By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal

 If violence would solve the world problems mankind would have disappeared long time ago, be it streets of Kashmir or cafes of Bangladesh or a protest march in Dallas. Guns don’t solve issues they just create more of them. No cause is too big to take a life but as it goes with human beings, we don’t learn our lessons.

 Recently, it was discovered that few of the attackers who massacred innocents in a Bangladesh eatery few days ago followed Zakir Naik, a Mumbai based Islamic Preacher who has a history of propagandizing his beliefs by demeaning other faiths. Unlike the terrorist organizations or Mullahs who explicitly calls for the use of violence and bloodshed, Mr. Naik has a subtle way of saying things. In his lectures, he’ll urge people to be peaceful but leaves a hint or two to use violence where it’s necessary. This necessity is often open to debate and given his opinion on followers of other faith, it becomes clear where he is pointing his gun or speech for that matter. I am not saying that one cannot preach his or her faith but there is a difference between a sermon and a hate speech and it’s that deliberate attempt to invoke prejudice against a group or a community I find objectionable. Would he show the courage or decency of may be visiting the families of those boys and girls who died in that gruesome attack in Bangladesh, I doubt so.

 In another event a gunmen in Dallas shot dead five policemen because he was upset about the death of a black man who died at the hand of a policeman in another state. Did his action right the wrong in any way? Not one bit because if terrorists will be rational they won’t be terrorists. I am not saying that all Policemen are fair and just. There will be bad apples but that doesn’t mean you burn down the apple tree. I am not an American but whether it’s one black man or the five cops who won’t be coming back to their loved ones, its senseless violence, plain and simple. Cop or a civilian, no innocent has to die because someone with a finger on a trigger decided to play god.