Charity begins at home; and ........terrorism?

Yesterday (26-11-2008), we were privileged enough to attend a seminar on dowry(since it was anti-dowry day yesterday).I came back home and resorted to my pastime of surfing through the Tv channels. After a few hour,I saw the BREAKING NEWS about the firing at Colaba and various other parts of Mumbai; south Mumbai.

By the next morning Mumbai was under terrible terrorist attack and many brave police officers of our country had lost their lives trying to save the lives of the innocent people (Indians and foreigners alike).And I can now hear reporters saying that "terrorists had struck yet again at another part of our country ."

A thought suddenly struck me; "Isn't the system of giving dowry and the consequent domestic abuse a form of terrorism ?" They say charity begins at home. If so, even terrorism does. So it is the duty of parents, teachers and the elderly to teach the young ones about the values and virtues of friendship,love, harmony and peace and not inject into those young minds the bitternes of vices like (for instance ) violence or even the dowry system(?); which is a form of gender-discrimination since only the woman has to give it . How many men have given money to their in-laws so that they'd let him marry their daughter,huh? Truly speaking, Man or woman; dowry should be prohibited.

"Many foreign media reports that foreigners are being held hostages by the terrorists. But , it is mostly INDIANS, who are held as hostages.It is really our fight; an we have to fight back......."

I could hear Zakka Jacob say this with such emotions which would melt even a stone. And it is true; partly .It is our fight against terrorism. And partly because it is not JUST our fight ... it is OUR fight as a whole world facing the evils of terrorism.We have to join our hands with the rest of the world on this venture against terrorism. It is one critical factor that has affected all of the world alike. It is a graver thing than the economic recession of recent times.If this goes on, half the humanity would be wiped off the face of earth by this disastrous phenomena of Terrorism.