In an article in the Romanian newspaper Jurnalul National, Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, says that the current anti-terror tack of the Western developed nations (led by the US and UK) is, at best, imcomplete if it ignores the root causes of terrorism. In publicly saying so, he joins a growing list of world leaders and opinion makers who've made the same observation, including Philippine Chief Justice Reynato Puno, Peter Munya, the US Conference of Catholilc Bishops, John Edwards, Hugo Chavez, Fernando Lugo, Desmond Tutu, Charles Dickens, Muhammed Yunus, myself, and even Pakistan dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf . For the record, the late Holy Father Pope John Paul II believed this too.
It is crucial to fight against the recruitment, financing and incitement to terrorism through a legal framework and an international co-operation but it is equally important to deal with the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism.
Some obvious conditions which make possible the spread of terrorism are conflicts, poverty and under-development, violations of basic human rights and no rule of law. (all emphases mine)
When will the message be acknowledged by the Bush adminstration?
2 comments:
I agree that the root causes of terrorism are poverty and under-development, violations of basic human rights and no rule of law. But there are two other equally important factors as well, i.e. lack of proper education with more emphasis on tolerance, moderation and secularism and secondly unresolved political disputes like Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya and others.
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