Global Warning

So, during the Thanksgiving break, what should have been a fun time with family, turned out as an anxious viewing period with late night reading and trying to follow the events as they occurred in Mumbai. Just the thought that someone could come in and take over a hotel – causing so much distress – was beyond my comprehension. A part of me was in denial that these acts were actually occurring. To think that some idiot – in the name of religion – had planned these events and taken these kids to kill with no remorse was sickening. I have never quite understood how anyone is able to brainwash people to kill in the name of religion, and if anything this incident proved that that is not the case. These individuals were not there to fight for religion or a cause, but to get a paycheck at the end. For them, this “cause” was not about justice but about earning some money and I have always felt that this has been an underlining cause with a lot of these attacks in the past and will continue to be in the future. In Kashmir, this act has been going on for some time where young boys are taken from poor families and then trained to become militants. It goes back to the whole “nature versus nurture” argument and what this proves is that you can indeed, after constantly bombarding an individual with propaganda, make them believe what you want them to.

These militant leaders are probably the worst kind of people because as they spend their lives hidden in caves and then send these young men out to kill innocent civilians. If indeed you have a cause to fight for, learn from such individuals like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi who took on nations of grand stature and changed our societies for the better. But the reality is, and you don’t have a cause that is just, it’s a mission of hate. Ironically, these groups are first built by the US and then we go in to dismantle them. Where are all these weapons supplied from for these idiots to perform these acts – the developed nations who want to profit from guns and ammunition. We need the money they need the goods, but does that make us just as guilty? In a court of law, guilt by association is often cited as an enough to indict someone. So, shouldn’t we hold nations – even our own – accountable for giving these tools of destruction? Think about it for a second, where are these militants getting money to purchase these goods. I can’t imagine they are raking up profits in the caves and from hiding. What we need to focus on is those who are aiding these groups. We have to cut off the supply to eradicate the problem. I sincerely hope that instead of India and Pakistan arguing over whether these militants were Pakistani or not they instead focus on the issue of militants’ period. That is remove the association of nation or religion and deal with the fact that this breed of people exist and we have to go to the root them out no matter where they may reside. We have to do this for a better society everywhere – focus on our common enemy: terrorists!

India and Pakistan are now at a point in time where they can truly work together to make the world a safer place. The US has always in the past blindly sided with Pakistan but today there is hard evidence to prove that these people are training and creating these militants in Pakistan and now as a global society – because truly now we are a global environment – we must demand that action be taken to root of these people. Also, as ordinary citizens we must display a sense of unity that indeed it is us against them: that is, we, the global society who wants peace and harmony against them, the terrorists whose sole purpose is to instill hatred and fear. We can do this, and we must do it.