Terror and its tenuous explanations

Terror has an uncanny knack for spouting as many experts as bullets.
Therein perhaps is its success - it brings attention to every individual's thoughts no matter how far fetched or lame.
Take for example this article titled "Indian Muslims in Crisis" (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1862650,00.html) authored by Aryn Baker in Time magazine.
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The disparities between Muslims, which make up 13.4% of the population, and India's Hindu population, which hovers around 80%, are striking. There are exceptions, of course, but generally speaking Muslim Indians have shorter life spans, worse health, lower literacy levels, and lower-paying jobs.
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The author or the sources that are alluded to, and the muslims that are referred to, have clearly either not visited parts of Bihar, Orissa and several other Indian states or chose to ignore the fact that a larger than 13.4% slice of Indian population of Non Muslims ive in the kind of grinding poverty with all ist corollaries that would make the existence of the muslims referred to, seem like the lap of luxury - yet they havent taken to guns or killed others or resorted to ethnic cleansing. For what is it if not etnic cleansing that is happening in the Jammu Valley of the Indian Kashmir?
Thomas Edison that great American and indeed exemplary human , did not invent any WMD nor did he seem to need to kill people inspite of coming from a relatively under priviledged section of society.
He chose to do other things like inventing the light bulb or electrical energy instead - he shook the earth too, a bit differently though.
Why is it that qualities that we deem desirable in an individual are so diepensable when we talk of societies or communiaties or even mobs? Why are our expectations suddenly so much lower?

Why do we take it upon ourselves to pander to this entitlement mentality?
Why do we analyse these issues on a communal or race based metric instead of the individual and his choices?
Aren't all of the most inspiring success stories based on an individual beating circumstance?
Who said life was fair or had to be fair? The human race would have achieved nought if life were indeed just and fair all the time.
Socialism should have been our ideal instead if this was right and yet capitalism is what we preach ad nauseaum , ad infinitum.
The mental pciture seems to be one of a child with folded arms and "please me" smugness.
The modern day parents seem to suffer from this same syndrome - a result of excessive politically corrrect ideas that we adopt to look more correct than the next guy annd end up pandering our children silly.
Except that it isnt anyone's brief to please anyone else.
Can anyone really help someome who doesn't want to help himself -but just covets and covets more?
Whatever is wrong with old fashioned striving or is that considered dysfunctional now?
and then this priceless gem

which I quote

Retribution was swift, and though Pandey was a Hindu, it was the subcontinent's Muslims, whose Mughal King nominally held power in Delhi, who bore the brunt of British rage. The remnants of the Mughal Empire were dismantled, and five hundred years of Muslim supremacy on the subcontinent was brought to a halt.

Muslim society in India collapsed. The British imposed English as the official language. The impact was cataclysmic. Muslims went from near 100% literacy to 20% within a half-century. The country's educated Muslim élite was effectively blocked from administrative jobs in the government. Between 1858 and 1878, only 57 out of 3,100 graduates of Calcutta University — then the center of South Asian education — were Muslim. While discrimination by both Hindus and the British played a role, it was as if the whole of Muslim society had retreated to lick its collective wounds.

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So what did the muslim society expect? Should the british have handed over the reigns to them when they left - did the british lease India from the Moghuls or did the moghuls loose it to the British? Petulance!
Could you in today's world keep your job if you refused to learn how to use a PC and the Internet when they made thier debut at work ?
Breathtaking examples of "please me"
Why do we allow people or communities to lay the guilt of their failure and deprivation at our doors when it is borne out of their intransigence that is dragging them down?
Muslims just seems to be topical - but the same realities underly all minority-majority, deprived-priviledged conflicts in families, societies communities and indeed the world.
Let us stop feeling obliged to apologising for other's sins of omission out of political correctness.

That perhaps is the single greatest favor we would be doing such participants of pity-poor-me fraternities.