Mumbai terror attacks

I am fully compassionate for these events and pray for the well being of everyone injured and their families, in today’s Mumbai terror attack.

But friends, don’t you think that we humans, all of us are responsible for this. Some amongst us deliberately hurt, abuse, and kill poor, helpless, speechless animals. Rests of us are responsible for this ugly face of humanity, by simply watching silently, neglecting or allowing the abuse and molestation of these innocents. But, who cares and how many care? But, if even a single human life is jeopardized, the entire world watches and sobs!

Look at the way animals are tortured, abused, and killed by many of our fellow human beings for their bloody taste buds, fun, recreation, research, filthy needs, or ritualistic sacrifices in the name of God or religion.

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I think humans deserve worse than such kind of things and some day humanity will kill humanity and not any natural calamity! The curses of those small baby animals whose mother die and who doesn’t get love of his mother, those mothers whose babies are killed in the name of juicy tender chickens and for so many filthy reasons, the curses of those suffered souls will come back to us like boomerang and bring such fateful events.

May God bless the humanity with peace, love, and compassion and brings consciousness and wisdom to all those responsible for destroying the beauty of nature and true humanity!

all these are done in the name of GOD – The almighty – the all powerful – the mercyful – the f***** !

I have posted a link to this article on a FaceBook group. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103374995703&ref=mf

I hope that’s ok with you, considering the possibility of increased traffic to your webpage.

Watching this all on at NDTV.

I am very concerned that their video coverage may be putting people at risk. They really need to start pointing their video cameras in another direction.

Here are some sources you might want to check.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/first-hand-acco.html

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=mumbai

And other sources:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch/story?hl=en&bcid=1238853482&bc_lang=en

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23mumbai

Photo of the Taj on fire.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29750569@N04/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raodk45/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023665.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meenakshi-ravi/mumbai-mayhem-testing-the_b_146809.html

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/11/the-mumbai-terror-attacks.html

http://www.mid-day.com/

http://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-httpwww_26.html

http://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-httpwww_26.html

And who is in charge now? After the ATS chief was shot dead (whom one would logically expect to head up this rescue), there doesn’t seem to be a common source of information leaving the media to speculate wildly and spread panic.
Thankfully, the politicians are lying low.

Pray for Bombay, and India…

This is the saddest thing ever. Here’s a roundup of social media coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks: http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/real-time-citizen-journalism-in-mumbai-terrorist-attacks/

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/27/mumbai-online-the-attacks-reported-live/

Dear Friends,

I got a personal e-mail reply for my post from one of my most respected friends, who is a world-renowned artist.

He writes, “Dear friend, with all due respect to you and your noble convictions, this letter is completely inappropriate. There is a time and a place for everything….this is a HUMAN tragedy, and no time to divert attention to other matters, however urgent. I was extremely upset to read your ill-timed rant.”

To all my friends, known or unknown, and all people who believe in PEACE and HUMANITY, here is my reply:

“With a high level of respect, I would like to assert that this mail was neither meant to divert the attention of people from this calamity nor convey otherwise. I just wanted to assert that such kind of things will go on as long as HUMANS are selfish for just their own selfish causes and no empathy and affection for other equally beautiful lives around. Can we expect love, compassion, and peace from people who don’t mind killing other lives who have got the same right to live as you and I do? Can we expect that if people only love HUMANS, then HUMANITY will prevail…how then we are different from so called ANIMALS?

I feel that this is the right time to retrospect, why such things, such terrible tragedies are happening around the world, not by nature, but by the so called HUMANS themselves.

I am equally shocked and troubled as any other person on this earth…and I know that it could be me, my wife, or my only kid who is a 10 month old infant, who could be one of the victims of this tragedy!

I did not write this message for any charitable cause or any other reason, but with a simple intention to convey that, we HUMANS can not remain at PEACE if we teach our children to care for humans but inflict pain on ANIMALS, simply because they do not belong to humans.

