By Sagarika Ghose
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
We are all guilty. When 24 hour TV news shows a dead body 60 times in the space of an hour, one death begins to look like a hundred. When the National Security Advisor says in an interview that there will be more bomb blasts, he helps heighten a siege mentality and a culture of fear. When the police fixes a target first (‘This is Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami HuJI’ or ‘This is Indian Mujahideen’) and then proceeds to catch individuals who best fit the profile of their preconceived target, they often lose sight of the real criminal. When politicians convert our society into a lynch mob against Muslims, they forget Tony Blair’s wise words: it is the communities that catch the ‘terrorists’ and the police will never get the ‘terrorist’ if it alienates the community.
http://www.newageislam.com/those-blasted-theories/islam,terrorism-and-jihad/d/831
