watch a film on YouTube. It’s entitled Terror in Mumbai HBO Documentary of 26th of November 2008. The URL is: . Then write a short commentary on the lesson for the study of global terrorism that you might draw from this excellent but upsetting video.
What did you think about the Indian government overhearing the conversations and exchanges?
What did you think of the handler in Karachi telling the young man to “go out and meet Allah,” that is, to get killed?
What did you think about the perceptions of the terrorist Mohammed Kasab?
Were the local police inept? The national anti-terror squad?
Consider the Holocaust, perhaps the lowest point ever reached any country considered by the world to be civilized. Watch the brief video assigned this week. It’s at . The title is “Context. R13.” This film is of a hearing in 1946 being held in Kyiv, Ukraine, then under the Soviet Union. The witness is named Dina Pronicheva.
What would you have done in an analogous situation at the ravine? Why did most Europeans not rise up in righteous indignation at this outrageous manifestation of racism on their continent? Why did Hitler have so many willing executioners, as the title of a book has it (Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Paperback January 28, 1997)?
During the past century, state terrorism has led to far more deaths than other forms of terrorism. Does it appear to you that racial and ethnic bigotry is a universal phenomenon, or does it simply reappear frequently over time?
