The Anonymous Widower

Do It in God’s Name

I’ve just watched the Channel 4 programme, Dispatches about the attacks in Mumbai.

It’s chilling and it shows the callousness of those that controlled the gunmen from Pakistan. Is it alright for them to send young men to their deaths, when they are sitting comfortably at home? The title of this post is what a controller said to a gunman.

They said they did it in God’s name!  Whose God? Not mine as I have none but life itself. And any religion that preaches death is some nihilistic cult that goes against all I believe in!

They were not even doing it in the good name of Islam. Much of Islam is now a bastardised version of a religion that looked after our science and made women equal.  I’ve read enough history to know that.

But why do I feel so affected by the Mumbai attacks?

I wasn’t there, but I was in the Taj Mahal hotel two weeks previously.  How many of those wonderful and kind people that we met in the hotel, died in the attacks?

Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai

I shall return to the hotel to show that terrorism will never get the better of me.

June 30, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel, World | Death, India, Religion, Terrorism