Editor,
Times of India,
Mumbai.
Sir,
Your Editorial ‘Heal Thyself' is bold and forthright. The Prime Minister "loosing his sleep at the trauma of the relations of a person detained for terrorist acts" could perhaps be understandable as his personal feeling in the context of unbridled Sikh bashing that his own party men and leaders indulged into after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, but its public expression by the Prime Minister of a country is almost anti national. It is definitely disturbing for its blatant and unabashed pandering to the Muslim community for political reasons. Such abetment of terrorism just because it is perpetrated by a minority religious community on whose electoral votes his party has an eye on, is nothing short of treason.
Your question is really the crux of the issue. Why are so many terrorists Muslims? Has Islam as a religion strayed from its original teachings of love, brotherhood and compassion to become an intolerant doctrine? The thinkers of Islam must have a serious introspection to urgently bring its followers back to the real teachings of the prophet.
Prakash M Apte