Re: Tamil Tigers claim second air raid
the differentiation people make between "Islamic" and "Muslim" terrorist. "Islamic" connotes a stronger association to the ideology, whereas "Muslim" indicates that the people belonging to that terrorist group are Muslim. Since Hindu Terrorist is along the lines of Muslim terrorist, and given that LTTE is comprised mostly of Hindus, that is a fair characterization.
That doesnt mean everyone in LTTE is Hindu, Hezbollah is characterized as a shia militant group even though they have a significant non-shia and non-Muslim element in them.
I don't agree...probably Vineshvk has explained it correctly...and simply many of you guyz are not ready to accept the fact.
The struggle of Tamils is not based on Hindu religious ideology...fact that their recruits are not given discourses of Vedanta and Upanishads/Gita, proves this.
Neither they invoke the name of God during each bombing, nor they are recruited on the basis that if they will blow themselves-up Heaven will be the ultimate place reserved for them for the cause of Hindutva.
In fact their is no such term like umma in Hindu philosophy, so I wonder how these people will motivate themselves even if they will base their fight on the basis of religion.
As far as your comparison with Hezbollah is concerned......remember ...Hezbollah is labelled as Shia because their majority of funding is from Iran and Iran supports them openly at diplomatic level to maitain a presence in middle east conflict and counter-balanace the Saudi Arabian hegemony of Wahhabism ( and rightly so).
In fact the weapons of Hezbollah including Rocktes are Iran made...also ideology of Hezbollah is more based on Shia ideology of martyrdom rather than ethnic-language based( LTTE)
I too sometimes sympathize with Hezbollah since they have done many good works in Labanon, also majority of Asian copuntries have not officially declared Hezbollah as a terrorist organization---same is not true for Taliban-Al Qaeda, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Toiba etc...
Hezbollah has considerable presence in Labanon's parliament, means they are legitimately elected while still keeping weapons and maintaining a seperate army under Hezbolah flag----- where is LTTE in Sri Lankan parliament??