If you and me, and the world want peace on this earth, we will have to teach our children, our families, our parents, our friends, our students…that LOVING means LOVING respecting all LIVES on this earth…we all are Children of God, whether humans, animals, or even insects. There is nothing inherently wrong with using animals for human purposes, such as food, clothing, entertainment, and research, but that it should be done in a humane way that does not cause unnecessary suffering.

I just wish to spread the message that TERROR is not coming from some special people or religion, or followers, but it is coming from somewhere AMONG OURSELVES in the form of HATRED, SELFISHNESS, and we need to retrospect ourselves, change ourselves, and Love and Respect all living creatures.

I often see children and adults hitting street dogs by pebbles, people kicking them away, do you think that behavior such things will make our children or friends a better human being? Do you think that we can expect empathy and love from these kind of people demonstrating such irresponsible behavior?

I am a Medical Doctor and let me also mention that one of the known warning signs of certain psychopathologies, including anti-social personality disorder, also known as psychopathic personality disorder, is a history of torturing pets and small animals, a behavior known as Zoosadism. It is widely known that history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appears in FBI’s computer records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders. “A survey of psychiatric patients who had repeatedly tortured dogs and cats found all of them had high levels of aggression toward people as well, including one patient who had murdered a young boy.”

I believe, if I could even make just one person believe in this, what Gandhi called as AHIMSA (non-violence), the world will have one extra peacemaker and one less Ignorant/violent person on this earth.

Even if I am hated for this effort, even if I am being hurted for this effort, I will still keep CONVEYING to SHED CRUELTY in all ways and become HUMAN in true sense not merely by the virtue of the human body, which itself is a gift of the almighty! And I am sure this is one of the most effective solutions TO MAKE THIS EARTH A BETTER PLACE and avoid such terror attacks!”

You may want to check my pics. I have been shooting in Colaba; at the Leopold Cafe and at the Taj;

http://arunshanbhag.com/2008/11/26/mumbai-blasts-taj-is-burning/

Also, on twitter:
http://twitter.com/arunshanbhag

Bloggers from Mumbai speak out against the attacks.

Mr. Gaurav, exactly what are you suggesting ? That we walk in with Halwas and Milk sweets inside Oberoi and Taj and give it to the terrorists. and come back home and pet our dogs and cats…

What’s love or the lack of it towards animals got anything to do with this issue ? Here we are dealing with folks with fucked-up minds who would kill a dog or an elephant with the same attitiude as they would kill their fellow human beings.

These human beings were killed b’cos someone in your road kicked dogs seems incredulous. Its not a group of dogs who have taken over Mumbai, its people like you and me. just that they are loose in their upper storey.

You are a doctor and one would expect saner stuff from you. Or is it normal for all Gauravs who writes in DP to express crap sentiments always ?

My Indian brothers, this event is disgusting and it is the work of Indians to affect the outcome of the upcoming elections.

I would like to express my grief on mumbai blasts and its victims. Its really unfortunate to have such kind of acts of terrors on our country and trying to dissolute our unity.

I am not in favor of condemning for the mumbai blasts.

A big act of cowardliness. My wishes and salute to Mumbai and its citizens.

Enough is enough, how long will our country succumb to outside political pressure and do nothing to combat the repeated attack on our people! We need to do what USA did after 9/11 and launch a full-scale attack on concerned areas till we have eradicated all terror-training camps!

