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Scherado, chasing the phantoms of Islam (and let's not dress up what essentially amounts to racism, or at least cultural imperialism, by adding an -ism to it) is hopelessly misguided. To quote an article that says Islam worships death is reprehensible on so many levels. The other Abrahamic faiths are no better - nay, most other faiths in general are no better. It's not the nature of belief, but the presence of a strong belief, whether it be positive or negative, that turns people into monsters. The institution is what drives man to horrific violence and gross indecency towards his fellow man. Are Islam"ists" committing atrocities at the moment? Yes. Is the American state? Certainly. Are many other states? Absolutely. Has Christianity killed many millions in the past? Yes. Has any other religion you care to mention? Yes. Has any institution with sufficient scale and power committed atrocities? Yes. Your naïveté is astounding if you honestly believe that anything of which you're a part is any better than anything of which anyone else is a part. Perhaps I'm giving you too much credit when I say that I had thought you more intelligent than that. Given the chance, any organisation you care to mention would be inflicting horrors on the world.
US President Barack Obama on Saturday struck a strong bond with his audience at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, which bore the brunt of terror, by saying America shared India's grief over the attacks and would not forget the savagery.
But not all 26/11 survivors were impressed, especially as Obama desisted from mentioning the connection to the terror strike: something that has been established in the investigation by US's own agencies.
Writer Bhisham Mansukhani, who was trapped in the Chambers during the attack, was not present at the Taj on Saturday. He said, ''If you put Obama's visit in context of how badly he's doing in America, he's come here to do deals. So he has some bargaining chips. One chip is . He deserves to be put in an Indian prison. Unless that happens, Obama's visit is meaningless. If he doesn't give us Headley, he doesn't give a damn about victims of attack.
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A large number of Indians remain skeptical of Mr. Obama‘s intentions and many like writer Bhisham Mansukhani (a 26/11 survivor) are angry that conspirator David Headley remains in U.S. custody. Echoing the sentiment of a growing number of his countrymen, Mansukhani said that Headley “deserved to be in an Indian prison. Unless that happens Obama’s visit is meaningless. If he doesn’t give us Headley, he doesn’t give a damn about victims of attack.”
If Mr. Obama had gone to Fort Hood to honor the victims, their friends and family and the survivors of Major Hasan’s attack he would have been on hand when Sgt. 1st Class Maria Guerra was honored for her actions on that fateful day. The Dallas Morning News reports that Sgt. Guerra was honored for securing the front doors of the medical processing building during the attack and then organizing the other nurses and medics to help treat the wounded.
One hardly needs to look past the title for a summary of the contents. Human beings can do awful things, and frequently do. What's your purpose in bringing this up?
Yes. A physical object believed to possess supernatural powers, e.g. Remembrance poppies, the American flag. Anything anyone gets terribly upset about the destruction of. And I understand historicity; nonetheless the fetishisation of the poppy troubles me. By all means, be grateful for those who laid down their lives during the First World War - and certainly, by all means, give money to those whose relatives have been destroyed by the state's aggression - but do not condemn an entire religious minority for the actions of a few; and much more important, I feel, do not sacrifice your own freedom to express yourself in whatever way you like by condemning the actions of a few which are contradictory to contemporary mores. Today, it is them; tomorrow, there will be a cry that you should be killed for expressing anger about something about which you feel passionately. If there's anything that these people died for, it's that we might have that freedom, and we should defend it as they did whether we agree with them or not.