Who is responsible for these deaths? The brainwashed youth who thought he would be a martyr and go to paradise if he blew himself up and killed ‘infidels’? Or his family members for allowing him to meet people who would teach him such things? Or the madressah in Pakistan, where the young man reportedly went and received his indoctrination? There is nothing more reprehensible than killing and murdering innocent people in the name of one’s religion, more so because no religion sanctions such mindless violence. Those who train and recruit suicide bombers are nothing but terrorists using children of poor impoverished families as foot soldiers in their ‘war’ against the west. At least this young man’s mother had the courage to face him and tell him that what he was planning to do was wrong. But, sadly, she paid for it with her life. She is the real martyr.

Point taken. Nonetheless, India had the princely states, a semi-feudal structure, and the caste system. Slowly but surely, the responsible and represented officials as well as media kept exposing society’s ills.

Equally dangerous now are the fanatics who need to be kept in check. Ours is a society when a suicide bomber is born every second. I cannot understand how the judicial system could allow the construction and reconstruction of Lal Masjid on illegally-encroached land and then not take notice of tyrannical state within a dictarorial regime!

I love the poor, illiterate, and innocent 99 percent Pakistanis. Simultaneously, I despise the remaining one percent parasites and the the hypocrite elite who keep blaming “jahil awaam” for all the problems.

It is all the more important that we do not fault the concept of representative system of societal organization. Look at neighboring India! Let an elected system of government properly nurture and flourish!

Regards