For those who wanna have a laugh at our home minister, go here…
http://unantha.blogspot.com/2008/11/shivraj-patil-pjs.html

Let me first offer my condolences to all the Indian people. Islamic terrorists have carried more than 12319 deadly terror attacks since 9/11 all around the world and things are worsening!
Check:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

What I deplore most is that the moderate Muslims don’t speak out loudly enough against these neo-Nazi barbaric acts. Let me quote a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller, a survivor of Dachau Nazi concentration camp, who described the political apathy of German intellectuals to the Nazi rise to power:

In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
Then they came for the Catholics,
And I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
And then . . . then they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Roby
Roby5167@fastmail.fm

regards from Israel

No doubt our country is a multi culture and multi language one. This vividness should be our valuable asset and not a point to divide and fight in ourselves, as many new upcoming politicians are doing. The country and its masses are paying the cost of selfish people and their chosen (read elected) political personalities. Considering current era of India, we have become too vulnerable to negative forces. With a high growth ratio of your economy we are also heading towards a virtual civil war.
It’s high time that we come united now. There is no religion above humanity and brotherhood. Terrorism has not got any religion. To kill innocent people to proclaim any agenda is wrong. And wrong is wrong; wherever it is. We as Indian have to come forward, particularly the youths, its time for a revolution; the youths have to come forward from all the walks of the society. We have to stop regionalism and castes etc to make the India great not a particular state or anything. We have to stop criticizing things around and pull up our socks for our own efforts toward the nation building. Just blaming that this person or party has not done any thing for the nation is not good at all, just think that what we as an individual are doing to strengthen the country. Reject all rumors and start working now, the nation and the time require your each bit of effort. Please wake-up now. Vote to a national party, who cares for the whole nation. Youths you must have to come forward, after more than 60 years of independence this country needs you most. Bhagat Singhs, Raj Gurus, Ramprashad Bishmils, Asfak Ullah Khans and Subhas Chandra Boses, are very much needed today. Don’t wait for another 26 –Nov, wake up now or it will be too late.

india should behave with care and should not blame Pakistan without evidence (like what happenened in samjota train blast case) and should not point at anybody before finalization of the inquiry report

Its now clear that the terrorists came from pakistan. They have links to Let which is supported by ISI and sections of pakistani Army. Now anyone with commonsense can understand the loud and clear message from across the border. The democratic government is pakistan is just a mask. Without the support of the army and ISI, no one can plan a terror attack of this scale. Now that we have got the invitation, better prepare to go there with some gifts…….

In the end, it is the extremely poorly paid policemen and army/navy men who came to the rescue!! These are the same men who were being grudged a few rupees in their pay and allowances by the babus and the politicians just a few weeks back. In fact, when they asked for more, the babus and the politicians said that it was a mutiny!! Treated them like bhikharis!! Even now, no one is talking about their pay. Salutes and calling them brave-hearts does not recompense these men! Pay them!! Don’t grudge them their due! Not one of those who saved the Taj could have afforded to have a meal there, forget about staying in a suite there! The babu & the politician will not listen unless enough people talk about this cause.

The middle class is so oblivious of the dirty world around that we r paying its price now.. The politicians dont consider the middle/upper class people as their vote banks so they wld hardly bother.. The bill for the renovation of these two n other hotels shld b sent 2 the Govt. The taxpayer is not responsible 4 this mess. If the Govt. does not ve the money, they can collect the same 4m their muslim n dalit vote banks tat they nurture.. The muslim viewpoint wld b the usual silly ‘evidence’ thing.. Wen wld they stop black mailing this country..they nvr introspect.. they r happy living in the medieval ages..

If we have to counter terrorism, we have to first fight hate and suspicion. What drives these young men to kill people in such cold blood, at the cost of their own lives? Anger, frustration, hate, passion. Unless we tackle the cause of this, no govt will be able to fight terror. We can have law after law, carry out as many raids as we want, bomb Pakistan, but things wont change. The basic rule of guerilla warfare is that you don’t know when and where the strike will be. That is why it is outlawed and feared. 10 terrorists could hold the entire security apparatus of the country to ransom. Imagine what hundreds of disgruntled people can do? The US army with all its high tech devices loses people in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday because of this guerilla warfare. The only way to tackle terror is to tackle hate. Don’t associate religion or a group of people with violence. Don’t make them feel targeted or insecure because that breeds hatred. I know of very secular Muslims who were never conscious of their Muslim identity suddenly feeling insecure and wondering why they are being targeted. If constant fear, suspicion and allegations can do this to well educated, affluent people, belonging to the intelligensia, imagine what it can do to uneducated, unemployed, frustrated and angry youth. Is it difficult to figure out why we are having so many attacks then? And war posturing, burning Pak flags or declaring an all out war will only lead to more casualties on both sides of the border. More mothers will lose their brave sons, more children will be orphaned and wives widowed. Is that what we want? To sacrifice more officers like Unnikrishnan and Karkare to fulfil agendas of hate?

