Bangladesh has been on the path of radicalization for at least two decades.
But as victims were local Hindus, phantasmal West turned blind eye, as only lives of Westerners matter to Europe and America.
Now that the chicken has come home to roost with brutal murder of nine Italians, there is uproar in Western media.
It is time plutocratic West has coordinated policy on terrorism, be pertinacious, no matter who are victims. Terrorists do not discriminate, although it is becoming common not to butcher people of their own faith, especially if they could recite versus, prayers from holy Koran!
It is indeed praise worthy that some Bangladeshis refused to abandon their non-Muslim friends and sacrificed their own lives when they were given the choice to leave.
Humanity still exists even in some of the most troubled Islamic nations.
It is also worth noticing that most terrorists are highly educated, come from well-to-do families, some are even doctors rather than old fashioned beliefs that poor people who have nothing to lose, opted out of civilization, turn to terrorism as means of escape from their everyday struggle to survive.
It is indeed a challenge to the West how to stop these youths from becoming radicals.
With such brutality on the rise, I would not be surprised if Americans elect Donald Trump as there next president, throwing world into turmoil and who can blame them!
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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