The Power Behind the Language

The Power Behind the Language
Language has a significant role in constructing and deconstructing subject; and language itself is one cultural aspects utilized also for creating the violence. Language contains the constructive power but also the destructive power. Language that contains the destructive power can easily excites the emotional reaction of the people which is conducive to violence. In the capitalist global era, there are some expressions of language that have stereotyped and stigmatized conceptions. These two characters of the understanding sharpen also the condition and situation that induce to violence, even they justify the subjective prejudices that strengthen the reason to do violence.
The stereotyped conception means a conceptual insight about the characters of a social group based on the subjective prejudices, and this conceptual insight is really not true. The stereotyped images have seriously colored up the social interaction that stood upright very often to the destructive expressions of the language. The Indonesian Christians, for example, have stereotyped ideas about the West and Moslems. They consider that the West as the people who are clever, intellectual, and modern civilized society; and Moslems are considered as the people who have no prestige, gambler, orthodox, stupid, poorer, the existence of women in the public domain have no position, uneducated women, even uncivilized society, and they are sociologically able to be marginalized from the modern lifestyle.
The stigmatized conception is connected with the word or the negative idiomatic expression stamped or labeled to a certain person or a certain social group. The Indonesian Christian hard-lined group have stamped Moslem people, especially Indonesian-Moslems as the fundamentalists, and terrorists. Meanwhile, the Islamic hard-lined group have stamped the non-Moslems, especially the Christians as kāfir harbī and the unclean (najis). During the celebration of ‘Ied al-Fitr and Christmas, it is impossible for them to shake hands and to give greetings to other group. In the social riots of Poso, Indonesia, for example, the Christians came into amuck and burnt down the houses and mosques of Moslems, and then Moslems did the same to destroy the churches and their houses, right after Christians had teased and mocked Moslems by saying: ‘fundamentalists’, ‘terrorists’.
Obviously, the certain words or the certain idiomatic expressions are not, of course, the reason of social riots and violence. But the habits of using the certain negative words or idiomatic expressions with the stereotyped and stigmatized conceptions can have negative impact on creating the sentiment of hate in the social interaction. Those words are really considered as the time-bomb that is ready to be exploded.
To minimize the social riots in this language level, we have to maximize the functions of institutional dialogue, sponsored by Christian and Moslem institutions, and dialogue in community, sponsored by multicultural intellectuals, the elders of multiethnic, and the clergymen of interfaith to prove that they need the dialogue of life as the Scriptural Society. As the victims of cultural politic or others by the Western capitalists, they have to internalize the common global wisdoms, and religious moralities among them. In this context, both models are important as a way out to overcome the social crisis in multidimensional affairs. Indeed, these dialogues are really important to share the religious experiences among the people who have the basic of Semitic heritage, mainly about the origin and the common platform of Abrahamic faiths, especially to share the discourses of the kingdom of God, that is, the Messianism and Mahdism in the era of globalization order. Talking about the reappearances of both holy men, namely Jesus, the Judahite Messiah, and the Mahdi, the Kedarite Messiah in the Semitic episteme who will use the divine values of common global morals to judge the bad doers, and bring the peace, and justice without exploitations of economy, politic, and dehumanization, etc.