Suicide bombing, a psychological disease?
I think these days everyone knows about suicide bombing, especially the people northern areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan would know much better because they have suffered from this most. Being a Pakistani and for that matter human being I am very sad about this but my sadness won’t do any good for the course so I thought to share my ideas to express my grief.
First and foremost we need to clear our mind about who these bombers are, most people would believe that suicide bombers are some radical and fascist person belongs from some region, some religion or of some ethnicity. But this is not the case, suicide bombing is a psychological phenomena or a psychological disease which anyone can suffer from but people with less temperament and less education are more susceptible.
The main cause of this psychological disease is extreme emotions; it got to be something extreme running in your mind which is causing you to kill yourself and others. I could see following as main factors motivating someone for this heinous act.
Extreme Despair: the major cause behind this motivation, note I didn’t use the term psychological disease this time. Because this is understandable if someone kills your loved ones for no reason you going to definitely retaliate in extreme possible way. Good examples of such cases are in Palestines, Kashmir or Sri Lanka. So I think BIG DADDIES should try to solve their problem and give them their right instead calling them terrorists.
Religious and Social illiteracy: This is called brain washing, some people thinks that they are committing suicide for their religion but unfortunately this not correct. No religion particularly Islam allows killing innocent people, so if someone thinks this is for religion then definitely there is something wrong, our religious organizations and parties should come forward to stop spreading this false belief. One way could be ‘Tableghe-Jamaat’ these guys could go to northern areas and invite and motivate people about the religion and convince them that this terrorism in not religion.
Negligence: discrimination is another major factor for suicide motivation, neglected people found themselves insecure, oppressed and hence susceptible for this brain wash for the sake of their rights. BLA is a good example.
What lies on us as responsible citizens?
Well theoretically there is no solution for suicide bombing, we can minimize the damage but can’t prevent it. In broader perspective our ultimate goal should be to study and analyze the causes behind this. The most important thing is mitigate the problems mentioned above, if someone is oppressed we need to take care them give them their right; if someone is neglected we need to give them their deserved attention or if someone is brain washed we need to bring their senses back.
If I focus to NWFP then there is a lot we can do in order to tackle talibinization and terrorism.
1. Educate people; an educated society itself is a major cure for this disease by education I also mean religious education.
2. Socialize people into sports and other healthy activities.
3. Be socially aware of what is happening around, any suspicious act should be reported to concerned authorities.
4. Responsibilities also lies on religious organization to go and visit these places, invite people to talk, to discuss open their mind and penetrate.
5. Build patriotism, there is no doubt that in NWFP there is a big foreign involvement to support this terrorism against the state of Pakistan. So we need to build the patriotism for the country in the heart of local people, if we able to do that they themselves become shield to stop terrorism.
In the end, I know there are some groups who are running this business (CIA/RAW/MOSAD) but it’s the common innocent people who have been used as weapon. I am sure that this fight cannot be won through weapons, the amount of dollars that US have spent on this ‘War on Terror’ if half of this was spent on education and infrastructure the situation would have been entirely different.
Look forward to your comments..
Nasir
