I've always wondered how a terrorist thinks? I've always wondered how their minds work? How, for example, do they go to a crowded market and either place a bomb or blow themselves up? How do they bring themselves to behead a fellow human being? Would it be the equivalent feeling of slaughtering an animal - for them? Are these people to be called "humans" for what they do? Can their acts be justified on the basis of religion or be condoned by the logic that they are doing what they do to "protect," to "defend," to "the infidel." Would any of the above excuse or diminish their acts? Statistics would prove me right (I would think) - that most or the majority of the casualties of terrorism and acts perpetrated by terrorists are innocent civilians, including women and children. Some people support suicide bombers saying that what they do takes "courage." Does it? They say that - they do what they do because the others have left them no option. Is that really so? Is terrorism the only way to fight so-called "injustices" or "grievances."

Well, I can't control what others think about terrorism. But, I can't understand how people can sympathise with people who blow up and behead others. What baffles me further is that they just don't sympathise with these people (should I call them "people"?) - but that they justify their actions. Can one forget the celebrations in some countries when the Twin Towers fell. We had people celebrating others dying. I wonder how one brings oneself to celebrate another's death (especially when one doesn't know them personally or has any personal enmity with them). I don't think any of those who celebrated knew any of the people in the Twin Towers who died that day. They were not their enemies, yet they celebrated and paid tributes to the terrorists who perpetrated that horrible act and praised them as "martyrs."

Do they really believe that such individuals are worthy of "paradise"? Do they really think that? I think its quite frankly sick that there are people who think along those lines.

What does a terrorist do really that makes him praiseworthy to some? He/she creates a bomb, packing it with all sorts of projectiles to maximize the injuries to the innocents who would be the target. The conscious effort that goes into maximizing the death rate and injury rate is quite cold blooded. It doesn't matter who gets killed. So what - if they are little kids, babies even. Women - u say, fair game too.

All that for what? Paradise? Or do they really think that such actions change the foreign policy of countries? I don't think "nonviolent struggle" is a word in the terrorist's dictionary. One thinks of Gandhi and Mandela who achieved freedom and rights for their people through the force of their righteousness. In the modern age, we have the Dalai Lama - who is fighting the Chinese purely through nonviolent means. The Tibet issue has wide-ranging support all over the world because its a nonviolent struggle. Its quite frankly pathetic that on the other hand you have such cold-blooded killers who don't bat an eyelid before killing scores of ordinary folk. Worse times are to come still I fear. Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have thus far not fallen into the hands of the terrorists. But, for how long? Terrorism is a weapon of the coward. Its not a weapon of the weak. Its a weapon of the anti-human.