07-09-2007, 07:51 AM
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/204149.html
<b>Some questions worth losing sleep over </b>
Tavleen Singh
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The prime minister's timing couldn't have been worse. In the week we discovered that al-Qaeda could have found recruits in Bangalore, in the week we saw Islam's fanatical face on full display in the battle for Lal Masjid, and in the week that Ayman al-Zawahiri reappeared on our television screens to urge all Muslims to join the jihad to destroy the West, the prime minister announced that he is losing sleep over Muslims being "labelled".
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<b>Next week marks the first anniversary of Mumbai's train bombings and my first question to our prime minister is, why has he never lost sleep over that ghastly event? My second question is, why can he become so eloquent over the suffering of the mothers of alleged terrorists and so sanguine over the suffering of nearly 200 Mumbai mothers who lost their children for no reason? When he made his visit to Mumbai after the July 11 bombings last year, many noticed that he exhibited no emotion. "He could have been taking a walk in Lodhi Gardens for all the emotion he showed," a friend from Mumbai commented bitterly.</b>
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Maybe the three doctors from Bangalore are not involved in the plots to blow up London nightclubs and Glasgow airport. If so, they will prove their innocence, because Britain has a justice system that accepts that you are innocent till proved guilty. Does any Islamic country? It is too early for the prime minister to be shedding tears on their behalf. It is also embarrassing that he should offer Gordon Brown India's help in the investigation. When we cannot catch our own jihadis, what possible help can we give anyone else?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Some questions worth losing sleep over </b>
Tavleen Singh
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The prime minister's timing couldn't have been worse. In the week we discovered that al-Qaeda could have found recruits in Bangalore, in the week we saw Islam's fanatical face on full display in the battle for Lal Masjid, and in the week that Ayman al-Zawahiri reappeared on our television screens to urge all Muslims to join the jihad to destroy the West, the prime minister announced that he is losing sleep over Muslims being "labelled".
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<b>Next week marks the first anniversary of Mumbai's train bombings and my first question to our prime minister is, why has he never lost sleep over that ghastly event? My second question is, why can he become so eloquent over the suffering of the mothers of alleged terrorists and so sanguine over the suffering of nearly 200 Mumbai mothers who lost their children for no reason? When he made his visit to Mumbai after the July 11 bombings last year, many noticed that he exhibited no emotion. "He could have been taking a walk in Lodhi Gardens for all the emotion he showed," a friend from Mumbai commented bitterly.</b>
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Maybe the three doctors from Bangalore are not involved in the plots to blow up London nightclubs and Glasgow airport. If so, they will prove their innocence, because Britain has a justice system that accepts that you are innocent till proved guilty. Does any Islamic country? It is too early for the prime minister to be shedding tears on their behalf. It is also embarrassing that he should offer Gordon Brown India's help in the investigation. When we cannot catch our own jihadis, what possible help can we give anyone else?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->