Every human person on this world has a fundamental right of respect and integrity for the person he or she is. Nobody has ever the right to take someone's life. This is my view of people as an image of God. But these are also fundamental human values, if you are religious or not. Now I am confronted with people who are thinking the opposite and who are rejecting these fundamental rights. More than that, they are denying the right of existence of everybody who doesn't join them in their world of darkness where the words 'love your neighbour', have no meaning. Killing everybody who has the bad luck to be in the neighbourhood of their bombs, they are killing innocent people in the name of Islam. I refuse to believe this. This is not Islam. I think it is time that we, people of this world, religious or not, stand up and unite us against this terror, which is a complete denial of everything that is good and valuable in this world. And once and for all, stand up against their denial of the value of human life.
Frans de Smit (The Netherlands)
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