India and Suicide Bombers

Reading through news articles day by day, there is generally a type of consistency to the news. There is great suffering and trouble, and there are calls for progress and change, but it all follows a consistent trend.

It is the unusual article that gets my attention because it may be pointing towards a new trend. The trend could be one of more suffering or a mollifying idea, etc etc.

This article describes a very unfortunate trend that we do not want to see. The article describes a call for Hindu suicide bombers to counter the Islamic suicide bombers.

Reuters: Call for Hindu suicide squads sparks anger in India

A powerful Hindu-nationalist political party in western India has called for Hindu suicide squads to counter Islamic terrorism, causing outrage and embarrassing the national opposition with which it is allied.

"Just like Islamic extremism, to safeguard the country and Hindus we must create Hindu suicide squads if Hindu society is to be saved."

We must save ourselves by killing them is as old as the hills, but we do not want to see extremist Hindus adding to the misery of suicide bombing, bad idea, really really bad idea. We need to figure out how to prevent suicide bombing not create more suicide bombing.