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Satanic forces
Friday, 29 September 2006 - 2:15 AM SL Time
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is reported to have asked: `Why not call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists?` He is using this rhetoric question as a peg to hang his argument that there is nothing called Islamist terrorists or `Islamo-fascists`. We couldn`t agree with him more. There is neither Hindu terrorism nor Islamist terrorism. Nor is there Christian terrorism or Buddhist terrorism for that matter! Terrorism has nothing to do with religion (or ethnicity). It is a phenomenon which is secular in nature, though it may come with different labels for marketing purposes like the branded drugs or like the dates in Egypt, named after foreign leaders like the Venezuelan President Chavez and the Iranian President Ahamadinejad among others.
Osama bin Laden may be hero to some misguided Muslims but no genuine followers of Islam will believe that Allah would forgive him for turning the World Trade centre into hell for thousands of innocent American citizens.
Al Queda is a parasite that has found a host in the Islamic world much to its detriment. By lumping Islam and terrorism together and resorting to unbridled violence in trying to eliminate the latter, the US-led forces are committing a blunder which could be likened to forcing DDT down the throats of patients suffering from malaria in a bid to curb the spread of the disease. They are only playing into the hands of their enemies. President Musharraf has warned that the Taliban might succeed in turning its struggle into a people`s war, as evident from its successful recruitment drive in Afghanistan. He has urged the US to change its strategy in keeping with the ground reality to thwart the Taliban plan.
Like Taliban, the Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, a former altar boy, has the goal of turning Uganda into a country governed according to the Ten Commandments. The heinous crimes that he and his confederates have been committing against humanity are proof that he is far from Christian.
By no stretch of imagination, could LTTE violence be labelled `Hindu terrorism`. Nor does ethnicity have anything to do with it, though its sympathizers have dubbed the conflict `ethnic war` so as to project it as the underdog. Foreign news agencies sympathetic to it have gone a step ahead to coin the term `Tamil Tiger rebels` to give the wrong impression to the world that they are being pursued by a `Sinhala government` because of their ethnicity. Religion and ethnicity are only facades used by the outfit in a bid to justify its terror and market it. That it is neither Tamil nor Hindu could be seen from its violence against the very Hindus and Tamils, it claims to liberate. Interestingly, when Prabhakaran was asked at a press conference in 2002 what religion would be given the foremost place in the state he had in mind, he said it would be secular! We don`t remember who posed that trap question, but he who did so caught the Tiger chief on the wrong foot?well and truly!
Terrorism is like water, which takes the shape of the vessel it is in. The reason why the world has failed to remove the scourge of terror is that the world powers have got distracted by the labels of their own making. This has led to the emergence of two types of terrorists?`their terrorists` and `our terrorists`. Some have sought to explain the double standards on the part of the world leaders in terms of the theory of clash of civilisations propounded by Huntington. But, it is doubtful whether there would have been any such clash if the Muslim countries concerned hadn`t been oil rich. Those who are waging the global war on terror are driven not by their desire to rid the world of terrorism or their concern for Christianity but by their thirst for oil as well as other politico-economic and geopolitical interests. Even if the LRA were to sit on the oil fields in the Middle East blocking access to the Western powers, the crusaders of the war on terror would still turn their guns on it.
However convenient the term `Islamist terrorism` may be to the US-led forces in endearing their cause to their constituencies, it has become counterproductive to the Muslim leaders who are collaborating with them. That may be the reason why President Musharraf wants the labels of terrorism dropped so as to deny his rivals a rallying cry and prevent them from calling him a traitor.
Compulsions and motives of President Musharraf notwithstanding, his argument that terrorism cannot be branded and compartmentalised is tenable. Instead of ethnic and religion tags stuck on terrorism, which terrorists are using to their advantage, there should be a common definition of terrorism and a common strategy to meet the threats it poses to the civilised world. Unfortunately, there are no signs of that being achieved in the foreseeable future. Little wonder terrorism is on the march!
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nativerights
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28 Sep 2006 22:51:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Modern technology and weaponry gives any small group these vast destructive powers. |
Sandman
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29 Sep 2006 04:45:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Religion doesn't kill.
It is people who hide behind religion (or any other excuse) who commit the deed.
There is no point in blaming it on the religion. This is the lesson a whole lot of folks in the west are learning about by first becoming 'islamophobiacs'.
The LTTE is what it is. To its credit is the fact that they have proven secular, if the overwhelmingly large numbers of conversions to Catholicism going on there is to be discounted as non-sectarian.
Edited By - Sandman - 29 Sep 2006 04:46:16 GMT |
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29 Sep 2006 10:39:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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I condem musharraf comment if he meant to say LTTE as terrorist.
LTTE are freedom fighters.
but same time i accept his stand on muslims terrorist. many muslims leaders failed to stand against the fact the world calling alqida, islamist terrorist.
because it ailianate a religion and its followers.
LTTE is a organisation which fight for freedom of tamils.
it have ,tamils,muslims,sinhalese. and all religions hindus,muslims,budist.
they dont discriminate. therefore it never called hindu separatist. |
nativerights
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29 Sep 2006 18:39:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thats why the world has branded you 'Terrorist'!
Thats why there is child-abduction!
just to mention a few,
The only freedom fighters in Sri Lanka are the security foeces protecting the territorial integrity of our only homeland.
Tamils in Tamil Nadu, Tamils in Tamil-only eelam, Tamils in the republic of Sri Lanka.
So what seems to be the problem?
If so others should also have one!
Edited By - nativerights - 29 Sep 2006 18:40:55 G |
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29 Sep 2006 18:45:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan,
I condem musharraf comment if he meant to say LTTE as terrorist.
LTTE are freedom fighters.
Then why do they kill their own Tamil people ??
To give them freedom ????
So why the whole western countries have named LTTE as Terrorists ?? |
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29 Sep 2006 18:49:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Actually, LTTE is not a product of Hinduism, it's a product of Christianity, you all can see how much Norway and other Christians, including the priests who hang Prabha's photo instead of the cross, are working for LTTE,...
Hinduism is a very innocent religion. |
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| The Hindu Tamils in the North/East Sri Lanka are not fighting in the name of Ganesh, unlike Muslims who attempt to justify their killing in the name of their Allah! Therefore, Mr Musharraf, there is no point calling them Hindu terrorists. Can't this dictator get something as simple as that? |
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29 Sep 2006 23:04:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Never mind.
Edited By - Marzipan - 30 Sep 2006 00:41:42 GMT |
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| There is no Hindu Terrorism in Sri Lanka, it is Tamil Terrorism which has plagued the country. |
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