Friday 30 January 2009

Mangalore attakcs...

I am sure everybody must have come to know about the attack in mangalore on women at a pub...I dont seem to understand as to what the attackers were targeting?? Were they attacking the fact that women were drinking there??? Or that the drinking is a bad precedent???? 
I think the whole media seems to be focussed on the fact that women were attacked in the pub.. so it decides to make an issue on this... I agree that women are soft targets and are always made scapegoats in any cultural changes taking place... But this incident needs to be seen on a larger scale... The society is getting polarised at a very fast rate due to incidents like these...  The point is that tolerance of anything that one doesnt like is getting reduced to such a level that violence is getting accepted as a means to solve it... We are ready to condemn the attack on women but begin discussing the fact whether the "pub culture" is good or bad"...
I think the discussion makes no sense... Because as pubs are not illegal it makes no point debating whether it is good or bad... If the government feels this thing is wrong let them make it illegal.... But this attack does bring out one thing.... Our country is getting polarised on many angles.... This attack is not about indian culture... Its about finding things to split people into groups so as to pitch them against one other... This was the same tactic used by Hitler.... He created fear among the non jews against speaking up and eliminated jews... If he had been allowed to continue he would have found some other group to target.... At the end it is not about beliefs but about domination.... Now its upto us to decide what we do about this... Bt we are so involved in our own lives thinking that we are not affected by this... Not today sure... But who is gonna support you when you are stuck in some situation like this????   

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