The thought that anyone would watch ANY news outlet (Fox, MSNBC, BBC, Al Jazeera) and not interrogate the framing of “facts” is more limited, in my opinion, than what I would call a measured and cautious approach to blame. Wouldn’t it be good to know, really, what was happening here before pointing fingers? The truth is, we don’t have ANY conclusive evidence, we just have rumors and the great bogeyman of Islam. I refuse to denigrate an entire faith community just because some shadow group named the “Deccan Mujhadeen” has decided to claim ownership of a horrific and terrible orchestration of events.

With respect to your comment on the identities of survivors and attackers, there have been mixed statistics and reports from mainstream news outlets. Muslim hostage have also been killed in this process. But it is more convenient, and less ethically or morally challenging, to paint this in black and white and to deny the suffering that ALL communities impacted by this attack are facing in the wake of these attacks.

But beyond the identity of the people who did this or coordinated this attack, do you really believe that people who engage in terrorist acts are representatives of the faith communities? As a person of faith, I recognize that NO RELIGION tolerates violence against civilians or the innocent, and NO RELIGION tolerates terrorism — including Islam. I am more than willing to engage in a thoughtful and critical conversation on the multiple forces that promote terror and terrorist activity in this world (of which a corrupted use of Islam may be one of MANY factors), but I refuse to be so reductionist, so limited, and so stupid as to take a few phrases from the Quran and use it to misrepresent, skewer, or malign the teachings of Islam.

And finally, with your earlier comment re: the use of “Prophet” to refer to Muhammad — this was a conscious decision among the moderators to show respect to the leader of another faith community, just as Sikhi has done over time. Obviously the authors of this site know that the Sikh Gurus are the only prophets we recognize for our practice of the faith, but we also recognize that Sikhi’s call for religious tolerance and the equality of faiths requires an acknowledgment of the existence of other prophets and a basic level of respect for followers of those faith traditions.

If you find a more tolerant or measured analytical approach tiresome or frustrating, you are welcome to start your own blog, on which you can include any number of hateful comments, insinuations or reductionist arguments.

You claim that the MUSLIM TERRORISTS haven’t been identified as muslims, but what do all the FACTS point to? former hostages themselves who are muslims have been quoted as saying that the MUSLIM TERRORISTS only let them go after the MUSLIM TERRORISTS asked if they were muslims. The MUSLIM TERRORISTS also told those two hostages that they’d killed the female hostages who had been previously held along with them after being taken away for being NON-muslim.

You seem to want to stifle any critical comments about Islam or muslims when they don’t fit into your “one world” “kumbaya” point of view. Perhaps people like yourselves should remove your blinders to what is actually going on or is it that you would rather stick your head in the sand and wish or assume that there isn’t a large group of people bent on your destruction in your midst.

and secondly, why would you refer to him as a prophet??

He is NOT a prophet for Sikhs and you call yourself “Admin Kaur” so I would assume you realize that the only prophets Sikhs’ recognize are the Gurus themselves.

The author of the article doesn’t seem to want to recognize the motivation behind attacks such as these are inspired by Muhammad himself and his religion Islam as professed by Jihadists. If you are uncomfortable with the facts why are you posting?? Instead of complaining about potential backlash, Muslims in India have come out and condemned the attacks which is what they should do, and secondly I would suggest they make tangible efforts such as condemning these acts and people as non-Muslims in their Friday sermons. There is an obligation on the part of Muslims to be pro-active when they are saying that their religion is being hijacked.

Are you aware that ‘Darry Whit’ in his comment at 6:44 am has linked to an Aryan Supremacist website? Selling neo Nazi, racist products?

My guess is that somehow this post got linked to in a neo nazi, white Nationalist forum. Hence the tidal wave of visitors with a certain, shall we say, perspective.