NO one is worse than somebody who kills innocent people and presents them as a sacrifice to God so he is rewarded with paradise for his detestable actions. At least this is what the killer strongly believes. This is a basic rule in the ideology of the takfiris (people who label others as infidels because they do not share their religious beliefs). The takfiris kill in cold blood and without any mercy. They strongly believe that when they explode themselves to kill others who do not share their ideology, they will immediately go to heaven. A clear evidence of this is the young Saudi man who exploded himself on Friday in a mosque in Qudaih village in the eastern Qatif region, killing 21 innocent congregates and injuring more than 100 others. As there is a silver lining to every cloud, the disaster has further cemented our national unity and reinforced our social fabric. Saudis everywhere in the country have stood by their compatriots in Qatif. They have extended every possible support to the bereaved residents of Qatif. Hundreds of citizens who came from various areas donated large quantities of blood to save the lives of the injured. They also conveyed their condolences to the victims of the catastrophe, which hit the entire country, not only the village. However, for the sake of the homeland, let us be frank with ourselves. Let us openly admit that there are among us people who intentionally or unintentionally circulate the hate messages on social media. The messages use abhorrent language to badmouth others who do not share their ideologies. They also doubt the nationalism of these others just because they do not share their views. For many of us, these hate messages have become a normal feature of our daily life. Some of us will immediately resend them to others after reading them. On many occasions, we circulate these messages among us without even thinking of the mistake we are committing. We have to put our finger on the problem. We have to openly admit that what we are seeing today is the biological child of the closed and dark minds who have been influencing the religious domain for a long time. The minds of darkness have been agitating revenge against the followers of the other religions and sects. They attack them from every forum. They also use the social media tools and the print media to spread their venom. We watch them passively while they are attempting to destabilize our country but we do not move to do anything about them. You will see the dark minds keeping silent after tragedies like the Qudaih disaster and many others before them, as if they were not concerned. They will detach themselves from these kinds of tragedies as if they are not the real instigators or that they are directly or indirectly responsible. Just a little time after the tragedy falls, they will come out of their holes again to continue spreading hate, agitation and vindictiveness as if the country has not gone through a catastrophe that has claimed many innocent lives. These people are more dangerous to the country than its external enemies. They are here only to seed dissension among us and to tear out our national unity and to undermine our social fabric. The important question here is, how long are we going to ignore the perpetrators of darkness? For how long are we going to neglect their danger? Why do we give them the opportunity to spread hatred against other religions and sects? Are we going to take strict measures against them or let them get away with it until we are struck by another disaster? Despite the current regional changes and the existence of enemies outside waiting to jump on us, we should not keep silent about our enemies domestically. Nothing is more important than the stability of the country and the cohesion of its population.
