Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:06 PM
by
Leslie Hale
Letter from Mumbia--City under Seige
Mr. R (client name withheld) writes from Mumbia, where the city has been paralyzed from an attack by terrorists:
As a young teenager I witnessed the bomb blasts that took place in Mumbai in 1993.
My family was saved as we were close to two of the 11 locations at that horrible day. After completing my MBA in the U.S I witnessed 9/11 some of my close friends lost their loved ones that day. Now when I am back in Mumbai India I witness another attack on this city which has brought the major financial markets of India to a stand still, the largest commercial city of the worlds larget democracy parlysed... the schoold and colleges within the city closed......
American, Koreans, Brtish and Indian hostages taken some of the freed, alot of Indians killed and the toll rising as I write this.....
What do these attacks have in common I ask myself and the words Islamic Fundamentalism flashes at me....
I have freinds who are Islamic, I ask them how come a religion teaches its followers to kill people in the name of religion they say it doesnt, then how come more than 99% of the worlds terrorist are Islamic they say they are some bad apples.
I am so sorry if this offends someone but Islam as a religion today has become the biggest terrorist on this planet they should be thrown off this planet..
They say an eye for an eye makes the world blid but guess what who wants to see a world full of hatered created by one single community in the world.
On my return to India I got into a heated arguement with a freind over the alienation of islam caused by the U.S, my response to him was when India was attacked by Islamic fundamentalist we did the same in our own way.
Americans today are targeted across the world but dont let it scare you please dont. I all honesty people who spread hatered on the basis od religion do not have the right to live on this planet....
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