276. Terrorism: Mumbai-Oslo
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Mumbai: The scooter post the blast - What would be the intensity we can just imagine. The very next day I had a chance to go to that place and see the damage. Even on the second day I could see some flesh pieces stuck to the windows on the third floor. A lady went up in the air almost two storey high at the time of the blast said one of the eye witness. He was about to enter the market and the blast took place. Report by special correspondent Kautubh Kulkarni- Freelance services available worldwide: contact: kaustubh2@gmail.com |
No two cities could be less alike than Mumbai and Oslo, yet both have been ravaged by terrorism and again the source of terrorism too could not be more different.
There is no evidence so far from whence the terrorists who placed three bombs in Mumbai come from, and they, the unseen enemy, for such is my description of a terrorist, could well come from outside India, and may not share the same beliefs or ideals of the people in Mumbai.
But the person who placed a bomb in the centre of Oslo, probably so as to side track people’s attention from his real aim, that of massacring the youth at a Labour gathering on the island of Utoya, is not the unseen enemy from outside Norway, but one of its own very citizens.
The terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, dressed as a policeman opened fire on the youth gathered creating panic and chaos, inducing many youngsters to throw themselves into the sea in order to avoid the killer’s bullets, only to find death in the waters of the sea, some are still dispersed.
Terrorism par excellence bears the mark of Al-Qaida and there is no secret why they send so many of their youngsters to blow themselves and others up- Islamic fundamentalists require that the rest of us submit to them, it’s a mere question of power that’s the beginning and end of it all. But the reasons for the Norwegian youth massacre are supposedly to be an answer to Al-Qaida’s attacks?
Nothing of course can justify Breivik’s action but maybe what he did is a response to a symptom of what goes on at the back of most people’s minds whose governments have allowed too many people to sponge off the State, have formed a society dependent on governmental assistance from the cradle to the grave, burdening the taxpayer by degrees, have allowed strangers to overtake one’s houses, jobs and country...
Like I said nothing can justify Breivik’s deed, nor can this be in any way related to Christian principles, as some would want it to be. The difference between Christianity and Islamic fundamentalists is that Christians do not ask their youth to blow themselves and others up, Christianity does not ask others to convert themselves, nor even expect them to do so, Christianity does not seek to dominate the world and another thing- Christians simply do not kill.
Breivik’s ideals cannot for one moment be considered to be in any way related to the ideals of Christianity. And before people start spouting around that if it weren’t for religion none of this would happen, it needs to be remembered that if it were not for Christianity, there would not have been any democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, just to name a few, and there certainly would have been much more hatred, much more slaughter, much more intolerance, much more selfishness- because like a garden, where there are no flowers, weeds will grow- hence where there is no goodness evil will flourish....
So kindly back off from Christianity... the cause lies elsewhere.
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