The involvement of doctors in the failed attacks in London and Glasgow last month evoked shock worldwide. Eboo Patel writes on Slate that this was the whole idea.
“In traditional, territorial war, the enemy is obvious, and the mission is clear: Kill the guys with red helmets, capture that hill. In asymmetrical, ideological war, it is hard to tell friend from foe… It is a type of macabre magic intended to create the illusion of enemies everywhere.”
Terror groups have shown that poor, uneducated people—even children—are perfectly capable of carrying out terrorist attacks. So, why go to the trouble of recruiting doctors and teachers?
“Because middle-class professional terrorists play a trick on people’s psychology. The instinct of “I can’t believe that a doctor would do this” quickly morphs into, “You can’t trust any of those Muslims.” For some people, this provokes open season on Muslims. Mosques are torched, Muslim kids are beaten up at school, women in headscarves are harassed, the Prophet Mohammed is depicted in a despicable manner.”
Read the full article here: Is your Muslim doctor your enemy?
Only illusion. If that be the case,how many people have thrown stones at Haneef’s house? How many Muslims have been beaten up Bangalore? By thinking on these lines if you think that you can mslead, it is wrong.Bangaloreans and the people of Karnataka have not forgotte the episode of the translated story published in the Deccan Herald and the havoc they caused by misleading the innocent people. Remeber that for a man who earns his livelihood honestly these things do not bother. Their advice is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
Writes Eboo:
“Mosques are torched, Muslim kids are beaten up at school, women in headscarves are harassed, the Prophet Mohammed is depicted in a despicable manner”
Two sleights of hand here.
First, the lie that mosques are being torched or that Muslim kids are being beaten up or that women in headscarves are being harassed — at least in big enough numbers to constitute a discernible pattern. To their credit, Western societies have shown remarkable composure in the face of terrorist attacks. Even in India, terrorist killings have never led to retaliatory attacks on Muslims. This shows that civil societies in liberal democracies all over the world distinguish between those Muslims who are terrorists and the majority who are not. To insinuate otherwise is propaganda.
The second sleight of hand is in equating attacks (albeit imaginary) on Muslims with the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. The first is violation of freedoms, the latter is exercise of freedom. For all his sophistry, Eboo Patel is not expressing a loathing of terrorism; he is advocating yielding to it by giving up all those freedoms that fundamentalists might attach an “anti-Muslim” label to.
Islamic terror always have been pursued by Muslim Elite/middle class.
Only Indian psuedos who should rather be called Idiots, tried to justify it on the account of “poverty” etc etc.
1. Laden comes from a rich family.
2. Al Jawahiri comes from top of Egyptian Society. He himself is a doctor. His father was head of Al-Azhar, regarded as top institute in Arab World. His brother was first Secretary General of the Arab League, a top diplomatic post.
3. 19 911 bombers were all from rich/middle class families. Western educated.
4. The private school, LSE educated british terrorist who slit thorat of Danny Pearl came from a middle clsss family.
Ginni Index of Egypt is higher than anu Western European COuntry which means wealth is better distributed in Egypt.
But then why Islamic brotherhood takes root in Egypt?
This Slate guy is another Muslim in Denial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/world/asia/24madrasa.html?ref=world
This takes a first hand look how Islamic facism spreads with EVERY DOLLAR WE SPEND AT THE GAS STATION.
The world should spend heavily on alternate Fuel. Arabs and Ummah should be allowed to burn in their own oil.
Profile of the terrorist who blew himself up today in pakistan before being captured.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/25/top15.htm
The 32-year-old Abdullah, whose parents had named him as Noor Alam, was no ordinary student of some religious seminary.
He belonged to an educated family from the Mianzay Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan. Most of his family members are in the Pakistan Army or are civil officers. One of his brothers is a major in the military, while the other is a lecturer.
Abdullah himself was studying commerce at a college in Peshawar. It was during this period that he befriended students from the Islami Jamiat Talaba, the student wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami, according to his cousin, Alamzeb Mehsud.
Courtesy the JI which had close association with Gulbadin Hikmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami, Abdullah had his first stint as a ‘mujahid’ in Afghanistan. That association would later endear him to the Taliban cause.
Its the same Jamat-E-Islami whose member have been father of Kafeel & the other guy from Bangalore.
And he was jailed because of that.
This Paki terrorist and Kafeel – both come from distinguished families, but have a common thread running between them: Jihad preached by Jamat-E-Islami/
You talk to much and make to many assumption Mr. BC, your logic may be sound to you but none of your information is Primary data. You do a lot of wide reading, yet you have a very narrow minded view
STOP trying to come off as you know things and leave you “point making” preaching method to elsewhere.
Oh and please STFU (if u know what that means..if not ask a friend i’m sure they all can’t wait to tell you too)
Stop takin up so much space on every forum..do something else with your time!