"Terrorism"
I don't know about anyone else here, but I LOVE Algebra!
While Calculus may have been developed by "Europeans", without Algebra, there would be no Calculus. Could you imagine computer science having ever been developed without the concept of Zero?
Try designing a switch with Roman numerals!!!
Greed and Ignorance - what a dangerous combination.
Isn't it odd how the concept of Zero, which has proven to be so useful, came out of a highly literate and very dark-skinned Asiatic culture? And then the lighter skinned "barbarian hordes" from what I guess is now Iran plundered and enslaved those dark-skinned peoples of India, making India their home, and turning the natives indigenous to India into a "lower class". Was it during the Christiam Crusades that the advanced mathematical philosophy of the Asiatics was absorbed by Europeans?
What's my point?
I'm not even sure if I have a point to make.
Keep listening to your instincts. When something makes you uncomfortable, that is your instinct/emotion alerting you to hostility. Hate's goin' 'round breaking every heart ... stop it please before it's gone too far .... 
While this is a different situation (it's a whole different now, now), I am reminded of the lyrics to Sun City, writen by Steven Van Zandt (Blue Midnight Music, 1985) and performed by ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID, about South Africa: "Somebody tell me why we're always on the wrong side?"
Sun City
We're rockers and rappers united and strong
We're here to talk about South Africa we don't like what's going on
It's time for some justice it's time for the truth
We've realized there's only one thing we can do
I ain't gonna play Sun City
Relocation to phony homelands
Separation of families I can't understand
23 million can't vote because they're black
We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back
I ain't gonna play Sun City
Our government tells us we're doing all we can
Constructive Engagement is Ronald Reagan's plan
Meanwhile people are dying and giving up hope
This quiet diplomacy ain't nothing but a joke
I ain't gonna play Sun City
Boputhuswana is far away
But we know it's in South Africa no matter what they say
You can't buy me I don't care what you pay
Don't ask me Sun City because I ain't gonna play
I ain't gonna play Sun City
It's time to accept our responsibility
Freedom is a privilege nobody rides for free
Look around the world baby it can't be denied
Why are we always on the wrong side
I ain't gonna play Sun City
Relocation to phony homelands
Separation of families I can't understand
23 million can't vote because they're black
We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back
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Reducing terror deaths.
Terrorists have taken a fancy for attacking trains,
planes, places of worship ,shopping markets etc
terrorism Pandemic
Yesterday,i saw a person which beard and carrying
a large guiter or some kind of musical instrument
...my imagination make me ponder whether that
instrument was a rocket weapon
just imagine if that rocket from the ground or some
top of a building hit the stock market...
Anything is possible these days,terrorists keep planning
all kinds of things.
Just i case anyone else sees anything,let others know
as an when attacks take place,some more items can
be added to the list....ofcourse many clues can be
drawn from Iraq ,as bombs go off there more often
the sad part of Iraq is infighting .....now that iraq
is free ,even reconstruction cannot take place due to
the fighting among own Iraq people and all the fraction
,it is not the fault of the west that Iraqis are fighting among themselves.
TRAIN SYSTEM - there should be an intercom system
which makes ANNOUNCEMENTS -in the train and station
platform every ...minutes
Annoucement -every passenger is required to check
the space around him ( under the seat,above the seat,
left and right) and report any suspicious unattended baggage and person ....after verifying with majority in the compartment for HIS/HER OWN safety at that
point of time.
Suppose there is poisonous gas attack in the train,
what are the steps people inside the train can take.
eg they need fresh air
eg train needs to stop so that people can receive help
eg help in the form of medical and ambulances
eg help fire extinguishers
PLANES system
Passengers should carry only specified items in handbag
..travelling by plane is not like going for picnic....
Ultimately one just want to leave from point A and reach
point B..
So carry only the essentials.....
this advise information has to be given at the time of buying the ticket .
It is not humanly possible to check every and every tiny
article ....so people should carry just a small hand bag.
PLANES anti terror electronic check
Lie detector ,based on the voice and brain changes
can provide clues whether the person is LYING.
Also other clues ,from the eyes .Meaning one should do
some research " people who are planning terror attack
what kind of body clues are given out,eg nervousness
etc
this can be done is less amount of time ny computer
medical equipments.
eg passenger should be asked 3 questions to the lie
detecting machine
1.are they terrorists?
2.are they carrying any explosives etc?
3.have they travelled to certain terror haven countries ?
