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Subscribe to RSSOfficials in india say the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai was executed. The Pakistani citizen was one of ten gunmen who went on a three-day killing rampage. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistan militant group accused of killing 166 people in a 2008 gun rampage in Mumbai has warned of future attacks, Reuters reported, after India secretly executed the only surviving man responsible.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 25, a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was hanged at the Yerawada Prison in in Pune, southeast of Mumbai, at 7:30 a.m. local time Wednesday (9 p.m. ET Tuesday) -- hours after India's President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his legal appeal.
Sanjay Kanojia / AFP - Getty Images
Members of Bajrang Dal, a hard-line Hindu organization in India, distribute candy in Allahabad as they celebrate the execution of Pakistan-born Mohammed Kasab on Wednesday.
The Pakistani national was the only suspect to be captured alive after Nov. 26, 2008 atrocity -- locally dubbed "26/11" -- in which 10 militants embarked on a 60-hour killing spree that engulfed cafes and luxury hotels including the landmark Taj Mahal Palace.
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Pictures of the young gunman wearing a black T-shirt and toting an AK-47 rifle as he strode through Mumbai's train station were published around the world -- helping to secure his eventual conviction and death sentence in August.
The Times Of India / Reuters, file
Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, pictured in the Victoria Terminus railway station in Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2008.
Kasab was buried inside the prison where he was hanged, officials said. India said it would hand over the body to Pakistan if a request was made, underlying the sensitivities and severely strained relations between the two nations.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based group seeking the propagation of Islam around the region and an end to Indian rule of Kashmir, is blamed by India for the planning the attacks. Kasab confessed to being a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to Pakistan news site Dawn, but the organization was never conclusively linked to the crime. Pakistan also denies any official involvement.
Reuters said it spoke on the telephone Wednesday to one the group’s senior commanders, who said Kasab was a "hero" whose death would "inspire other fighters to follow his path."
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The Pakistan Taliban said it was shocked by the hanging.
"There is no doubt that it's very shocking news and a big loss that a Muslim has been hanged on Indian soil," Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan told Reuters.
CNN IBN via Reuters, file
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving suspected gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is seen under police custody at an undisclosed location, in this undated still file image taken from video footage shown on the CNN-IBN television channel since February 3, 2009.
However, there were celebrations in India.
"When I heard the news of Kasab's execution today, I remembered those horrifying moments of the attack," said Vishnu Zende, who was working at Mumbai's train station on the day of the attack. "My eyes were filled with tears."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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This Islamic terrorist creep was hanged. Good!
Now, to make sure you drive the point home, publicly encase his remains in a pigskin shroud with pig blood like the Russians did to the Chechnyan terrorists. If they can't get their 72 virgins, it kind of takes away their motivation.
We should be doing this to the remains of every terrorist.
Good for the Indians, they know how to deal with these terrorists. I can understand why they did this quietly, they did not want to provoke another attack or mass demonstrations by publicizing the time/date that the execution was to take place. It shows the attitude of these Muslim terrorist that they view this mass murderer who killed many civilians as a hero. It is disgusting that anyone could view someone who gunned down a bunch of unarmed civilians as heroic in any way. It is good that the Indians executed this piece of scum.
For those of you that think that capitol punishment is torture.
Torture is a child growing up without a murdered parent.
Torture is parents living with the murder of their child.
Torture is friends and families dealing with the murder of a friend.
Torture is a wife not having a murdered husband around to grow old with.
Torture is watching someone murder your parents.
Torture is living with the memories of having seen someone murdered.
KISS -
My wife didn't have a murdered husband around to grow old with and she probably does think its torture.
In this case - Capital Punishment is completely justified.
But it was too late. 2006 till today - the congress government treated him as if he was their son in law.
The way this guy entered a railway station and sprayed bullets and killed innocent people - there is no justification to that. There is no justification to killing innocent people whether it is WTC, or Tel Aviv or Gaza or Mumbai.
Bravo! Jeeez - the Taliban are shocked? Of course NBC omitted the attack on the synagogue - killing the young Rabbi and his wife - no problem - NBC will one day be in the sites of the Muslims and then they will ....
Hi PJ,
I'm not exactly sure what your entire post means since it isn't written to be understood, but the part you did clearly state--that would be the part about no justification ever for killing innocent people--is so wrong. There had to be, HAD to be, many innocent people who died in Germany or Japan so that the Allies could defeat those nations. Is it sad it happened? Of course. But it's also totally justifiable. Same with the case of Gaza. If Palestinians would stop trying to eradicate Israelis, and as they do it hide among civilians, then fewer Palestinian civilians would be killed. In the meantime, though, their deaths are justifiable.
