Hostage Situation in Mumbai

Candlelight Vigil in Mumbai




I heard about this on the news driving home from school one night. Just another example of what extremists will do to further their cause of hatred and divisiveness. I hate that innocent people suffer and die because these militants think that they can further their cause by mass destruction. What is truly tragic is that now a two-year-old child will have to grow up an orphan because his parents (who were 28 and 29, a Jewish rabbi and his wife) were victims of these terrorists.

Another related story I heard on the news interviewed Vikram Chandra who wrote a novel and one of the storylines involved a terrorist attack in Mumbai. Interesting how in this case fiction and non-fiction reflect each other. The terrorists in the book were actually Hindu (unlike the terrorists in real life, who were Muslim), but I thought one thing that Chandra said was very interesting: that the extremists on either side of the fence need each other to survive, and in a way, they only exist to support the other.