Am I confused?

Last night I had a conversation (I would prefer this term than Chat as the talk had some purpose in it) with my friend. He was critical about Israel’s stand on the current crisis in Middle East. I differed with his opinions and we settled amicably (I was happy that it turned out to be in my favor). Before going any further I want you all to know that I have no soft corner what so ever for any terrorist organization. Some of you might think that I am biased. After all this is my blog. I read an article by TJS George in “The New Indian Express”. The article is not on any statistics about how many lives we lost to terrorism. It is just about how bad we are at learning lessons from our past mistakes. We all talk about India becoming a superpower and we all are proud about our success in Science and technology. But I feel we are not realizing that for long we have been in the state of “becoming superpower” and it is long past due to reach the status of superpower and the main obstacle in the course is Terrorism. I was telling my friend that we should stage a war against terrorism and this is the ideal time for it. The answer I got from him had taken me aback. He without hesitation replied that Muslim people in India are yet to attain equality. Why does he have to think that attacking terrorism will trouble our beloved Islamic friends? I am talking about our country and he is talking about religion. What is the relationship we have between these two? India is a secular nation my friends that’s where we have our pride. When I say terrorism I include Naxalites and ULFA s. He further tried to convince me that Naxalites are ideology based organization against inequality. But what they see as inequality in their region is present everywhere in India. Why are not they present in all the places? What is the role of two communist parties which work democratically? In my view the Naxalites choose a place where they could easily brainwash the people and carry on with their jobs (?). How many more disaster the poor city of Mumbai has to bear before it loses its spine? I am deeply saddened when people say they are happy that Mumbai came back to its normal life immediately after the disaster. It takes lot of energy to start walking with an injury than keep walking without any hurdles. We could have achieved another revolution if we channeled the energy they spent to get back to their life. How may more Kandahar we have to see? How many more “operation Vijay” we have to fight? And how many more innocent people we have to lose? to finally be able to differentiate between eradicating terrorism and appeasing a religion.