Sunday 14 December 2008

On Mumbai Attacks: “This was not global jihad. Its roots are far closer to home”

. Sunday 14 December 2008

On Mumbai Attacks: “This was not global jihad. Its roots are far closer to home”


A perverse narcissism seized the British media last week, with several papers seemingly desperate to claim the Mumbai terrorists as British citizens. There was no evidence for this beyond a couple of unsourced stories in the Indian press, but it served to confirm the thesis that the whole operation was organised by al-Qaida and thus merely another manifestation of the cultural clash between Islam and its religious competitors.

read complete story from a reputable newspaper Guardian.

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