Rich - what I meant is - the current government in power in India - timed the hanging of this terrorist as an election is coming around. In reality they are not only soft on terrorism but they almost condone it because Congress is led by so called Nehru dynasty which in name is Hindu but in reality is Muslim.
On the second part - of course the German Japanese Israelis or Palestine deaths are all sad. I would agree that some of them are unavoidable. But I wouldn't call them necessary. As per Japanese deaths in the nuclear bombings - it is a controversial topic - to say the least.
Bravo and well done, India!
I sip my coffee and salute you, and bid good riddance to bad rubbish.
May the rest of the world follow suit and purge the world of these wastes of carbon!
According to the AP story, he had asked for mercy before his execution. Ironic how these bastards have no problem killing as many innocents as possible, but when they are staring death in the face beg for mercy.
The death penalty is ALWAYS barbaric in EVERY instance. Nothing was gained by murdering this man that imprisoning him for life would not have accomplished. If anything, this makes things worse as he is now a martyr and a hero to his people and will likely inspire more attacks. If he were left to languish in obscurity in some prison, he would have been forgotten about by those who are now inspired by him.
A barbaric penalty is fine if the guilty party is a barbarian. Some crimes are beyond the pale and he needed to die.
Just like Steven J. Hayes & Joshua A. Komisarjevsky (the Cheshire Connecticut home invasion criminals) need to die.
Now, Let IT Go. They Hanged the Idiot for killing 170 innocent people...he was properly, Housed, Properly Fed Properly Tried and Properly Hanged; End of Nigtmare.
I hope he packed enough vaseline if he is going to be entertained by the 72 male virgins....
Paki pinata
@ proud to be liberal, I'm proud to be conservative, BUT this is definately something we can agree on!!!!! ;)
In the Roman empire, persons convicted of capital crimes were place on crosses with the nature of their crimes put on placards above their heads. The crucifictions were placed on prominent roads and hills leading into all of the major cities controlled, including Rome, Alexandria, Athens and Jerusalem. The persons convicted would live for days in a slow, agonizing painful death where they would call out to passers by to not violate the laws of Rome. Those who showed enough remorse would be given drugs to ease their pain.
The bodies would be left on the road for miles outside the city as a warning to all.
Similar actions were done in London by the English, outside of Paris by the French; the Spanish with the inquisition and the notorious Vlad III, prince of Walachia (Vlad the impaler, Dracula.) In each case, those who acted against the rulers had their bodies or heads left out to rot as a warning to others.
Maybe its time this is done to terrorists.
I think this particular murderer got off easily. He was hanged in secrecy, while all of his victims were publicly slaughtered. The horrific killing spree in which he took part lasted up to ten hours. Perhaps he should have been stoned to death, with the families of the victims and survivors getting to do the job.
Now, if America had the old "eye for an eye" law as they do, criminals would think twice before committing any crimes here.
Four years from arrest to execution ..... I like it.
It's about three years, eleven months, and thirty days too long for me. I hope they tied this subhuman vermin's pants cuffs, and buried him face down with his own excrement, which is what he truly is.
@My...ol: Four years is short enough. There must be a time to pause for an appeal/to discover new evidence, but should that fail, hang 'em. We don't want vigilante/mob justice, but we do want justice.
The 10-20+ years in most US states that still have the death penalty? Stupid.
@denver - the arrest was immediate. He was caught spraying bullets at CST (equivalent of New York Central).
Creek Dog- I agree with you 100%. Public execution would be a wonderful way to lower the crime rate. They might think 5 or 6 times before committing a crime. I would also be for an Execution Chanel on T.V. that would also give the criminal his final 5 minutes in the limelight and make his family so proud! Their child never is to blame right?
Mark from Bridgeport, every person convicted of a crime is afforded the right to appeal their sentence/conviction through the various levels of the courts all the way to the supreme court. If you have a problem with a fair system maybe you should move to Iran.
@Baddog40: I thought I made it abundantly clear that I favor being able to appeal. Just not for 10-20+ years. There is no reason why our wheels of justice need to turn that slowly.
If you have the problem of actually serving a sentance on a murderer, maybe you should move to Norway? Anders Behring Breivik thanks you for your support!
There is a reason for it, it is because there are more people than our courts can handle.
Why am I arguing with a guy that can't spell a simple word such as 'sentance'?
