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...first blood was spilled at 9:30pm. An hour later, the world realized that Mumbai was under a coordinated terrorist attack that was threatening to lay siege to India??s financial capital. As a Pakistani, I watched in horror as the all-to-familiar images of carnage streamed over the television. I was transported back to September 20, when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart...
...Hours later, India??s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went on the air, bemoaning those lost and simultaneously pointing across the border in blame. In assuming a hard line, the Prime Minister made the rather dire pronouncement that “there would be a cost if suitable measures are not taken” by India??s neighbors to curb such attacks. The rage of Mumbaikars and Indians in general is understandable. This crime against humanity in Mumbai has shaken India, its neighbors, and its friends. However, it would be a greater tragedy if we let this...
Yesterday morning, the leaders of India??s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, called for a United Nations mandate “to destroy the edifice of terrorism in Pakistan” through intervention. There were cries of popular support. Sound familiar? It echoes the rhetoric of 9/11, but this time such bombast will not be successful...
...public intellectuals in the West have been quick to tell their Indian counterparts that India did not, in fact, just experience their own 9/11. Cambridge University professor Priyamvada Gopal wrote in The Guardian yesterday, that “describing last week’s attacks in Mumbai as India??s 9/11 diminishes both that carnage and the atrocity in New York seven years ago.” It was just typical domestic political subterfuge, or no more than the usual conflict with Pakistan. But for Indian citizens, those three days truly, clearly, and certainly were their 9/11. Supposed...
...Holtzbergs and their companions were slain because they were Jewish, and these terrorists hated Jews. Yet Jews were not the attacks’ only victim. These extremists also hated India??for its majority Hindu population, for its stance on Kashmir, and for the strength of democracy. These terrorists despised everything Western. That is why they killed the American tourist and his 13-year-old daughter who ate supper in a local café. It’s why they killed as many guests as they could as they rushed the swanky Taj and Oberoi hotels, frequented by foreign...