Unheard Echoes..

Life isn't what we always assume, or how we expect it to be. From childhood to adolescence, all we seek is obsession. Obsession with cartoons, action figures and pseudo heroes, and as we grow up the childish, immature fascinations turn into infatuations. Boys idolize sportsmen, singers, headbangers, rock stars whereas girls dedicate their teenage to handsome actors, entertainers, and even athletes( the broad shouldered, manly ones). Like cologne, these phases evaporate as quickly as they diffuse, when reality finally dawns upon us, shattering the farcical mirages we believed in. Artificial and airbrushed, the collagen  and botox injected faces no longer withhold the charisma and charm which they once emanated, not because they aren't as perfect as before, but because our eyes can pervade through the facades. And then there are the struggles of life itself, which transcend the realms of romanticism, inevitably thrusting us into the coarse hands of reality. We finally remove the blindfold at one point, and come face to face with the real world.
 A world plagued with  racial persecution, religious intolerance, fundamentalism and prejudices isn't liveable, yet we languish in the deepest, darkest pits of injustice everyday. The bloodbaths, genocides and human rights violations that erupt across the world may not wound us physically, but the psychological traumas of having to sit in front of the idiot box, and watch blood soaked, grotesque corpses being carried away, is a torture of its own kind. Imitating an ostrich and burying one's head in the sand might help ease the mental turmoil, but ignorance to such atrocities is considered as a sign of insensitivity and apathy, an allegation not worth being accused of.  When you  question the shameful impotence of ''peacekeeping'' organizations in putting an end to communal violence, riots and bombings  ripping apart nations, the reciprocation is as vexing as the silence of convicted criminals.Nobody cares.
We,as an ummah, are enduring one of the worst phases of our existence. Ramifications of being a Muslim manifests itself in widespread and mindless subjection to unjust prejudices, persecutions and condemnations everywhere. All over the world, fingers are being pointed at the sanctity of our religion, questioning the verisimilitude of our holy scriptures and figures that command devotion and emulation are being ridiculed..yes ISIS, taliban, Al qaeda and countless other cults have besmirched our identify and left us in tatters, but does that mean that we deserve to be eyed with suspicion,fear and contempt wherever we go? It isn't just about being bombed and shelled by the west like Afghanistan and Palestine has been for decades, nor about the massacres in Norway and Egypt and sporadic violence erupting in France, or the unthinkable bloodshed, anarchy in Syria, nor the genocide against children in Pakistan ..it's a lot more than what we see,hear, think, believe or imagine
It's Islamophobia and it's a thousand times more pernicious..
May He grant us strength and forbearance..