@Baddog40: There woiuldn't be more people if they didn't have 10-20+ years to file appeals.
Dunno, why are arguing with the guy that is against mob justice and basically on the same side of the point as you are?
PS: Sorry for the typo, English is not my first language.
Everyone has the right to make choices. He chose to join a terrorist org., he chose to go to India and kill many folks, gets caught and gets hanged.........shocking.
He chose to be a pious Muslim...
No, a pious Muslim would have prayed that the strife between the two countries would be worked out. He chose to be a POS and go kill people based on the hate-filled blasphemy of some ignorant backwater Imam in the hopes of subjugating the rest of the world to Islam. There is nothing pious in this. Only corrupt individuals trying to hijack a great religion by convincing weak ignorant sheep to kill to further their personal agenda.
Why do we never see any Muslims or Muslim organizations rushing in to corral these ignorant backwater Imams who cause so much trouble?
You mean like the way the U.S. Christian community has so successfully dealt with people like Terry Jones and Fred Phelps?
EarlyOut, ah yes, the old "turn it on the Christians" crap. So old and so tired but that's all folks like you have to explain away your own illogical standards.
Terry Jones hasn't murdered and (to the best of my knowledge) has preached about killing Muslims simply for being Muslim. If you're going to try to offset this you better be ready to cite sources.
The same could be said of Phelps and Phelps certainly isn't supported outside of his church.
And, just for the record, I'm not a Christian. I understand that every ideology has rouge elements and if you're honestly trying to compare Terry Jones to the Taliban I can only hope that someday you get some perspective.
Indian Muslim community - to their credit did condemn his terrorist acts. In fact - to their credit - Indian muslim community is by and large very loyal to India than Pakistan's liking.
Indeed, EarlyOut. Or any of these other folks...
http://listverse.com/2010/02/23/10-people-who-give-christianity-a-bad-name/
@east coast: You've missed the point. Religion, by its very nature, gives rise to crazed extremists. If I say that I hear voices that tell me what to do, people think I need psychiatric help. But if I say that God is telling me what to do, people think I'm "blessed."
Religious belief derives from delusion, and it should come as no surprise that the delusion periodically runs completely off the rails. It happens with almost every one of these cults (news flash: they're all cults), and no religion has an effective way of getting rid of them. How crazy is "too crazy?"
I'm with you so far.
Oops. Here's where you lose me. Belief, by definition, is confidence in the truth of an unprovable proposition. Religious people believe there is a God, without being able to prove it. Athiests believe God does not exist, also without being able to prove it. The only certainty is that one side or the other of the argument is made by delusional people. Get back to me when you can prove which side that is. That is, when there is no longer a need for belief.
Double tap.
Atheists don't "believe" anything about the existence or non-existence of a God. They're not making any unprovable claims. They're saying that if you want to convince other people that your sky pixie exists, you're going to have to prove it. They are not simply the other side of the coin.
"I contend that we are both athiests. I just believe in one fewer god than you do." ---Stephen Roberts
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." ---Friedrich Nietzsche
"I don't believe in God." ---Andrew Carnegie
"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." ---Woody Allen
This is a subtle distinction, but a very important one. Saying "I believe there is no god" and saying "I don't believe that there is a god" are not equivalent. The first is an expression of a belief. The second is an expression of the lack of belief. These are not the same thing.
@Rudy - I supposed I wasn't the only one that focused on the Talibani's words. I truly am perplexed by the delusions the Taliban seem to have. Their respective countries are all "eye for an eye" countries legally, sooooo Why is this such a shock? or is it to perpetuate further terrorist acts by blasphemy?
The only thing viably covering up this mental case is the way he termed "Loss" - it's a great loss in the sense of, he's not around to shoot more innocent civilians. Can they get a hold of this spokesperson in India?? For lynching's sake?
EarlyOut-1524710
You mean like the way the U.S. Christian community has so successfully dealt with people like Terry Jones and Fred Phelps?
Let me know when Terry Jones or Fred Phelps' groups go around blowing things up, getting their friends armed, and going public places shooting people. til then, their freedom of speech is just that - speech.
You are grammatically correct but semantically wrong. I can say "I believe there is no pie." or I can say "I don't believe there is a pie." In either case, the pie is gone. The statements "I believe in nothing" and "I don't believe in anything are logically sound and equivalent.
No, they're not. When you say, "I don't believe there is a pie," you're saying that you have been provided with no evidence to support the assertion that there is a pie. This is not a "belief," because it is subject to revision. Show me the pie.
