The despicable and reprehensible jubilation and gloating that follows the most inhuman of sectarian attacks insults human dignity thoroughly
The reason for the rapid pace at which fundamentalism has engulfed society is because the state deliberately sponsored and proliferated the regressive ideology of its religion’s superiority and allowed fundamentalism to devour the fragile body of religious tolerance, civil liberties and secularity. These trends were targeted because it wanted to impose its own religio-nationalist ideology and identity, while in these trends were seeds of identities and ideas radically opposed to that destructive ideology. To allow its ideology and identity to prosper, it desperately and urgently needed to crush the culture, history, languages and freedoms of the nationalities and minorities that resided here for centuries before the creation of this state.
Knowing that without imposition of its ideology the old nations would resist its hegemony and illegal rule, the indoctrinators employed the principle of Voltaire’s thought: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” To ensure that the majority would believe the absurdity they presented as truth, they passed the Objectives Resolution on March 12, 1949, which guaranteed a state favouring the establishment’s ideology. The state relentlessly and single-mindedly used the pulpit, the press, education system and all instruments of coercion, i.e. the army, police and bureaucracy, to implement it. With unlimited resources at their disposal, they not only succeeded in marginalising the contending ideologies, trends, ideas and cultures but also succeeded in intimidating most proponents of opposing thoughts and movements.
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