No human being can justify those ghastly acts of terrorism against the innocent civilians. But what flabbergasted me was the irresponsible , sinister and malicious media campaign against Pakistan by indian media without any proof.

How could the indians forget the samjhauta express bombings where they were blaming Pakistan and later it turned out that a serving colonel of indian military along with a gang of other hindu extremist officers and hindu fascist groups were involved.

Same was the case with Malegaon explosions where the same gangs were behind the blasts.ironically one Sadhvi (a hindu spiritual woman) is the prime suspect along with colonel Purohit who was arrested on nov 4.Hindu extremist groups called them heros.

The point is that what would Pakistan get out of such acts as it itself is facing huge economic and security challenges.7000 Pakistanis are killed this year alone.India must do some soul searching before starting itching 4 any adventure .

Akyol
please continue to delude yourself...if you want to dismiss what the own muslim sources say, backed by hard facts (Sunna & Qur'an), you will never come out from your cognitive dissonance.
YOu prefer to post people that tell conspiracies theories and to censure others that give you some evidences...you will all your life stay with your dilemma, but of course, hiding behind your "good will" doesn't absolve you from confronting with reality

àDieu

i think there is still a cold war is going in ASIA which will altemately come on the screen and everyone will come to know about the fighting parties.but one thing is very much clear that there is a conspiracy going against pakistan internally and now also externally,becoz the internall satuation of pakistan is very criticale and now a new external war zone is created against pakistan to make pakistan more weakend and finally bring pakistan into a stage which they want(emany of pakistan).

@ echnaton

If the problem is the Koran then why aren't all 1 billion Muslims in the world causing violence against "infidels". Why is Turkey not invading Greece and Armenia and destroying the infidels. Why aren't the Arab countries invading Israel. Why doesn't Pakistan invade India and convert everyone to Islam and kill those who don't. Why don't Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan cause trouble to their neighbours Mongolia and China. Turkish army in Cyprus should take the whole island. Somalians should invade Ethiopia and impose Islam. Senegalese should spread Islam to the whole of West Africa. Bosnia and Albania should spread the wing of Islam to the whole of the Balkans.

I know why. Because the majority of Muslims in the world follow the Koran. It says only fight those who fight you. These terrorists killed innocent people. They will burn in hell. They aren't Muslims according to the Koran. Get over it. Religion isn't the problem. It is the rogue elements.

Being from Pakistan, i would like to say that i share my condolences for the victims of those who suffered in the Mumbai terror attacks.

While i am not a fan of the Pakistani government, i don't think that they were behind the attacks. But evidence, such as the raft off shore, seems to point the finger at Pakistan. I certainly hope that the two governments can help solve this problem.

But i am also worried about the aftermath. India isn't known particularly for its tolerance, when there was riots and violence done against other religious communities, such as the Hindutva groups which conducted the 2002 Gujarat progroms which killed thousands of Muslims. the BJP, a political party closely linked to these hindutva groups, will pretty much use the attacks to claim that the current government is too soft on terrorism, and use it to win votes. Let's just hope that things don't get any worse.

Muratcan:
1) akyol deleted my first comment where you can find (from muslim sources, Qur'an, Sira and ahadith) justification for offensive jihad, all 4 madhad tell you that defensive jihad was first, then abrogated by the offensive one, that has been made fard (ps: it's not me that tell you that, just google for abdullah ibn humaid,
former imam of the grand mosque of Mecca, about jihad in the Sunna and Qur'an)
2) actually I don't know what kind of islam do they teach you in turkey...might be a sanitized version of...(there is a project in Turkey to erase all agressiveverses from the ahadith)....strange way of behave in face of a "revelation"
3) YOumust be joking, where do you live, on Mars? Turkey (before becoming somehow secular, but even after), has invaded Cyprus (would it not be for Greece, it would already be all turkish), and about Armenians...you should know better...Arab countries made 5 wars agains Israel in the last 60 years...and are still sending flowers each day to Israel, In China there is uprise of Muslims in the most Western province, the Muslims in Ogaden are staging a low profile war against Ethiopia for decades...in Bosnia and Kosovo, most of the problems are due to wahabis infiltrations over there (I know from first hand experience in Ethiopia and Bosnia)
You must be either joking or very very young

@ echnaton

1) There are differing interpretations. I don't know how it is in other Islamic countries, but in Turkey the vast majority of people I talk to view Islamic terrorism as wrong and against the teachings of Islam. Furthermore my non-Turkish Muslim friends have all condemned violence in the name of Islam.

