The State of Tragedy
With an excess of 300 injured and more than 144 dead, Mumbai must be in chaos. Today I watched carnage pour from TV station from my grandfather’s hospital bedroom. A Rabbi and his wife were killed, while thankfully their son was rescued after his parents’ blood had already soaked through their clothes. I can’t imagine what it would be like to live as your parents, siblings, children, co-workers, strangers are killed around you. I also wonder why this Chabbadnic Rabbi is being given so much press coverage when there are so many more dead alongside the body of his and wife. (This article, talks about “30 bodies in one hall” in less than a sentence, then devotes four paragraphs to the couple)
Technology amazes me, constantly. Twitter and bloggers are connecting families, friends, and the world.
Still, we are unsure who is promoting this violence. An unknown group Deccan Mujahedin took responsibility for the attacks, but that has since been suspected false. I really wonder why someone who take the credit for dreadful acts when it will be proven wrong. The temporary fame? So you no longer are “unknown”, but known as the foolish group who took responsibility for something they weren’t at all related to? Intelligence is leaning toward a Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, but still there is uncertainty.
Laskar-e-Taiba is a militant group that has done things like coordinate charitable activities for the relief victims of the October 2006 earthquake in Kashmir. The duality of terrorism fascinates me. Resorting to terrorism (because you always resort, no one begins with such rage and violence, I believe), must be a frustrating process. As the charity would suggest, everyone in their own way wants to heal the world. Yet, difference of belief and practice (and selfishness, greed, and lack of perspective in many instances), can breed frustration, destruction, and unacceptable ends. Terrorists want something, and they’re using terror becuase they feel they have no other way to get it. Of course, this should not be that way.
Can you imagine listening and enduring the tragedy?
One of those freed, Briton Mark Abell, spoke of his delight at seeing several heavily armed soldiers at his hotel door after spending more than 36 hours in his room.
But he was shocked by the state of the hotel. “The lobby was carnage, blood and guts everywhere. It was very upsetting,” he told the BBC.
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