Will We Ever See Peace In Our Generation?

Extremism is killing people all over the world on a daily basis yet the media only responds when the casualties are European or Caucasians.

We live in an environment where all humans are under extreme cognitive manipulation, what happened in Paris is a constant reality in the Arabian peninsula and Africa.

The questions we must ask are why innocent people are dying? Why the world leaders choose war over peace and stability? Why European foreign policy that is directly linked to extremism is not being evaluated? Why we are ever ready to blame victims i.e refugees as dangerous? Why no study was commissioned on the subsequent policy failures of the war on terror?

The truth of the matter is no one more than the Muslim community suffers from these kind of attacks and the repercussions on a daily basis.

The media needs to stop calling it Islamic terrorism and refer to it as what it is, a war between the Arab world and the western world sadly the Muslim community are stuck right in the middle of this on going madness.

I condemn any killing of innocent people or the vilification of an entire religion. I stand with every citizen who feels the injustices and hypocrisy of today's democracy.

I write this as a father of four young Africans, some who are old enough to  question the senseless loss of life. I feel sorry for them and their generation. Their inheritance is a world of hate and war.

There is no living organism on this planet like that of the human species, we have the ability to be the best support system for each other. We have been blessed with intelligence that has put us at the apex of the food chain.

Yet with all this capacity we are nothing more than animals hell bent on the destruction of our planet and fellow humans.

It's a sad day not because of Paris but because we have no desire to change.

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