No, Barkha, this is not about Iraq and Afghanistan(see the previous post below - The Hindustan Times is clueless about jihad). There are some fundamental errors that she just has to make-īut can we afford to ignore these questions this time around as well? What was an Indian engineer from Bangalore doing partnering an Iraq-born doctor on a suicide mission? Why did he care enough to call a meeting of Muslims on World Chechnya Day in a city where most people don’t know what the dispute between Russia and the Chechens is about? If the doctors being investigated by British authorities are really part of a global terror module, have we underestimated the response of India’s Muslims to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? It may help to know that even the conservative clerics of the Jama Masjid in Delhi recently took the initiative to debate why radicalism had permeated their religion.Īnother Barkha confession -that her instincts (and those of others like her in the media) have" - prevented us from looking at this issue honestly." This is a day for admitting prejudices. But we can no longer allow political correctness to obfuscate the debate. We hesitate to use the word Islam and Terrorism in the same sentence. For too long now, our instinctive need to protect India’s minorities from the onslaught of the Right has prevented us from looking at this issue honestly. But the fact is that if three Indian citizens are actually found guilty in this terror plot, we cannot afford to disown their nationality. The Prime Minister’s empathy and liberalism is laudable. He warned against the labelling and stereotyping of communities and said that after he had heard the mother of the arrested doctors break down on national television, he lay awake all night. This week, an emotional Prime Minister met some of us at his house and argued that terrorism had no nationality or religion. Good for her.īut what about looking inwards? Can we confront the fact that Political Islam may be growing roots in our own backyard? Are we brave enough to consider the possibility that the assimilation of the Indian Muslim has not been as successful as we like to believe?And Barkha is now admitting this prejudice in print. I have always argued that the Indian media is quick to impute racism to people and authorities of Western nations without any evidence. Happily unmindful of how bigoted and quick to conclusion we are when terror hits the home turf, we have wondered whether the British police are shooting darts at soft targets. We have tried to convince ourselves that this must be a grand conspiracy of racial profiling - you know, White Man hunts for Brown victim. We have hoped against hope that it is not true. It is too much to expect that she get it all. Note -an important updat e to this post below the fold.īarkha Dutt gets it -almost. Oliver Stone wants to lick boots but Ahmadinejad s.They are doctors, and they are here to kill you.The Hindustan Times is clueless about jihad.Barkha Dutt confesses her prejudices in an almost.What lies beneath -beneath that bright blue turban.It's the government's job to dig holes and yours t.The Global Warming Primer for the Reasoning Layper.Why the heck am I wasting time trying to make sens.
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