New terror attacks warning - Israelis and other westerners

sarkar

Nothing is scary buddy!
Nothing crushes us!

PeakXV

These terrorists get alot more bang for their buck the higher in star scale they attack. Blowing up the Taj Hotel with an internationale clientele scores much higher on the media attention scale then doing the same in backpacker jammed Paharganj or similar spots in India it appears.

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Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

Shivani Skydancer

Do you think the Taj Mahal, Jama Masjid, and other Muslim sites, would be highly unlikely to ever be targeted by Muslim extremist groups?

goingback

Please don't think I'm being flippant; but I cannot bear for our family and friends to have any more reasons to tell us not to go to India!!! It's bad enough that we are going to the Andamans!

machadinha

That great attack some years ago centered around the Red Fort, no? Arguably aimed at the parliament though.

Oh, I should pay more attention to my next response; I will if it so happens in my own good time.

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PeakXV

....... I'd never say ever to any highly populated, heritage site. A quiet, neglected mughal garden or the like would be a much safer bet/choice in times of higher tension.

trvl_in

I dined at Leopold's this summer -- I was seated right at the back where the bullets struck. As I dined I envisioned remorseless gunmen walking into the shop and opening fire. It's a deadly serious business. I am also acquainted with a man who knows a man who was shot by the terrorists that day. I feel the weight of the event personally from what I've been told by people who were in the line of fire that day. It's a deadly serious business.

That being said, this specific warning happens to fall upon the final day of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims. The warning will spoil the delight of 99.9% of Indian Muslims, the overwhelimg majority who are proud to be Indian and who feel betrayed by the extremists within their own camp as well as by the mainstream intelligentsia who instead of taking a high minded view are rather pleased to add fuel to the flames.

While I do not reproach anyone who has posted in this thread, I would ask generally:

What would Ghandiji have said today? What would the Maha Atma tell us?

sarkar

Good question!
I have no idea what Gandhiji would have done about terrorism?
His idea of peace and truth with terrorist would be like throwing flowers on rock. But may be atleast he could have done something like hunger strike or writing(his main weapon) to eliminate corruption, so that Police, ministers, bureaucrats and intelligence officials don't sleep while on duty. This may reduce the terrorist strikes.

Nick-H

Of course. Mosques have been targeted in the past, and, no doubt, Muslims sites of all kinds will be targets again.

There is a hugely complex political web of terrorism in India. It is far from being all of external origin. Sometimes, it is even suggested that people of community "A" kill people of their own community, so that community "B" can be blamed, and mas communal violence can be stirred up. Attackers certainly hope to stir up such violence, and, in very recent times, India has proved that it can resist such provocation, with communities united in condemnation, rather than violence --- maybe Gandhi's message has not failed.

I think what Peak says is true, and I guess (not sure of my details) that when tourists destinations of Israelis have been targeted in the past, they have been more high profile that a beach hut in Goa. Those better informed than me can comment on this, please.

Mumbai was a massive thing. Maybe the Jewish targets were on a "while we're at it we may as well" basis. I suspect that America was higher on the priority list than Israel --- but I am very far from sure of this.

It would be more useful for the potential terrorists to consider the words of Mahatma Gandhi than for us to do so --- and they are hardly likely to do that.

cityMONK

or Govt. of country "A" kill people of their own country, so that Country "B" can be blamed, and International support can be stirred up.

edwardseco

I want what you are smokin' dude.
Cheers..

cityMONK

revelations of a nuclear scientist of india.

edwardseco

One freakin person? It is certainly Kaliyug. What do you imagine terrorists are thinking? We better not hit Leopold's, otherwise Afghanistan is radioctive glass? Nukes are a bluff & welcome to the world of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Hopefully the Delhi Secretariat Brahmins have a clue about the complexity of the world..

LilBoy BigTown

I can see what you are trying to do. This is a thread on terror warnings that Israel has issued and yet you are trying to somehow force into it your own personal thoughts of how one particular community in India has been unjustly dealt with by the wider, much bigger community. Don't do it, this is not the place.

I wouldn't like to go into it any further as this is totally offtopic, and would have ignored your comment to one of my earlier posts, but seeing that you have continued harping on, I was forced to reply.

machadinha

Well, I can appreciate the thought, to an extent; but then the first thought should always be if one's own government (or "befriended" ones) weren't staging such scares or events to further whatever happens to be their own agendas at a given time, shouldn't it?

I think CityMonk wasn't in fact trying to say this (seemingly trying to lay the blame elsewhere, rather), but it is nonetheless what he is saying; and history has borne it out time and again. There is indeed very little reason to think it's not happening today; quite the contrary.