Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Human rights for an animal?

India is a country full of people with super-tolerance levels; tolerance to religious disparities, corruption, poverty, illiteracy and even terrorism. I was stunned when I read in the papers that Ajmal, the lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai Taj hotel terror plot had the courage to demand to be tried by an international court because he doesn't trust the Indian courts. And the judiciary amazingly has the time to listen to whatever he's saying. How more crappy can this country's judicial system get? The man is a terrorist who killed people and destroyed the country's premier hotel causing panic in Mumbai for more than two days. And we're treating him like a VIP who has his fundamental rights. This man is an animal. He doesn't deserve human rights. Why not simply shoot him down and get down to other businesses, like the Arabs do? By empowering terrorists with human rights, we are feeding terrorism. As Kamal Haassan says in UPO, terrorism is the only way to fight terrorism. We live in an age where the end is what matters the most, not the means to it. It's high time the judicial system wakes up to face this truth. People might argue that by employing extremism about terrorists, we are forgetting to impose the difference between the sane man and insane animal. Well, that doesn't really matter because if a rabid dog keeps infecting people, shooting it down solves the problem entirely. Let's be practical.