Yesterday, I answered a question - "Would you hand over your family to the police if they were a terrorist?" I answered this question as "No. Family before the state and death before dishonour". What a surprise, that this aroused a fair deal of controversy.
I don't need to justify my value system to you, and I am an atheist, not a Muslim as the angry responses seemed to be attacking me for being. I am also not American, I am British.
Today, in the interests of free debate, I am asking this controversial question. Before you answer it, I want to say that I think that the 9/11 and 07/07 bombings were atrocious and not justifiable, as were the IRA bombings in London before, and as are most of the terrorist attacks in Kashmir.
Having said that, I also ask you to look at certain facts about terrorism before you make your judgement - please do not answer in a knee-jerk reaction:
a) In India, when the country was freeing itself from British Raj, terrorists were "freedom-fighters".
2006-09-14
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