IGNORANCE SHOULD NO LONGER BE TOLERATED

In Tanzania, there is a belief that Albinos, for which they are being murdered, are worth money so their parts can be used for Witchcraft. It is believed that 53 Albinos have been murdered for their 'parts' in the past two years. Consequently, 1000 Albinos living there are in perpetual terror for their lives. For more detail, click here. One year ago, Mariam Staford Bandaba of Tanzania, had a hand chopped off and the other arm had to be amputated half way up. She lived but the government will no longer shelter her. She had the courage to name her attackers and now must live among them in continuing terror.

When people act out of ignorance that is perpetuated through brainwashing, tradition, religion, or whatever else keeps the ignorance alive, it cheats too many of our people caught ignorant, from which they cannot but resist change, having been taught to reject other views and having no innate ability to learn or reason for themselves. Their ignorance justifies their actions to them as the murderers of abortion doctors, in the name of saving life!

FGM, female genital mutilation, also called female circumcision, is yet another tradition out of ignorance. There is no reason other than a misogynist one, to justify this barbarism yet women keep the tradition alive by mutilating their daughters or other young girls. If they were medically educated or informed even close to the 21st C. science of the female body, the importance to stress reduction by clitoral stimulation and orgasm, they might begin to understand the ignorance of their actions.

The entire question of whether people should meddle with the ethnic or religious customs of others is a grave one. How one separates ignorance and cruelty from some of these practices and traditions is a serious problem. Maintaining human rights and safety for all humans is at threat by ignorance more than any other form of terrorism. We see that in our own country which is supposed to be so civilized yet we vote politicians into office who burst forth constantly with their ignorance. As long as ignorance prevails, the voters will vote those into office who agree with them and thus the cycle of ignorance gets perpetuated.

Some things have been proven so clearly that there is no longer an excuse for people to remain in faulty belief that the world is flat, there is no evolution; a God no one can produce tells the rest of us what to do through those self-appointed within a religion of their choice. When people go around spouting these ignorant-of-the-proven-truth facts, society should be able to give them less of a podium than we are currently as a society providing for them. We should stop making heroes out of the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks of our society.