On the other hand, if you say, "I believe there is no pie," you're saying that you have a belief in the non-existence of pie. By definition, a belief is NOT subject to revision - a belief is not supported by any evidence, and is therefore not going to be changed by the sudden appearance of evidence.
By your logic, if I say that invisible pink unicorns frolic among us, and you say that you don't believe it, the existence of invisible pink unicorns is still an open question. After all, it's just your belief measured against mine.
Atheism is not a belief. It's a response to the beliefs of others, one that says, "Prove it, and I'll join you. Otherwise, you got nothin'." Atheism doesn't require faith - religious belief does. There's a world of difference between the two, and those who confuse them are doomed to wallow in superstition.
Nice try. Going back to the definition, "belief" is confidence in the truth of an unproved proposition. Once the proposition is proved, one way or the other, rational people no longer believe; they know. Despite the fact that there exists people who refuse to change their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence (willfully or otherwise), the truth remains. For example, the number of people who believe that the earth is flat has dwindled, but not disappeared, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Agreed. Your (apparent) belief that pink unicorns frolic among us, and my belief that they don't carry equal weight until such time as you can produce a pink unicorn, since the proof of non-existence is impossible.
An unprovable response to a belief is still a belief.
The claim that one who believes in something is superstitious without proof to the contrary is also superstition.
I don't know why they even buried him. This man deserved NOTHING. They should have hung him and just left him there until his rotted corpse was eaten by birds.
Pure scum.
Ted,
Even though he was a terrorist and killed many people, it's still their religious belief that they "have" to be buried within 24hrs.
That's why we buried Bin Laden at sea within 24hrs. Just to show the Taliban that we respect their religious beliefs even though we want to put one between "all" their eyes one at a time.
I do realize that we should be somewhat civilized and all, but when it comes to the low life scum of the earth category of humanity that pieces of $hit like these bastards belong to, as far as I'm concerned, all of that play nice business goes right out the window. They deserve nothing less than swift and sure death. Stop coddling these bastards and KILL EM ALL!
Creek Dog - I understand why we do it and I understand their customs/religion.....I still think it's asinine to worry about being "considerate" of mass murderers and the "feelings" of their followers.
It just makes me sick.
No offense to you though, I understand your point.
They are animals that need to be exterminated
"The Pakistan Taliban said it was shocked by the hanging."
Cut a few heads off and kill women and children is ok but this Shocks them???? I guess next time they will have to find a Muslim country to hang them in then it will be ok....... There are not enough trees in India to hang all the guilty ones.
Shocked... sounds like a democrat in this country...anyone hear that idiot, nut job, race hustler senator cliburn's latest?
Ummm... wasn't it a Democratic President who succeeded in getting the Muslim terrorist bin Laden killed, after that Republican mental midget Bush had failed for 7 years? (Not to mention that 9/11 happened on his watch)
And who is "Senator Cliburn"? There's a Representative James Clyburn, representing a South Carolina Congressional district. And he's been speaking against disgraceful Republican racist & sexist attacks on US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice. Are you always this irresponsibly ignorant in your political statements? Let me guess - you're a Teabagger.
"The Pakistan Taliban said it was shocked by the hanging."
Hangings shouldn't shock the intrepid Taliban...they hang Christians often enough for any trumpted charges they can think of...
Shocked... Sounds like one of the many dememted Republicans in our country. How do we know this terrorist was from Pakistan? Do we have a copy of his birth certificate? we do? Well, maybe it's a forgery! Well, maybe the real question is, when did they know he was a terrorist? This should be the lead story on the Fox Channel talking heads pundit show a.k.a. Fox news!
Red_Vespa
Ummm... wasn't it a Democratic President who succeeded in getting the Muslim terrorist bin Laden killed, after that Republican mental midget Bush had failed for 7 years? (Not to mention that 9/11 happened on his watch)
And who is "Senator Cliburn"? There's a Representative James Clyburn, representing a South Carolina Congressional district. And he's been speaking against disgraceful Republican racist & sexist attacks on US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice. Are you always this irresponsibly ignorant in your political statements? Let me guess - you're a Teabagger.
Right - because, you know, if Bush had been president when we got reliable intel on Osama's location, he wouldn't have taken him out the same way. Please stop making Obama out to be more than he is.
Grandpappy told my pappy Back in my day, son A man had to answer For the wicked thing he done Take all the rope in Texas Find a tall oak tree Round up all of them bad boys And hang 'em high in the street For all the people to see
If America did this there would be a lot less trouble in our country today
I really like your random capitalization.
