What is terror?
by galtroarc
True absolute dark terror is having to live in a community, a society, a country or a world where religion or other social norms have devolved to the extent that the helpless are punished for being helpless – as it has in Saudi Arabia.
A country where a rape victim is jailed for 6 months and given 200 lashes because she was alone with a man (man?) who then gang raped her with six of his buddies has given up all pretensions to morality – it has soaked up inhumanity to the extent that justice is no longer a recognizable noun.
What is wrong with these people? Generations have lived under an interpretation of a religion that has been passed through dark prisms repeatedly till all color is gone from any light that this religion once perhaps contained – but GBud, they still call it light!
They didn’t stop there though. They called the wretched soul an adulteress…for getting raped!
The pain this woman must be going through…how will she ever gain peace again, GBud? Will she ever know it’s not her fault, will she ever know that she has to live through this but it *will* end, that her suffering is impermanent, that this is but a moment? If she doesn’t, if nobody speaks this into her ears – her world will kill her and then decry her to death for the crime of murder.