2) In Turkey we have a different interpretation of Islam than the stereotype, that is certain. But maybe our interpretation is actually the true one and not the Sharia one. Not just ours but other countries where Islamic extremism seldom exists. Albania, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are not as synonymous with Islamic extremism as other Muslim countries are. These Muslim countries counter-balance the extremism found in other Muslim countries.

3) I don't know what you mean when you say "before becoming somehow Secular". Is it impossible for a Muslim country to become Secular? Christian countries did it, why not Muslim countries?

The invasion of Cyprus was to protect the Turkish minority. Atrocities were committed from both sides. You say would it not be for Greece it would be all Turkish, I say if it were not for Turkey it would be all Greek. But then again if it were not for Greeks or Turks Cyprus and Anatolia would have their own culture. There were people living in these lands before Greeks as well!

Armenians is highly contentious. I don't think it was genocide. There was no systematic killing. It was a forced migration to Armenia. Due to the climate and lack of food and water, many people died on the way. Many people died when they driven out of the Balkans and had to relocate in Turkey as well. Was one because of the Quran and one because of the Bible? I don't think so. There are rogue elements in all religions, but the majority are peaceful.

Arabs and Israelis is another difficult issue. I have sympathies with both sides. Israelis because their ancestors were killed by Nazis. They had to have a country of their own to stop the discrimination. But then again, I have sympathies with the Palestinians as well because they were living on the land, when Britain gave it to the Jewish folk escaping from the Nazis. This solved one problem of Jewish VS European discrimination but created a whole new kettle of fish.

The Uygurs in China are not represented by the terrorists who share their ethnicity in the same way Muslims aren't represented by the terrorists that share their religion. Just like Kurdish people are not represented by the PKK. Turks aren't represented by the government that issued the Armenian forced migrations, Serbians are not represented by Milosevic. You get my point.

I'm not too sure about the wahabbis in Bosnia. AFAIK Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo aren't extremist hotbeads. I have never heard of Balkan Muslims causing terrorist atrocities against their Catholic and Orthodox neighbours.

I'm not too sure about Somalia but lets be honest but you missed my point. If Islam teaches violence then why isn't every single Muslim in the world killing "infidels". I'm not. None of my Muslim friends are. None of my family is. I have many non-Muslim friends and I know plenty of Muslims that are friends with non-Muslims.

In conclusion the point I was originally trying to make was that it is clear the majority of the worlds Muslims are good people, just like the majority of people of other beliefs. If Islam was the problem, then all Muslims would be out there kill non-Muslims and the world would be in chaos. But guess what? The world isn't in chaos.

Muratcan
I appreciated your balanced contribution, as Akyol's as well, even if sometimes he uses censurship ;-)
Actually what you say, it tells me just that modern followers of Islam are more sensible, mature and balanced that their religion.
Imagine, the best friends I have are Arabs, I appreciate a lot their big heart...but...this doesn't absolve the fact that actually most are a) in denial or b) don't actually know their religion. You know that for example in Tunisia, during religion classes, they don't teach the Medinan Verses?...If you ask them about 9:5 or 9:21 etc etc...they think I'm inventing everything..
Paradoxically, the "true" Muslims are the "militants", bcs they stand on orthodoxy, they base their action on the 4 madhad, on the Sira, Sunna (most important: the example of Muhammad) and the Qur'an. Have you read the text of ibn Humaid about jihad in the Sunna and the Qur'an?...When you are confronted with a bad news, either you try to ignore it, or you are confronted with a cognitive dissonance....this is the situation of most of the Umma, the other ones, that take the news as it is, they, eventually become radicals, terrorists etc etc...
you known, actually the problem is even not between dar el harb and dar el islam...but inside dar el islma itself, bcs sensible muslims will (and are) be labelled as heretics by the radicals....
an insustainable situation...