What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today?
How should you get people involved in addressing it, without allowing the problem to appear too overwhelming? How do we use our interconnectedness to act appropriately in addressing it?
As Muslims, how should we balance prioritizing the needs of our communities as smaller parts of the World, and the problems of the World as a whole? Are they mutually exclusive in terms of how we address them?
Matthew said
The rape of children is the world’s biggest problem. It leads to most of the other ills we suffer. It is endemic across all societies, all religions, creeds and races.
Children nor women are the property of men. All humans have equal rights and equal weight. The fundamental balance of power being based on the physical strength of men must end such that this problkem is addressed.
Women need to be educated as to what to look for. Children need to be educated as to what people may or may not do to them. Doctors and other medics need training in spotting the problem and dealing with the consequences.
The anger generated by unresolved childhood sexual abuse is destroying our world. It is harnessed by terrorism and despotic governments (the USA for example) alike to yoke the population to false causes.
just_another_teen said
Look, the biggest problem is lables. I’m not talking about food lables. This is talking about how people just call eachother names. How people catagorize people in their brains. This is accounting for racism, teen suicide, and maybe it’s because of lables that people become “bad people”. People who do bad stuff were probably labled as a nobody or something in school. Just treat others nicely and not call people names. If we address this problem there wouldn’t be war or anything because people wouldn’t fight for reasons so stupid. It is so simple. If we fix this stuff like desease wouldn’t matter anymore because people would be so less miserable. People would be HAPPY. It wouldn’t matter who you are, you would be treated nicely. Nothing else really matters. The lables are the source of all these other problems. Don’t you get it?