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the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden....
why is that in most of the terror attacks,trains,planes,
there is link ............to someone who went to Pakistan...
or whether ever there is a terror attack...there is some
link to Pakistan origin.
Please note,I am not saying Pakistan is not trying its best
to find the terrorists...
i think something fishy about the terrorists liking
Pakistan
-is it because they can train over there? making bombs
etc.....
-is it because some is protecting?
-in spite of all the world talk still Madrass and other
extreme school exist.
People hear of training camps ..why are
the camps allowed to exist.
People hear of lawless areas Why cannot there be
a UN team to check out these lawless areas.
I have an uncanny feeling that the ISI or some
in Military is protecting or ignoring these elements
or Using them as fighters whenever needed....
the war on terrorism , keep going on in Iraq and other places,but whenever there is a real terror attack,
it is a pakistan connection somewhere....
How many people think the war is being fought with
wrong people while ignoring the facts of the SOURCE
of terrorists and the SOURCE of their operation
link with pakistan
Conclusion: Unless people solve the mystery of why terrorists like Pakistan one will not be able to win
the war of terror,because the war is not fought with
the real sources from where is terror planning is taking place.
If Pakistan cannot control certain areas and there
is lawless ness going on,then the international antiterror war in needed to take control and bring some law and order over there,so that terrorists breeding can be stopped in the lawless no man knows area etc.
Coming to greatest mystery of finding Osama
wild guesses,maybe osama is moving around the mountain area in caves...borders.
Osama is the media mouth piece, giving hints
about attacks
( catching Osama alive is better ,become he must
have done so much research of ALL the caves over there
and the no man and go and seen areas....)...scientific
point of view since not much is know about that place
the real planning i think is done by the Egyptian
person and he MAY BE is islam state country..while this person is more discreet and dangerous i guess.
some say he is a doctor....but this doctor instead of saving people, uses his intelligence to plan how to kill people.....jack the ripper type
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Culture..
Muslim cluture is very sensitive one and dealing with
it requires tact.
Firstly , mercy and forgiveness is very rare concept,unlike
christianity,where forgiveness is an important concept.
the reason why i said muslim culture is sensitive
is that there are issues which have become sensitive
and the problem is it the feelings are hurt , there
can be a backclash....
Also using violence as a tool is made justificable...meaning this concept of JIHAD ...
Many muslims think people are unfair and unjust to them,
at the same time,there are certain RULES and SYSTEMS
and LAWS that need to be respected.
eg lebanon and Hisbulla -lebanon force follows lebanon
laws and hisbulla follows its own islam laws.
eg what comes first religious laws or your country laws
is the main confusion...especially when they differ.
That is why there is the concept of ISLAM STATE
where the religious laws and country laws are the same.
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Coming to the fact of this whole topic of terrorism.
even i could not imagine ,a plane crashing into
tall building.........clearly shows....how mad and desperate
terrorists are?
and this is a different kind of war...Unconventional type
involving human evil minds...
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Next aspect of Terrorism
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now the question is how do terrorist get hold of these things ?
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Admittedly, I brood. And lately, I've been brooding a lot about language. I've been trying to parse the use & lack thereof/misuse/abuse of the terms "terrorist" and "terrorism". Viewers of Free Speech TV may have seen the video of the Palestinian rap group Dam's (it means blood) "Who's The Terrorist". This song articulates my thoughts and feelings today pretty well. Raising the same questions which are roiling through my mind.
What allegedly distinguishes mass murders perpetrated by governments from mass murders perpetrated by others? What makes the former acceptable to a society's spokespeople and leaders, while making the latter anathema?
Governments are certainly more efficient at mass murder than others. Are their actions thereby better? Because they are a "government", are they somehow granted some blanket absolution for their crimes?
Here are some statistics that I've heard. I can't speak to their accuracy because (of course) many of these things aren't tracked.
The US is supposedly responsible for the deaths of 8M people since the end of WWII. I actually think this is a grave understatement because I doubt that the so-called collateral damage from US political and financial policies (all the folks who starved to death or died of water born diseases because of wars or government debt payments sponsored in whole or part by US policies) are included in this number.
I also don't know if the estimated 1M Iraqis who died from the sanctions are included.
I don't think the folks (troops, contractors, journalists, Iraqis, & others) who have died since the US invaded Iraq are included. I doubt it mostly because we don't seem to have any accurate count of the dead Iraqis.
And, the number of 8M dead doesn't even claim to represent those injured whether slightly or severely, whether physically of mentally.
So, I ponder, as an American, when I look in the mirror am I seeing a terrorist?