----- Original Message ----- From: "jtd" jtd@mtnl.net.in To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Technology against terrorism.
On Friday 21 July 2006 11:38 am, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 7/21/06, Harshal Vaidya harshalx@gmail.com wrote:
We need to convince every Muslim in India that we as Hindus are not a threat to them but they are just like any other citizens completely.
RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena. These are Hindu fundamentalist organizations that believe strongly that India is supposed to be a "Hindu" state. Simply saying that "convince Muslims that we're not a threat" won't work.
We set them apart, we deny them houses in societies, we do nothing to educate them and uplift them from their pathetic and ghettoised living state, we do everything to prevent them from working with us and then we expect that they should not target us.
We, the Hindus, do all this to our Muslim brothers and sisters. Yet when we are on an operating table, we forget whether the surgeon is practising which religion and only ask him to save our lives!
The only way we can bring terrorism to an end is not through the use of technology but through the use of understanding and compassion. We have to bring them into the national mainstream, teach them the same skills that most of us learn, employ them in jobs that most of us do and take them into our fold. For how many times have we heard of a Muslim family being killed while living in a Hindu dominated area or vice-versa, very rare indeed, because we tend to protect those that we know intimately rather than hurt them.
Vinod