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Total number of comments: 1 (since 2015-01-08 19:33:09)

Yash

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  • Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris
    • Yash 01/08/2015 at 2:21 pm

      Culture shock is certainly the tactic of those who want to capitalize on the fabrication of the notion of the 'us' and the 'them'; the Nazis thrived on it; 'sharpening the difference' is just that. People of muslim faith around the world are no different from other peoples, all that ordinary people want is a decent life; But there are some handfuls of terrorists who would use any tactics to promote their hideous agenda, like killing school kids, abducting school girls, perpetrating terrorist acts. Sometimes to intimidate whole communities; sometimes to make the relationship among ethnic groups so venomous that the recruitment of hate-agents become easier for them. I think that not to fall prey to the schemes of these human-haters, people should stop equating Muslims with Al-Quaeda; this would come down to refusing to give the terrorists what they want precisely; indeed, just like the Talibans who should not have been tagged Muslims, since they were savagely destroying Muslims people. Giving in to the 'Muslims' and 'us' dichotomy will only reinforce the 'psychose' and trigger more hate events, also turning peace-loving individuals to ethnic beasts, who end up getting sucked up by Right Wing Movements or terrorist fundamentalists. The thing is, if Muslims themselves do not want to be linked to those terrorists barbarians, the non-muslims are all too ready to equate terrorists to Muslims; little do they realize that they are playing in the hands of the scheming terrorists. The Swedish were right to judge terrorists as common criminals. Much intelligence and clarity of mind is needed to combat such enemies, the events of the past should teach us, Hitler knew how to gain solidarity of his people and of other nations; he sent his soldiers to do his dirty job. Fundamentalist terrorists have a far easier job, they only have to raise antagonism between people of Muslim faith, who live all round the world and the non-muslims , and their work of hate, slaughter and destruction can proceed unhampered.

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