How do you know ...?

Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Apr 9, 2010 at 22:07

Hi Leonid ,

"Luckily, most Indians are not bigots, like yourself!"

Please justify your statement with proof that I am a bigot. Emotional outburst like this one is unjustified without any proof from you. I am rational as anyone.

"And are very concerned about blood-thirsty killers that use Islam to justify their crimes, like the murderers in Mumbai in 2008. I know those things don't concern you -- if they did, you'd be expressing your outrage to those people, but instead you were probably celebrating, just like you surely did on 9/11!"

How do you know that I celebrated 9/11 or Mumbai terrorist atrocities!!! I myself have relatives and friend friends working and living in Mumbai at the time of November ,2008 terrorist attacks.

"Like others on this forum have stated, the bottom line is that you hate non-Muslims, and especially Jews -- you and your ilk do not want to have peace with anyone -- you want to annihilate Jews and other infidels."

This is a bigoted statement from your side. Where did I say that I hate non-Muslims and Jews ??? Kindly show evidence , man. If I hated Jews how could I praise someone like Noam Chomsky who is himself a Jew and whom I greatly admire. I also have a lot of respect for someone like Avram Burg. Look at the following URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Burg

"For you, the western "authorities" on the Middle East mean people, like Fisk, who ignore or downplay the atrocities Muslims do, but instead look for justification of Bin Laden, of 9/11, of exploding school buses in Israel, of massacres in Russian schools and subways, etc."

See , you need to understand the viewpoints of someone like Robert Fisk or me. See Bin Ladens do not grow in a vacuum. There are significant political grievances between the West and the Muslims. There needs to be some understanding from the Western viewpoint about these grievances. See neither me nor Fisk nor Chomsky support terrorism. I personally condemn atrocities like 9/11 or suicide bombings in Israel or Russia. But what people like Fisk wants to investigate is that what motivates the young men and women in the Muslim world to take up a heinous suicide bombing like this .
I believe that it will be better for the West to look out for these answers so that this problem of suicide bombing can be solved. Destroying a country with brutal force (like in Iraq or Afghanistan) or sanctioning them (like in pre-2003 Iraq or Gaza) does not solve the problem , it aggravates the situation.

See when a Muslim young man or woman(between 18-30) sees his or her coreligionists slaughtered in places like Iraq , Afghanistan , Lebanon or Gaza , he / she feels the same shock and anger like you people felt at 9/11. If you understand his/her grievances , he or she will also understand yours.

Bye the way I challenged you to provide a name of at least couple of mainstream , conservative Western intellectuals who has as much intellect or genius about middle east such as Robert Fisk or Noam Chomsky.
You are yet to come up with your answers.

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