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Terrorism has harmed legitimate liberation moves, says scholar
| Certainly has tightened the definition in our neck of the woods... |
A Muslim scholar said on Thursday that terrorism harmed the legitimacy of liberation movements in Indian Held Kashmir, Palestine and Chechnya.
| I was thinking about maybe Darfur, and Aceh, and the Shan States in Burma, and places like that as legitimate liberation movements. I'd be perfectly happy to see India retaining Kashmir in perpetuity, ruling the resident Moose limbs with an iron fist and converting them forcibly to Hinduism. If the place wasn't the home to the most barbarous sort of terrorism, I might not feel like that. I'd be unmoved to watch the Russers deport all the ethnic Chechens to someplace 400 miles north of Khabarovsk and replace them with honest Slavs and Veps and Udmurts. That's because the Chechens are a savage lot who're willing to slaughter school children in the pursuit of their goals. And I wouldn't turn a hair if the entire Paleostinian people was chased out of Gaza and the West Bank. That's because they're savages who're perfectly happy to shoot little children in their beds and blow up teenagers whose only sin was to want to go out dancing. |
"Some terrorists have weakened the Kashmiri liberation cause," said Muhammad Farooq Khan, a scholar, at a seminar 'Phenomena of Terrorism: Implications for Pakistan and the Muslim World' organised jointly by the international relations department of University of Peshawar, and Media Cell of Federally Administered Tribal Areas secretariat.
| Not "some" terrorists, you beturbanned would-be overlord. All terrorists. |
He said targeting soft targets in Kashmir had changed the true cause into terrorism and the world now viewed the problem differently adding, "The same is the case with Palestine and Chechnya". Mr Khan piously denounced the people who carry out terrorist attacks under the garb of religion. "Exploding bombs in buses in Israel has changed the world's view about the Palestinian struggle for independence," he said and added Bill Clinton, former US president, had presented a good road map but nothing was done.
| It changed the world's view not because it's not an effective tactic, but because it's wrong. I know that word doesn't appear in the Koran, but the civilized world does recognize right and wrong, even if sometimes only subliminally. |
He said Pakistan and the Muslim world should not allow the United States to formulate the definition of terrorism and that the term must be defined soon. Dr Qibla Ayaz, faculty dean of Islamic and Oriental Studies in the University of Peshawar, said Islam does not warrant terrorism and demanded that jihad should be redefined.
| You continue blathering. We've got people to hunt down and kill. |
Posted by: Fred 2004-12-24 |
