Lets finally say to ourselves, "enough is enough"
Lets decide to do whatever little we can in cleaning our city our world of this disease called islamist terrorism.
Lets be more careful, more alert, more aware, of our surroundings & the people around us,
Lets stop taking things for granted,
Lets stop taking things easy,
Lets stop 'saluting the spirit of mumbai' after every attack and start waking up our spirit, because WE ARE MUMBAI,
Lets stop paying attention to & expecting anything from our politicians,
Lets start being careful & responsible for our lives & our families ourselves,
Lets learn self-defense,
Lets admit to ourselves that we live in a state of war, that mumbai is no longer a 'safe' city and that a single aimless random bullet / bomb from a fucked up demented muslim fanatic is all it takes to end our lives, the dreams and the good times of our families,
Lets grind our teeth & start hating these terrorists & their stupid jehad passionately with our hearts & soul,
Lets get angry, really angry on terrorism and terrorists because unless we are really angry as a nation and as people, we can not do anything about these things. We will simply go on going to work, coming home, watching TV, and going to sleep, forever and ever.
We, bombayites, famous for our determination, our ability to go on with our lives, regardless of madmen walking into our homes and maiming and killing us are actually just plain stupid.
Its in the interest of politicians to go on "saluting our spirit" and keep us busy with our jobs and careers and lives with our nose to the grind, making money for them, without comprehending or understanding or responding to the threat situations around us. I am so sick of being this somnambulist moron whose spirit everyone salutes and who goes on with my uncertain insecure life not knowing if I will ever see my children grow up, and god forbid, dreading the thought of them growing up in this kind of world.
After this terror attack we all will once again resume our work and our lives nonchalantly because we are mumbai-ites, people salute our spirit, people praise us for being resilient and committed, towards our work, our livelihood. The politicians will play their blame games and try to use this situation to make themselves heros and assure their votes and power and we will be the same, sitting ducks for another of these terror attacks by some other fanatic mujahideen a few weeks or months later. And this goes on and on.
Because . . .
We dont feel angry . . . Really Angry !! We dont feel the rage, the burning seething anger that would make us think of options that we dont normally think of for dealing with this menace. We have become way too placid and careless because of an unfortunate overdose of the "hota hai, chalta hai" attitude. We need a more Aggressive Anti-terrorism Mindset.
We are way too busy working towards that promotion, that car, that new cellphone, that business deal, that laptop, that position, that body . . . !!
I am not saying we get angry and do something foolish. But what I mean is we dont let this cool down and fade away from our consciousness. That we change our attitude and our way of living a little bit to make sure our government and our politicians understand that WE ARE ANGRY AND WE WILL NOT TAKE THIS ANYMORE. We start asking questions and we start demanding justifications for our taxes, our nation, our legal system.
Lets start being apprehensive and stop being careless of our surroundings, situations and people we interact with.
Lets stop believing in the utopian fallacy that India is a secular country, people of all faith live together in harmony here and our constitution protect us and our religious freedom.
Lets start thinking that while not all muslims are terrorists, why are all terrorists muslims.
Why, when we pick up ANY newspaper of ANY day, in any crime report anything to do with drugs, arms, extortion, illegal immigration, illegal money transactions, murders, gangwars, and of course terror acts, 98% chances are the names are all muslims.
Lets wake up to reality, no matter how un-intellectual or un-cool it sounds.
The deccan mujahideen who claimed responsibility for this attack sent a mail to media saying "We warn the indian government to stop atrocities on muslims and return all the lands snatched from muslims."
Atrocities on muslims . . . Anyone who has lived in India in the last 5 decades knows that muslims as a minority have been treated on our land as a very favoured class with special privileges IN SPITE OF the great contribution to the law and order situation they have offered. Our politicians go out of their way to appease and please them for the strength of their indiscriminately ever-growing population feeding on our country's infrastructure and our tax money. The sheer number of people that have been killed by muslim terrorists hands in the past few decades are enough to null all arguments of atrocities on muslims.
Lets stop being stupid and endangering our children's lives.
Lets wake up, toughen up, gear up, speak up, get worked up . . . lets get angry and lets clean up.
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