Its high time now..we Indians should take strict measures agaist terrorism.We all know where they are coming from.

It can happen any where in India..or in any other country.We Indians love peace but doesn’t mean we are cowards.What happened in Mumbai is very unfortunate. May god give peace to all the innocent soules killed and strenth to all the Indians to fight.
-Indian

What has happened is very painful, but the fear of what will happen is worse. All these spectacular horrorific acts are unimaginable till they have happened, and then most of us only feel sorry and condemn these incidents. What we need to do is to think of some way to prevent all this in future, and in my mind, there is only one way: ROOT OUT CORRUPTION. As long as we have traitors amongst us who only know one religion, i.e, money, no matter what the cost, no one can help us. We have become so materialistic that everything else has taken a backseat, that is our Achilles’ heel that makes us so vulnerable. We give and take bribes without a hitch. When we face terror and death, we become serious for some time because some of us still have some conscience left, but a short time later we offer a prayer of thanks that others died but we are alive and become engrossed in our lives till the next big incident. It is our own apathy and greed that is at the root of all that is happening today. And all of us expect someone else to stand up and do something. Lighting candles, holding protest marches and writing critiques aren’t enough. I refuse to believe that if some of us didn’t compromise our morals, a handful of men managed to come through the sea and carried such a large pile of ammunition to such exclusive places and then held some of the best commandos of our country at bay till about 60 hours without any aid from any of us, the common man, the ordinary citizen! Unbelievable! Were those men, who were, I believe made of flesh and blood, magicians who carried out such tricks both at mumbai and at all other places in the past by magic? And now in the aftermath, all of us will suffer by being forced carry around pieces of paper to prove who we are and whether we are our parents’ children or not. When we draw money from atm, we will be forced to accept duplicate notes and our hard earned cash will evaporate before our eyes till one fine day a bullet from someone’s gun or a bomb will liberate us and presto! others will be writing and talking about us. Sorry for this long lecture friends, but as long as there are Mir Jaffars among us, no Haidar Ali or Prithiviraj Chauhan can save us. We dont deserve all this, but when we look back, somewhere we are at the root of all this. If we become more honest, I don’t think we need to face such things so often, maybe not at all. United we stand, divided we fall. More importantly, change is the law of nature. Adieu!!!

We really r shocked and really want to do atleaset something.

Will write and also do whatever we can.

We really r shocked and really want to do atlease something.

Will write and also do whatever we can.

At least lets start asking for what we want and voicing out want be want.

Hope we together do something…

If possible, I would just like to convey my condolence to citizens of Mumbai, that we condemn these attacks. People in Pakistan do not approve of it, and neither are they are celebrating. The effort current Pakistani government is making, is to send out a message that Pakistan on official or public level is not involved in it, at all. If some high wired self proclaimed righteous group has used Pakistani soil to do this, lets find them and bring them to justice together. We are trying to cope up with this menace as well.

