For India, the Specter of Terrorism Will Persist
Daniel Flitton, The Age | November 28, 2008
India has recently suffered dozens of terrorist attacks with thousands perishing, but is it enough to send her over the “red line?" ++ The latest attack, brazen as it was, shows the weakness of al-Qaeda inspired assaults. ++ With the West having implemented stronger security measures, India is a new “soft target.” ++ The motivation of these murderers will probably never be known, but local factors are likely the cause. ++ Let’s hope India recognizes this, so as not to be pushed to retaliate against Pakistan – the aforementioned red line.
Sat, Nov 29th 2008, 05:48
Fouad Naji Maarouf, Freie Universität Berlin, Silver Contributor (32)
As long as the people of Kashmir don't have the right of self determination and
independance through peaceful means then we'll be seeing more of such voilant acts.
The IRA in Northen-Ireland did the same in London in the 1970s and 1980 to presure the British government to pull back its forces from Belfast and the rest of the country. In the end Tony Blair and the Sinfain leader plus the Ultra-Unoinists were forced to sit together and make a peace deal that is well known to everyone.
In Spain and France the the ETA too has been trying to gain the independance of the Basque region for decades through all means possible, by force or through political presure on the spanish goverment.
In the end, its very important to deal with every issue seperately and through talk and not let oneself be forced through violant acts to do irrational things.
There is no use blaming Al-Qaida for this, because now a days every act of violance is being described as an act of the partly fictional and through international media created organization, no matter were on this earth violant acts happen. Is Al-Qaiad realy as powerful as the world media put it? Guided and lead by a man in a cave ??
I hope we do wake up from this illusion that all bad things happen through this organization. In the 1970s there was the red danger which manifested it self in acts of violance thorugh left wing militants in Germany and Europe.
Today the Muslims are to blame for any act of violance on the world.. I think this is only a
distraction made by US media to turn the US citizens away from the essential problems that they face in their country because of greedy big companies and politicians that play with the livelyhood of decent americans who try to live peacefully and decently.
I hope the media is honest enough to tell the truth and not what the westen governments with their different lobbies want to hear...