David Hare Quotes
In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
Hare, David. Interview by Simon Hattenstone. The Guardian, 2011.
This quotation provides a succinct view of most non-Western Muslims on the issue of the definition of “terrorist.” A “mujahid” can be translated from Arabic as “freedom fighter.” To the rest of the world, terrorism is defined by the techniques and behavior of the doer. To many Muslims, it is defined only by the motive. If one is defending land or a cause, he cannot be a terrorist. The only terrorist to a Muslim holding this point of view is a person who engages in these violent methods for no reason. The essential difference is that to most of the world a cause—even a worthy one—does not justify any methodology or cost. To the Islamicist who accepts Al-Jozo’s point of view, there is NO methodology that is immoral, especially if one is fighting for a cause, and no cause is more worthy than the spread and dominance of Islam and the world of God. Therefore, for that cause, there can be no terrorism as there can be no ethical or moral limits.
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
The Pakistani government and the army were two distinct and separate power centers. The military saw their major problem to be India, and coddled the Islamic terrorists to deploy them against India while claiming the military is not responsible for the attacks. The terrorism that is taught in many Madrassas schools, the government is reluctant to crack down on and get the terrorism out of the curriculum as they will lose many orthodox Muslim votes and the Islamic terrorists might assassinate any politician who threatend their power base. So Pakistan tried at the time to control the terrorist acts but would not do anything to weaken the terrorists.
Sudan openly used Islamic terrorists to attack, rape and murder animist and Christian civilians in Darfur. The leaders were wanted for war crimes and openly admitted to many. See {641655}.
Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink.
