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Makkar puts foot in mouth on
violence question
WSN Network
AMRITSAR:
Sinister are the
ways in which opinions and thought processes are impacted. There was
no end to the doomsayers who wanted Barack Obama to condemn his
church but he asked the right question, posing if the church was
worth condemning. One pastor’s comments cannot be reason enough. But
what lessons have Sikh community leaders learnt? Negating the
martyrdom and the blood soaked struggle, Avtar Singh Makkar reels
under the war-on-terrorism idiom and found the 24th anniversary of
Op Bluestar a fit occasion to denounce “the cult of violence”.
Nothing can be
achieved through the gun,” he said, but did not say a word about the
nation state that heaps and forces violence because it blocks
legitimate expression. “Terrorism is not a religion; it is a crime
against humanity,” said the SGPC president. True, what who is a
terrorist? The ones pushed to the wall and being divested of power,
resources, and even identity who take up the arm or those who gather
together the Salwa Judams and make the poor fight against the fellow
poor? Makkar said the problem of terrorism could be resolved only if
there was revival of spiritual humanism, which could guide us to
truth and peace. Pious platitudes are good but world needs more than
that.
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June,
2008
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