All Muslims are not terrorists. But all terrorists are Muslims - reactions

Rishikesh Bahadur Desai, Chief of Bureau, Hubli, Times of India, in the days before he disappeared to Hubli and acquired this designation was one of the more entertaining members at Column 9 meetings in Bangalore.

Within days of taking charge of Hubli, Rishi met with the now oft quoted statement involving Muslims, terrorists, comparisons and counter comparisons...The post below is his reaction to that statement. We have warned him that there is likely to be a deluge of responses to this! smiles.

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A media group owner has said something interesting. ``All Muslims are not terrorists. But all terrorists are Muslims. I don't see why we should be afraid of accepting such facts''.

The high profile entrepreneur and journalist made the statement at a music performance in Hubli on November 29. What is even more interesting is that there were some Muslims among the guests and performers!

I thought I would add some more facts that such people may not be afraid to accept

Intelligence agencies of India, USA, UK, and other countries have identified nearly 125 global terror outfits.

1. Half of these have Christian cadres. The motto of some such organizations is to convert the world into ``The Promised Land''.
2. A third of these have Muslim cadres. Some say they are fighting a Holy War. Some media organizations call them Islamic terror outfits.
3. At least 10 % of those listed are fighting for rights of tribes.
4. There are at least 10 agencies on the list that have non –tribal Hindus as cadres.
5. The list also includes groups formed by people of other religions like Buddhism and Judaism.

Now I want to put you through a small quiz.

1. Who killed M K Gandhi?
2. Who killed Solomon Bandaranaike, former PM of Sri Lanka?
3. Who killed Premadasa, former president of the same country?
4. Who killed millions of innocents in Ireland for over seven centuries?
5. Who killed thousands in a blood war over four decades in the Kingdom of Nepal?
6. When Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, nearly two million people were killed. What was the religion followed by senior Khmer Roughe leaders?
7. Who killed Indira Gandhi?
8. Who killed Rajiv Gandhi?
9. Who gas bombed trains in Japan in 1995?
10. What is Lehi?

Here are the answers.

1. India's most famous assassin ever, was Nathuram Ghodse, a Hindu Brahmin.
2. Bandaranaike was assassinated by Talduwe Somarama, a Buddhist monk, in 1959. Solomon's wife Sirimavo Bandaranaike would later take over as the world's first woman PM.
3. LTTE, which mostly consists of Tamil speaking Hindus.
4. Irish Republican Army is a Christian organisation.
5. The Nepal Maoists are Hindus.
6. Some prominent Khmer Rouge leaders were devout Buddhists.
7. Khalistan activists who were Sikhs.
8. LTTE again.
9. Members of the Aum Shinrikyo, a new religion influenced by Buddhism and Christianity.
10. Lehi OR ``Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", was a terrorist organization that was given general amnesty and merged into the Israel army. Yitzhak Rabin, former Israel PM was a legendary member of the outfit.