A couple of links about the Mumbai terrorist attack
Depak Chopra says that this was America's Fault.
From the
Wall Street Journal:
Deepak Blames America
The media look within to explain the sick delusions of the Mumbai killers.
If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren't going to be deprived of the familiar, either. Namely, ruminations, hints, charges of American culpability that regularly accompany catastrophes of this kind.
Soon enough, there was Deepak Chopra, healer, New Age philosopher and digestion guru, advocate of aromatherapy and regular enemas, holding forth on CNN on the meaning of the attacks.
How the ebullient Dr. Chopra had come to be chosen as an authority on terror remains something of a mystery, though the answer may have something to do with his emergence in the recent presidential campaign as a thinker of advanced political views. Also commending him, perhaps, is his well known capacity to cut through all sorts of complexities to make matters simple. No one can fail to grasp the wisdom of a man who has informed us that "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules."
In his CNN interview, he was no less clear. What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that "our policies, our foreign policies" had alienated the Muslim population, that we had "gone after the wrong people" and inflamed moderates. And "that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay."
Jumped the shark...
From Wales Online comes
this story of a Welsh couple and CNNs 'help':
�We thought we were safe... then CNN stepped in!�
A South Wales couple caught in the Mumbai terror attacks claimed last night that CNN put their lives at risk by broadcasting where they were.
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.
Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
She has appealed to the media to be careful with the information it broadcasts because safety could be compromised and lives lost.
And finally, the Muslim world starts spinning. It's not us, it's this small splinter faction.
From
MS/NBC / Associated Press reporting in Ramallah:
Muslims worry about image after Mumbai
Many on the defensive again after bloodshed linked to their religion
Muslims from the Middle East to Britain and Austria condemned Sunday the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion.
Intellectuals and community leaders called for greater efforts to combat religious fanaticism.
And let us not forget that Ramallah is occupied by those scum calling themselves Palestinians. If the majority of Muslims are opposed to terrorism, why are they tacitly supporting it with their silence.
Duplicitous scum...
Posted by DaveH at December 1, 2008 1:30 PM