We tend to categorize the world as black and white and simplify reality. The other day I was thinking about a situation. I thought I had a beer with Ravana (the demon king of Indian epics) in Lanks. The situation is as follows.
Lanka is surrounded by Rama's armies led by Hanuman. Ravana is distraught. He has these nightmares and imagines that he is going to be dead. He laments that Rama, from a far northern land, wants to destroy Lanka. But he doesn't want to give up his interest in getting Sita.Here Sita is the metaphor for his self interests, it could be in real world a guy wanting to build his wealth at any cost. Even if he has to sacrifice some innocent people on the way. It is like kind of guy who believes in my way or highway come what may. He won't hesitate to kill some innocents on the way. He could be a Hindu or Muslim or Christian, it doesn't matter. Evil exits everywhere, just as good does. Mohamed sacrificed a lot of people in Arabia to get his booty.Arabia was a desert land, it needed fools from South Asia or Europe to come and spend money there. It's like you legalize prostitution in Las Vegas to make people come to this hopeless infertile land
What happens next and what Ravana asks from me will be described later.