This Islamic violence is just like all other Islamic violence, it 's motivated by the religion of ISLAM....Islam's holy texts tell Muslims that INFIDELS must submit to ISLAM, or pay the ISLAMIC jizyah tax, or die...
Please don't make this an issue of hindu's vs muslims. Kasab was a cold blooded killer who had no sympathy when he killed innocent citizens in mumbai. He killed in cold blood without any conscience and ruined the lives of soo many. Frankly, If I was one of the victims, I think I should have the option to stoning him to death. He certainly showed no mercy when killing innocent victims who were living their lives peacefully, why should anyone show him any mercy for what he did. He never apologized for his crime and never asked for forgiven or felt guilt for what he had done.
I can get behind stoning in the place of hanging as it is (like hanging or drowning) an environmentally friendly method of execution.
There is no need to waste drugs, lead or electricity on people like Kasab.
US government officials please take note you silly bunch of pansy a$$ed hand spanker's. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE! If you ever expect to deter this type of behavior you will never succeed at it by spanking the bastard's hands and putting them up in a prison with FREE room and board along with medical and dental for life, you damned idiots! This goes for the domestic variety of terrorists as well, you know, murderers, rapists, and robbers. Kill the MF's, and kill em QUICKLY! If you are too damned squeamish to handle it just send them my way and me and a select few others will take care of the problem for you, idiots!
True, your'e correct. A true terrorist only respects strenght, resolve, and decisive action. I not talking about "terroristic threating" a new form of "wussy justice law" used to intimidate the citizen into inaction and used by the liberal to reduce an argument to words only.
You are right CPRSR, I for one sure am glad we don't have some pu$$y Republican president like Bush wringing his hands worrying about offending muslims. At least Obama acted like a real man and killed Osama bin Laden along with countless numbers of his cronies instead of cowereing like Bush did in the oval office for nine years doing nothing but counting the dollars he and his cronies were making from his fake WMD inspired war for oil!
No it would not! They are on suicide missions they don't care if they die. DUH! Killing them quickly is only to make you feel good. I just love all you idiots that think prison is a vacation resort with free room and boards.
If its so fun why don't you book a room at the nearest Gitmo resort and stay for a few decades.
They most certainly DO care if they die if they are being killed by the hand of the great infidel. And I don't give a $hit what you say, prison is still a lot easier on the mind and body than swift sure DEATH.
Midnight,
I have to agree with BP: These guys want to be killed; they want to be martyrs and receive their 72 virgins in paradise. Dying by the hands of the infidel will be just that, a martyrdom.
Rotting in jail, alone and forgotten, is by far a greater punishment.
Jimmyjamz, you are a partisan moron. First, let me explain this to you reeeeally slowly. Presidential terms are four years. Bush 2.0 served two presidential terms. Four plus four equals...wait for it...eight! Not nine, you infant! Also, it cracks me up when people give the president credit for killing Bin Laden. Last I heard the Navy Seals killed him. And military intelligence was able to track him down so they COULD kill him. All they got from the commander-in-chief was the permission to do it. A trained hamster could have made that decision. If you want to take his member out of his mouth long enough to praise him for anything, make it something tangible he's actually done. And I'm not getting political, your points are just pointless and immature.
Then if what they want more than anything else in life is to go meet allah and bone their 72 virgins forever I for one would be more than happy to send as many as I possibly can on that stupid belief of a false journey, more than glad.
There were victims of other religions killed, the Muslims didn't just look for Hindus, they were looking for any Infidel or non-Muslim...especially the Jews...Muslims don't discriminate when it comes to carrying out their religion's teachings...
hopefully he experienced much fear and pain in his execution.
I will guarantee you he crapped his pants.
"There is no doubt that it's very shocking news and a big loss that a Muslim has been hanged on Indian soil," Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan told Reuters.".............they need to explain what the BIG loss is.....they need to hang anyone who thinks its a big loss as well............
See ya!!!!!
Good riddance!
The Taliban are shocked? They shoot a child in the head and they are shocked? They hang an 8 year old in retribution against his police chief father and they are shocked?
Anita, you can toss in some honor killings of their daughters in that mix
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How are we ever going to win over the worldwide muslim community, as President Obama dreams of, when they are continually treated like this ??
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Joe Biden in 2016.
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Exactly! Just the type of thinking which has swiftly and surely turned America towards the third world $hithole status it is well on it's way to achieving.
Troll = FAIL
Biden in 2016????