But I am afraid, the blame game started in the after math of tragic Mumbai terrorist attacks is taking the whole of South Asia back to square one. As if this region and the two countries did not had internal problems of high magnitude already, I worry that we may be drawn, yet again, to the cross border fueds, verbal and actual.

more:
http://riseofpakistan.blogspot.com/2008/11/blame-game-is-on-south-asia-walking-on.html

I bow my head today, not to the terrorists, but to the great sons on India, who inspite of all the political rukkus of localization (read MNS) didnot hesitate to risk or give up their lives.
At the same time, I bow my head in shame at the sheer level of insensitivity shown by Media in covering this attack. Whereas showing the fact to the public is required, the Media also should have enough brains to understand that the while the Indian Public are watching the channels, so are the terrorists in the hotel. There was ABSOLUTELY no need to disclose the strategy of the army, before it was actually used. To this fact, I hold the media responsible for this irresponsible behaviour. Better sense should have prevailed. Also, was there a need to ask the kins of the deceased as well as the surviours scrambling out of the hotels with the most stupid question – “AAP KO KAISA LAG RAHA HAI?”.
I also hang my head in shame to see our politicians using this opportunity to our throw the government and beg for votes.
I also hang my head in shame to see politicians showing no mercy to the families of the deceased – calling the dead valiant as dogs.

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WAR WAR WAR & ONLY WAR!!!!!
What happened on 26/11 was not a small fare. It was a sheer disaster and the only way to prevemt it from happening again is to react. Its not the time to be a Gandhian and wait for Paki’s to attack again and again, till they tire. Its time to go ahead and show them that we are not be messed with. Mr. PM needs to realise that it has to be now or never. With cold approval from across the globe the government needs to attack all terrorist centres in Pakistan and if they cannot do so, then I pledge the citizens to avenge the deaths of all the innocent and the martyrs by attacking these filthy, coward politicians and killing them. Simply, asking them to resign is not enough.

Hi,
I find the way TV media (and the rest of the world) has reacted to this terror strike is unique: there were torror strikes all over the country, Ahmedabad Jaipur, bagalore, Assam, Delhi, Hederabad and also mumbai many times before this. True, this time the attackers were from outside the country and were a suicide squad. And the attack went on for 3 days. But these were not the only reason for the special coverage it is getting in media. If you had watched the debates and reporting and interviews it was repeatedly said that ” this time it is different because some of the people I know have died and next time it could be me. I go to Taj for dinner, you go for conferences …” etc. One says ” Before ist was Ghatkoper, KAlyan but now it is here”. Sardesai asks Sharukh Khan in CNN ” You could have been in Taj, does it scare you?”
I think people should be angry at politicians but it should have happened long before. But IMO, many people were angry but they couldnt get media to represent them. Now that reporters and many bigshots are affected, the TV channels show as though the whole country is angry at this incident.

Each one of us now has a way to channel our anger and frustration into something positive to help those whose lives have been shattered by these attacks.

Click on the link below to make a secure online donation to the victims from anywhere in the world.

http://www.giveindia.org/give/pledgepage/HelpMumbai

Let’s show these people that they haven’t been forgotten!

Hi, I enjoyed your great posts on the Mumbai Terror Attacks.

I have a blog covering the very best views and news on terrorism in India at http://www.IndiaAwakening.com.

I want to reach out to as many people as possible to quell war mongers and apathetics with the message of peace, unity, action and political change. Let me know if you have any feedback.

I will be adding to it daily. Hope you can take a look and link to get if you like it. I will add a link to your blog.

Dear All,

let us not talk how to change INDIA or “the system”. LET US FIRST CHANGE OURSELVES. THEN & THEN ONLY DO WE GET THE RIGHT TO ask other to change. All who do not follow this are DTA’s (Dinner Table Activists’).

Post the 26/11 war on India, i have read that there a lot of Groups and NGO’s etc have have started to come together/work to bring about a change. This is multiplicity of the effort.

In our country individuals or small group’s are easily brushed aside by the administration.
I want to make a LIST OF recently formed group’s/NGO’s (and older one’s too) who are working towards making a safer and better India tommorrow. CAN ANYBODY HELP???
The idea is to make each other aware and make a mass movement to show our mettle and also to show that we are a force to reckon with and that we want the change to happen now and not at the whims of the administration.
I am reachable at bbp@dhartidhan.com

JAI HIND