Allah is the Protector of those who have faith: from the depths of darkness He will lead them forth into light. Of those who reject faith the patrons are the evil ones: from light they will lead them forth into the depths of darkness. They will be companions of the fire, to dwell therein.
Surat al-Baqarah, Verse 257

I realize i may be walking a fine line with this discussion but it’s something i’ve been thinking about for a while….something, really, that has been disturbing me for a while. Excuse me if it isn’t fully fleshed out yet. I’m still pondering it.

I remember in sophomore year of college i took a class with Professor Sarah Shields called “Modern Muslim World.” It was a good class with a good professor who was surprisingly pro-Muslim, considering our current global political situation. We studied some of the history of Iraq (the US was quite early in the war at that time) and watched a film about Saddam’s early interactions with Kurds and Shia’s. Anyone who knows anything about this relationship knows what an inhuman and hellish scenario it was, with Saddam and his henchman stopping at nothing to get control of the land and its inhabitants.

As i sat there watching this film, i felt myself getting angrier and angrier. Livid is more like it. Fumingly furious. And a new sensation that, as far as i can remember, never felt before - or at least never felt as strongly or in any way that particularly mattered.

Hatred.
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