The death of a young fundamentalist

Not that long ago there was a news report of three teenage girls who had self radicalised into fundamentalist Islam and decided to take a trip to Raqa in Syria. Their plan was to become jihadi brides. As is normally the case ignorance prevailed over reason. The elegant advertising campaign through youtube and social media had attracted these girls to something they thought was a higher calling, something to be more important than their own lives. They had led sheltered lives at homes in East London. Where their parents no doubt loved them very much, however their parents were not going off and fighting wars in foreign countries. Why this did not occur to these young ladies is probably the beginning of the ignorance. The West has freedoms which are easily taken for granted and naivety doesn't account for the history of a country. Ignorance does not account for understanding the freedoms the UK has today is because of the wars which had taken place yesterday. The long struggles of the classes and the social and cultural development of the UK to tender away from the domination of religion. So it is we hear the news Kadiza Sultana has been killed in a Russian air strike on Deash (ISIS).

In a telephone discussion (filmed by ITV news) with her mother, this young lady can be heard saying the borders were closed and she would not escape through PKK territory. When listening to the tone of her voice is is of a silly little girl not understanding it is her life at stake.  Kadisha fled to Syria with two other girls and became disillusioned with life under Daesh. The reality of the situation made her change her mind.  This girl had been hoodwinked by propaganda videos, had she taken a 101 course in advertising or media studies at school she might of understood how media works. How advertisers get viewers to buy into their products. No doubt she had been sitting at home and effectively brain washed herself by watching this video pork pies (lies).

There will always be ignorance especially where there is religion. Religion of any kind loves the blind acceptance of faith and does not allow questioning. If there is one poison in the world more prevalent than any other it is religion. Sadly it is also the one which will never stop to encourage the death of humanity. The apologists will be out in numbers saying not all religion is like this and true believers are compassionate and believe in scripture in a gentle humanly way. Yet in doing so they ignore all the hate and death and ignorance their scriptures provide. They ignore how the dated text explains the creation of the world in date terms, terms which could only be applied at the very time those texts were created. And they certainly were created. Created by men not even women and then used to control them, which is exactly what has happened in the sad case of Kadisha Sultana.