Paris mayhem

We condemn in the strongest terms the attack on French journalists by terrorist in Paris and mourn the death of 17 French nationals.

However, dubbing the terrorists as 'Islamists' who are actually misguided Muslims is not correct. It only alienates the moderate Muslims who are in the majority. 

The inability of the West and US media to understand and appreciate the differences between Eastern, Middle Eastern culture and Western culture is regrettable. In our culture Prophets, famous personalities, social reformers, parents etc. are held in very high esteem, irrespective of religion. They are considered as 'out of bounds' for cartoons, lampooning etc. 

In the name of freedom of expressions, some irresponsible section of the western media is hurting the sentiments of more than 1.6 billion Muslims constituting around 25% of world population. And if that is championed as freedom of expression, then exercise of this freedom ought to be done very carefully. We do not want to see any further repetition of the Paris mayhem.