In March, 2011, when pastor Wayne Sapp set afire the holy book of Islam, the Koran, he never thought his action in far-away Florida, would spiraled into a convolution of arson and human carnage elsewhere. In Kandahar, Afghanistan, some innocent staffs of the UN have paid the ultimate price. Religion extremism has come to define modern living. International diplomacy and internal politics of nations have been mired in incessant religion conflicts in a more lethal dimension since 9/11. It has been a battle between the West (Christians) and the Middle-East (Muslims), from Nigeria to Egypt, as in Bahrain and Afghanistan; there is no love between brothers and sisters of the two faiths. The death of Osama Bin Ladin, the inspirational leader of Al-Qaida group in a US military-led operation in Abbotadab, Pakistan might mark the denouement of the group operation. But that has not foreclosed the possibility of group’s total incapacity to carry out attacks on innocent souls in their usual characteristic manner. While the US is still trying to access Osama’s computers and flash-drives for sensitive information that could give leads to some other key members of the group, the US, other Western nations, as well the whole world would have to beef-up security to check their operations. The Marxian postulation of religion, as the ‘opium of the people…’ has been repeatedly confirmed with devastating events as that in Kandahar and other religion flashpoints in the world. Religion tolerance has become a hard pill to swallow.
