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Sun, Sep 9th 2012, 13:16

Lawrence Michael

I just can't forget a Tamil Jesuit in India ask me a question the poor man had no right to ask of anyone - apart from his question being a patently stupid one that one can only expect from a Jesuit. Yet that man and his clan (that is how Christians operate in India and also thrive) has had enough wherewithals to drag my life and nearly destroy it since 2003 - when he asked that question. His reactions to my answer was equally Jesuit-like. That he had no right nor any locus standi to ask that question in any capacity that he or his Pope may imagine (leave alone the subsequent events that has consistently followed) is legendary and challenges the very basis of the Indian state. Yet it is I who has been at the forefront of indirect attacks since 2003 including economic terrorism and a dehumanization of me that refuses me a recognition of a human being. This is 2012 and I can't resist throwing a scorn at any and every Christian that I come across. I would not shoot a Christian in his posterior even as much I think that would be a service to humanity - and I would not be joining the Al-Qaeda either. The Hindus are yet to come up with any worthwhile terrorist outfit and largely end up playing up to the Christians. I would not join them either. That leaves one with barely any choice in India! Amazing? It is. You think that it is Christian supremacy? When we do look at religions and how they shape one's world views - an exclusionary world-view that sees the other as inferior based upon religious beliefs and/or non-beliefs is a ready-made remedy for disaster and violence. Hitler is often accused of a propagating a similar outlook.
That cultivation of religion mediating an ill and violent outlook is indeed a typical fare within the groups that we tend to classify as terrorist - like the Al-Qaeda for example. What are or would form the differences between say a Jesuit out of his woods and an Al-Qaeda operative out of his? The remain very crucial points indeed that makes a Breivik no surpise at all!