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Vice President Ansari says those advocating terrorist causes are a tiny minority |
Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that it is important to remember
that those advocating extremist, fundamentalist and terrorist causes constitute
a tiny minority. They neither have the religious nor political mandate for their
abhorrent actions and ideologies. Delivering inaugural address at the "Second
International Conference titled "Terrorism - National and International" organised
by the Jama Masjid United Forum here today, Ansari said that a majority of humanity
is too poor and is focused on trying to survive. "Their vulnerability lies in
their poverty; it is this that provides an opportunity to peddlers of extremism.
This opportunity gets fructified only because those tasked with political governance
and religious and moral leadership have failed," he added. He said that the pedigree
of terrorism in modern times could be traced to the policies of the colonialists.
"The label of 'terrorist' was liberally used by the British against Indians, Burmese
and Malays and by the French against the Algerians. More or less every movement
in the modern era had been labeled 'terrorist' by different parties - whether
it was the Jewish Underground in Mandate Palestine, the ANC in South Africa or
various Palestinian groups," he said. The Vice President expressed his concern
that it is not thus of recent origin but globalization and technology has now
made it trans-national in reach and devastating in its impact. "It has surfaced
in most parts of the world and is not country, region or community specific. It
has been resorted to by the oppressed as well as the oppressors. It is disruptive
of normal life and its principal targets are innocent bystanders," he added. For
this reason alone, he said, it is cowardly, unethical and immoral. It cannot be,
and has not been, condoned in any belief system and yet at different points of
time, adherents of various religions have been labeled as terrorists. "Those trying
to locate the origin of terrorism in Islam or in any other faith display ignorance
of history or downright prejudice," the Vice President added. |
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