PLANET TIME, FOR HUMANS?

The Paris attacks of ISIS reveal:

1. vulnerability of nations despite having  strong police forces. In our country, the Philippines, the police are in the know of four terrorist leaders in the south, how they are going about teaching people about terrorism -- how to make bombs, etc. I wonder why they are being let loose - to be wiped out once all the groups they have gone through are pinpointed?

2. the extreme suicidal tendencies of terrorists in carrying out their missions; a recent report said that the woman who blew up in Paris did not do it herself but a more recent update said that the terrorists could be high in drugs when perpetuating their violent acts;

3. the helplessness of ordinary citizens in terms of being protected from terrorist attack. In our country, terrorists could be existing that they seem to be not the hardliner type although those found in Mindanao are -- as they blow up buses;

5. the existence of violent minds despite the leaps of intellectual developments in first world countries -- Huffington Post reported that  "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, brutal head of ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham), is not only a terrorist leader, but a poet with a Ph.D. from Baghdad's Islamic University. We have just managed to obtain a transcript of his doctoral defense of his dissertation, "On Creating an International Caliphate," and are happy to share it with our readers. A "doctoral defense," for those unfamiliar with academic procedures, is a formal questioning held before two distinguished faculty members in the same field, after a candidate has completed his dissertation. It is the last step in obtaining the Ph.D. "

Where would such doctors get their unethical concepts of annihilating people?

This shows how the educational sector is not quite up to par in instilling the ideas of human rights among students. Maybe we need to have a review of all the educational systems and find out why violent minds could exist or could develop despite such a high degree of studies.

6. the weakness of the women's movement in the world to propagate the idea of peace -- of peaceful settlements of conflicts. Most of the speakers against terrorism in the Muslim world are men. I have not seen women except as victims. I think that Muslim women leaders should emerge as speakers -- and all the media could contribute to this effort -- decrying the mindlessness of terrorism of all kinds.

and corollarily, the continuing adherence to might against might, arms against arms in soving international conflicts.

7. the lack of respect of Isis for the United Nations. I think that when a group does that then everyone should be so concerned to get all those anti-humanity groups arrested and incarcerated for life. Side by side with that let us all propagate the significance of the UN Declaration of Human Rights in all the languages. Peace should be term that is understandable in its simplest and complex forms to all the citizens of the world. Time is ticking and we never know how long we shall still live on this planet. 


Despite the high level of development of military and police forces in countries like France and Spain, which have been settings of bombings, the latest was last Friday's attacks in Brussels, yet the drive to contain terrorists seems to be too weak in the face of planned violence. There simply is no way to predict, or even contain such violent minds from carrying out their aims.

2. The suicidal tendencies of the attackers are simply beyond our imagination. They completely forget their humanity and just go through their violent plans without regard for innocent human lives. Does this not show that the United Nations appears to be very weak in terms of propagating the idea of the "dignity of every human being?" How come from the time the UN was created until now, wars have not abated and seem to be escalating even?

I once had a talk with an a bullet sller and he told me that the inventor had made sure that the bullet would kill the individual that it hits instead of ricocheting or just going through the body as the old bullets usually did. 

How far should inventors go to perfect products that would snuff out lives? A question to the departmet of science and technology. 

I think that the department of education could contribute a lot to bringing about total peace in the world if it should created lots of literacy books on the matter in the languages of the terrorists-- syrian, pakistani, etc. I think that peace has not been recognized as the highest factor for existence because everyone is caught up in that circle to find the perpetrators. It is time to sit back and view the whole situation from an educational, sociological, philosophical and spiritual point of view.