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David

David — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My Indian friends tells me every time that India is a country of impotent politicians.They will make lot of noise.They are not able to defend their citizens.The only solution is clean whole Parliament (which ever way -violent or nonviolent) and bring new generation of leaders ,not these old ancient leaders.

Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This time it is not a conflict between Muslims and Hindus. It’s an attack against the SECULAR democratic Republic of India by Islamic extremists. They have killed people indiscriminately and have reportedly tried to take US and UK nationals hostage. It’s not a petty religious conflict. It’s an attack on those who believe in freedom and liberty.

Michael C

Michael C — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

”It’s an attack on those who believe in freedom and liberty.”

Amen to that.

Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’m SICK OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS KILLING PEOPLE! Why won’t their community do something about it? I understand that there are wonderful and peaceful Muslims out there but until they take responsibility for the Quran and the statements it makes about “killing those who don’t believe”, we need to disallow entry into our countries. The Quran openly states that all Muslims should go out into the world and convert or kill non-believers. How are we still allowing these people into our borders!? If the Bible told me to kill people, I wouldn’t be Christian!

Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Next few weeks will see, more blood shed. This time it will be the blood of Muslims. And no, there is no innocent Muslims. Yeah, I hate muslims...they think by killing others they go to Allah...ok, let’s send them to Allah....bastards...all of them.

Michael C

Michael C — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You are a part of the problem.

Aneez

Aneez — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Jorge, I respect your sentiments but I pity your brain.

Nice to see you, Michael.

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ Jorge:

Hey Jorge, what do you gorge every day? The shit that makes your brain is no fertilizer for rational thought.

El

El — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This situation has been building for a while now, and although everyone here seems intent on blaming Islam for it all there is definitely more that one aggravating factor. There is an extreme faction in the Hindu BJP party that have an agenda to rid India of all Muslims and Christians. If you do you homework you will find dozens of stories about this, church and mosque burnings, rapes and killings have been commonplace lately. The main difference being the Christians in India wont fight back but the Muslims aren’t. India is a very fractured country, no easy answers here.

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Nice to see that an Egyptian knows about the BJP in India.

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Of course BJP is not exactly Egyptian Islamic Jihad and LK Advani is not Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Reshmi

Reshmi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ El, what you have stated is utterly baseless. Please don’t try to defend the heinous crime that has taken place. Being far away from India you can never understand the situation. What have innocent people and foriegn nationals got to do with the fight between Christians and Muslims? India is not fractured at all, it will definitely bounce back. The resilience of the Mumbaikars have already proved that.

Michael C

Michael C — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

LOL!! I hope you’re wrong about people not being able to understand because they are far away from events, because if you’re right, no-one would be able to write about or comment anything but where they come from! :p

no, but seriously, I too do not agree with EL. He doesn’t seem to have done his homework.

My take?

There are many ideas on why it was done and there is a little truth in them, but, at the end of the day, moderate muslims, hindus, christians and everyone else will lose this war unless they stand united against this obscurantism, for these terrorists are quite simply trying to bring down democracy, freedom, and the right to believe in god how they see him.

If we (yes WE) lose this war, opinions like these on an internet site will become, quite simply, a thing of the past.

Taking sides here is playing into their hands..........and fanning the flames.

Aneez

Aneez — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Very well said, Reshmi. Mumbaikars have endured situations much worse than this in the past. And I’m sure, we will this time too.

Anil

Anil — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@El, please do not draw conclusion without peeping into the history. You ill-comment is unwarranted as it comes from you who belong to a country which once gave the world a glorious civilization. Do you know that wheat grains were exported to the world from Egypt? But the problem is with the Wahabis and the Muslim Brotherhood which is too out to ruin Mideast countries. Though the BJP in India is a right wing party but it does not have such a sweeping influence over the population that it can break the centuries old pluralism in India. BJP had been in power for a term of five year. What did it do to hurt the interests of Muslims, the biggest minority in India? None. In fact Muslims in India constitute the second biggest Muslim population in a country after Indonesia. They number 120 million and have a steady growth rate. Please do not covertly extend support to terrorists who have no religion.

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is foreigners killing foreigners in my country. Mumbai Police can kill innocent people like Rahul Raj. Now what had they been doing in the face of real tough terrorists? Top coppers shot dead on roads. How humiliating it can get for an organization, whose very task is to counter terrorism, whose chief is killed so effortlessly? Then some of the terrorists hijack police cars, kill more people and escape!

Kalpana Tripathi

Kalpana Tripathi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone just doing nothing discussions and only discussions, through what situation each and every mumbaikar is going is beyond explaination. Police is looking and treating every single person as a suspect. But everytime mumbai had shown courage this time also same would happen, but still operations are on three locations are going on, it seems no end since wednesday night. Innocent peoples were killed on road, hotle lobby, as hostasge. Our pride Taj is been destructed by several attacks n fire. We lossed ATS cheif and 2 other top IPS serving in mumbai including several policemen.

Reshmi

Reshmi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ Michael, sorry...never meant that...was furious at the stupid comment...:P! Of course all sane people should unite and raise their voice at such trying times. It’s a disaster...and atleast we can display solidarity by showing our antipathy towards such barbaric crimes. I maybe living in a Fool’s Paradise...but somewhere at the back of my mind I still believe pen is mightier than the sword. Amen to that.