Monday, January 22, 2007

Bangalore riot

In a far, far land there lived a tyrannic king (as per Western view). Once his government was toppled, the people in that land held him guilty of genocide and other crimes any normal dictator would do. He was hanged.

A month later of that court ruling and execution, Muslims in Bangalore gathered to protest that act. Fine, their choice. However, what does that execution got to do with the peaceful people who were walking in the streets of Bangalore? Highly unlikely if anyone in Bangalore had any remote connection with hanging of that leader. (None of the Indian media held a sms polling for the hanging).

Anyway, why should our buses, shops, people be attacked when some activity happens half a globe away? If some pope guy comments negative about a particular community, why should my way to office be blocked?

Does such mobic riots happen in other parts of the world; particularly curious to know how the Islamic developing countries like Malaysia handle such world events.

2 comments:

Ungal Nanban said...

Thanks for bringing this into attention. I fully agree with you in this.

Anything can happen in India...

India has to learn how to handle these situations, from the other developing countries.

Girish Adiga said...

One way to avoid such incidents is by voting. When more people vote and vote for right person, based on persons performance, automatically these elements loose power and it will cause a chain effect till ground level. Then you dont find any daram's, sharif's, gouda's in the assembly hall. No one should encourage mixing religion and politics.

May be other developing countries (I mean really developing, not all not-developed countries) does not have this religion based dirty politics.