To My Moslem Friends Poem by Gert Strydom

If truly great is the love
of God and man,
why do people
kill themselves
and murder others
with suicide bombs?

Why do they believe
that killing the innocent,
will take them straight
to paradise
and a string of virgins?

Rather most religions teaches
that sinners go
straight to hell,
or did somebody forget
to tell them this?

Do they really think
that there’s glory in killing
and that this monstrous deed
is a kind of virtue?

Somehow when religion
turns to hate,
God is lost from the equation.