Co-ordinated attacks on 7 locations in Mumbai.

78 people killed..gunned down... 200 wounded.. Britons and Americans targetted.

So far.........

Hostages taken.

Reports indicate that a hithertoo unknown Islamist group has claimed responsibility or is responsble.

Probably the most important questions which should be asked here, are these:

1/ Have the Britons and Americans attacked anyone in Mumbai?

2/ Is the group responsible from India, Pakistan or where?

3/ No matter where they are from, what ideas are driving the objective of targetting US and British citizens?

UNDERSTANDING NEEDED.

The goal of this thread, is to establish the connections between this action, and ideas behind it. This understanding is crucial for us to grasp the nature of the particular type of terrorism we are confronted with in Mumbai, Bali, Melbourne, Sydney... and most important also, to recognize from where, i.e. which elements of the community, such things arise.

We can, by analysing the events of Mumbai, identify embryonic elements among ourselves where such things can happen, by recognizing the same ideas at work.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27928844

'Deccan Mujahedeen' an Islamist group have claimed responsibility.

1/ Who is fighting them?
2/ How.. what has actually occured that this group can claim they have been 'attacked'?
3/ Do they see attacks on Muslim countries as attacks on them?

4/ If so, where could such a view come from?

5/ Should Australia be closely scrutinizing the sources of such views?

6/ What action can we take to reduce the possibility of such attacks on our soil

Why don't we wait for the news?

Here's a question for you: what makes you think anyone on here knows what is going on?

Don't let the facts stand in the way of a good "analysis" will you?

Boaz, you are utterly incorrigible.

>>We can, by analysing the events of Mumbai, identify embryonic elements among ourselves where such things can happen, by recognizing the same ideas at work.<<

This, as we all know, is Boaz-speak for "let's use the terrorists' murder of innocent bystanders as an excuse to dig out bloody surah bloody nine and use it to prove that we are all in imminent danger of being murdered in our beds."

Let's just see if I'm right, shall we?

Our local Islamic apologist can no longer blame Mr Howard, soon they won't be able to blame Mr Bush and it certainly won't fit with their dogmas to blame an African American President. Maybe, just maybe some journalist might look at the ideology behind the terrorism. I suppose the parallels with secularism are a bit close to home.

>>The goal of this thread, is to establish the connections between this action, and ideas behind it.<<

Yeah, right. And the goal of Coca Cola is to improve the health and well being of humans everywhere.

What if it turned out to be a bunch of Christian fundamentalists trying to give the ecstacy a shove along? Would the goal of the thread still be to "establish" connections beween this action and the ideas behind it?

Why is this forum infected by so many muslim-apologists?

Any time a muslim atrocity is mentioned, the poster is howled down for 'Islamophobia'. What a crock.

Anyone who attacks posters in this manner is a traitor and, hopefully, the terrorists' next victim.

Open your eyes. A high percentage of muslims is responsible for most ongoing terror operations.

Until this cancer of humanity is excised, we are all potential targets.