Kenyan Mobs Taking Out Witches
AP: “A group of up to 300 young men have burned to death 11 people suspected of being witches and wizards in western Kenya — in some cases slitting their victims’ throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said.” iht.com
See, this is the problem, and it applies to the Middle East as well. When people approach ideological and cultural divides with force, we are doomed. No ideological problem will ever be solved with invasions, throat slitting, or fear-mongering.
When that doesn’t work, we crawl up back into a ball and think, “Well shit, perhaps problems of the mind should be dealt with using the mind … ”
It’s like trying to explain to a racist he’s wrong by kicking his ass. We’ve just taught him that now not only is he further separated from the rest of his culture, he’s also a martyr. Good work.
Let’s slit the throats of witches and set them on fire. That will teach others not to … what? Let’s scare people in the Middle East with bombs. That’s helped so far … how? No number of bombs or trucks or scare tactics will ever bridge the divide between our culture and theirs, and that is what we’ve never really been able to fully grasp as a group of individuals who all (at the heart of our personal politics) want the same thing.
Appeasing is not the same thing as acknowledging that there is not just one answer for every question.
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