Who is the enemy?

I always grow mad whenever people do something they consider good to harm harmony. I'm talking about the extremists, or if safe to say, the radicals who spread worries among people around the country. I was fed up with them once or twice. And another day I couldn't help shouting at them, or at least, at the paper reporting their radical actions. 'Who do you think you are? God?'

The reactive actions as the expression of anger are human. It is a way of releasing the natural emotion of human being. We are born with this inherit instinct. Any time we feel threatened, we would take a defensive or offensive actions as the manifestation of the feeling. However, having that revealed or expressed, we should want to switch back to normal state where the anger becomes history, forgiveness.

Many people from different religious backgrounds are insecure and keeping an anger inside.  Moslem extremists are afraid that the country would be Christianized and the other way around, Christians feel that they are socially and politically threatened.

We are alike. We defend ourselves, our existence. We are on the similar circumstance, but the problem is we are on the opposite side to each other. If I were at their shoes, I might have done the same. And similarly, if they were on our shoes, they would have responded so.

I wonder what makes us on the opposite side to each other. Are we meant to be? Or else are we making ourselves on the opposite? If we are responsible for this oppositeness, then we have troubled ourselves. We create our own hell to be lived in.

A friend of mine told me, 'It's just different!' responding on a difference between western and easter values.

This can also be practiced here. It is just different. Period! Don't try to make it the same!

We might need to re-examine who or what the threats really are. We've got to find it out. That's the real enemy threatening us and awakening our born instincts.  

This posting is personal. It does not represent any belief nor certain organisation.