A CNN journalist interviewed Deepak Chopra last night about his take on the Mumbai attacks and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, but it looked like producers cut Chopra off when he started to get too controversial.
Chopra: What we have seen in Mumbai has been brewing for a long time, and the war on terrorism and the attack on Iraq compounded the situation. What we call "collateral damage" and going after the wrong people actually turns moderates into extremists, and that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay. Now the worst thing that could happen is there's a backlash on the Muslims from the fundamental Hindus in India, which then will perpetuate the problem. Inflammation will create more inflammation.
CNN: Let me jump in on that because you're presuming something very important, which is that it's Muslims who have carried out these attacks and, in some cases, with Washington in their sights.
Chopra: Ultimately the message is always toward Washington because it's also the perception that Washington, in their way, directly or indirectly funds both sides of the war on terror. They fund our side, then our petrol dollars going to Saudi Arabia through Pakistan and ultimately these terrorist groups, which are very organized. You know Jonathan, it takes a lot of money to do this. It takes a lot of organization to do this. Where's the money coming from, you know? The money is coming from the vested interests. I'm not talking about conspiracy theories, but what happens is, our policies, our foreign policies, actually perpetuate this problem. Because, you know, 25% of the world's population is Muslim and they're the fastest growing segment of the population of the world. The more we alienate the Muslim population, the more the moderates are likely to become extremists.
CNN: I hope you're - you've - (CNN edits out the rest and inserts him concluding the interview saying "Indian physician and philosopher Deepak Chopra.")
I don't know why CNN wrapped the Chopra interview so hastily, but perhaps it was because the network had a Chevrolet ad to run. Chevrolet. Which is a manufacturer of automobiles. Which are propelled by gasoline. Which comes from oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia. Which fund Islamic fundamentalists. Which do things like attack hotels in India.
As Thomas L. Friedman has been saying for years, "the price of oil and the pace of freedom are inversely correlated." When oil prices are high, anti-democratic regimes become richer and more powerful, terrorists get funding and the world is unsafe. When oil prices are low, the "petroauthoritarian regimes [have] to open themselves to foreign investment and educate and empower their people more in order to earn income." When there is no demand for oil at all, there is simply no money with which to fund terrorists.
I hope that CNN producers didn't edit the end of the Chopra interview in deference to their car company advertisers. Chopra touched on similar topics with Larry King earlier in the day, so perhaps cutting the interview off was just a formatting decision. I'm going to pretend that it's that. Because if I thought that a news network in a democratic country was censoring the connection between oil dependence and terrorism for fear of upsetting advertisers I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
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Anyway, democracy is non acceptable for Muslim population around the world, Already Pakistan is a failure which can not control its own agency. Bangladesh neither can control population nor floods. So another country on religion basis in this region is a Mirage or future trouble.
The only solution of Kashmir is both Pakistan and India should give their occupied territory to U.S, U.S. will be able to control the growing powers (China and India) and terrorist state (Pakistan) in Asia.
I really applaud Deepak for the way he persuades and shows resilience
Let's be fair.
First and foremost, the extremists must denounce violence and engage with the rest of the world in a meaningful dialogue. By the way, Sharia violates fundamenta
Mr. Chopra was being censored by CNN, despite the pretension that particular network has to being moderate/l
When will America really become the Democracy it espouses to be?
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America does not want to be blamed in any way for anything that ever happens. We give guns to countries so they will help us. Then they turn on us, and use the guns we give them. That is considered funding terrorism. Of course, it's indirectly
its the same reason Papers are not allowed to print photos of solderi's coffins, or wounded on the battlefiel
CNN is not an independen
impact of terrorist thugs...Ch
in that part of the world is only partial and that's probably the best anyone can expect in a world of contentiou
Earth a living hell for everyone..
Chopra's talking about what the cause is, and where the funding comes from, for all this conflict, and what's perpetuati
So whatever was going on with the transmissi
I've got a lot more to worry about than this, and no time for Larry. He did address inequitabl
However, what I have NEVER believed is that the almost DOUBLING of the price of oil in the past 2 years was due to market forces !
We were told that there weren't enough domestic refineries which drove up the price, but why would Big Oil want to spend a penny on building a refinery when they make double the money from a gallon of gas in short supply.
We were also told that there was a huge increase in demand from emerging economies like India and China. Do they expect us to believe that there are significan
Nope, this whole oil bubble was driven by speculator