Martyr

What image comes to your mind when you think about Mumbai attack?

I see just two images - a burning hotel Taj, and Kasab carrying his gun on CST platform. More often than not, it is the later one that I see. I will blame this purely to the media. Electornic and print media has shown that one photo (and some more of his photos) that you just cannot forget him.

I call it making a martyr out of someone. We would have easily forgotten him, if not because of the excessive attention he got on media. Itna airtime to ek bhi shahid jawaan ko nahi mila. That's the irony.

Whatever he did, he did it for his cause [if one wants to call it that way]. He did not die, don't know if he will be executed. But he has become a martyr nonetheless. 'They' will show videos of him fighting the Indian forces single-handedly in their training camps in future. If not his act, media attention he has got, that has made him a martyr for jehad.

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