dec 19th, 2008

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From: Shahryar

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article5269730.ece   From The Times December 2, 2008 Psychotic terrorists in search of a grievance Those who wreaked havoc in Mumbai were not thinking of Kashmir. They were brainwashed by an ideology of hatred David Aaronovitch   So, why kill the rabbi? There is a branch of apologetics - which I take crudely to be the belief that the crime is the fault of the victim - that assumes a milder form, and which I'll call explanetics. So the explanatists view of the Mumbai massacres last week is that the cause lies in what concretely has been done to, or in the vicinity of, the young, cool-looking men with the grenades and the machineguns.   On the day after the attacks began the Indian writer, campaigner and serial explanatist, Arundhati Roy, lambasted her own country on The World Tonight on Radio 4, for its rural poverty and its fluctuating support for Hindu nationalism. These, she seemed to suggest, were root causes of the terror ... deleted