No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.
Interpretation
Understanding the roots of terrorism requires listening to those who have experienced it.
This quote emphasizes that individuals are not inherently born as terrorists; rather, it is a culmination of experiences and circumstances that can lead them down a dangerous path. Deeyah Khan urges society to learn from the stories of those who have engaged in terrorism and later returned, advocating that such insights are crucial for preventing others from embarking on a similar trajectory towards violence and extremism.
In practice
In a community talk on combating extremism.
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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