{"id":371,"date":"2005-07-24T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=371"},"modified":"2005-07-24T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T12:52:04","slug":"oops-we-have-shot-the-wrong-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2005\/07\/24\/oops-we-have-shot-the-wrong-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops, we have shot the wrong person \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/attackonlondon\/story\/0,16132,1535313,00.html\">says <\/a><\/strong>the Chief of the British Police, on his men shooting dead an unarmed Brazilian, in London.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to Bonti on mail in the UK, and basically asking her on how she and her family were after the bombings. She was fine, having missed the bombings by about 10 minutes, but she wrote to me, and i quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mood in London is a combination of sympathy and a real desire to catch the b@stards and make them pay&#8230;My concern is that anyone with brown skin could now be in danger if they live in neighbourhoods with ignorant people, but the divide in the asian community between muslims and non-muslims is becoming more apparent. And what a lot of people forget is that Islam is colourblind and muslim population is made up of brown, black, white, and yellow&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is being seen as a Muslim Problem in the west. And Bonti is right, Muslim is seen as brown. And brown is targetted. How does it matter if a Spaniard or a Brazilian or a Hopi Indian is also brown? Or that Cat Stevens is white? or a Mohommad Ali Black?<br \/>\nIt is a receipe for paranoid times ahead.<br \/>\nThe one thing that stands out is the British System, which <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4706787.stm\"><strong>owns up and apologises<\/strong><\/a> for an error. Hats off to them.<br \/>\nQuite unlike either the US or us, where bluster often whitewishes a cock up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; says the Chief of the British Police, on his men shooting dead an unarmed Brazilian, in London. 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