Unfortunately its not new but especially these days all over the world there is a turmoil, humanity is riddled with the wars of sense of belonging to the groups or ideologies. The conservatism and liberalism are at war yet they both are important to set the rhythm of progress.
You can vote against the hijab or burkini or choose human rights it would take your individual education to make a choice. You could make a decision out of sense of belonging to your belonging groups but is it just? This is the question we all should be able to ask ourselves yet we don’t. As an individual your personal sense of justice is related with don’t do to any one what you don’t like done to you. It has been tried in Canada by the conservatives in the court but human rights prevailed. Logically if you put these issues in the legal systems human rights would and should come on top. The real problem is not the belief system itself, its the individual extreme and passion which makes the individual blind of justice, it smears and gives a bad name to human education.
The beneficial parts of the belief systems can’t be discussed because of the politics of the sense of belonging to belonging groups. The human growth to secularism and democracy took a journey but religions have pointed to them but they did not follow through because of the politics of control.
If we all think the secularism or democracy is better than religious systems then we should keep eyes on the justice and human rights instead of the sense of belonging to our belonging groups because that tolerance and human rights are the real essence of democracy and secularism. If we choose extreme we are no better than other extremists.
When an individual is involved in discrimination it is against the human rights, thus it can’t be right. In all human conflicts, both sides think they are better than the others thus prejudice takes hold of the groups and the belonging individual.
Prejudice is an infection humanity has been suffering for a very long time, so far no religion or human governing system has been able to cure us, so it is time to start from the bottom up by educating one individual at a time. In the conflicts the suffering parties are not the parties, it is the individual and the individual him/herself stokes the fire and burns in it willingly, because of the personal love loss thus it is only the individual who can be the answer to the solutions to our conflicts.
Nationalism and religions have been at odds for a very long time, but these days their conflicts are not simmering they are boiling, the chemical weapons have been already used, if provided the nuclear weapons could be used as well, if we don’t start to belong to the humanity instead of our groups. This can’t happen unless the ordinary man/woman takes charge and educates him/herself to become a CEO of his/her life and learn to balance the politics of sense of belonging with sense of freedom, learns the importance of this life over the life after death and understands the pain of the love loss of others all at the same time.
Sense of belonging has the power to tear one apart from the inside out, especially when the individual is not educated and can’t call the shots for him/herself. If you look around you will see people doing exactly the opposite to the teachings of their respective religions on the name of nationalism and committing acts of treason or crimes against their nations in the name of their respective religions.
The things are wrong with in the individual thus the key to solve these problems is with in the individual as well. You can drop all the bombs, throw the money or sweep it under the rug and close your eyes, it just can’t be solved unless the individual is educated, so gather all the money or even create a new poverty and education tax to treat the whole world as one and choose the humanity over the nations or religions.
This is the time when the need of the individual education is at its highest, because both the religions and nationalism are not going to back down because of the egotistic sense of belonging. There have been several attacks against the schools and universities because, God forbid if the individual gets educated he/she may not join in the wars. That is exactly what is needed by the individual to take the winds out of the sails of war ships to stop the conflicts, its the individual who has to man or woman up against the powerful sense of belonging to the groups. He/she has to choose humanity over the nations or the religions.
We all carry a personal sense of justice regardless of race, color, gender nation or religions. God has blessed us all and I repeat each and everyone of us uses and posses the free will and its high time to use it in the name of peace for humanity.
As an individual you could be called an infidel and blamed for treason but if you are an educated CEO you can not only balance the sense of belonging with the sense of freedom, but deep inside of you, you know the only way to belong is to belong spiritually to humanity as a whole.