Kenya Cowards

How can it be anything but cowardly to storm in to a group of unarmed and unsuspecting people and begin shooting them?  I'll never understand why the shooters don't realize just how cowardly their act is.  Do they really think they're being brave because, if caught, they'll have to pay the consequences of their crimes?  That's like calling a thief or rapist brave.  No, terrorists are cowards and idiots who don't know any other way to get their personal point across to people who aren't interested.

Here in southern Ontario, we have had it pretty good with few experiences with terrorists.  We seem to have a lot more trouble these days with gang wars that have taken their disputes from the ghetto to the malls.  As bad as that is, at least they don't deliberately murder innocent bystanders like the terrorists do.  Terrorists want to kill the innocent.

It befuddles me that the terrorists are religious but follow a branch of their religion that makes them believe it's all right to murder innocent people in their quest for...I'm not even sure what their quest is.  Is it retaliation?  Is it to show how powerful their religion is?  Is it only because they seek power?  I think their reasons get lost in the horror of their actions.

All it takes is a charismatic leader who has a destructive agenda and he/she will find followers to carry out the crimes.  There is good and evil in all of us so we need to make the choice to lock the evil away in order for humanity to prosper.  If evil prospers, humanity is lost.

Terrorist action is not only cowardly, it is evil.  I hope that the somehow, some day in the future, children will learn of violence only as a textbook entry about how savage their distant ancestors were.