Holding the Hand of God

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Holding the Hand of God
By Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/14/2014 at 10:33:26

It is with dismay that one reads the pledge of President Obama to "degrade and destroy'' the Islamic State. He has said that the militant group's latest beheading of a U.S. journalist will only serve to galvanize those seeking to punish the militants.

When President Obama was first elected in Nov 2008, there was great expectation throughout the world that at last here is somebody who by his fresh people-oriented approach to politics, would transform not just the USA but the entire world. It was the same air of optimism that led to him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

However after 5 years we find that we are dismayed by his speech pledging to counter the Islamic State. There is nothing wrong in his declaration that 'we will not be intimidated'. But what it portends is only a further cycle of getting involved in a war against 'evil' that is going on repeatedly in the gulf region.

A great man said that 'We are playing into the hands of evil because we refuse to hold the hand of God'. Exactly this is happening in the gulf region as well as elsewhere, where cycles of violence keep repeating. What is the meaning of holding the hand of 'God'? It is simply having faith in God as the ultimate patron of the world, having faith that he takes care of everything including the task of correcting grievous sinners.