The Great Divide

Since the attacks on Lebanon by Israel the divide between Muslims seems to be growing. Not that the divide wasn’t already close to a rift before that, but I think that within the Muslim community people have begun to take sides on a more macro scale than before. People have started to side with moderates, the angry (or as the media forces us to call them extremists), and the dejected. More and more it seems that the moderates that were a force on themselves have been siding with either of the groups. People have realized that there really is no ground between the dejected and the angry and that the world really doesn’t listen to the people who are in between but rather to the people who are extremely angry or extremely dejected.

The rift didn’t start now, but it has been festering in the community for about 1300 years and this is just another facet that we are seeing of this dark side of our Islam that we so toot our horn at. The rift between Shiites and the Sunnis has been there for almost 1300 years irrespective of the fact that it was political at first and then turned into a religious rift. The worst part about this is that this rift is following the entropy theory of the world. It gets bigger and bigger. Few years ago people were open to ideas and even inter Islamic faith relationships and now despite understanding what it might ensue people are not ready to accept the fact that there can ever be a union between the two sexes from the different part of Islam.

This is but a small example of what this divide has done, and there are so many other things that we have to keep at bay in order to keep this rift from drifting apart (solely on the internal forces). The people who want nothing but to keep Islam in this position have only but to fuel the fire and it will catch on like the fire in the forest.

I have thought about this long and hard and it seems that there is nothing that can resolve this rift other than a complete breakdown of images, ideas and revolutions of how we look, feel and think about each other and as we already know that has not been successful in the past, one can always hope though.