One is compelled to infer the quote was meant to stoke the embers of vengeance and it is needless to say against whom. What can be said at this hour is that these are special times. And we are living in a composite, and complex, society. Succumbing to provocations would only serve the objectives of the communalists who are facing the real test of their existence now. Let it be understood that in a networked global village, people cannot be fooled any more.
Petty agendas can no longer remain hidden.
They will come out unstuck. The people and the world will see through this game of expanding this Kandahar effect on the whole country. India s is an open society inhabited by a vast section of sober people. They understand the ethnic, geographical and historical background of the conflict that erupts in ugly forms like the Kandahar hijacking. Therefore, efforts to demonise a particular community elsewhere are bound to fail.