Sin and Crime of Hostage-taking
Osamu Ichiyoshi
Friday, 28, March, 2025
When I heard Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds of people hostage on
7, October, 2023, it reminded me of the US embassy hostage crisis in 1979-1981. A group of Iranian
students stormed into USA embassy in Teheran on 4, November, 1979 to take the workers hostage.
The Iranian Islamic revolutionary government did not punish the students. On the contrary, the
government supported them to prolong the crisis until January, 1981.
It seems to me hostage taking is deeply
rooted in our society as discussed in the following.
Gaza crisis
Israel began bombardment and invasion of Gaza. The scale of the destruction and horrendous
casualty of civilians was far greater than that of the Hamas terrorism. Israel accused Hamas of
taking Gaza people as "human shield" but I say Israel took the people hostage restricting them
within Gaza. Most of the casualty could have been avoided if Israel were up to 21 century. They could
have set up safety or liberated zones where the safety and welfare of the people guaranteed. For
more details, see;
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~kaorin57/Israel,%20prove%20you%20are%20not%20Nazis.pdf
Evil nature of state religion
The Hamas terrorism was the trigger but not the cause of the on-going horrendous genocide in Gaza.
The true cause is the Israeli violation of fundamental human rights of Palestinian people in
Palestine for generations. Immediately after erection of Israel in 1948, some 750 thousands of
Palestinians were expelled from their home
land.
In 1967 Israel occupied the whole of Palestine. Israel did not take responsibility to protect the
fundamental human rights of Palestinian people. On the contrary they have kept the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine claiming the land was given to them by God!
Here the evil of state religion is clearly exemplified. For centuries the Old and New Testament was
about the only literature telling about the ancient ages, hence they were believed absolutely true.
But modern archaeology and decipher of ancient writing systems since 19th century have revealed
details about far greater history of the world. It is now clear that the Old Testament is nothing but
amalgamation of legends and stories widely spread in the Ancient Orient. It only gives the Jewish
version of the ancient history.
According to Judaism the Creator God chose
the Jewish people!
This "Chosen by God" ideology naturally raises antagonism among other people wherever the Jewish
people migrate. The Judaism requires all Jewish men circumcised; unnecessary, unhealthy and cruel
requirement. I wonder if this Covenant is still practiced. Anyone who refuses circumcision, according
to Genesis, 17, cannot be in the family of the Jewish people. I think Judaism has thus taken Jewish
people hostage.
The Jewish people have suffered discrimination and persecution everywhere for thousands of years
because of Judaism, culminating in the holocaust during WW2 where 6 million Jewish people were
exterminated by German Nazism. Why could such horrendous genocide occur? My interpretation is
as follows. The state religion of Nazi Germany was supremacy of Aryan races, which is rather a
broad concept. On the other hand Judaism is purely restricted to the Jewish people. The Judaism is
much purer than German Nazism as a state religion. That is why German Nazism so hated the
Jewish people as putting them to the horrible holocaust. It is the Jewish people who were the
greatest victim of Judaism.
State religions take the people hostage by proclaiming they have keys of the only gates for heaven.
Only through the state religions can people be saved, identified and unified with the society they
were born to. Anyone that tries to take other ways should be excluded. Remember a great many
people were persecuted; burnt to death with announcement as heresy, paganism or witchcraft.
Joan of Arc
France was saved by Joan of Arc in the one hundred year war against England in 15th century. But
after France was liberated she was handed over to the Catholic Church who burnt her to death! The
King of France betrayed her because he was a hostage of the religion (or rather for his greed for
political power). The horrible Inquisition erroneously (or intentionally) accused and burned her to
death as a “witch”.
Why did the Catholic Church commit such a horrible and shameful act? Because she claimed she had
heard and was guided by God’s voice. The claim is horrible to the Church and Kingdom because that
breaks the basis of their power; monopoly of the sacred and secular authorities, with which they keep
the people to their hostage.
For more details see
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~kaorin57/Evil%20Nature%20of%20State%20Religions.pdf
Taliban rule in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan today, the secular and sacred powers are monopolized by Taliban. By their special
interpretation of Islam, the government violates the fundamental human rights of women. Denying
higher education to women, they have hindered their own economic and social development. Taking
the nation hostage by their special religion, they have put themselves hostage of ignorance, poverty
and social injustice.
Liberation from hostage states
The people have achieved liberation from the hostage states through the history by democracy and
science & technology. For more details see
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~kaorin57/Natural%20Rights%20of%20Human%20Beings.htm
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~kaorin57/What%20are%20human%20Beings.pdf
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~kaorin57/Religion%20and%20Science.htm
In democracy and science & technology, all people are free and equal. A humble person can make
important discoveries or inventions. It is not essential whether you are rich or poor, healthy or sick,
gifted or ungifted, male or female or whichever nationalities. What matters are the achievements,
truths or efforts. The gates are widely open to everyone. Why not liberate yourself and help others?
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