期刊名称:Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN:1944-1088
电子版ISSN:1944-1096
出版年度:2009
卷号:1
期号:2
页码:459-462
出版社:Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要:The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed horrendous incidents of terror. While its beginning witnessed the attack on the twin trade towers in New York, towards its end another horrible attack occurred in the Indian commercial centre Mumbai. The attack further reinforced that terrorism has no religion, terrorists are not humans, and the terror acts surpass human comprehension. The barbaric terror attack in Mumbai in November 2008 killed about 200 people including women, children and patients. Many foreign nationals including citizens of the US, UK and Israel too were killed and many others were injured. In a sense, the incident not only fortified the global nature of terrorism but also brought into stark picture the barbarity and the degradation of human mind at its peak