I fully agree with the author. I have realized that indians don't reliaze the difference between fact and perception. Indians think that everyone (maybe except pakis) are good and we need to be good with everyone.
Maybe Indian thinks that they are the aggrieved party in Kashmir. But do you think arabs and even americans think the same way. You may say that their view doesn't matter as kashmir is a bilateral issue, but for muslims any attack on any muslim country or society doesn't remain a bilateral issue.
People may think that what israel did in Lebanon was wrong, but then using the same logic, presence of indian army in kasmir could be easily proved wrong. So will that logic India will be called agressor or aggrieved?
Just by watching news on TV (or reading on net) doesn't allow someone to form an opinion. These news channels/sites have to make money, and they will show news and opinions which will make them popular. But being popular doesn't mean that one will be right too.
India is secular country. perhaps the only country in world in which we have muslim president Sikh prime minister, India never supported the US to attack on afghanistan and Iraq. It was the muslim countries like Pakistan and Suadi Arabia which supported them. I dont think without thier help US would ever attack on Afghanistan and Iraq. Then why this terrorism against India.
I find it very difficult to agree with Hamid Mir. If the UK and US are in Iraw, these Muslims should be fighting American and British soldiers in Iraq, not plant bombs in the UK. Hamid Mir comes across as another one of those Muslims who use the line of frustration against foreign policy to justify terrorsim.Not all Americans and British people support the war in Iraq. So will the terrorists will ask who supports the war ? British Muslims show off vidoes of beheadings. Is this a way to vent their frustration? They don't believe in constructive engagement. They don't believe in even trying to understand. So long as the Muslim community justify terrorism, there aren't going to be solutions. And with a community that hardly believes in correcting its woes, only one policy works - be ruthless and merciless in eliminating all of thse jihadis, their supporters and those who justify their cause.