.....You must really hate the Democratic Party.
Fixed. ;-)
This seems reasonable.
What ! No 15 years on death row while a dozen appeals are processed ? NO platoon of gubmint lawyers trying to keep him alive while another platoon of gubmint lawyers work to execute him ? How terrible the Indian taxpayers were denied the thrill of housing the guy for 15 years, giving medical care while lawyers made a living on his appeals. The millions of dollars that could have been spent tying to find reasons not to execute the guy might have been the stimulus the Indians need to spark their prison and lawyer communities. Oh well, guess they'll know how wonderful it could have been.
Funny, I did not know India had the death penalty, being mostly Hindu with a Secular Government (at least on paper).
I do know India Hindus and Indian Muslims have be "At it" for about 1301 years - dating back to 711 AD (about the same time these blokes invaded Spain, also) While it is silly to say the Hindus are blameless, the Muslims - notably the ruling elite - have not exactly endeared themselves to the Hindu Masses.
While the Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal can give the Ku Klux Klan a run for their money in intolerance, one has to note the following:
1. It was not the Senas or the Dals who slammed two 767's into the World Trade Center.
2. It was not the Senas or the Dals who blew up the Cole.
3. It was not the Senas or the Dals who blew up the Tube.
4. It was not the Senas or the Dals who blew up Pan Am 103
5. It was not the Senas or the Dals who blew up the Cercanias in Madrid.
It would be Silly and Juvinile to condemn Islam for all of the above - but were I a Muslim, I would want some action to stop the creeps from besmirching my faith.
The Muslim invaders who invaded India off and on for centuries, inflicted great damage and harm upon the peaceful hindu population. The Muslims butchered millions of hindus, razed hindu temples, plundered hindu treasure, raped hindu women, and tried to convert by force many others.
Indians suffered through the SECOND expansion of Islam. The first was at the time of the "Prophet", and today, the West is seeing the third expansion. Islam is a militant religion.
Hey, Kasab! Say "Hi" to Tim McVeigh!
Indians showed an example for the whole world, especially to the USA. All Islamic terrorists should be killed, since Islamism isa new threat to humanity, as Nazism.
Islam has been destroying humanity for roughly 1400 years...Do you see any prosperous, free and friendly Muslim nations?
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, pretty much anyplace with oil is prosperous to the elite of that nation.
I've lived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan and everyone was pretty friendly.
But none of those places knew what freedom was that's for sure.
Another dead Muslim. Tell me more.
Apparently the intrepid Taliban had no live prisoners to offer for a exchange...The Taliban rarely keeps live prisoners for any length of time...
Where the hell was Hillary? She should be fired for allowing this to happen without having her picture in the news protesting this cruel and meaningless execution. Go India. Some day we'll follow your example right here in the good old USA. Except we'll adopt the policy of take no prisoners and changing the guard at the Federal Government level is going to be part of fix.
The tragedy here is that the majority of Muslims have been cowed into silence by theocratic Imans and corrupt politicians for decades now. Most of the moderate and liberal Muslims I know have high-tailed it to the West long ago, while the rest have been purposely kept ignorant and impoverished by their supposed 'betters.' Islam is at the same point Christianity was five hundred years ago when Protestants and Catholics were at each other's throats. Only difference is that the technology is now more murderously up to date. Like all religions, there's an inner spiritual core which has been purposely ignored and denied by the Taliban and their cadre of corrupt theocrats and crony politicians: witness the persecution of the liberal and tolerant Sufi sect throughout the Muslim world. It'll only get worse until the majority of Muslims take back their faith from these butchers.
What will it take for this to happen?
The tragedy here is that you believe Muslims will take back their faith from these butchers. What is happening is that the vast majority of Muslims are taking back their faith back from secularism and taking it to its virulently violent seventh century orthodoxy. No Islamic revolution in any Muslim country has ever resulted in a secular government or a move away from funamentalist seventh century aggressively violent Islam. From the time that the murdering misogynist adulterous bigamist child raping pedophile, Muhammad, who invented this religion, Islam has relentlessly pursued aggressive violence to dominate the entire planet.
Pull your head out of the sand and read what the Taliban actually says in response. The great affront to the Muslims and all of Islam in this execution was not the taking of a human life, but that India, a non-Islamic country, committed the extreme insult to every Muslim in the universe and all of Islam by executing a voilent mass-murdering Muslim. They are not offended by his mass-murdering, his death or anything else about him. That is the Islam that the vast majority of Muslims are taking back from the secularists.