Cursed People

An American-Bangladeshi blogger, Avijit Roy, was murdered today. He was hacked to death with machetes, while walking back with his wife, after a speaking engagement in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. I felt anger and wondered if countries can be cursed.  What is it about certain societies that their people are capable of using a machete to kill another human being? Not only was the murder gruesome but the reason, completely alien to me. The blogger was murdered for expressing his opinion.

I remember, as a high school kid, the word “Bangladesh” meant poor, starving, dying babies which we had to save. This is the same place for which George Harrison and several other artists organized a benefit concert. It was a big thing – they had Ravi Shankar and his citar and everybody felt they had done something good; they had put a spotlight on Bangladesh. People all over the western world sent all sorts of humanitarian aid to this little place. There was even a brief period during which it was said that Bangladesh “enjoyed a democracy” and we didn’t hear about anything too terrible going on over there. What happened? Is it not possible to help a country and see them have lasting peace? 

According to CNN, Mr. Roy “began one of his final articles by writing that January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in France was “a tragic atrocity committed by soldiers of the so-called religion of peace.”‘ Ah…I see…another “religion of peace” related incident…  I take a deep breath, shake my head and try to keep my heart from tripping into hate because that is exactly what they want.

Yes, there are cursed people and they bring hell to any place where they are able to get a foothold.   They carry a death-wish, it is clear.  They want the West to attack them and we will but the residents, the locals will have to do more than cry.  It is time for people accustomed to clamoring for the U.S. to come rescue them to stand up to evil also, because for too long and too many times, they have allowed these cults to infiltrate back into their societies.

It is also time for the U.S. to realize that we have a problem – we are accustomed to playing superman but we have never needed anyone to come save us.  We have the same evil growing on our soil and we need to acknowledge it and nip it in the bud (if it is still a bud…)

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