What can be done?

Please tell us what we can do? What can be done against these terrorists?
My sister-in-law is a Taj employee. She was in the Taj on the 26th.
She could have died had she worked late that night. No, not could, would have died.
She escaped death by an hour.

Instead of sitting here writing this blog, I would have been on my way to Mumbai. Our family would have been going through the same desolation and distress as the families of those 150+ people killed.

However, what can we do? Can I do something? Perhaps the terrorist, for whatever reason had asked the same question to themselves when they planned this attack. They had their "cause" and asked themselves what they could do to support it. Well fighting against terror is our cause. What can we do?

I am a chemical engineer. Perhaps its my calling to work for renewable energy. That will remove the money from the Arab hands and stop the terrorist funding. After all they hate our way of life. - the progress of India, the riches our globalization and westernization has bought us. That is why they attack us. Why do we continue to trade with our enemies? Because we have to. They buy the guns with the money we gave them to buy their oil. Wouldn't it be great if we stopped buying?

Anyways they are a backward looking culture who treat their women with disrespect and burn girls who want to go to school with acid. We all should stop dealing with this cancerous deformity of the human race. Maybe in a few generations they will stop evolving - after all the selfish gene loves the body that tries to keep that gene alive. I am not saying that the Muslims are all terrorists. I am saying that their ways are not civil.

We humans know right from wrong - we know it instinctively. In the book God Delusion, Richard Dawkins says something in similar lines. Perhaps its a "selfish gene" thing - the gene selects such organisms that work for the overall good of the species and that means it tries not to cause harm to others of the same species (the definition of crime). Whatever the reason maybe, the Muslim culture is not so - at least the kind of muslim culture being practiced in many countries like Afganisthan and Iran.

Fear for Obama's life

I was reading this article.

It is amazing as to how many people are afraid that Obama will be killed.
When he won, I, and later on I discovered many others, had a fear that some whako somewhere will "take him out". I don't know whether the threat is real; my wife keeps assuring me that he is perhaps the most secured man in the free world; but I cannot but feel a sense of fear for his life.

For all of us who love the man and what he represents: what people like me and others like me look up to America for, the fact that the son of an immigrant can become the president of this country, the hope that his election has given to so many people - all this could be dashed if some nut white supremacist were to whack him.

Thus there are those of us who remind ourselves that Jena 6 can still happen in this country, that whites still treat the rest differently, and race still exists. Much as we pray and hope that this will be the place in history that future generations will look back on as the turning point in the path of America, when the beacon on the hill that was nearly extinguished by Bush was once again relighted, we also live in fear for the life of what Obama represents and what it would mean if he were lost.