The events at Glasgow and London was undoubtably horrific.
People are dying in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and Sudan at a daily basis. That is even more horrific.
It is understandable that in UK Glasgow event was headline.
It is not clear to me why a failed terrorist attempt in the UK, in which nobody is hurt, should make headlines here.
If it does, then it is not clear to me again why daily death in Iraq does not make front page here. At Glasgow, nobody was injured, let alone being killed. Have we gotten used to their death? Or is it that in our mindset, in our culture we are still slaves of the ‘white master’. And when the white master is threatened, we shudder with fear!
Okay, there is another angle to it. One Indian was driving the vehicle involved. A few Indians are being investigated.
What is the big deal? There are many many Indian criminals in various countries. Many Indians get jailed for violence, killings and other crimes in India and abroad. Why are we singling out these two individuals?
How are we so sure?
The investigation is not over yet. Nothing has been presented to any court of law. Yet, the media has already passed their judgement- ‘guilty’. We have aquisced. After all, it comes from our ‘white masters’!
What the hell? Have we lost our minds?
The importance that we give to these terrorists, make their mission successful. They want attention. If we leave them alone, they lose their cause. We should treat them as criminals, and just that.
And then, the old oxymoron- ‘Islamic terrorist’ has cropped up once again. As if Islam by default means ‘go and kill’. If it did, there will not be so many Christians in Saudi Arabia whose ancestors can be traced back to the days of the Prophet (S). They would either have been forcibly converted or killed.
Spanish ‘Condulencia‘, anyone?
Achal,
I would suggest you read my posts completely and you will understand pretty well that I am in no way supporting or rationalizing any terror. In fact on IM you will hardly find anything like that. We have always condemned and will condemn the taking away of any innocent life. And we take it as a principle…at least me. And I apply that universally.
That makes me to condemn all terror in which innocent lives are taken whether it is by Al Qaeda or whether it is by the US forces.
The problem with your thought process (as it is of many many others) is that you just look at one side of the picture and never care to look at the other side. It is no different from the extremists who look at their side only. It takes us nowhere. Unless you can look at the things holistically and stand by a principle and stick to it irrespective of anyone there will be no sanity in the argument.