated---the list goes on endless. And all in the name of the promise of Paradise with its buxom damsels and blissful sensual life. The first vice, lust, and the third vice, greed, have had their field day and have thrust believers into the night of perpetual ignorance, the very ignorance which they in their vanity aim to remove perforce from the rest of enlightened humanity. What a shame!

Written by Sugata Bose