Sankar, not to belittle problems we have in this country, let me remind you that in the last 6 years 60,000 innocent Algerians have been killed by extremists for a "good cause" (probably the name of God, as is usually the case with fanaticism). I will not count the deaths in Sudan, they are countless. Let me remind you that while it might be safe to walk the street in Bombay, there is still spoty practice of compulsive suttee (while outlawed), let me remind you that 70% of the young women in Egypt are forced to undergo genital mutilation at puberty (also oulawed, just recently). I may also remind you that you do not want to get caught in a Japanese jail, if you are in, you must be guilty of something, you rarely get out. Sure we pay a price for our freedom, but I do not think that I know any other country where citizen have greater freedom (why, in Switzerland, if you live in an appartment building you cannot bathe after , I believe 10 PM, and if you do, you can be assured, so I was told, that the police will be fetched by your neighbors). It has been sometime since we heard of the body leaching therapies for "criminals" in Singapore. And whi is talking about severing a hand if you were caught stealing a loaf of bread (Saudi Arabia).
Zeev |
