Channel view

• TWO doctors of Indian origin have been arrested in connection with the Glasgow bombings. But so far not an iota of evidence has been found to indict them. Even the British authorities have stopped short of coming to any conclusion unless they are able to clinch some strong evidence. But it seems that the television channels here have launched their own private investigation of the bombings and have now decided to convict the persons detained. It was indeed horrendous to discover our channels broadcasting the photographs of the doctors with captions like ‘The face of terror’ when absolutely nothing has been proved against them so far. Who has given these channels the authority to convict a person who has only been detained for questioning? All this will translate into building up negative propaganda against the Muslim community and should be condemned by all right thinking people in the strongest possible terms. As for the channels which indulge in this kind of journalism, they ought to issue an unconditional apology to the community.

— Mohd. Salahuddin, Mumbai

Educated terror

• I FAIL to understand the surprise expressed by people at the exposure of educated people and now doctors engaged in the factory of terror, as found out recently by the UK. Though our secularists say that education removes one’s communal bias, for some people there is no relation between their educational status and their involvement in terror activities of any sort. For them religion comes before any other commitment. Whenever such incidents happen we are told by the media and those who rule us how innocent and innocuous these elements were in their life or in their behaviour!

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