Ravana of the 21st century

Radicalisation is the 'Ravana' of the modern world. What we are seeing today, is a technologically advanced but morally backward world. Religious extremism, communal riots, discrimination, on the basis of caste, gender, social status, be it anything, are nothing but an example of a sick mentality.
Radicalisation has a vast definition but in simple words, radicalisation is nothing but adopting an extreme stand or ideas based on the religious ideals and aspiration. The major cause of global terrorism is nothing but an outcome of radicalisation or religious extremism in other words. The root cause behind the origin of any religion apart from the spiritual aspect was to transform our uncivilised ancestors into civilised human beings. Whosoever according to the stories started that particular religion, had the purpose of keeping all the population under a certain law so that there will be a discipline among these people. The same job is done by constitutions today. So the cause behind the rules and regulations mentioned in the Bible, Quran, Geeta and Guru Granth Sahib are justified. Perhaps that was the stepping stone for the development of modern humans. But here comes a paradox, that unlike the constitutions, these religious texts has no option of amendments in the rules and regulations. What I feel, there is actually no need of any amendments, so perfectly those things are kept, but how they are being projected in front of the common people, is the matter of concern.
At that time when these religions were formed, the population was uncivilised, and by the rule of nature, the only thing that can put them on the line of discipline, is the fear of something, for example the concept of Sin in Christianity, Haram in Islam, and Paap-Punya in Hinduism and Sikhism. What we are seeing in radicalisation today, is the misuse of these regulations of our religious texts by terrorists and politicians to serve their agenda. Their main targets are jobless, emotional, unaware people, who by the name of god, gets ready to kill innocent people, gets ready to fight with the fellow countrymen on the grounds of caste and religion.
If I went into details, there are hundreds of examples, but the bottom line is, we as a civilised human beings should come into play and become aware, stop trusting radicalised data, stay updated, read things from a trusted source and not from your community WhatsApp group, be aware of the surrounding, be an aware citizen. If we as people start making a progress towards peace, these negative powers won't be able to do any harm to the humanity.

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