%u2018%u2018All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.%u2019%u2019 This comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. First, there is nothing new about terrorism. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killed US President McKinley as well as King Humbert I of Italy. World War I started in 1914 when anarchists killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. These terrorist attacks were not Muslim. Terrorism is generally defined as the killing of civilians for political reasons. Going by this definition, the British Raj referred to Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and many other Indian freedom fighters as terrorists. These were Hindu and Sikh rather than Muslim. Guerrilla fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro killed civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called terrorists until they triumphed. Nothing Muslim about them. In Palestine, after World War II, Jewish groups (the Haganah, Irgun and Stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels and installations and killing civilians. The British, who then governed Palestine, rightly called these Jewish groups terrorists. Many of these terrorists later became leaders of independent Israel %u2014 Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon. Ironically, these former t
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by on Jul 24, 2007 07:45 PM Permalink
its cause the rest of the world was quite and dismissed this as a passing phase ,not any longer,dude this show of aggression has fear hidden in it, things will change and these very terrorist will fear the word terror
RE:RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by Farhan on Jul 24, 2007 07:41 PM Permalink
And u people are infacted with manipulation phenomeno which has make you the hennible as you people are eating the right of innocent people
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by godblessusa on Jul 24, 2007 07:46 PM Permalink
the world knows muslims are terrorist a few years ago before 9/11 u guys were a pain in the neck of cowardly india, but now ur getting ur behind kicked by US/UK and AUS . Do people talk the same about hindus,jews,budhist,jains,sikhs etc etc the same way???
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by Farhan on Jul 24, 2007 07:40 PM Permalink
Because its only Moslims who did everything 4 their relegion, Hindu does not know what their relegion is..........they dont love their relegion hence do not do anything for it.........muslim love their relegion and hence even bad people do it..........sorry to you buddy
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by nihas pasha on Jul 24, 2007 08:33 PM Permalink
the manu smriti says to pour molten lead in ears of any dalit who dares to listen to the vedas.and well it is written in simple language isnt it.
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by viras manikandane on Jul 24, 2007 08:02 PM Permalink
Mr.Farhan Hindus know there religion better,thats why even after ruled by Musilms and British for decades Hinduism stayed here as main religion.Our saints from Sankara to Vivekananda preached the right way of our religion that is Humanity,tolerance,Brother hood and mainly Female Gods giving equality in gende, etc. thats how other religion started flourishing here.We too love our religion and our religion asks us to be tolerent and accept others views and thats what made you to think that we didn't love our religion.Kindly change your opinion on Hindus.
RE:terrorism is not a muslim monopoly
by hardy rock on Jul 24, 2007 09:16 PM Permalink
Mr. Viras, ask A.r. rahman why he chose not be Dilip Kumar any more. Or kamala Suraiyya or Abdullah Gandhi why they chose to quit Hinduism.
Think about it and answer. You may talk about Ali seena, who was never a muslim. Even I can start a website claiming I was christian or Hindu changed to Muslim. Come with 1 example of a known muslim person or a Muslim country abandoning Islam. The CIS countries where RED washed by communists for centuries, after the break,now they are all back to Islam.
