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5 Lessons From the Deadly Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

As suspicions focus on Pakistani group, new conclusions arise about effectiveness of low-tech plots

Posted December 1, 2008

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Fighting Islamic terrorism

The world must work together in bringing mainstream Islam into the fight to permanently negate terrorism. This can only be done through a sustained campaign that involves communication, patience, resilience (against the terrorists), tolerance and cultural sensitivity (towards mainstream Islam), and gaining of trust. We must prove in word and deed that there is no onslaught against Muslims. We must gently but firmly convince them that the extremists are as much an enemy of Islam as they are of the non-Islamic world. We must also convince them of the need to co-exist in a multi-cultural, multi-religious, pluralistic, tolerant, globally interconnected society. For that we must start building the bridges and fostering the connections. It will take tremendous patience, resolve and resourcefulness. We must resist any temptation of impulsive angry responses, verbal or physical (e.g. civilian anti-Muslim violence or military air strikes). Short-term campaigns of aggression and retaliation (any blunt response that harms civilians, Muslim or non-Muslim, that had nothing to do with terrorism) will only foil this goal. The response must be one of surgical precision in apprehending and executing only the perpetrators of terrorism. For that, active collaboration of intelligence agencies and special combat units with ordinary people of the Muslim world is essential. Neither is the whole world going to become an Islamic state (or a Christian one for that matter), nor is the rest of the world at odds with mainstream Islam as long as it is practiced peacefully. That is the message to be gotten across.

ITS TIME TO GET ONE

As we can see in the statements that there is pakistan who is supporting these terror attacks so like why we are still waiting why our government is not taking any step against these kind of practices of pakistan.Its also written in shahtra's that if somebody harm u and your family than u don't keep your self silent than why our government is silent about this.

Its Time that We Indians Fight Back.

It has been long that India never attacked anyone but only to protect ourshelves. But now the time has come to leave the fear and come out and face the realities. If we dont do this then who else will.

This our Country and its our responsibility that we save our home.

The political uncertainity has given way for many to take India as a base. India has always given respect to all people but some are taking advatage of it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, come lets save our home.

Jai Hind

terror , terror and only terror

dow each time the indian government claims of having clear evidence of a pakistani hand , they simply get away from their terroist connections , claiming lack of concrete evidence against pakistan . now its the time , the common man on each and every street of india stands up against , this form of pakistani state sponsored terrorism and forces the indian government to take an appropriate action against pakistan .

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