The problem of terrorism I think is not confined to this century. Even our ancestors must have faced the same years ago. Robin Hood may have been branded a terrorist by his government. But to the common man he was a saviour. Terrorism is a perspective. Pakistan believes it is supporting the fight for liberation by the Kashmiris. But to India it a terrorist threat. It is the same all over the world. What we cannot change is a persons perspective. What we can change is our attitude towards their perspective.
The world is divided on religious beliefs. The heart of all religions is "LOVE". There is one God who is going to be served in the end. However, the keepers of these precepts have themselves barred their people from understanding the true meaning of God's commandments. It has blinded people to the true understanding of God. Would God want his own children to fight and kill themselves? Yet religious tolerance is the last thing preached anywhere in the world today. A society as dynamic as ours cannot survive with such a mentality. People are living such stressful lives today, that they are not tolerant towards anybody. That is why many individuals are dilousined by their own religion and are searching for religious leaders that will bring some semblance to their lives.
Terrorism cannot die out in one day flat. We are 7000 years since the world first came into being and we cannot still call our society any more civilised in the manner of war! Today war has no boundary. It was better off in the good old days, when the war was fought in a battleground between warriors trained for the same and they met in a pre-determined battleground. It is the modern age where cowardice has a new face..."TERRORISM" taking "hostages" and killing innocent lives. Someone would ask "How do we fight such a kind of war where no one is prepared for such a kind of war?"
To change the world we need to change the perspective of people. It is alienation that causes people to stand out! What we can do is solve things at a smaller micro level and help it works upward. The feeling of victimisation is somethings that helps nuture and harbour dangerous feelings of revenge and hatred. In the bible Ephesians 4:26 reads "Do not let the sun set while you are still angry". It is very rightly so... A person who is a victim can seldom forgive society and the people who caused it. He/she would begin to stereo type persons belonging to certain sections of society as being of the same kind...
In our country, we should be less worried of terrorist because we have made situations available for them. We have turned a blind eye to the real problems our dis-unity gives birth to and are engaged in caste and community bashing.
People are playing the blame game now. But what has been happening in the last 3 months...burning of Christians in Orissa, TN and Karnataka. Mamta Banerjee created a war or sorts in Singur! In Maharashtra MNS literally sent the people on whom Mumbai runs back from where they came.
Politicians have always turned the public opinion in their favour. The entire attention of Mumbai was drawn towards MNS and their handling of the North Indian "outsider" situation. There were grave law and order problems. Instead of concentrating on the safety of the ordinary man, the police were busy providing security for our politicians who shoot from the hip and then expect the commandos to protect them!
We are gullible vote-banks who get drawn by caste and ethnicity based politics! If we fall prey to their gameplans, soon we will have the whole of India, disintegrating and we will have mini wars in every state of India! This doesnt ruffle the politicians any bit.
If the situation in India continues uncontrolled, it is the terrorists who will be having the last laugh at the people of India. The policy of divide and rule of the British is used so well by our very own politicians.
There is one way to change the situation, with baby steps. The common people’s sense of justice must be reciprocated. Accountability has to become the keyword. You do it, you pay for it. Punish the offenders in public. Give exemplary punishment. (I dont support capital punishment though.)
Show the world like Israel has done so many times, "YOU CAN'T MESS WITH ME AND GET AWAY". If people feel their government does not shares their pain, it will naturally send them scurrying away to identify with those who are waiting to mislead innocent and gullible minds to “fight for a cause” and that is the start of “terrorism”
India has to change... as I said everyone should be accountable for whatever is in their charge. When people in a country feel they can break the law and by the time it catches up with then....they will have finished living their life!! Why would anyone live by the rule then?
Jago India....Jago! Kab samjoge...ham ek hain...
