tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post2073925766434228455..comments2024-03-18T22:56:06.696+05:30Comments on Jayasree Saranathan: Why do terrorists kill??Jayasree Saranathan http://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-2473268406116111942008-11-29T15:48:00.000+05:302008-11-29T15:48:00.000+05:30From Tarun Vijay in TOIhttp://timesofindia.indiati...From Tarun Vijay in TOI<BR/><BR/>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_India_battles_to_win/articleshow/3772663.cms<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Any war is first fought intellectually and then on the ground. India is facing its worst ever ideological war since the days of Shivaji and Guru Govind Singh. The attackers are not coming here to loot or colonise us. They are here to attack what they still perceive as a Hindu India that has to be broken to expand their school of thought and faith. It's happening not because we have offended them. It's happening for just being what we are. And we have begun to assert our individuality, our distinguished way of life, within our precincts. And that's intolerable to them.<BR/><BR/>The temple priests of Somnath or the Acharyas of Nalanda hadn't gone to Turkistan or the barren lands of Arabia to offend them and invite their wrath. We were always attacked for being just what we were. Hence this fight can’t be joined without going into the real causes of the war and preparing an intellectual resistance that strengthens the minds before that empowers the sinews. That has to be an inclusive bond defining the cultural and civilisational stream. Stress on the elements that unite rather than those which divide.<BR/><BR/>This war requires forging a united Indian resistance based on love for our motherland and the elements that express her glory. We must ensure that different faiths do not get into a conflict with patriotic fervour – and we have shown we can do it successfully, many times before. 1857 is one shining example of that. We showed it in 1971 and in Kargil too."Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.com